Except some Republicans are already calling for his impeachment. More will follow as public pressure mounts. House Democrats can drive that public pressure by starting a congressional investigation into impeachment.
Hear that, Speaker Pelosi? Get off your @$$ and make the case! The the evidence out there for the voters to see! Stop waiting for public opinion to be handed to you on a silver platter!!! That, or step down and allow someone who actually wants to serve voters take the reins.
Sadly, this is EXACTLY what Yertle the Turtle McConshell has PROMISED TO DO in the Senate if dumb donnie IS impeached. He has ORDERED all the Republicans to vote to acquit, no matter WHAT the evidence against Agent Orange shows…
Impeaching (if it were possible) Mitch would go a long ways towards righting the many wrongs America currently faces. You keep saying the president is the most powerful.. wrong! it is the leader of the senate.
Nikita Khrushchev’s 1956 threat to the US, “We will bury you,” which was widely laughed at and ignored at the time, is now coming about, 63 years later, with the help of their Republican Party comrades.
Mitch can order his fellow dishonest cowards to vote to acquit, no matter the evidence, but Mitch is no more a dictator than Li’l Donnie is—and Mitch might not even want to be! Let’s have publicly televised hearings—starting with Mueller but including at least fifty other relevant people I can think of offhand who would know things about the Trump Organized Crime Outfit—day after day. Trump wouldn’t become a martyr because, unlike Clinton, Trump actually DID things deserving of impeachment. And when enough people realize this, POSSIBLY enough Republican Senators would realize this. In any event, it’s vital for our democracy to HOLD THE DAMN HEARINGS!
Here’s an interesting take on Mueller appearing before Congress from James Poniewozik ofThe New York Times, about why he SHOULD even though he doesn’t want to:
Because people don’t readGod bless Mueller for his quaint faith in his fellow citizens, but let’s be honest. This is America. We wait for the movie or the TV adaptation.After Mueller’s appearance, cable news buzzed with a breaking story, long available to anyone with an internet connection, that Mueller had intimated the possibility that the president had obstructed justice.After Mueller submitted his report, he made the doomed assumption of many a longform journalist: That people would read his full work and draw conclusions then and only then. That allowed Attorney General William P. Barr to become the editor who writes the clickbait headline for all the browsers who never actually read the piece.You can choose not to tell your story in the format people actually pay attention to. You do not get to choose whether it will be told. As Mueller has now seen, it may then be told for you, incompletely, selectively and to someone else’s tastes.
Because he doesn’t want toThere’s a certain Groucho Marx, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member,” catch to how people receive public testimony. If you believe you have witnessed a wrong, the conscientious thing is to tell people about it. But the more eagerly and prolifically you tell, the easier for people to paint you as self-aggrandizing or having an agenda. It’s the James Comey factor.By saying, “I hope and expect this to be the only time that I will speak to you in this manner,” Mueller effectively de-Comeyfied himself.It would be hard to cast Mueller as a camera-thirsty Michael Avenatti type, though surely someone will try. He has a certain Joe Friday, just-the-facts affectation that practically doesn’t exist in this TV age. You will not mistake Mueller for a “Scandal” character. And he probably fears that “The Mueller Show,” live before a congressional studio audience, would be a polarizing spectacle.But perversely, that makes him the best person to star in it.
I love that Toles’ style has evolved to depict this stain on our country as some kind of tubelike, quivering, fleshy deformity. The mouth-like orifice just makes it perfect.
I love checking in here to fantasy land. All this rhetorical flailing and gnashing. All the anger and foaming at the mouth. Name-calling. What does it all accomplish? Further dividing society… slowing government action on important issues… fueling the fury of sad, Trump-obsessed losers (like that odious Sen. Blumenthal and the ranting DeNiro and illiterate Cher). It’s all an unfunny circus (or nightmare), and all sparked by Trump and tens of millions of Americans actually promoting a sound economy, protected borders, fair trade deals and more traditional values. Boo-hoo, guys. Want socialism? Keep dreaming.
That’s not a “meal ticket” that’s a “bait and switch” con; and he’s so very good at faking them out of their ethics that most of them have yet to discover how very breezy they’re feeling without them. I’m hoping that in 2020, a lot of them find themselves twisting in that very same breeze.
Dtroutma almost 5 years ago
Aren’t they tired of KFC and Mickey D yet?
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The breakfast of chumpions!
NeuralCapsule almost 5 years ago
A 239 pound hamberder smothered in Velveeta.
RAGs almost 5 years ago
Maybe that is why he likes fossil fuels, he wants to be exxon-erated.
Jason Allen almost 5 years ago
Except some Republicans are already calling for his impeachment. More will follow as public pressure mounts. House Democrats can drive that public pressure by starting a congressional investigation into impeachment.
Hear that, Speaker Pelosi? Get off your @$$ and make the case! The the evidence out there for the voters to see! Stop waiting for public opinion to be handed to you on a silver platter!!! That, or step down and allow someone who actually wants to serve voters take the reins.
