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Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 10:44 AMWe're halfway through the work week, Crooks and Liars, and maybe halfway done with the Impeachment Trial, so don't get gaslit.
Driftglass says we are fighting a war on Four Fronts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Book Giveaway Benefits Montana Democrat: Successful Aging
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 11:20 AMA little less than 2 weeks ago, the House passed H.R. 1230, Bobby Scott's Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act. Every single Democrat plus 34 Republicans voted for it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH LIVE: Senate Impeachment Trial For Wednesday, January 29
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 12:21 PMThe president's Senate impeachment trial is moving into a new phase after six days of opening statements. Senators now are moving into the written question phase. Here's the card they're given for their questions.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Triggered Trump Whines ‘Beginning Of The End For Fox’ After Dem Senator Argues For Witnesses
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 03:00 PMDonald Trump was triggered Tuesday morning when Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen told viewers that “all the momentum” is now in favor of calling witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Will Lev Parnas Be Able To Attend Trump's Impeachment Trial? His GPS May Get In The Way
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 09:00 AMNBC is now reporting that Lev Parnas will be attending Donald Trump's impeachment trial and even better:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Elie Mystal Summarizes Tuesday's Impeachment Proceedings In 13 Tweets
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 05:54 PMI really hope The Nation gives Elie Mystal some kind of bonus for working under extreme duress or something. The Justice Correspondent for the magazine took one for the team by listening to and watching all three days of the White House "legal" team's defense of Trump in the Senate impeachment trial.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Martha McSally Is A Trump Hack
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 08:28 PMThe Lincoln Project puts out another brutal ad against an endangered Republican Senator who hitched her wagon to Trump.
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Source: Lincoln Project press release - Hannity Defends Trump With 'Thinking About Murder Isn't A Crime'
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 12:08 PMSean Hannity often says crazy right wing nonsense on his radio show that he does not say on television. Via Media Matters:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Does Impeachment Need A Crime? Not According To The Constitution
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 02:01 PMStefanie Lindquist, Arizona State University
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Donald Trump’s legal and political defenders are all singing the same refrain: The president can’t be impeached; he hasn’t committed a crime. - Pompeo Needs To Testify Under Oath Because Lying To The Media Isn't A Crime
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 07:58 AMThe story of Mike Pompeo's interview with Mary Louise Kelly from NPR and his subsequent response calling her a liar came out while I was reading Catch and Kill and watching Bombshell.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Democrats Face A War On Four Fronts
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 11:00 AMWhether it's a fight over policy or a presidential elections, in modern politics Democrats are always forced to fight a war on four fronts.
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First, Democrats must always struggle against an opposition party of bigots and imbeciles, led by a gang of vandals and madmen. - Republicans In Disarray! Trump Vs. McConnell Edition
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 11:27 AMPresident Donald Trump fired off a pair of tweets Tuesday night ranting about what he called the "impeachment hoax" and "political con job" shortly after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly admitted in a closed-door meeting with GOP lawmakers
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ladies Of 'The View' Can't Help Laughing At Alan Dershowitz
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 12:57 PMWhoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar aren't constitutional law experts. They're comedians. And they know which show they're on, unlike guest Alan Dershowitz.
Wednesday's show brought Alan (via remote feed) to the "Hot Politics" segment, where Joy Behar noted that Alan is alone among constitutional scholars arguing that "abuse of power" isn't impeachable.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New York Times Keeps Republishing Same Brad Parscale Press Release
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 08:00 AMThis New York Times story by Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni might look familiar to you, for a couple of reasons.
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Trump May Skip Debates, or Seek New Host, if Process Isn’t ‘Fair’ - Trevor Noah Asks: 'How Come Trump Has No 'Gruntled Employees'?
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 11:30 PMWhat's a "gruntled" employee? Yeah Trump doesn't know either.
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Open thread below... - Who's Afraid Of The IRS? Not Facebook
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Who Knew John Bolton Was A 'Tool' For The Radical Left And Deep State?
