Trump taunted “liddle'” [sic] Bob Corker all morning on Twitter. Corker unloaded on Trump a few hours ago:
Some choice quotes for those who can’t / won’t watch the video:
“Nothing that he said in his tweets today was truthful… I would hope the staff over there would figure out ways of controlling him when they know that everything he said today was untruthful.”
“It’s amazing. Unfortunately, I think world leaders are very aware that much of what he says is untrue. Certainly people here are because these things are provably untrue. I don’t know why he lowers himself to such a low, low standard and debases himself the way he does, but he does.”
“The president has great difficulty with the truth. On many issues.”
“We’re going to be in our hearing process addressing the fact that he with only the one other person on the defense side has tremendous powers [i.e., nuclear launch capabilities]… I expressed concerns a few weeks ago about his leadership, stability and lack of desire to be competent on issues…”
Corker also said he wouldn’t support Trump for president again. And I suppose it’s a good thing that he’s speaking out now, if only on the infinitesimally small chance that it might inspire other Republicans to sack up (haha — not gonna happen!).
But hearing those remarks also makes me want to grab the (liddle’) sumbitch by the shoulders and shake him until his teeth rattle. Exactly what part of Trump’s mean-spiritedness, instability, incuriousity, incompetence and mendacity wasn’t blazingly obvious all along?
Corker says “debasement of the country” will be Trump’s legacy. Enabling Trump will be Corker’s.
MattF
It’s actually untrue that Trump has ‘difficulty’ with the truth. He’s completely indifferent to it.
David Hyland
Amen, Betty.
Bruce K
I’m all-in with the sentiment of where the hell were you last year, jackass?!
Betty Cracker
One thing that struck me while listening to Corker was how similar his tone was to certain wives / girlfriends I’ve known when discussing a horrible mate they finally dumped. He was an asshole all along, but they thought they could CHANGE him. Well, they couldn’t. Still an asshole! Only this time, we’re all along for the ride.
randy khan
@Bruce K:
Indeed. It’s not like any of this should be news to anyone who paid any attention to the campaign.
Imagine if even a few Republican Senators had refused to support him, publicly and consistently. Instead, even Ted Cruz came crawling back.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Yeah, this is indeed a day late and a dollar short, but I’m still glad he’s speaking up now. It’s later than it should be, but I’m still happy to hear him say all this. Better now than never at all.
Hildebrand
Corker had his chance to do the right thing, and he simply acted the ‘good German’ when it counted. So, while I am glad he is talking a decent game now, he doesn’t get a cookie.
CaseyL
uh huh (to quote Rikyrah): Let’s see how Corker votes on things like tax cuts and the ACA (if that one comes up again). My bet is he’ll vote with the rest of the GOP.
Talk is cheap.
Cacti
It’s almost as if a smart woman who ran for President told everyone the same thing more than a year ago.
Something like “There is no other Donald Trump. This is it.”.
Nah, I must be imagining things.
Shell
Christ, five year olds have better impulse control.
bystander
Can we have a YouTube video of BC shaking Liddle Corker like a ragdoll?
ETA I have an idea for the first spinoff to the Trump Pin-Him-Yourself Voodoo doll, Liddle Bob – shake him until his Liddle teeth rattle!
MattF
@CaseyL: Don’t expect anything. Corker is unhappy because Trump’s fecklessness is making Republican policies harder to enact.
JPL
@MattF: Actually, I think that Corker would rather be a private citizen when WWIII starts.
JMG
Since Trump has no real agenda save self-aggrandizement, Corker should be seen as standing with Trump when he votes for policies all Republicans endorse. The minority party is in no position to sneer at potential allies. Our take should be “good for Bob! What do his fellow Republican Senators think?”
debit
Open thread? I confess, I laughed and laughed when I read this. One of the brave, manly GOP representatives in DC is frightened of a 13 year old boy. I hope this kid keeps his passion and runs for office some day.
Felonius Monk
Corker is still pissed that Trump didn’t pick him to be Secretary of State. Liddle sumbitch holds a grudge.
