Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

Nunes's hometown paper goes ham:

http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article140687833.html

As subservient as Nunes was to Trump on Wednesday, he did not give the president exactly what he wanted. As FBI Director James Comey had done Monday during the Intelligence committee’s public hearing, Nunes said hat Trump’s claim about Obama wiretapping him was false. Perhaps Nunes thought he could have it both ways by letting Trump use him, but then telling the press that the new reports offered no such evidence.

Nunes’ defenders say that he did nothing wrong and that President Trump deserved to have the information. But Nunes himself exposed the emptiness of that argument by privately apologizing to his Democratic colleagues on the committee.

Americans can distinguish between a hard-nosed fact-finder and a surrogate who shares information with a White House under FBI investigation.

such an unfortunate use of words in this washington post headline:

"Karen Pence is the vice president’s ‘prayer warrior,’ gut check and shield."

jesus sucks

nunes' company website wipes russian business ties

https://www.palmerreport.com/news/coverup-devin-nunes-company-russia/2086/

Don't wanna even think about what being Pence's gut shield entails (Oxford commas, WP).

A fair amount of joy in this new Thrush/Haberman piece:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/us/politics/vice-president-mike-pence.html

The president’s son-in-law and free-floating aide, Jared Kushner, who has described himself as a first among equals in the West Wing...

And

When Mr. Flynn was fired in mid-February, Mr. Trump and White House officials said he had misled the vice president about his conversations with Mr. Kislyak, which led to an embarrassing television appearance in which an oblivious Mr. Pence defended Mr. Flynn’s conduct.

In reality, Mr. Trump — convinced by Mr. Bannon, Mr. Priebus and Mr. Kushner — had already decided that Mr. Flynn was a liability, and was eager to find an excuse to get rid of him, according to three administration officials familiar with the episode.

Mr. Pence was a lot less upset about how the episode was publicly portrayed — and happily provided the president and his staff with a plausible explanation for getting rid of Mr. Flynn, the officials said, even though it made the vice president appear out of touch.

In fact, the president repeatedly asked Mr. Pence to weigh in — and he flatly refused, according to two aides with direct knowledge of the interaction.

I thought as much.

yeah Pence has seemed to be happy to play Mr. Alibi from the go.

Isn't it well known that there was a 3 week interval between Sally Yates informing the WH about Flynn and him being fired?
&that Pence's claim of ignorance was untrue anyway since he was informed during the campaign?
So surprised he has much, if any, credibility left.

republicans love scandals. democrats scorn them. it's an interesting dynamic, as republicans seize more and more control of the US federal and various levels of state governments than at any time since Reconstruction

http://pix11.com/2017/03/29/shots-fired-near-capitol-hill-when-person-attempts-to-run-over-officers-d-c-police/

WAS NUNES DRIVING THE CAR???!!!

He's back!

https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/847092043184852992

After a “quiet few days,” Andrew Napolitano returns to Fox News, says he stands by his report Obama ordered GCHQ to spy on Trump

whew I was worried

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-gutted-lgbt-executive-order-8dd0e3be69a

Trump’s new executive order undermines a promise he made just two months ago. When a draft of a “religious freedom” executive order that would have licensed discrimination against LGBT people was circulating, the White House tried to stir up some positive press by promising that it would “leave in place” Obama’s 2014 order protecting LGBT workers.

calling Trump a piece of shit seems unfair to actual shit

I may have missed discussion of it on the board, but there's a front page story in today's FT about increasing big business resistance (led by Exxon, of all entities) to the administration's desire to hasten the destruction of the ecosystem: https://www.ft.com/content/acf309b0-13b3-11e7-80f4-13e067d5072c

"calling Trump a piece of shit seems unfair to actual shit"

"Nick Hornby is full of shit. Actually, this is unfair to shit. At least life grows from shit." WTF?

reminded me of that.

not surprisingly, the whole ISP/data privacy bill seems to be the only thing making the chuds over at r/the_d rethink their support of the god king

increasing big business resistance (led by Exxon, of all entities) to the administration's desire to hasten the destruction of the ecosystem

market forces have long been moving in this direction (as a result of both gov't policies/incentives and a general acceptance of the science), corporations that care about their profit margins make moves accordingly

Charlie Dent just said the Senate should handle the Russia probe

Trump will be like "WEAK GUY THAT VOTED AGAINST HEALTH CARE WANTS TO INVESTIGATE MOI?"

Timing!

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/847083958659661824

Roger Stone documentary to premiere in May on Netflix

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8FyXoTXQAMRsYI.jpg

nice martini, I must say

i hope it's 90 minutes of him flexing his back muscles to make his nixon tattoo talk

xp it's just water with olives in it

lol

i'm glad you didn't say "good hair"

Roger w the good hair

i heard Stone interviewed on The Takeaway (NPR) yesterday and he basically strikes me as the same kind of 'performance artist' Ann Coulter is.

Yeah, the whole 'sartorial splendor of Roger Stone' is performance art, when you consider he really looks like Zippy The Pinhead.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6pxIppWoAABNi9.jpg

Because you posted that, that means I'm not a bad person for having already thought that

Is he wearing a bathrobe? It kind of looks like a suit kimono.

kimono, tomato. last pres was an empty chair; current one's campaign was managed by a russian fence. let's call the whole estate tax off : )

ugh hes the kind of east coast douchebag Im glad I never have to encounter here in LA

idk i always though Rog looked a bit like Melissa Etheridge.

give me a roger stone over a mike pence any day tbh

Granted nothing more than a random voice right now but:

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/847131758445416449

Carly Fiorina: 'Special prosecutor or an independent commission' needed for Russia investigation

The Dent statement noted above has more relative weight, but given Fiorina seemed to be nothing but a generic Trumpbot in recent times, it's something.

carly trying to rebrand herself for her next losing election campaign in some random state she doesnt live in

Right on track!

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/847131904994398209

Trump down to 35-59, per Gallup.

It actually seems possible that his approval rating could dip into the 20s. Wow.

Happened to W IIRC, but that was after, you know....years. Not WEEKS.

It's going to take some strong medicine to drive him below 35% approval, but I am sure he'll find a way. I must say he's thrown an interesting light on the concept of "winning so much you'll get tired of winning."

Can't we whip up a law that when no more than 1/3 of the populace approves of an elected official we officially, I dunno, throw them under a riding mower or something?

W's low point was 25%, just prior to leaving office

the Trump team appears to have zero awareness of how to even start turning this around

Is there a critical mass of losers he's run over that will finally chain react into "lock him up" generally?

The Trump team has zero awareness of how to turn this around because all of them consider themselves to be brilliant political experts, but none of them have any practical political experience and they disdain anyone who does have such experience on the grounds that, in their expert view, real politicians always do everything exactly wrong.

yah the fact that everything is fucked up and not working is evidence of their MASSIVE success! you fuckin dummies!!!

pretty sure the last 3 years of his Presidency will just be selling White House stuff on ebay