Representative Maxine Waters was quite specific about why she is not attending the inaugural, and in fact why she never intended to be there. "After I discovered who Trump was and the way he conducted himself, I was never going to go to the inauguration. Certainly the inauguration is a way of welcoming in someone to the presidency and honoring them and respecting them. I DON'T HONOR HIM, I DON'T RESPECT HIM AND I DON'T WANT TO BE INVOLVED WITH HIM."
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Representative Maxine Waters was quite specific about why she is not attending the inaugural, and in fact why she never intended to be there. "After I discovered who Trump was and the way he conducted himself, I was never going to go to the inauguration. Certainly the inauguration is a way of welcoming in someone to the presidency and honoring them and respecting them. I DON'T HONOR HIM, I DON'T RESPECT HIM AND I DON'T WANT TO BE INVOLVED WITH HIM."
Maxine Waters...Doesn't respect Donald Trump...Yet has publicly praised Fidel Castro.
How would Fidel have handled Maxine Waters as a political dissident?
Maxine Waters...Doesn't respect Donald Trump...Yet has publicly praised Fidel Castro.
She's a douche nozzle and will hopefully lose her next run. Haven't really found where she has been instrumental in introducing any significant legislation.
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Maybe if he had released his tax returns those same people that voted for him might not have! Guy is hiding a lot!!!!
What does releasing tax returns have to do with anything? To pass his security clearance, doesn't the IRS go through is records and expose if he's hiding something?
What does releasing tax returns have to do with anything? To pass his security clearance, doesn't the IRS go through is records and expose if he's hiding something?
I was never informed that anyone reviewed my tax reports when I was investigated for Top Secret Clearance...so can't answer that. What it has to do with it all is to inform the voting public if this person had financial benefits from countries he will be negotiating deals with for the US. Why would you not realize that?
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
I was never informed that anyone reviewed my tax reports when I was investigated for Top Secret Clearance...so can't answer that. What it has to do with it all is to inform the voting public if this person had financial benefits from countries he will be negotiating deals with for the US. Why would you not realize that?
I guess if you believe some people wouldn't have voted for Trump if they were able to see his tax returns to know if he was hiding something, wouldn't those same people not vote for Trump because he didn't release his tax returns and were unable to see if he was hiding something?
I'm just saying I don't think Trump voters cared about his tax returns. If he broke tax laws it would be public record. As for for negotiating with foreign nation he may financially benefit from? I don't think the other option was any cleaner. (Clinton Foundation) It was a choice between the devil you know and the devil you don't know.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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Good news: In two years, we’ll have a new president. Bad news: If we make it that long.
My “good” prediction is based on the Law of the Pendulum. Enough Americans, including most independent voters, will be so ready to shed Donald Trump and his little shop of horrors that the 2018 midterm elections are all but certain to be a landslide — no, make that a mudslide — sweep of the House and Senate. If Republicans took both houses in a groundswell of the people’s rejection of Obamacare, Democrats will take them back in a tsunami of protest.
Once ensconced, it would take a Democratic majority approximately 30 seconds to begin impeachment proceedings selecting from an accumulating pile of lies, overreach and just plain sloppiness. That is, assuming Trump hasn’t already been shown the exit.
Or that he hasn’t declared martial law (all those anarchists, you know) and effectively silenced dissent. We’re already well on our way to the latter via Trump’s incessant attacks on the media — “among the most dishonest human beings on Earth” — and press secretary Sean Spicer’s rabid-chihuahua, daily press briefings. (Note to Sean: Whatever he’s promised you, it’s not worth becoming Melissa McCarthy’s punching bag. But really, don’t stop.)
With luck, and Cabinet-level courage that is not much in evidence, there’s a chance we won’t have to wait two long years, during which, let’s face it, anything could happen. In anticipation of circumstances warranting a speedier presidential replacement, wiser minds added Section 4 to the 25th Amendment, which removes the president if a majority of the Cabinet and the vice president think it necessary, i.e., if the president is injured or falls too ill to serve. Or, by extension, by being so incompetent — or not-quite-right — that he or she poses a threat to the nation and must be removed immediately and replaced by the vice president.