Kay
I (probably!) hate Corker but it’s surprisingly nice to hear someone tell the truth. It’s weird how refreshing it is to have someone who supported Trump just say – this is a disaster and it’s not getting better, it’s getting worse
Paul Ryan looks pathetic in comparison.
Major Major Major Major
Yawn. Wake me up when he votes against Trump’s agenda.
Barbara
@JMG: I only wish I could know that it will make a difference to people in Tennessee who are voting next year. I read this morning that Kelli Ward has been running ahead of Flake for a while now in Arizona, and I also wish I could be sure that the Democratic candidate would defeat her, probably more likely than in Tennessee.
Hoodie
While Corker has gone further than most, he still talks in euphemisms. The minute he point blank says something close to “Donald Trump is a liar and a sociopath who should be removed from office immediately” while also profusely apologizing for his role in putting him in office, I might be impressed. The fact of the matter is that, unless you totally renounce him and what he represents, he defines your party. Corker and others won’t do that because Trump is the distilled essence of the selfish, delusional people they have become.
SatanicPanic
#AlertTheDaycareStaff
Damn. This guy is talking about the president and most of the country is going, yeah, someone rein this guy in. We’re in weird times.
MJS
I can’t watch at work, but was Corker asked what he’s prepared to do about the fact that the President lies the way the rest of us breath? Corker gets all the shit he deserves for not speaking out when it could have mattered, but it’s now on the media to pick this thread up and run with it (I know). Getting one Republican, Corker or whoever, to admit that it’s time for the House to do something about the threat this shitheel poses would help to move the ball down the field.
Derelict
@JMG: What do Corker’s fellow Republican senators think? That Trump is PERFECT as president.
He pisses off the libtards and the elitists.
He’s making everyone hate Hate HATE!! the liberal media.
He’s going to sign whatever tax cut craziness gets put in front of him.
He’s made it crystal clear that he is a racist, bigoted, misogynistic asshole just like they are.
He refuses to learn anything about anything beyond watch Fox & Friends while taking his morning shit.
What’s not to like?
MattF
@Kay: Ryan is keeping his eye on the ball. Pass that tax cut.
The Moar You Know
Like heroin or murder, once is usually too many times.
Ol’ Bob was fine with Trump up until the minute he decided working was for losers. Enjoy your retirement, Bob.
Kay
@MattF:
Right. But he looks nervous- a little queasy. It’s fine with me. The more Trump is fighting the less garbage he’s passing.
JMG
@Barbara: The Republican party base wants a white supremacist authoritarian government. If they can’t get it, they’ll settle for destroying the “impure” country and the world.
SatanicPanic
@Hoodie: I don’t know if I’d call “Same untruths from an utterly untruthful president. ” a euphemism.
Kelly
The WP story about the tiny, two man company getting the 300 mill contract to rebuild the Puerto Rico grid caught my eye. No bid contract awarded to folks from our Interior Secretary’s small home town. Never done anything remotely on this scale. My brother and a nephew have been working powerlines for years. Good union jobs. Pay is mid $40s to mid $50s with good benefits and serious overtime money. Whitefish Energy is charging around $300 an hour for their linemen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/small-montana-firm-lands-puerto-ricos-biggest-contract-to-get-the-power-back-on/2017/10/23/31cccc3e-b4d6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.a2614ff0bbd6
On a more calming note my beloved and I are of to Silver Falls State Park for a hike in the fall colors. Forecast is blue sky temps high 60’s. Have a lovely day!
Major Major Major Major
@Kelly: I saw that headline. Thanks for the summary. Ridiculous.
Kay
Maybe the tax cuts are really in trouble and Trump is looking for a scapegoat to blame their incompetence on.
Amir Khalid
@Hoodie:
Yes, it’s odd (to put it politely) that he’s willing to describe lying, but claims he was too well brought up to call the liar a liar.
Kay
@Kelly:
Charging the Trump Administration $300 an hour or paying the linemen $300 an hour? Those are two different things.
I bet it’s the first. Someone should ask one of the linemen- for all we know they found them on Craig’s list.
BretH
Eff you Bob Corker: Trump was fine when you were all on the campaign trail:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/trump-sen-corkers-kind-words-2016-50366113
“So many times in these campaigns people become caricatures of what the media makes them and all too often after a race is over they realize they never really knew the person….I figured out the reason you love him so much is because he loves you. He loves you and he wants the best for you!”