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 11:36 AMIt's amazing to see the once-beloved Fox News analyst be trashed so thoroughly by those who cheered on his entire war hawk mentality. And never forget, the Orange Julius hired him to be National Security Advisor.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Twitter Thunders At Trump's 'Good Job On Her' Celebration Of Pompeo's Bullying
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 12:59 PMDuring a press conference celebrating his Middle East peace plan with Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump took a moment to recognize Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. After the standing ovation was done, Trump then took a shot at NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Joni Ernst Gives Away The Ballgame On Joe Biden
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 07:25 AMIowa's ridiculous Senator Joni Ernst let the cat out the bag yesterday about Trump, Ukraine, and the relation to Joe Biden and the 2020 election: they're synonymous. "Screaming the quiet part into a bulhorn," said one political commentator.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Harvard Study Shows Even Americans With Insurance Can't Afford Care
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 07:59 AMThe for-profit U.S. healthcare system is so broken that a growing number of people who are fortunate enough to have private insurance coverage are still unable to afford doctor visits and other essential services due to soaring costs—leaving a larger number of Americans with unmet medical needs today than there were two decades ago.
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- NBC's Heidi Przybyla Rattles Rep. Lee Zeldin By Being Professional
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 11:00 AMWhat's the saying, "When you don't have a defense, criticize the process?" Here's a variation: "When you don't have an answer, criticize the person who asks." That's the perfect description of what happened in this press scrum with three Republican members of Congress and NBC reporter Heidi Przybyla.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Rudy Giuliani Attacks John Bolton As A 'Backstabber' And 'Swamp Character'
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 12:11 PMWho you gonna believe: your own eyes and ears, or the lies of lying liar Rudy Giuliani?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sen. Whitehouse Stuns Bill Hemmer With Assessment Of Dershowitz's Arguments
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 12:31 PMFox News anchor Bill Hemmer did not order what Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse served up in their discussion about Trump's defense team on impeachment. Specifically, Hemmer asked Sen. Whitehouse about Alan Dershowitz — once a revered constitutional scholar and legal mind — and the arguments Dershowitz laid out in defense of Trump's behavior regarding extortion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - LISTEN As Hot Mic On Fox News Catches Someone Giggling At Trump Slurring His Words
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 08:45 AMWhenever Trump slurs his words, either at rallies or press conferences, rumors of his drug use (#Adderall, #Sudafed, etc) get bandied about the internet. With any luck at all though, it's just an early warning sign that he's about to have a stroke.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- C&L's Late Nite Music Club With Van Morrison
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 11:01 PMVan Morrison's third studio album, Moondance, was released fifty years ago this week. It is an album that is permanently ingrained into my brain is it is one of my mom's favorite albums and has been since 1970.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- McConnell Doesn't Have The Votes!
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 06:29 PMReports are pouring out of the closed-door Republican caucus meeting that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell does not have the votes to block witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Why 'Nepotism Barbie' Is Trending On Twitter
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 11:09 AMPro-tip, folks: Do not be distracted by Trump's "outrage" over Don Lemon laughing at Rick Wilson and Wajahat Ali.
Trump and his Trumpers are looking for another faux-rage to distract from the horrible performance by his lawyers at the Impeachment Trial in the Senate.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - John Kelly Sides With Bolton Against Trump On Ukraine Aid Story
Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 01:49 PMGen. John Kelly, Donald Trump's former White House Chief of Staff, threw down in favor of John Bolton in the He-Said/He-Said war of words between the two.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH LIVE: Senate Impeachment Trial For Tuesday January 28
Wednesday - 01/29/2020 - 01:00 AMThere are rumors that no dinner has been ordered today and that indicates the White House attorneys will finish early. It's anyone's guess. Politico notes:
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Tuesday - 01/28/2020 - 08:01 AMAs I write this, the Bolton Bombshell is throwing #MoscowMitch's calculus into a tailspin. If you do nothing else today, please phone your Senators and let them know you have their backs for voting for new witnesses in the trial to remove our impeached Stable Jenius.
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