Aren’t we there, yet?
Thus far, Trump and his henchmen have conducted a full frontal assault on civil liberties, open government and religious freedom, as well as instigating or condoning a cascade of ethics violations ranging from the serious (business conflicts of interest) to the absurd (attacking a department store for dropping his daughter’s fashion line). And, no, it’s not just a father defending his daughter. It’s the president of the United States bullying a particular business and, more generally, making a public case against free enterprise.
To an objective observer, it would seem impossible to defend the perilous absurdities emanating from the White House and from at least one executive agency, the Agriculture Department, which recently scrubbed animal abuse reports from its website, leaving puppies, kittens, horses and others to fend for themselves.
In a hopeful note, a few Republicans are speaking out, but the list is short.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz recently got a taste of what’s ahead for Republican incumbents. Facing an unruly crowd at a town hall meeting in Utah, the House Oversight Committee chairman was booed nearly every time he mentioned Trump. Even if many in the crowd were members of opposition groups, the evening provided a glimpse of the next two years. From 2010’s tea party to 2018’s resistance, the pendulum barely had time to pause before beginning its leftward trek.
While we wait for it to someday find the nation’s center, where so many wait impatiently, it seems clear that the president, who swore an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, has never read it. Nor, apparently, has he ever even watched a Hollywood rendering of the presidency. A single episode of “The West Wing” would have taught Trump more about his new job than he seems to know — or care.
Far more compelling than keeping his promise to act presidential is keeping campaign promises against reason, signing poorly conceived executive orders, bashing the judicial and legislative branches, and tweeting his spleen to a wondering and worrying world.
Trump’s childish and petulant manner, meanwhile, further reinforces long-held concerns that this man can’t be trusted to lead a dog-and-pony act, much less the nation. Most worrisome is how long Trump can tolerate the protests, criticisms, humiliations, rebuttals and defeats — and what price he’ll try to exact from those who refused to look away. The Washington Post Kathleen Parker
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
If you find completely delusional people interesting.
1) Trump is going to be POTUS for at least 4 years....He'll have to do something totally out of bounds to not win re-election since the Dems have NOBODY....So deal with it.
2) And really this is the most important....Don't fall for this bullsh*t notion that indies are going to jump ship and go vote Dem at midterms. It's not going to happen. If anything, the Dems are going to loose even more seats in both houses, since they have turned their once national party into a regional party (east and west coasts).
All politics are local and they have been voting GOP.
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
If you find completely delusional people interesting.
1) Trump is going to be POTUS for at least 4 years....He'll have to do something totally out of bounds to not win re-election since the Dems have NOBODY....So deal with it.
2) And really this is the most important....Don't fall for this bullsh*t notion that indies are going to jump ship and go vote Dem at midterms. It's not going to happen. If anything, the Dems are going to loose even more seats in both houses, since they have turned their once national party into a regional party (east and west coasts).
All politics are local and they have been voting GOP.
1) Didn't find the writer interesting, it was the "read"! 2) Second term? Now that's delusional...So deal with it. Doubt Clinton would have gotten 2nd term either. 3) Mid-term could be very interesting.
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
Can This Presidency Be Saved? Ross Douthat: “Right now his presidency is in danger of being very swiftly Carterized — ending up so unpopular, ineffectual and fractious that even with Congress controlled by its own party, it can’t get anything of substance done. The war with liberals and the media may keep his base loyal and his approval ratings from bottoming out. But it does nothing to drive any kind of agenda, or pressure Congress to enact one. And the more the Trump White House remains mired in its own melodramas, the more plausible it becomes that the Trump-era House and Senate set a record for risk avoidance and legislative inactivity.” ( NY Times)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith