drsmooth wrote:drumpf may as well veto the almost unanimously Congressionally-supported Russia sanctions measure. His base knows he's sucking poot's dirty dick & they're fine with it; when he vetos the measure, & then later Congress inevitably calls for him (via impeachment, & pressure) to resign, he can pretend Congress had it in for him for vetoing this measure. What does he have to lose that he isn't at risk of losing soon anyway?

thephan wrote:NO NEW TWEETS!

Sadly that is sort of news, isn't it.

Is he golfing or dead?

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
It's very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their President.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Thank you to @LOUDOBBS for giving the first six months of the Trump Administration an A+. S.C.,reg cutting,Stock M, jobs,border etc. = TRUE!

In it, he detailed a June 2016 meeting with a Russian-American lawyer and says it was such a "waste of time" that he asked his assistant to call him out of the gathering.
Emails released this month show that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., accepted the meeting at Trump Tower with the idea that he would receive damaging information about Hillary Clinton. But Kushner says he hadn't seen those emails until recently shown them by his lawyers.
Kushner said in his statement that Trump Jr. invited him to the meeting. He says he arrived late and when he heard the lawyer discussing the issue of adoptions, he texted his assistant to call him out.
"No part of the meeting I attended included anything about the campaign, there was no follow up to the meeting that I am aware of, I do not recall how many people were there (or their names), and I have no knowledge of any documents being offered or accepted," Kushner's statement says.

pacino wrote:the Senate plans on voting on an ACA repeal bill tomorrow. They just have to figure out which bill first.

Political pressure has intensified since the Kentucky GOP took control of state government and moved quickly to pass new restrictions on abortions. And Republican Gov. Matt Bevin makes no apologies for waging a licensing fight against a Louisville clinic that is the last remaining facility performing abortions in the state.

Another battle-tested participant joins the fight this weekend. Operation Save America, a Christian fundamentalist group, plans to mobilize hundreds of activists to protest against EMW Women's Surgical Center.

The group's leaders state their purpose unequivocally: to rid Kentucky of its last abortion clinic. Some of the group's followers were arrested during a protest outside EMW in the spring. The group has said it won't use those same tactics in the coming days, but a federal judge on Friday ordered the creation of a "buffer zone" to keep protesters out of an area in front of the clinic. The pre-emptive move was requested by federal prosecutors to prevent protesters from blocking access to the surgical center.

The clinic has been on the defensive since Bevin's election in 2015 put a social conservative and ardent abortion foe in the governor's office. Early this year, abortion opponents pushed through two bills signed by Bevin. One measure banned abortions in Kentucky after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother's life is in danger. The other requires the abortion doctor or a "qualified technician" to perform an ultrasound and then try to show fetal images to the pregnant woman before she consents to an abortion.

The law is being challenged in federal court, along with another case in which abortion rights supporters say Bevin's administration tried to shut down EMW earlier this year. State officials said the clinic was out of compliance with its hospital and ambulance service agreements. EMW sued, and Bevin's administration agreed to renew the clinic's license until after the lawsuit is resolved. A September trial is scheduled.

EMW's legal team believes the case "falls squarely" within a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down Texas regulations that required doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and forced clinics to meet hospital-like standards for outpatient surgery, said Heather Gatnarek, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.

slugsrbad wrote:

pacino wrote:the Senate plans on voting on an ACA repeal bill tomorrow. They just have to figure out which bill first.

They'll have to pass it to find out what's in it.

thephan wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:

pacino wrote:the Senate plans on voting on an ACA repeal bill tomorrow. They just have to figure out which bill first.

They'll have to pass it to find out what's in it.

Seems to be intense pressure to just vote yes and fix it later. That sound stupidly familiar.

slugsrbad wrote:I wonder if the cowards in the House who voted yes because the Senate would fix the bill are still a yes. I wonder if more Republican nos will vote yes to be on the "winning" side.

thephan wrote:

thephan wrote:NO NEW TWEETS!

Sadly that is sort of news, isn't it.

Is he golfing or dead?

He's back

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
It's very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their President.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Thank you to @LOUDOBBS for giving the first six months of the Trump Administration an A+. S.C.,reg cutting,Stock M, jobs,border etc. = TRUE!

traderdave wrote:

thephan wrote:

thephan wrote:NO NEW TWEETS!

Sadly that is sort of news, isn't it.

Is he golfing or dead?

He's back

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
It's very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their President.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Thank you to @LOUDOBBS for giving the first six months of the Trump Administration an A+. S.C.,reg cutting,Stock M, jobs,border etc. = TRUE!

Me, Me, Me.

As for Lou Dobbs, there is not a curve in this universe (or any other) that would give this collection of imbeciles an A+.