Monkeyboy wrote:ho-hum, yet another thing Trump said that is more offensive that maybe anything a president has said in my lifetime.

Bar inches a bit lower. Democracy gets a bit weaker.

Toomey said he has said that publicly "many times." Toomey went on to say that Trump, if he becomes president, cannot accomplish anything with Democrats in power and that, if Clinton becomes president, a Republican senator would provide a check on her administration.
"Honestly, I think whoever you're voting for at the top of the ticket, you want to have a Republican Senate," Toomey said on WPHT-AM.

Toomey has said previously he was "encouraged" by Trump's short list of would-be high court nominees since the Republican-controlled Senate has refused to consider President Barack Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland. Still, he has criticized Trump's vulgarity, his lack of devotion to conservative principles and his vagueness about what he would do as president, or how.

Monkeyboy wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:And Maine Gov. Paul LePage can't help himself:

"Sometimes, I wonder that our Constitution is not only broken, but we need a Donald Trump to show some authoritarian power in our country and bring back the rule of law because we've had eight years of a president, he's an autocrat, he just does it on his own, he ignores Congress and every single day, we're slipping into anarchy," LePage said on Maine radio station WVOM.

Somewhere, a Rachel Maddow producer chuckled because her second segment in tonight's show just wrote itself.

we need authoritarian power to help us get rid of someone who does things without approval?

wow, sounds like he was educated at Trump Univ

What he meant to say in Tuesday’s comments on WVOM of Bangor was “authoritative,” LePage said during an impromptu 33-minute news conference in the governor’s Cabinet Room at the State House. LePage also reiterated his support of Trump and his disdain for the media, at one point suggesting that anybody who listened to what he said Tuesday would have known what he meant unless they were a “moron.”

LePage also said Wednesday that he was worried the U.S. government would collapse under a Hillary Clinton presidency, and he called President Obama a “dictator” who abused his executive authority

Set before LePage’s lectern were what appeared to be Russian nesting dolls with the images of former President Bill Clinton and various women who Clinton has been accused of having affairs with, including former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, whom LePage also mentioned during the radio show Tuesday. The smallest doll of the set included an image of Hillary Clinton. LePage said he was given the dolls as a gift during a trip he made to Russia when he was mayor of Waterville in 2008.

“I wouldn’t speak to you, if you guys didn’t make such a big deal about a missed word,” he said. “I have no respect for you at all, make no bones about that. I think that you all live in a world of words and your life is to destroy people instead of doing the good things.”

td11 wrote:@buzzfeednews
New tonight: Donald Trump Jr. suggested women who can’t take harassment “don’t belong in the workforce” https://t.co/VMFt3G4nsf https://t.co/uE0EMrbizT

slugsrbad wrote: I could see him inciting a riot with his concession speech.

thephan wrote:

slugsrbad wrote: I could see him inciting a riot with his concession speech.

There is not going to be any concession speech, no matter the outcome, its not happening.

Doll Is Mine wrote:

td11 wrote:@buzzfeednews
New tonight: Donald Trump Jr. suggested women who can’t take harassment “don’t belong in the workforce” https://t.co/VMFt3G4nsf https://t.co/uE0EMrbizT

Yikes.

“I’m of that mindset — and I’ll get into trouble, I’m sure I’ll get myself in trouble one of these days,” Trump began, “if you can’t handle some of the basic stuff that’s become a problem in the workforce today, then you don’t belong in the workforce. Like, you should go maybe teach kindergarten. I think it’s a respectable position.

“When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of folks in this room have seen many times over and you’re strong and you can handle it but a lot of people can’t handle it. They see horror stories, they see events you couldn’t see in a movie, nobody would believe it,” Trump said Monday, during a panel interview at the Retired American Warriors PAC, in Herndon, Virginia

td11 wrote:@pbump
Oh, Gary. https://t.co/m1ieZAAvKg

Lolol

pacino wrote:i would assume Obama will not, in act, fire her since he appointed her just 3 years ago. i understand Warren's concerns about lack of a timeline but in the end the current law doesn't actually allow them to implement disclosure rulings. It would seem like a waste of resources to work on something they aren't allowed to actually implement.

joe table wrote:

pacino wrote:i would assume Obama will not, in act, fire her since he appointed her just 3 years ago. i understand Warren's concerns about lack of a timeline but in the end the current law doesn't actually allow them to implement disclosure rulings. It would seem like a waste of resources to work on something they aren't allowed to actually implement.

I don't know enough to pass a normative judgment on the merits of white but I just thought that was a pretty insane power play

joe table wrote:Also good point that stuff Warren would want to do would be highly vulnerable to legal attack. Unsurprisingly ol friend scalia's son Eugene is actually the top attorney on striking down admin agency regs in the DC Circuit on constitutional law grounds. Took down a bunch of regs (SEC, CFTC I yhink) under Dodd Frank. See Business Roundtable case, etc