Corner Stone
The amusing part of all this is that I have seen repeated questions of when a prominent Democrat is going to stand up and say the kinds of things Corker is saying?
Like D’s have to do something about Trump. It’s fucking crazeballs.
Jado
In their defense, do you know how attractive it seemed to think about a republican majority in the house, a republican majority in the senate, and a pliable republican president? I mean, they were seeing dollar bills in their vision even when they were awake. It would have been pirates in the treasury with NO ONE to stop them except some loser ineffective hippy democrats. All they needed was for the President to tame his baser instincts long enough to set some truly serious grift in motion, and they would all feast.
It was worth the chance, in their minds, that Trump could be reeled back a little. The upside was huge. So they rolled the dice.
And now they’re all gonna get rolled themselves.Guys who were willing to bet the stability and reputation of the entire country for the chance of enriching themselves and their billionaire patrons. So I say we roll all of them as hard as we can, ruin their reputations, imprison the ones we can indict, and let them all serve as fair warning to people who put power above people.
Couldn’t happen to nicer guys. Imprison them ALL.
oatler.
“Legacy, shmegacy! Just keep electing me and that sweet benefits package!”
SatanicPanic
@Corner Stone: People aren’t seriously asking that, are they? Hillary called the man a puppet of a foreign dictator IN A GODDAMN DEBATE. What more do they want?
Sorry for yelling, but this shit makes me nuts.
Major Major Major Major
@Corner Stone: Also, like… lots of them do. Maybe not in so many words, but plenty of Dems call him out for being a dangerous lying bullshitting liar bullshitter.
Mnemosyne
Even the most loyal subordinate will eventually get pissed off. Donnie forgets at his peril that he has total control over his family because they’re his family, not because he’s the greatest man in the world. Non-family members won’t hang around to be treated as shittily as his family is.
Major Major Major Major
@Jado:
No.
Kay
@Mnemosyne:
Trump probably has stuff on a lot of them, though, and he has a big mouth and is insane, so no telling what he’s blackmailing them with.
Kelly
@Kay: Charging. If you account for benefits and travel expenses a fully loaded rate probably approaches $100.
Corner Stone
@SatanicPanic: Tweety has at least twice recently and Hallie Jackson did this morning after Corker’s hallway presser.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: Is it T that has a lot of stuff on them is it his buddy, Comrade P.
SatanicPanic
@Corner Stone: arrrrrrrrgggggh
Corner Stone
@Kay: Trump would be a disastrous failure as a blackmailer. Who could live with him having the goods on them? At any moment he could just start blabbering about what he’s holding over you. And even if you did what he asked, who could trust him to keep his end of the deal?
JGabriel
Amber Phillips, The Fix – WaPo:
There are no moderates in the GOP, Ms. Phillips. The above sentence should read:
zhena gogolia
@bystander:
Here it is.
nasruddin
@Bruce K: If ONLY someone had told him!
Major Major Major Major
@JGabriel: Also between Trump one minute and Trump the next.
nasruddin
@Jado: Fritz von Papen thought roughly the same thing.
But then Fritz did survive the conflagration he helped start, so….
JGabriel
Bob Corker via Betty Cracker @ Top:
Just like the GOP as whole, Bob. Your criticisms of Trump’s lies might have greater weight if your whole party wasn’t responsible for similar lies denying climate change, supporting trickle-down economics, calling tax breaks for the wealthy ‘middle-class tax reform’, blaming all of the GOP’s sins on Democrats, and so on.
Face it, Bob. Trump is a problem, but he isn’t the problem. Trump is a symptom of the GOP’s greater dishonesty and longer term corruption. Today’s Republican party is what you get after 40-60 years of fascist propaganda, race-baiting, demonizing liberalism, and lies.
Elmo
@Kelly: Don’t forget to figure in massive amounts of overtime, and you also have to feed and house guys in a disaster zone. $300 as a bill rate is a lot, but if I’m figuring $60 an hour base wage, that’s $90 an hour OT, and each guy gets a per diem of $292 (DOD per diem rate for PR), plus you have to get them there. You might also have to pay a premium just to attract workers to the job. Are we factoring any equipment into that bill rate? I don’t know what kind of equipment linemen use. Bucket trucks? Line itself?