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Sadly, this is EXACTLY what Yertle the Turtle McConshell has PROMISED TO DO in the Senate if dumb donnie IS impeached. He has ORDERED all the Republicans to vote to acquit, no matter WHAT the evidence against Agent Orange shows…
Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Impeaching (if it were possible) Mitch would go a long ways towards righting the many wrongs America currently faces. You keep saying the president is the most powerful.. wrong! it is the leader of the senate.
Radish the wordsmith almost 5 years ago
The Chief Justice would run the impeachment trial, Mitch has no say in it.
Dems need to show the public how insanely criminal Trump really is so people will pressure their Republican congress critters to impeach.
feverjr Premium Member almost 5 years ago
With Lindsey and Mitch, hypocrisy is a virtue…
montessoriteacher almost 5 years ago
Trump will be in the UK on Monday and I’m sure our British friends will give him exactly the welcome he deserves.
Addled Brain almost 5 years ago
Nikita Khrushchev’s 1956 threat to the US, “We will bury you,” which was widely laughed at and ignored at the time, is now coming about, 63 years later, with the help of their Republican Party comrades.
Radish the wordsmith almost 5 years ago
“Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.” Pema Chödrön
gcottay almost 5 years ago
Beware, Elephant Friends! Those meals are poison.
Godfreydaniel almost 5 years ago
Mitch can order his fellow dishonest cowards to vote to acquit, no matter the evidence, but Mitch is no more a dictator than Li’l Donnie is—and Mitch might not even want to be! Let’s have publicly televised hearings—starting with Mueller but including at least fifty other relevant people I can think of offhand who would know things about the Trump Organized Crime Outfit—day after day. Trump wouldn’t become a martyr because, unlike Clinton, Trump actually DID things deserving of impeachment. And when enough people realize this, POSSIBLY enough Republican Senators would realize this. In any event, it’s vital for our democracy to HOLD THE DAMN HEARINGS!
Godfreydaniel almost 5 years ago
Here’s an interesting take on Mueller appearing before Congress from James Poniewozik ofThe New York Times, about why he SHOULD even though he doesn’t want to:
Because people don’t readGod bless Mueller for his quaint faith in his fellow citizens, but let’s be honest. This is America. We wait for the movie or the TV adaptation.After Mueller’s appearance, cable news buzzed with a breaking story, long available to anyone with an internet connection, that Mueller had intimated the possibility that the president had obstructed justice.After Mueller submitted his report, he made the doomed assumption of many a longform journalist: That people would read his full work and draw conclusions then and only then. That allowed Attorney General William P. Barr to become the editor who writes the clickbait headline for all the browsers who never actually read the piece.You can choose not to tell your story in the format people actually pay attention to. You do not get to choose whether it will be told. As Mueller has now seen, it may then be told for you, incompletely, selectively and to someone else’s tastes.
Godfreydaniel almost 5 years ago
And, finally this:
Because he doesn’t want toThere’s a certain Groucho Marx, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member,” catch to how people receive public testimony. If you believe you have witnessed a wrong, the conscientious thing is to tell people about it. But the more eagerly and prolifically you tell, the easier for people to paint you as self-aggrandizing or having an agenda. It’s the James Comey factor.By saying, “I hope and expect this to be the only time that I will speak to you in this manner,” Mueller effectively de-Comeyfied himself.It would be hard to cast Mueller as a camera-thirsty Michael Avenatti type, though surely someone will try. He has a certain Joe Friday, just-the-facts affectation that practically doesn’t exist in this TV age. You will not mistake Mueller for a “Scandal” character. And he probably fears that “The Mueller Show,” live before a congressional studio audience, would be a polarizing spectacle.But perversely, that makes him the best person to star in it.
GreggW Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The worst president in US history protected by the worst Senate in US history.
Laird Nelson almost 5 years ago
I love that Toles’ style has evolved to depict this stain on our country as some kind of tubelike, quivering, fleshy deformity. The mouth-like orifice just makes it perfect.
newyorkslim almost 5 years ago
I love checking in here to fantasy land. All this rhetorical flailing and gnashing. All the anger and foaming at the mouth. Name-calling. What does it all accomplish? Further dividing society… slowing government action on important issues… fueling the fury of sad, Trump-obsessed losers (like that odious Sen. Blumenthal and the ranting DeNiro and illiterate Cher). It’s all an unfunny circus (or nightmare), and all sparked by Trump and tens of millions of Americans actually promoting a sound economy, protected borders, fair trade deals and more traditional values. Boo-hoo, guys. Want socialism? Keep dreaming.
Concretionist almost 5 years ago
That’s not a “meal ticket” that’s a “bait and switch” con; and he’s so very good at faking them out of their ethics that most of them have yet to discover how very breezy they’re feeling without them. I’m hoping that in 2020, a lot of them find themselves twisting in that very same breeze.