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was scared that this scaramucci fella was going to be like when rebecca replaced diane but it's more like when jimmy smits replaced caruso on nypd blue

So Sad: Steve Bannon Is The Only One Who Signed Sean Spicer’s Goodbye Card And He Thought It Was A Lunch Order https://t.co/KLw6CAc1fA pic.twitter.com/n0Cb8DriZb

— ClickHole (@ClickHole) July 21, 2017

lol

now officially the least popular president in American history

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-apos-latest-approval-144822746.html

are we sick of winning yet?

if the democrats need to carpe diem some shit around here, this is the moment

i didn't mean to put if at the beginning of that. just carpe diem this shit!

Hmm

Can we try it one more time, with the if?

Ask Karl if we can do it again. With the if. Yeah.

Thanks.

okay democrats, if we can just carpe diem some shit around here, that would be great. faaaantastic, thank you

Wait, scrap everything, apparently it's supposed to be carpe some diem. Let's circle back tomorrow and try again then.

i accept blame for the lack of enthusiasm for democrats despite the most pathetic and inept opposition party in living memory. now let's put this episode behind us and win 54% of the vote next time around!!!!

Just leave him in there I think. Yeah. Just leave him. He's working through his stuff for tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. He needs this one to be a bit. I know. I know. No, seriously, just leave him. Be fine. Pint?

Trump admin does a thing I approve of, apparently over the objections of Sessions?

http://time.com/4869133/al-qaeda-suspect-extradition-terrorism-charges/?utm_campaign=time&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=time_socialflow_twitter

Also cool with banning US tourist travel to North Korea. That's two!

Well that fake peace didn't last long.

Scaramucci no longer appearing on Hannity tonight, Fox says.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 21, 2017

Only 32 House Democrats Voted against Reauthorizing Trump’s Deportation Machine https://t.co/ywBEGnAZV2

— Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) July 21, 2017

One of DHS’s most notorious child agencies is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is implementing Trump’s mass deportation agenda with pleasure. Barely a day goes by without a new horror story of families being broken apart.

Rather than trying to rein in DHS and check its abuses, the House voted today to reauthorize it — for the first formal time since 2001 — and give it more money.

It passed easily 386 to 41.

32 Democrats and 9 Republicans voted against it.

gross

"better ICE"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/21/media-war-trump-destined-fail

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows reacts to Parliamentarian striking down the abortion funding prohibition.

"Passage almost impossible." pic.twitter.com/txLjSNhfdM

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 21, 2017

which relates to this

Defunding Planned Parenthood and the abortion restrictions on the tax credits both subject to 60.

Freedom Caucus?https://t.co/H6p53m83zr

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 21, 2017

HUGE NEWS on TrumpCare. Either lots of stuff comes out or Rs have to break decades of precedent and overrule the Senate Parliamentarian. https://t.co/8MSWWZtIj5

— Chad Bolt (@chadderr) July 21, 2017

Overthrow precedent? Surely they wouldn't dare!

their 6 months in insurance limbo for not having coverage penalty is out too.. fucking morons.

wait, the Senate can overrule the Parliamentarian on a simple majority vote?!

that seems crazy

supposedly pence can personally overrule the parliamentarian?

Collins + Murkowski have both said the PP defunding/abortion restrictions would tank the bill for them, so them plus absent McCain and/or Lee and Moran's opposition means this bill is still fucked.

Plus everyone's gone home and no one's negotiating at the moment, so this just seems like another headache for McConnell

supposedly pence can personally overrule the parliamentarian?

I've seen Cruz advance this argument, but I've never seen anyone else in the Senate endorse it or agree w it

I'm only just getting to see video of the Mooch now that I'm out of work.

Is this what having crabs feels like?

hmm well there it is in wikipedia: The Vice President as President of the Senate can overrule the parliamentarian, but this has not been done since 1975

xp

full detail:
Any senator may raise a procedural objection to a provision believed to be extraneous, which will then be ruled on by the Presiding Officer, customarily on the advice of the Senate Parliamentarian. A vote of 60 senators is required to overturn the ruling. The Presiding Officer need not necessarily follow the advice of the Parliamentarian, and the Parliamentarian can be replaced by the Senate Majority Leader. The Vice President as President of the Senate can overrule the parliamentarian, but this has not been done since 1975. In 2001, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott fired Parliamentarian Robert Dove after dissatisfaction with his rulings, replacing him with Alan Frumin

the huffpo guy who has been covering this all here seems convinced

Guys. It's dead.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 21, 2017

*here = year

I can see Trump telling Pence to do it if he thought it would get the bill passed, but doing so would almost certainly mean they would actually *lose* votes so idk

they have until at least 2018 for this shit, and reconciliation will come again so

next time reconciliation is possible will be the middle of mid-term elections, political calculus will be a bit different

i know it's cliche but i'm not saying never to anything ever at this point

This from @Scaramucci’s book explains why the Bannonites can’t stand him pic.twitter.com/pKf1N9uqVu

— Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) July 21, 2017

lmao https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-discussed-trump-campaign-related-matters-with-russian-ambassador-us-intelligence-intercepts-show/2017/07/21/3e704692-6e44-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html

Minor details, sir.

Russia’s ambassador to Washington told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts of two conversations with Sessions — then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump — were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which monitor the communications of senior Russian officials both in the United States and in Russia. Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.

One U.S. official said that Sessions — who testified that he has no recollection of the April encounter — has provided “misleading” statements that are “contradicted by other evidence.” A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had “substantive” discussions on matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.

Already seeing speculation that this was done to try and finally force Sessions out. I have doubts.

by russia, for the lols, perhaps

There's no way anyone in Trump's circle is feeding the Russia story imo. However much they want rid of Sessions, makes no sense for them to fuel the collusion narrative.

Anthony Scaramucci looks like an extra in the Wolf of Wall Street that they had to fire because he kept trying to talk to Leo

— Ike Barinholtz (@ikebarinholtz) July 21, 2017

I weep for him

Spicer to Hannity on McCarthy/SNL: "There’s a lot of it that was over the line. It wasn’t funny. It was stupid, or silly, or malicious."

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 21, 2017

Hilarious if true:

Scaramucci is being primed to eventually take on the position of WH chief of staff, according 2sources w/ knowledge https://t.co/ZhlbsprsIw

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) July 21, 2017

The latest in the seemingly endless series of "He can't really be that stupid, can he? ...Oh, wow..." moments.

Oh and

WSJ FLAG: Kushner releases revised financial filing, disclosing 77 assets "inadvertently omitted" from earlier rpt.https://t.co/QzzbyftESO

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 21, 2017

Haha.

I understand the point Thomas Frank is making in that piece linked to a few posts up. It's basically an extension of Listen, Liberal--the venality of the cult of "professionalism," specifically within the Democratic Party--which I read and liked.

But no matter if the press's hatred for Trump is, in Frank's eyes, for all the wrong reasons, I do think its hatred, along with all the misery Trump inflicts upon himself, helps gum things up for him. I don't really buy the idea that, because the media are so hated in poll after poll, therefore Trump benefits from the mutual animosity. With the 30% or so of voters who are staying with him forever, no matter what, sure--they dig in. But as a practical matter, day-to-day, I really believe it hurts him badly. CNN seizes on everything. When Scaramucci gave his press conference today, every time he said something silly (e.g., hoping Spicer goes on to make lots of money), the words immediately showed up on the crawl at the bottom of the screen. I love that they do this; I think it takes a toll.

Is the press "winning" its war with Trump? I don't know what winning exactly means, but they are nurturing and adding to the chaos, and I can't believe that's a good thing for Trump.