Don’t misunderstand me – I think the deal is corrupt AF. But just because the deal itself is corrupt, that doesn’t automatically disqualify the rates. I’d have to know more about the work to know if the rates are as corrupt as the deal.
Mnemosyne
@Cacti:
Still the best image ever. It makes me laugh until I cry. ?
Corner Stone
@JGabriel: The beauty of that Corker quote is that when he says it there is a beat of a pause. And then he says “On many issues.” It is full of shade when you hear it out loud.
No Drought No More
“The president has great difficulty with the truth. ON MANY ISSUES.”
After his teeth stopped rattling, but before the Capital Hill police hauled you away, Corker might well then ask you if you needed an interpreter to read between to grasp the import of what he really said. Suffice to say, the question would be rhetorical, if only because the answer is self evident. A person need only bear that in mind to understand the acceleration of Trump’s disintegration. Tick tock, tick tock.. Mueller could unearth a unpaid parking ticket at this point and it will suffice to seal Trump’s fate, and both he and Corker know it. Should Mueller unearth irrefutable evidence of serious wrongdoing- and it hard to imagine he won’t- there won’t be any horse to high for republicans to climbed on to shout their denunciations. That scenario bodes ill for Trump, as it renders extremely unlikely any tit-for-tat gentlemen’s agreement in which Trump enjoys a NIxonian exile from main street. The stupid motherfucker is looking at serious prison time, or spending the remainder of his life testifying if he pardons himself, furthering his disgrace and that of his family name. Think of Bednedict Arnold (sans his genuine contributions to the birth of America), and what might have been had he been captured by Washington and not hanged. In other words, cheer up!
JGabriel
@Major Major Major Major:
Heh. Yes, that too.
zhena gogolia
@No Drought No More:
Wow, I wish I had what you’re smoking.
Corner Stone
I wish Hillary’s Anger Translator would grab her Twitter account any day now and just start dragging eeerrrrrbody over all this bullshit.
Betty Cracker
So, this just happened:
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker:
Good for him.
JGabriel
@Corner Stone:
Seconded. From your keyboard to the Wish Fairy’s ears.
Kay
@Corner Stone:
I just remember with Mika- the humiliation factor because it wasn’t just the facelift, it was how he implied that she was kissing his ass- the peek behind the scenes at how buddy-buddy they all are.
I bet he has a lot of stuff like that, and he’s really not a Republican- he doesn’t give a shit about them.
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
He’s blackmailing them with their ties to Russia. We all know it. Pence is raising campaign funds for Rohrabacher, who even the Republicans admit is neck-deep with Russia.
I think it’s going to come out that all of the warnings after Citizens United were accurate and the Russians have been funneling money to the Republicans since 2010. It’s not just our unaccountable billionaires funding them — it’s Russia’s, too.
Corner Stone
I hope that motherfucker James Comey is good and damn proud of himself.
JGabriel
Donald Trump (Putin’s Pawn) @ Twitter:
To the Incompetent Head of the US Government:
Projection is not just a booth in a theater.
Kelly
@Elmo:Didn’t know the per diem was that high. OT is definitely a factor. 60 hours a week when the weather is favorable is normal. Equipment bills separately. Bucket trucks, cranes and line pulling machines. A couple thousand a day for big machines would not surprise me. Also it’s very ordinary for projects like this to be staffed with short term labor. One of my brother’s best years back in the 90’s he worked for 4 outfits and paid taxes in 7 states.
germy
@Betty Cracker: If they can lock up a woman for laughing at a hearing, they’ll probably want to give this guy life, or lethal injection.
Corner Stone
Jesus. That Congressman Nunes is a real stinker, isn’t he?
Betty Cracker
@zhena gogolia: Kinda surprised he was able to get that close.
Matt McIrvin
@Corner Stone: Was there a prominent Democrat saying something about him last year? I don’t remember.
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: His SS bodyman was far enough away that this protestor could have put his hands on Trump if that had been his goal.
