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because he's a Trump nominee it's safe to assume a) he's horrible/incompetent and b) he will get confirmed

Sessions definitely lied on his security clearance:

Aaand the DOJ has released a single page of Sessions' SF86. Box checked "no" on q about having contact w/foreign government in last 7 years. pic.twitter.com/5fI016nuH8

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 13, 2017

Did you say 7 years? Oh, I thought you meant 7 days! My bad.

if only there were consequences for that

It would've really sucked for Sessions if there were still rules or punishments meted out when those rules are broken. Whew!

I guess these white boxes are going to be the new standard for redaction style in opaque governance?

Like, seriously, just shred the goddamn regulations once you've made clear your intention to not enforce them. What's even the fucking point.

rules for thee but not for me

I wonder how much McConnell is hanging Cruz out to dry by letting him get this amendment on. He's an oily motherfucker, can totally see him setting Cruz up as the guy that tanked any chance of its passage.

giving a sick, screaming baby whiskey

nominate for the next thread title

also Patty LuPone is a goddess

rules for thee but not for me

― Shanty Brunch (stevie), Thursday, July 13, 2017 10:40 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from Joe Carducci's Enter Naomi: SST and All That, the phrase that probably best defines the Trump era:

the word "Fascismo," one of the old SST buzzwords,
generally used as a begrudging compliment, coined by Mugger or maybe
Chuck Biscuits, derived from the Dukowski maxim, "Anarchy for me,
Fascism for you."

oh man that is so otm

Are security clearances just a formality now or something?

yeah i picked one up the other day

BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Committee chairman says he is asking Donald Trump Jr. to testify; will subpoena if necessary.

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 13, 2017

Do you know who my dad is?

Yam and Macron visited Napoleon's tomb [yr joke here]

Trump's going to finally figure out how to draw attention away from his hands

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e1/46/98/e1469814ba7e883e85ebed69bbdc56c0.jpg

http://wallaroundtrump.com/wep/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/trumpolean-md.jpg

It's still incredible to me how brazenly ineffective the Democrats are at being an opposition pic.twitter.com/jzh52EZEBA

— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) July 13, 2017

TBF, owning Trump & co. as hard as they own themselves would be quite a feat. And even their self-owns don't seem to amount to a hill of beans.

It's like planning some sweet revenge on a shitty neighbor who first burns his own house down and then takes advantage of your awestruck amazement at his self-inflicted comeuppance to sneak in your back door and take your house from you.

Schumer and Pelosi have pulled p much every obstructionist trick there is and kept their caucuses voting together consistently.

maybe Tim Kaine shd tell people that "bipartisanship" would be a disaster

fat lot of good the procedural lockstep is worth if they keep backing loser policies

After declaring remarks off the record, Trump asked @maggieNYT why she didn't publish them, per pool report pic.twitter.com/e8EqKiUEiY

— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) July 13, 2017

at this point i'm amazed we managed to ever have institutions of any kind at all that any period of stability or sense was totally anomalous

is there like a democratic party leadership that is coordinating messaging around the criminal implosion of the GOP or is it just twitter

— John Cook (@johnjcook) July 11, 2017

heaven forbid they beat the drum

it must be 'too early'

what does "criminal implosion of the GOP" mean

Huckleberry to the rescue lol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mcconnell-to-release-new-gop-health-plan-allowing-bare-bones-insurance-policies/2017/07/13/8f0509c4-67bb-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_mcconnell-1110am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.7e849f03aeff

So reassuring!

Trump says Don Jr. met with "not a government lawyer but a Russian lawyer."

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 13, 2017

"Politics is not the nicest business in the world," Trump says of offering dirt on opponents, even from a foreign adversary

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 13, 2017

"My son is a great young man, he's a fine person," Trump says. .... "....and nothing came of the meeting."

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 13, 2017

heaven forbid they beat the drum
it must be 'too early'
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, July 13, 2017 12:54 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Better not be seen placing a thumb on the scales, better make sure the whole gang of eight is on board b4 getting carried away

So does that mean those who attempt murder aren't guilty of anything except failing?

xp

I know I've said it before, but I'm hard-pressed to think of a more damning indictment of someone's character than an endorsement from Donald Trump.

Socks and sandals comes close

The biggest problem I see with Kaine's strategy is that he is still thinking in terms of "how can we get the other side to work with us" rather than "how can we stop these morons and monsters from harming their constituents"

The russians were smart enough not to trust this bumbling idiot with anything

right now they honestly seem to be making a good case for themselves as competent hands at the till

Kaine would say those are not mutually exclusive

xp

like, working with people from the opposing party is not a de facto bad thing; compromise is part of the bread and butter of federal politics and is integral to the way things used to get done, so I don't fully begrudge anyone trying to reset the dial to something resembling sanity, yet a good portion of me is screaming "EXACTLY WHAT BIPARTISAN COMPROMISE ARE YOU EXPECTING THESE MORONIC CRETINS TO AGREE TO; FOR THE LOVE OF GOD OPEN YOUR GODDAMNED EYES"

Bernie Sanders is the most popular Senator. Mitch McConnell and John McCain are the two most unpopular - polling done in Senators' states https://t.co/RdJ87zVxbh

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 13, 2017

And yeah, in a sane world where the opposing party isn't acting like it is more interested in completely destroying the foundation of the country in the interest of filling its own coffers, those two things wouldn't be mutually exclusive.

Per notes re the new health bill in the Senate, Paul a firm no, Collins and Portman not thrilled, say they'll wait on CBO. If both stick with no, that's kinda that. (No word yet on others from what I know, ie Heller, Capito, etc.)

no argument there

xp

"EXACTLY WHAT BIPARTISAN COMPROMISE ARE YOU EXPECTING THESE MORONIC CRETINS TO AGREE TO; FOR THE LOVE OF GOD OPEN YOUR GODDAMNED EYES"

― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Thursday, July 13, 2017 1:20 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Isn't it just theatre? "Look we're the rational ones! We believe in compromise. (Not like those jackasses. They'd never say anything like this.)"

These kinds of things don't need to have any corresponding action. It's just to look good in contrast.

"incredible that after all this Don Jr. still has no clue what he did wrong and still laments the fact that he didn't get that sweet Hillary dirt he was promised"

i think it's funny that people just assume that he didn't get any information from her. for all we know she told them: "Okay, the Kremlin starts hacking tomorrow. Wish us luck!" Nobody has any idea what she told those guys but they just take Don Jr's word for it that she was useless?

Yeah it's funny that both the Trumpets think that it is a reasonable defense and that everyone else is accepting it either way.

i don't know, it's not really like them to lie about something like this

healthcare bill out and...

Collins is a no on the bill and motion to proceed, says she has deep concerns about hundreds of billions of dollars of Medicaid cuts

— Alex Rogers (@arogDC) July 13, 2017

Rand Paul is a NO on the bill and the motion to proceed - per spox

— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) July 13, 2017

no word from heller

welp, all we need is one more and there's like 10 possibilities

murkowski, heller, ron johnson, portman were all holdouts last time for various reasons and none of them i don't think were focused on opiod $ except for heller?