I'll laugh if an old white man is what brings trump down and not the terrible stuff he's done to immigrants.
The House is more tribal by nature so I wouldn't expect much there so the Senate would be where I would look for movement, if any.The question is, where will the dam break? The House or the Senate?
Romney has a real chance to be the King Breaker here.
Hours after Turkey launched attack into Syria, @SenThomTillis said he gives @realDonaldTrump 'the benefit of the doubt' on decision to withdraw US troops. #ncpol ##NCSen https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article235958147.html …
Tillis is co-chair of the Senate NATO Observer Group and was very critical of Turkey during imprisonment of NC pastor Andrew Brunson. Called for sanctions and stoppage of sale of F-35s to Turkey for Brunson/purchase of weapons from Russia
51% for impeachment & removal +5 white evangelical Christians +8 white men w/o college degree +10 rural whites
New Fox News poll: By a 66-25% margin, voters say it is generally inappropriate for Trump to ask foreign leaders to investigate political rivals.
More have a positive rather than a negative view of the Democratic Party by 2 points (49 favorable vs. 47 unfavorable), while the Republican Party is under water by 15 (40-55). Part of that is explained by more Democrats (85 percent favorable) viewing their party positively than Republicans do theirs (79 percent favorable).
Voters are inclined to see the motives of Republican lawmakers as more political. By a 3-point margin, more think congressional Democrats truly believe Trump committed an impeachable offense than say Democrats just want to hurt him politically.
On the other side, by a 23-point margin, more think congressional Republicans just want to protect Trump politically than say GOP lawmakers sincerely believe what he did is not impeachable.
The House is more tribal by nature so I wouldn't expect much there so the Senate would be where I would look for movement, if any.
I need "math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better" part 2. I live for that moment.
Trump appears to have gotten his "Kurds didn't help us at Normandy" line from a Kurt Schlichter column.
Incidentally, Kurt Schlichter was all in favor of backing the Kurds until Trump decided to give them up to Erdogan. Then he changed his mind!
Never take it for granted, like say Warren hamstringing her funding potential.Seems like it'll be pretty hard to win an election when half the country wants you removed before your current term ends.
Wouldn't be surprised if most of the Reps that supports removal does so because they want to run someone better in 2020
A Fox News correspondent with an interview with a US soldier stationed there who was training the Kurds.
I hope the military rank and file turn on him for this, it's a domino faling that would help significantly in getting him out.
Fox is one of the most accurate pollsters out there. They just tend not to publish polls contrary to the motives of their propaganda arm. This is actually terrible news for Trump, this is one of the polls that will indicate real sentiment.
The intent is the same. To make the subject look bad.The Benghazi Hearings (much like "Her Emails") were exactly that, hearings with no teeth. Political theater not going anywhere because it couldn't go anywhere because at that time Hillary wasn't President, and they were not using those attacks in an attempt to remove Obama nor even attempting to start a process to achieve such an end.
Impeachment is *not* hearings, it is a full blown process with intent of removal.
Like, these are completely different things.
A Fox News correspondent with an interview with a US soldier stationed there who was training the Kurds.
I hope the military rank and file turn on him for this, it's a domino faling that would help significantly in getting him out.
Soldiers will talk with their families. You can't spin this, Trump is done.
A Fox News correspondent with an interview with a US soldier stationed there who was training the Kurds.
I hope the military rank and file turn on him for this, it's a domino faling that would help significantly in getting him out.
NEW: In a 2017 meeting in the Oval Office, President Trump pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-09/trump-urged-top-aide-to-help-giuliani-client-facing-doj-charges …
President Donald Trump pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani, according to three people familiar with the 2017 meeting in the Oval Office.
Tillerson refused, arguing it would constitute interference in an ongoing investigation of the trader, Reza Zarrab, according to the people. They said other participants in the Oval Office were shocked by the request.
Tillerson immediately repeated his objections to then-Chief of Staff John Kelly in a hallway conversation just outside the Oval Office, emphasizing that the request would be illegal. Neither episode has been previously reported, and all of the people spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the conversations.
The White House declined to comment. Kelly and Tillerson declined to comment via representatives. Another person familiar with the matter said the Justice Department never considered dropping the criminal case.
Zarrab was being prosecuted in federal court in New York at the time on charges of evading U.S. sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. He had hired former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Giuliani, who has said he reached out repeatedly to U.S. officials to seek a diplomatic solution for his client outside the courts.
The president's request to Tillerson -- which included asking him to speak with Giuliani -- bears the hallmarks of Trump's governing style, defined by his willingness to sweep aside the customary procedures and constraints of government to pursue matters outside normal channels. Tillerson's objection came to light as Trump's dealings with foreign leaders face intense scrutiny following the July 25 call with Ukraine's president that has sparked an impeachment inquiry in the House.
Hamstringing the donors ability to water down her policy.*Never take it for granted, like say Warren hamstringing her funding potential.
You're being pedantic. The intent of THIS impeachment is not to remove Trump from office. It's to get him all riled up and start saying stupid stuff like he is now.No, the intent is not the same. Are you daft? The intent of Impeachment is to begin a process of removal by levying criminal indictment against a sitting official.
Hearings do not levy criminal indictments nor do they begin a process to accomplish said, they are tools of airing out accusations but nothing more.
If they were in any shape or form similar, Republicans wouldn't have stopped at hearings with Obama's administration. They stopped there because a hearing and a full on impeachment motion are completely different things.
Only if she lets them, which I doubt she would. It would still be better than four more years. All the best plans in the world count for nothing if you don't remember to win.
More people having a positive opinion of the Democratic Party as a whole strikes me as very significant!
thisisamerica.gifIt's still very embarrassing as a country that it takes all this open corruption, numerous crimes, staggering ineptitude and incompetence shown by everyone in that fucking building for a slim majority to finally be ok with kicking his ass out.
The U.S. military's chain of command is quite simple: The president gets his orders from the crackpot blogger who gets his orders from the president.
Honestly, I am too. The Fox News poll, some of the harshest pushback against Trump yet due to the Syrian invasion, and the constant stream of impeachable offenses are all indicating that we might start seeing GOP Senators start to flip or at least show signs of wavering.Yeah...I'm coming around to the belief that Trump actually has a shot at being removed from office.
You're being pedantic. The intent of THIS impeachment is not to remove Trump from office. It's to get him all riled up and start saying stupid stuff like he is now.
She told us, and all those Jill Stein "she just doesn't excite me," "Hillary the Hawk" people can kiss my whole ass.
Those Jill Stein people honestly have blood on their hands. They get absolutely no sympathy or forgiveness from me.
Susan Sarandon can get bent and stay that way.Those Jill Stein people honestly have blood on their hands. They get absolutely no sympathy or forgiveness from me.
This is insulting and uncalled for. I didn't make any personal attacks and yet you've called me daft, an ignorant fool, and a bot. Learn some manners.Ah yes, the intent of this impeachment is to... *checks notes*… get him to start saying stupid stuff as opposed to all of that intelligent and TOTALLY LEGAL stuff he was saying before now.
I am beginning to doubt that you are not actually just one of those AIM chat robots masquerading as a human.
So do you think the House flipped in 2018 purely on Democratic votes and not numerous Republicans/Republican-I voting D?
Suppose you do take what I said to be true, do you think 2018 was *all* of said conversions for forever and that there won't be more in 2020?
She told us, and all those Jill Stein "she just doesn't excite me," "Hillary the Hawk" people can kiss my whole ass.
Subpoena Rex Tillerson!
I love when the writers bring back old characters. They killed him off too quick.