Matt McIrvin
@Corner Stone: …and, of course, at the same time, that NRA lunatic is practically urging people to shoot Democrats for the awful things they say about Trump.
Corner Stone
@Matt McIrvin: Oh, that was just ole politics! Now it would be regarded as true
Scotsmanstatesmen like quality. For the good of the country, only the Democrats have the power!Matt McIrvin
@No Drought No More: He better hurry up. We may not have a lot of time.
trollhattan
@Kelly:
To borrow an expression, stringing transmission lines ain’t beanbag.
geg6
Does that fucking idiot even understand what the hell an apostrophe is? I mean, WTF is “liddle'” supposed to fucking mean?
Spanky
@Betty Cracker: I’m not. Trump has been working the Secret Service really hard, and cracks are bound to be forming in their protective services. I predict a rapid tightening up, which will probably exhaust the agents even faster.
Expect more of the same at some point in the future. If I were snarky I’d say six months.
trollhattan
@Corner Stone:
He’s oily enough to open his own Quik-E-Lube.
gvg
Hmm, I can sort of defend Corker speaking up now and not earlier and some of the other topics mentioned.
opinions are so polarized in these times since around 911, that republican leaning voters have been tuning out any liberal voices or even their own dissidents. If Corker had spoken up sooner, would anyone have listened except us, who wanted to hear that? There were GOP politicians who did speak out and still are and it did not change the sad results of the election. It’s good some spoke up then, but I suspect some others were sure it wouldn’t do any good and might do harm to the chances of mitigating things.
Trump is doing what a lot of GOP pols have been implying for a long time, but the smarter ones knew enough about business to not actually do. Their electorate has become propagandized to think some really stupid things will work and nothing is going to show them it won’t till it really blows up. In addition, when people first encounter flat out liars like Trump, they don’t believe their own ears. They think he will back down after he is shown his mistakes, they think people will always refrain from running their mouth to get themselves in trouble the same way again. they think people can generally stick to a plan in order to make money (they could) so they just can’t believe something like Trump is real. The GOP bosses thought they could guide Trump because it always worked before with other smarter liars. And don’t forget, they were either liars themselves or somewhat believers too. they just were not in a good position to stop Trump.
We live in a democracy and Congress only has collective power. Corker and the Democrats CAN’T actually do anything alone. They have to build consensus. it is probably a tactical mistake to call for impeachment before they think they have almost built up enough ready to vote members-I think. However getting to that point means someone has to take the lead and start talking about it and getting agreement. It’s going to come together from several views to a common goal if it happens. One view is the democrats and I think we want it to be because of actions not look like it’s just because he is the other party and we hate his views. So we need evidence, tho I am confident it exists. our caucus has been sticking together better than I have ever seen so when we get evidence I think that part is OK.
Corker needs to influence his fellow GOP congressmen. I don’t understand the dinosaurs but I hope he does.
It also really needs to persuade more of the population. Apparently that will take some seeing what Trump is really with some bad policies. Time is taking care of that maybe.
Our democracy is slow. Even Trump has discovered the President is not a king, and Congress definitely isn’t. There is not magic solution that can happen, just committees. Now if McConnell and or Ryan weren’t also creeps…..we could have dealt with this by now I think, but since they are, Corker and the Democrats can’t actually have prevented this or quick solve it.
trollhattan
@JGabriel:
I nominate Chuck Schumer’s cousin for the job.
Turgidson
@Corner Stone:
And Dems are also dealing with a media that has spent the last 20 years calling them SHRILL or “unhinged” whenever one of them tells the truth about the GOP in uncharacteristically blunt terms.
Hair Furor is scrambling this a bit because he’s so utterly indefensible even by modern GOP standards, but this was what Dems grew used to dealing with. And it doesn’t really matter what they think of the dolt until they have a majority in a house or congress anyway; so they’re not even asked very often.
Kay
@Mnemosyne:
That’s interesting. I didn’t think of the Citizens angle. However. I think we should anticipate that there will be one another Democrat pulled in as well. The biggest GOP scandals always have some complicity or they wouldn’t stay hidden.
bipartisan is like buying corruption insurance.
