Meuller brings in Andrew Weissman a prosecutor that specializes in "flipping witnesses"

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN19A1CM

Could somebody check the drain on the swamp? I think it is clogged.

JUburton wrote:i am quite sure trump will tweet about ... the 17yo girl in northern virginia dragged from her mosque, beaten, abducted, and murdered.

This might not be a terrorism item, but something else disturbing. The suspect in custody could have committed a lot of devastation. The perpetrator is a 17 year old who apparently only address officials in Spanish. Something else weird is that the abduction happened in, and the body was found in Loudoun County, but the suspected murderer is being held in Fairfax County.

So as a straight up murder, I am not sure that the president should tweet about it. He should not tweet at all, but that is beside the point.

For the record, she was abducted on the street and her friends raced into the Mosque. That only slightly changes the horrific calculus of beaten, abducted, and murdered.

This is unfortunate local news for me.

Bob Casey tweeted the most about healthcare of any Senator last week

it's an anecdotal thing, but it's a good sign that he really gets it. remember to get all your family and friends to vote for his re-election in 2018. Please.

also:

It turns out that Senate Democrats tweeted about health care twice as frequently as they have about Russia scandals over the course of the past week,

Any good data on the GA and SC special elections?

thephan wrote:

JUburton wrote:i am quite sure trump will tweet about ... the 17yo girl in northern virginia dragged from her mosque, beaten, abducted, and murdered.

This might not be a terrorism item, but something else disturbing. The suspect in custody could have committed a lot of devastation. The perpetrator is a 17 year old who apparently only address officials in Spanish. Something else weird is that the abduction happened in, and the body was found in Loudoun County, but the suspected murderer is being held in Fairfax County.

So as a straight up murder, I am not sure that the president should tweet about it. He should not tweet at all, but that is beside the point.

For the record, she was abducted on the street and her friends raced into the Mosque. That only slightly changes the horrific calculus of beaten, abducted, and murdered.

This is unfortunate local news for me.

Yeah, I meant outside mosque. And it may not be a hate crime. I was mostly referring to the newest london attack and saw that this occurred too so hate crime was a fair guess...but I guess it may not be correct.

From a Washington Post story about gerrymandering, the graphic below is exceptional. The big news of the article is that the SC is going to take up a case about gerrymandering.

analysis suggests the GOP won between 25 and 37 extra seats in the 2012 election because of its redistricting advantage

Read it for yourself

thephan wrote:not sure how long Donnie has been babbling, but he was up to declaring his presidential victory in the snippet I caught.

edit - Just LoL'd. Trump said communism has destroyed every country it has been tried... Might be a matter of time, but ... pssst, China... Vietnam... He made it sound like its a world wide done deal. I am sure he just does not know.

I think Chairman Mao and Ho Chi Minh would have a difficult time recognizing the China and Vietnam of today as anything resembling what they envisioned.

JUburton wrote:Yeah, I meant outside mosque. And it may not be a hate crime. I was mostly referring to the newest london attack and saw that this occurred too so hate crime was a fair guess...but I guess it may not be correct.

With very little information even this morning I was fearing that it was a hate crime on top of the rest of the tragedy. I've helped out at a few things at the ADAMS Center, they are fine folks and very community minded. This is just one more thing that is completely unnecessary, and the news stories make it sound as if the act was somehow arbitrary.

lethal wrote:I think Chairman Mao and Ho Chi Minh would have a difficult time recognizing the China and Vietnam of today as anything resembling what they envisioned.

well yes, but, they had no idea how profitable it could be. the Marxist ideal is not communism as practiced.

I see that they shouted out to Trump to ask if he is under investigation, which he just slid into the stone face he perfected when angela merkel was here.

Sweet Hey-zoose, there is a new GA-6 attack add linking the Dems to the Senate shooting. Come on, is there no basement to this shit?

no, there is no floor

Here is the ad, if anyone it interested. I saw it this morning on Morning Joe and needed another shower. Absolutely disgusting.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/hou ... nst-ossoff


EDIT - I should add that this garbage was paid for the the Principled Leadership Project PAC; principled my ass. Also, to her credit, Karen Handel has publicly denounced the ad.

I will give Handel a gold * for disavowing it. I'd rather have a bowl of roaches with sour milk then watch that again.

Trump's lawyer wants you to know that Donald is a master of social media, AND he cannopt express himself in 140 characters (please pick one). Oh, and he is not under investigation.

Kellyanne Conway said Trump was being ironic when he tweeted he was under federal investigation. She, also, claimed that he is not, in fact, the subject of a probe.

NOW STANDBY AND WAIT FOR THE TRUMP CLARIFYING TWEET! I hope it just says, 'I'm guilty of everything, but won the election over crooked Hillary by an unprecedented margin'

thephan wrote:From a Washington Post story about gerrymandering, the graphic below is exceptional. The big news of the article is that the SC is going to take up a case about gerrymandering.

analysis suggests the GOP won between 25 and 37 extra seats in the 2012 election because of its redistricting advantage

Read it for yourself

Not surprising since it was an actual implemented plan in 2010 to win as many state seats as they could with gobs of money and then redistrict everything to install house control for a decade.

I posted a clip from the Maddow show from a few years ago before on how they did it. She actually interviewed one of the guys who helped plan it.

thephan wrote:Trump's lawyer wants you to know that Donald is a master of social media, AND he cannopt express himself in 140 characters (please pick one). Oh, and he is not under investigation.

Kellyanne Conway said Trump was being ironic when he tweeted he was under federal investigation. She, also, claimed that he is not, in fact, the subject of a probe.

NOW STANDBY AND WAIT FOR THE TRUMP CLARIFYING TWEET! I hope it just says, 'I'm guilty of everything, but won the election over crooked Hillary by an unprecedented margin'

Whether or not trump is under investigation wouldn't be known by anyone except the investigator right?

thephan wrote:Trump's lawyer wants you to know that Donald is a master of social media, AND he cannopt express himself in 140 characters (please pick one). Oh, and he is not under investigation.

Kellyanne Conway said Trump was being ironic when he tweeted he was under federal investigation. She, also, claimed that he is not, in fact, the subject of a probe.

NOW STANDBY AND WAIT FOR THE TRUMP CLARIFYING TWEET! I hope it just says, 'I'm guilty of everything, but won the election over crooked Hillary by an unprecedented margin'

It certainly is unprecedented to get 3MM fewer votes and win, I'll give him that.