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Received this e-mail today from Finance Committee Chairman, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden’s (D. OR) re-election campaign: x It’s past time to end the federal prohibition of cannabis. @SenBooker @SenSchumer and … Read More
Assuming Jason Miller is a real person and not a failed Soviet-era experiment to cross the human genome with the formula for Axe Body Spray, he appears to be in … Read More
Ricin attacks against the WH seem more routine rather than random and their origins do seem to follow ideologies more worried about the extremism within the White House, although why would Canadians … Read More
William Barr’s opening statement has been released and apparently anarchists abound as the Mueller report signaled a “bogus Russiagate scandal”. Hopefully House questioners will ask Barr why sending DHS “contractors” to … Read More
All power does derive from the bottom. The various “snatch” teams likely were training for such specialized operation in larger cities. All you have to add are extralegal renditions. x … Read More
Cartoon characters without pants might have to drop drawers as SCOTUS finally rules on Trump’s financial records today. There will be an over/under and perhaps even a split difference, but … Read More
A career employee at the Department of Justice was subpoenaed to testify by the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary chaired by Chairman Nadler of NY today June 24, 2020. John … Read More
Aside from a provocative trip to Tulsa this afternoon, there were many naked attempts to get reelected despite all the criming going on. So many other potential crimes might get covered … Read More
(The headline is my own paraphrase, in case that wasn’t clear.) The House managers in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial — Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakeem Jeffries, Val Demings, … Read More
Some big news today out of Texas: x At a time when working families are being squeezed to their breaking point, we need fighters in the Senate like @MJHegar who … Read More
Pat Cipollone, the counsel for the President, cleverly introduced distracting video mocking two Congressional House Managers: Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Rep. Jerrold Nadler. The two specifically spoke against the partisan … Read More
We are in the midst of investigations that may eventually lead to the ouster of a criminal President; one responsible for possible physical threats, to not only the country of … Read More
WaPo Politics has a new story out: GOP leaders spar over adding House members to Trump’s impeachment defense team A turf war over who should defend President Trump in a … Read More
We’re still probably six to eight hours away from the vote, although unless you’re a fan of procedure and love C-Span as much as watching the Weather Channel, it will … Read More
If you look up the slang term Okie Doke, the definition reads in part, “to buy something you aren't selling.” In the longer than necessary marathon markup hearing for the articles … Read More
One guesses that omitting Obstruction of Justice leaves it to be pursued later, in the criminal indictments elsewhere and after the 2020 election. The facts are overwhelming, regardless. This is a … Read More
These are adults? Really. Someone needs to stick a bar of soap in their mouth for their tantrums in a place of honor such as The United States Congress in … Read More
The GOP is playing slow and tight with the truth as Monday in the Judiciary committee begins at 9am ET with more televised testimony. Corrupt intent is in the solicitation … Read More
Chuck Todd gave Ted Cruz more than he expected as he did not get the normal treatment he was used to on Meet The Press. He kept Cruz off balance … Read More
All Washington is astonished that Trump, about to be impeached for putting the arm on Ukraine, sent his personal shyster back to Kyiv to do it some more. But remember … Read More
Forget about Kool-Aid. These idiots would swallow battery acid if Dear Leader told them to. And, you know, in a way they kind of are. You may have seen the recent … Read More
The Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee and the House Judiciary Committee are tantamount to charwomen. Throughout the history of the United States, we have mopped the muddied floors … Read More
While the WH left open the possibility of participating in other House Judiciary committee hearings, their continued whinging about POTUS* being denied due process continue to ring hollow. Meanwhile the GOP committee … Read More
Cowardly Trump won’t appear at the House Judiciary committee hearings. In the impeachment inquiry, sources tell CBS News that President Trump is likely to reject the Democrats’ offer to appear when … Read More
x Thank you, @BlueActionRes & @hr_indivisible for your #resistance with the #KremlinAnnex protest! Your partnership and participation is what the #KremlinAnnex team is thankful for! â¤ï¸Â✌︠pic.twitter.com/ZzSPc9Usb1 — Kremlin Annex … Read More
