AHAHAHAHAHA he's not a buddhist monk. Probably thinks buddhists are batshit insane.
Trump is likely thinking "If whoever this is will admit to it in the NYT, who might be leaking to Mueller"?
I wonder if self-immolation is an option for how the administration ends on the gambling boards?
This whole thread resembles trying to figure out who Deep Throat is.
Noted 4th Amendment warrior has thoughts.
I hope he/they do they step forward. However I think the "severe weekaness in our gov't processes" is more an indictment on the current administration and a cowardly and complicit congress than it is our actual processes. The gop and trump are set in to destroy or neuter our institutions (EPA, State, CPFB etc) while chasing buttery mails hearings the day after cohen and manafort go down.If it was decided this, it was a pretty shittacular way to go about it. All this shows is that we've got a severe weakness in our governmental process, in that a group of random, non-elected individuals can wrest control of the nation away from the democratically elected head of state whenever they feel like it. We've shifted from 'trusting' that the person we elected will do-right, to 'trusting' that the people that person appoints will do-right. I worry more about the latter, because for the most part those individuals scurry around under the radar for most presidencies.
With sufficient transparency, this isn't a crisis-level event, but I don't trust that we'll have that level of transparency.
There is something else tho.. most washington peeps would talk to the WaPo. Only a New Yorker would go to the NYT.
How many NY'ers are there in the administration?
It's both, imo. The current system is designed with the thought that our officials will act like adults, rather than idiotic children. With children in those positions, the system design cannot cope, as we clearly see. What is, seriously, the recourse of the electorate at this point? Wait and see if Congress does their jobs, and end this facade? Riot in the streets? Assassinate? Or just whine on twitter until the next few years trundles past, and hope we don't end up in WW3 before the next term?I hope he/they do they step forward. However I think the "severe weekaness in our gov't processes" is more an indictment on the current administration and a cowardly and complicit congress than it is our actual processes. The gop and trump are set in to destroy or neuter our institutions (EPA, State, CPFB etc) while chasing buttery mails hearings the day after cohen and manafort go down.
Its a shame they have enabled the orange pig clown to the point where almost daily we fail to be stunned by unprecedented gaffes, crisis and embarrassments and that it would lead to such steps from "the very best people" but here we are. Here's hoping they do step forward, at least the author. And hoping Woodward will release some tapes!
More haha's
Rand Paul suggested to Trump make everyone take a lie detector test.
Oh please let that happen. Visuals will be great.
I can see the hearings now.More haha's
Rand Paul suggested to Trump make everyone take a lie detector test.
Oh please let that happen. Visuals will be great.
You sound like my sonIt's both, imo. The current system is designed with the thought that our officials will act like adults, rather than idiotic children. With children in those positions, the system design cannot cope, as we clearly see. What is, seriously, the recourse of the electorate at this point? Wait and see if Congress does their jobs, and end this facade? Riot in the streets? Assassinate? Or just whine on twitter until the next few years trundles past, and hope we don't end up in WW3 before the next term?
Yep..bravery not found;
Benjamin Wittes said it best on Twitter:
"I have no respect for someone who would say these things - of whose truth I have no doubt - in an anonymous oped, rather than in a public resignation letter copied to the House Judiciary Committee."
I also empathize with the politician who, finding themselves in the middle of the swamp, feels that they are left with two choices: speak up and quit or be fired, and be replaced by a dangerous, anti-Democracy Trump-selected know-nothing, or stay and try to preserve the Republic through this crisis. The author of this letter is no hero, and is in fact engaging in some action that threatens our very idea of a Democracy. However, I can also understand the conclusion that this is the lesser evil.
You sound like my son
I told him when I was going to the rally against the Unnite the right bullshit that it felt like a good day to throw some bricks. I was kidding of course, but I hoped he would at least sense some outrage over whats going on.
And this isn't simply som kids getting loose in the WH. My point was that this is akin to a crime spree in ways and in fact, by design was meant to tear down many of the institutions meant to protect against THEM.
You sound like my son
I told him when I was going to the rally against the Unnite the right bullshit that it felt like a good day to throw some bricks. I was kidding of course, but I hoped he would at least sense some outrage over whats going on.
And this isn't simply som kids getting loose in the WH. My point was that this is akin to a crime spree in ways and in fact, by design was meant to tear down many of the institutions meant to protect against THEM.
The House Judiciary Committee knows whats going on, the whole congress does. The leaders of the House and Senate plan on doing nothing except, like the staffer in question, prevent the worst instincts of Trump from affecting the country. The crime is that Trump is incompetent, at best, and the Congress is complicit in allowing him to continue on without any public checks on the President. It's a giant hairball of corruption of the highest order.
Which is why we need to vote them out. The Dems better make some noise and ramp up pressure on the president when they are voted in. This needs to end (not that you don't know this).Of course. How else do you get the judges and tax cuts you want. Trump is simply a useful idiot to Republicans who have corrupted government and to Russians.
Pence chomping at the bit? Or the other P, Pompeo?
Well, who ever came up with the OP Ed was definitely pure Republican and trying to cover his cowardly ass, for when all the shit comes down. I have absolutely no respect for this person.It sure is shit ain't pompeo, the guy is all about team Republican before country, all the time, every time.
Well, who ever came up with the OP Ed was definitely pure Republican and trying to cover his cowardly ass, for when all the shit comes down. I have absolutely no respect for this person.
You guys deserve credit for saying this. Regardless of how anyone feels about Trump, this is not the way to go about taking him down, and if anything fuels his deep state narrative.
We don’t need a shadow government “that knows better”.
I also can’t help but notice the timing of this relative to the Kavanaugh hearings. This story is eclipsing even the gauntlet Booker threw down today.