Matt McIrvin
@Mnemosyne:
There’s also his pardon power and, very probably, the ability to get them all into a nuclear bunker as needed.
Matt McIrvin
@Turgidson: My Democratic Senators are both screaming like their hair is on fire, and have been so since before the inauguration. I don’t see much reticence there.
trollhattan
@germy:
That incident sure disappeared quickly. Nazis with torches march with police protection and somebody snickering in the king’s gallery gets hauled off to jail? Both sides?
hueyplong
@nasruddin: You might enjoy an old James Mason movie called Five Fingers, from around 1952 or so. Mason is a valet for the British Ambassador to Turkey who looks to make a bunch of money selling secrets to the Germans. Franz von Papen is a character in the movie, still contemptuous of the Nazis and yet still working for them.
Think of Corker when you watch his scenes.
Carol
They’d better hurry with that nuclear issues hearing before his little fingers get itchy…itchier.
bystander
@JGabriel:
Is it projection to hope somebody else may meet a booth in the theater?
Thru the Looking Glass...
Ya know… mebbe they thought they could control him once he got elected… mebbe they believed striking such a faustian bargain w/ someone like Trump would be worth the gain in power… whatever their reasoning, they basically sold a certain percentage of the electorate a shit sandwich by willingly eating themselves first, just to prove how tasty it was…
And now they’re stuck eating that shit sandwich over and over and over again… ’cause they don’t dare come straight w/ their base…
Kinda like Ground Hog Day but not nearly as charming and/or funny…
To paraphrase the late, great U Utah Phillips, ‘Jesus Christ, this is a SHIT sandwich… … … but it’s GOOD!’
bystander
@zhena gogolia: Needs more cowbell.
lurker dean
@Kelly: this definitely needs to be investigated. zinke doesn’t even care how dirty it looks.
hueyplong
Maybe they thought this. Maybe they thought that.
The defining characteristics of a Republican during the FoxNews era are cowardice and venality. It is only when you can’t ascribe an action to one or the other that you default to level 3– stupidity. Because when craven supplication to their leadership/donor class is all that is required in a candidate, the average intelligence drops.
randy khan
@germy:
First, somebody probably gets fired (or at least suspended for a while) over this – it’s a really serious security breach to let someone who hasn’t been vetted that close to the President.
Second, that person absolutely is going to jail. And should.
Corner Stone
@randy khan:
Why?
TriassicSands
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): wx
I was thinking the same thing as I listened to him. However, his unwillingness to simply call Trump a liar makes his whole opinion less effective. It isn’t impolite to call Trump a liar, it is a simple statement of fact. Constantly saying that Trump has difficulty with the truth sounds weak and ridiculous.
Unfortunately, many of the most vocal critics of Trump now were key figures in the rise of the Republican Party as a force for ill. Rarely does a day go by at the Post without another opinion piece from Jennifer Rubin about Trump’s unfitness for office. And unlike Corker, she didn’t support Trump for president. But in the years leading up to Trump hers was a voice supporting many of the worst impulses in the GOP and she has great personal responsibility for what the party has become. That may be why she is so adamant now, but it is too little too late.
Corker only found his “voice” after he decided not to run for re-election. That is the kind of “courage” that plagues the Republicans (and to some extent most politicians). It’s not unfair to wonder if Corker were running again would he be speaking out? There is good reason to doubt it. What the GOP needs is incumbents and candidates willing to speak out against Trump when they are at risk.
randy khan
@germy:
The judge threw out her conviction because the government argued that she violated the law just by laughing (remembering that she was charged for her actions when she was removed from the room, too). Inexplicably (well, maybe not, but it’s still strange), the government plans to retry her in November. She rejected a plea deal in which she would have been sentenced to time served (which I guess was about a day).
randy khan
@Corner Stone:
There are a bunch of laws against assaulting the President, and throwing something at him qualifies as assault. You might have an argument that there was no crime if it was just shouting, but that’s not what happened. (There may, in fact, be laws that forbid people from going within a secured perimeter around the President without authorization, but I don’t know for sure; if there are, then mere presence could be a crime.)
And, leaving aside how I feel about this President, it’s appropriate to punish people fairly significantly for violating this kind of security law so as to discourage others from doing the same.
rikyrah
@Jado:
TELL IT!!!
