jerseyhoya wrote:

Phred wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:McCain is not dead, and he hasn't resigned to my knowledge.

I think everyone knows this, but just wanted to state it to be safe.

He's going to be and he's going to have to.

I think everyone knows this, but just wanted to state it to be a dick.

Everyone doesn't know this, because he's not going to have to resign. Most sick senators just die in office. Honestly can't think of the last senator who was too sick to carry out his duties and resigned. Byrd/Thurmond/Kennedy all just hung on till they kicked it.

McCain might resign if he goes downhill to get another GOP vote in the Senate, but he'll probably die in office.

Bucky wrote:I really hope that didn't factor at all into Mueller's decision. In fact, the decision was probably made weeks ago.

Phred wrote:
Didn't realize that people who cannot fulfill the functions of their office aren't forced to resign so that someone competent can take their place. Seems like a pretty silly system for that not to happen and pretty selfish of the senator to not resign.

Phred wrote:Didn't realize that people who cannot fulfill the functions of their office aren't forced to resign so that someone competent can take their place. Seems like a pretty silly system...

The trial, which would have come in the form of a congressional hearing, was scheduled for mid-June 2016 by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), a long-standing Russia ally who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe. During the hearing, Rohrabacher had planned to confront Browder with a feature-length pro-Kremlin propaganda movie that viciously attacks him—as well as at least two witnesses linked to the Russian authorities, including lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Ultimately, the hearing was canceled when senior Republicans intervened and agreed to allow a hearing on Russia at the full committee level with a Moscow-sympathetic witness, according to multiple congressional aides.
An email reviewed by The Daily Beast shows that before that June 14 hearing, Rohrabacher’s staff received pro-Kremlin briefings against Browder, once Russia’s biggest foreign investor, and his tax attorney Sergei Magnitsky from a lawyer who was working with Veselnitskaya.
Although House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) had prohibited Rohrabacher from showing the Russian propaganda film in Congress, Rohrabacher’s Capitol Hill office still actively promoted a screening of the movie that was held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2016. Veselnitskaya was one of those handling the movie’s worldwide promotion.

Bucky wrote:I LIKE PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE BRAIN CANCER OK

pacino wrote:Congress wants to make it illegal to participate in the BDS movement. but hey, bipartisanship!

29 Republicans and 14 Democrats in the Senate agree

jerseyhoya wrote:https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/888016380305559552

There are a string of these.

slugsrbad wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/888016380305559552

There are a string of these.

pacino wrote:it's partly how the ACA got through

Bucky wrote:no way they're real. suspicious lack of superlatives.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

pacino wrote:it's partly how the ACA got through

Huh? It's partly how it nearly failed. Kennedy's absence (allegedly) screwed up the committee work/negotiations, and Scott Brown's election nearly tanked the ACA entirely.

Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run Ads Against It

The Trump administration has spent taxpayer money meant to encourage enrollment in the Affordable Care Act on a public relations campaign aimed at methodically strangling it.

The effort, which involves a multi-pronged social media push as well as video testimonials designed at damaging public opinion of President Obama’s health care law, is far more robust and sustained than has been publicly revealed or realized.