The first oversight hearings of the Benghazi affair were held two days after the killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others at the Iraqi Consulate in September of 2012. … Read More
Most of the moderate and conservative Democrats in the House are against impeaching Trump. I think most of us can agree upon that fact. Correct? If not, here is their … Read More
So Trump is trying to turn the Ukraine story on Joe Biden. I am sorry but this should have been obvious to anybody with half a brain. I was actually … Read More
So Trump is trying to turn the Ukraine story on Joe Biden. I am sorry but this should have been obvious to anybody with half a brain. I was actually … Read More
God bless Elizabeth Warren because the Democratic establishment will surely damn her to hell. Elizabeth Warren: Congress ‘Is Complicit’ for Failing to Impeach Trump After the Mueller report, Congress had … Read More
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has released a statement about the intelligence whisteblower complaint. The third paragraph is probably the most important part of the statement: “The Administration’s blocking of Acting DNI … Read More
I was angry when President Obama did not see that the Tea Party was rooting deep in this country’s governing ability. Many did not think that Don’t tread on Me meant … Read More
So, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler is “considering” holding Corey Lewandowski in contempt after his contemptible stonewalling yesterday during Nadler’s committee hearing into Trump’s obstruction of Justice. Outside Counsel Barry Berke salvage at least … Read More
Today’s impeachment hearing featuring Corey Lewandowski was an utter embarrassment for Democrats, and destroyed any notion that the Democratic leadership possesses even the semblance of competence that would be required to impeach President … Read More
I don’t have the transcript, but the gist of Senator Kamala Harris’s thrust on The Rachel Maddow Show (TRMS) was the following: FBI investigation of allegations of sexual assault by … Read More
Thing are getting even loopier way out there in alternative fact land and the Faux News bubble, if that is possible, as spokesflak Kellyanne Conway went on FOX News Sunday … Read More
In solidarity towards justice and rule of law for all, Mike Fox for Alan, Dr. Bill, Dan, Janis, Deb, Bryan, Kimberly, Mike H. and Shayna — your PDA National Staff … Read More
Well, there you go. Looks like the campaign to take our country back from the rancid orange Jell-O mold is still on track. Politico: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler … Read More
Politico has a news story up this morning reporting that Jerry Nadler now thinks his committee could have impeachment articles ready sometime this autumn: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler … Read More
Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: x YouTube Video This ad featuring a key moment from yesterday's Robert Mueller hearing could help defeat Trump and spur Congress … Read More
I am not going to re-litigate the entire 7 hour “Mueller experience.” That’s not what this is about. It turned out better than I had feared, but not as good … Read More
Beware! Here there be tygers Stephen King One of the big problems with trying to pin Trump directly down with anything is that Don Cheeto Cornholeone is an old fashioned … Read More
Guys, it’s one thing to kill irony and another to dismember its corpse, make a davenport out of its skin, and sit in it while you spew random syllables like a … Read More
Guys, it’s one thing to kill irony and another to dismember its corpse, make a davenport out of its skin, and sit on it while you spew random syllables like a … Read More
You were real funny out in the game zone. It’s not so funny NOW, is it bitch? Dynamo The Running Man There’s one overarching image if Bill Barr that I … Read More
Uh … what? For God’s sake, irony has died more often in the past two and a half years than Dick Cheney’s fortnightly heart transplants. Henceforth, “GOP” will stand for “Gaslighting, Oafish … Read More
This isn’t going to be a daily feature, it’s too early for that, and too jumbled. Rather, it’s going to be more of a weekly or bi-weekly digest of things … Read More
This would be embarrassing if only it weren’t so damn hysterical. Watching Donald Trump go up against Nancy Pelosi is like watching Don Knotts fight Muhammad Ali in his prime. … Read More
Democratic Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3rd) has called for or believes it is time to start impeachment hearings against Trump. U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth believes it is time to begin impeachment … Read More
First of all, “genetic superiority” isn’t really a thing. Genes are just clumps of information, and they make an organism either suitable or unsuitable for its environment. And Donald Trump … Read More
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