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
I’m sure there are Democrats implicated as well. As you know, I am very suspicious of a former candidate’s campaign manager’s ties to Manafort and Putin, and I doubt he’s the only one.
I hope there aren’t any rising stars or stalwarts who are implicated. It would really suck if, say, it turned out that Franken or Warren knowingly got Russian money. But those chips will need to fall where they may if we’re going to get this shit straightened out.
rikyrah
@Corner Stone:
Nunes has Russian business partners with ties to…
Guess who…
PUTIN.
LAO
Wow:
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: I’d like to think that at some point, jail would be better than complicity.
Corner Stone
@LAO: Flake is going to flake out and run from this cowardly Trump?
Corner Stone
Fucking coward. Stand up and speak the god damn truth, Sen Flake. Tell the world that this GOP and this Trump in the WH are not worth supporting and should all be driven from office.
Corner Stone
Anybody in AZ that can speak to the viability of our D candidate in that Senate race?
Corner Stone
IMO, we need Flake to bleed out the warchest that will be behind Chemtrail Kelli Ward.
hueyplong
You knew Flake was a poor man’s Brave Sir Robin when he voted the wrong way on health care.
Gravenstone
@Spanky:
I’ll be shocked if he doesn’t have at least two of Prince’s goons wearing body armor and carrying MP-5s walking in front and behind him at all times, before the week is out. Not that the Secret Service would take the prospect of having armed goons within spitting distance of the idiot lying down,
LAO
@Corner Stone:
Gravenstone
@Matt McIrvin:
Like that wouldn’t turn into an impromptu remake of “Ten Little Indians” within a week, tops?
Corner Stone
@randy khan: It seems like a form of free speech to me. There’s no way bodily harm was intended or anticipated.
Duane
So the Republicans are going to begin investigations regarding the sale of uranium to Russia. Could Cheryl, Adam, or others with knowledge on this subject offer their insight? I’d like to know the facts and avoid the BS. Thanks.
Corner Stone
Is Flake going to do it? Is he going to go full Corkdog?
ETA, he’s speaking on the Senate floor
Corner Stone
He has to say Trump’s name or this is just shit.
Corner Stone
@Duane: NARRATOR VOICE: It’s shit.
Corner Stone
“WHAT A DAY! WHAT A LOVELY DAY!!”
Kay
I still wonder that about Birthers. They’re part of history now, in a horrible way and people in future generations will be appalled – it’ll be like being photographed in a KKK hood. There’s video, too.
No sense of legacy, these people.
catclub
@gvg:
Like killing CSR payments: I just read at TPM that House RWNJ GOPers think the Alexander-Murray bill is terrible since it continues ANY part of the ACA.
catclub
@Corner Stone: My suspicion is that he is younger than Corker and will be looking to protect future employment.
So no is my guess.
Kay
I wonder if it was Kelly. That was really bad. A new low. It seemed worse than what came before in some profound way.
You don’t always see the tipping point until it’s past.
Kay
Flake is either genuinely well-liked or they’re all lying – I don’t know which. He APPEARS to be quite popular among the senators, however.
Aleta
From AzCentral:
Gotta wonder what kind of offer he couldn’t refuse. Bannon said to be boasting.
Duane
@Corner Stone: I figure as much. It’s Republican deflection. A short factual summation here would be helpful, I think, because BENGHAZI! Top 10,000 blog and all
SgrAstar
@Elmo: Here’s some useful info about that no-bid contract:
From todays’s WaPo.
Aleta
Corner Stone
@SgrAstar:
I wouldn’t bother getting out of bed for that.
gvg
@randy khan: I disagree with you. I am sorry but it seems like perfectly ok speech to power and the secret service should not over react. Stopping it would be a first amendment violation. The GOP are cowards and may get upset, but they shouldn’t.
I suspect he had to go through checkpoints and since he didn’t have weapons, it was OK. Now if he had managed to get an actual weapon close, that would be a problem. Papers and shouting are ok.
zhena gogolia
@Kay:
To me that thing about only taking questions from journalists with military bona fides was the freakout moment.