CalvinBall wrote:Another R congressman announces his retirement-- Pete Olson of the Houston Suburbs. Add it to the list of seats Ds can pick up.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Like 30k people in this great country have spent $15 on Trump straws in the past couple of weeks.

“We want to find out what happened with the last Democrat president. Let’s look into Obama the way they’ve looked at me.

Notably, the report also said the document was identical to one created by Ken Glueck, the executive vice president at Oracle and the database giant's chief Washington lobbyist. Glueck has a blown-up version of the chart hanging on his office window at Oracle's Washington, DC, office, according to CNN.

jerseyhoya wrote:Newspaper editorials tend to be pretty useless things, but this from the Baltimore Sun is very well done

Better to have a few rats than to be one

Monkeyboy wrote:If they are going to do it, it sure seems like they are slow rolling it out there.

But I don't think they're going to do it. I think they are counting on these investigations coming to a slow boil in 2020 without the impeachment part.

Mulvaney, like Trump, claimed Mueller's testimony about his investigation into Russian election meddling had cleared the president of any wrongdoing, and falsely said Mueller had testified that he would "absolutely not" have indicted Trump if he weren't the president.

"No, that's not what he said," Wallace pushed back.

"He said we didn't because of the OLC, the Office of Legal Counsel guidelines," Wallace said, referring to a 2000 Justice Department determination that "a sitting President is constitutionally immune from indictment and criminal prosecution."


"I actually just think you're wrong on that," Mulvaney said.

"The record will show what it shows. I promise you you're wrong," Wallace replied.

swishnicholson wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Newspaper editorials tend to be pretty useless things, but this from the Baltimore Sun is very well done

Better to have a few rats than to be one

It is a good article, though one few Trumpers will read, and even Cummings supporters will likely ignore. My daughter and my niece both live in the 7th, in vibrant, safe urban communities near Johns Hopkins U. Other areas are even farther up the economic scale, though of course many (but not most) are confronting huge problems. It's frustrating that that's not the narrative that will persist, though. I think most of the public (on both sides, on both sides) are just happy to accept that he presides over a hellhole, and pundits again from both sides will make their pronouncements from that point of view. It's pretty sad, not simply because it's a mischaracterization or shows Baltimore in a bad light, but because, as the article points out, who your congressional Representative is counts little toward quality of life, good or ill, and the problems that exist need to be addressed at all levels of government, rather than simply dismissing those parts of the country that won't lend you support anyway.

The Sarge wrote:After months of speculation, Dan Coats is "resigning" and will be replaced by Texas congressman John Ratcliffe .

atcliffe appeared Sunday on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures" and made a number of points that were in sync with Trump's rhetoric. He said it was time to move on from talk of impeachment, questioned the legitimacy of the Mueller report into Russian election interference and urged investigation into potential wrongdoing during the Obama administration.