11 House GOP members introduce articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. https://t.co/eG6XhkiR0D pic.twitter.com/CqKG13ZqoS
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 26, 2018
Outside reactions, maybe not all the Freedumb Caucus had hoped…
And the weird thing is they’re the ones who support freedom. https://t.co/27ZlZp8nP0
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 26, 2018
How about never? Is never good for you? https://t.co/vwaiNRRB53
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 25, 2018
IMPORTANT note: Conservatives chose NOT to file this as a privileged resolution. That means that they don't get to force a vote on it on the House floor. This avoids the GOP civil war that would take place if they DID try to force a vote on this. Rs VERY divided on the matter https://t.co/DGGBfP4aRc
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) July 25, 2018
They’re covering up for Trump. Seriously, what does Putin have on him politically, personally or financially? https://t.co/6E8JU6SLmU
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) July 26, 2018
"skeptical republicans" in this case being the ones who dont have russian ties and thus are not worried about rosenstein and muellers investigationshttps://t.co/ys7qK0nabU
— darth™ (@darth) July 26, 2018
Does this have any chance of passing? And if it doesn’t, won’t it be revealed to be a hyperbolic but empty threat? https://t.co/E0u3akUt7t
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 26, 2018
This right here is the case for divided government https://t.co/ykTUuWxNPX
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 26, 2018
I’m just glad the Freedom Caucus has found something to do in Congress now that we’ve moved past the small-government fad among the base
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) July 26, 2018
Even the ever-GOP ‘conservative’ Weekly Standard!
My take on the proposed House Articles of Impeachment against Rosenstein. https://t.co/IHey7RMm47
— Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) July 26, 2018
The snark got personal…
Mark Meadows: I’m gonna show some balls
Jim Jordan: I won’t tell a soul
Meadows: …?
Jordan: Sorry. I was thinking about my coaching days. https://t.co/uYo5TjTMxp
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 26, 2018
Time to remove Gym Jordan from the United States House of Representatives. https://t.co/5twPhNI4Ij
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) July 26, 2018
Idea: Someone slip a few pictures of teenage boys in a wrestling uniform being fondled into the Articles of Impeachment against Rod Rosenstein…and watch how no one will recall ever filing them.
— YS (@NYinLA2121) July 26, 2018
BUT WAIT THERE’S A SURPRISE TWIST!… Mark Meadows is the ‘natural’ inheritor of the GOP speakership once Paul Ryan flees town, but Jordan is an ambitious fella:
Gonna be tough for him to convince Dems to let him join their caucus. https://t.co/wqVxfK5UaW
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 26, 2018
Why Jim Jordan should be Speaker: If the Pussy-Grabber can’t serve, and the deranged homophobe can’t fulfil his duties, the pedophile protector can step in and make America great again.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) July 26, 2018
Later that day…
Somebody got his hand slapped.
Meadows backs off impeaching Rosenstein after leadership talks https://t.co/0PLU9Sb9nf
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 26, 2018
The potential for House Republicans to do electorally self-destructive things as they compete to see who's the MAGA-iest potential Speaker in the land seems like an underplayed story.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 26, 2018
oatler.
‘Borborygmi.’ is the word you wanted.
Mary G
It’ll probably get worse before it gets better.
Anne Laurie
@oatler.: If I hadn’t been going for the ‘As the World Turns’ soap-opera allusion, I’d have used ‘sharts‘.
schrodingers_cat
I am fucking tired of this fucking circus.
lamh36
Open Thread…ok…how bout some non-political happiness…
Welp…you had me at Goldblum Nat Geo…you had me at Goldblum!
Jeffro
Meadows, Jordan, Gaetz, and Nunes: who will eventually be found mostest guilty of working with Russia/accepting NRA-Russia money ?
And why isn’t our National Media beating the drum demanding to know which GOP congressman asked for, and got, Russian assistance back in 2016?!?! Didn’t Mueller note that in his charges from a week or two ago?
THE (RUSSIAN) MOLE(S) IS INSIDE THE HOUSE! No , literally: inside the House
Duane
Oh please please please have a vote! Republicans in disarry!
sigaba
They’re exposing their flank.
Platonailedit
Methinks this ratfucking stupid move (it’s not gonna pass) from the racist caucus is more about providing cover for the traitorous thug to fire rosentein. The congress didn’t have the guts to do it, so I did it, kinda dipshit move by the thug.
r€nato
@schrodingers_cat: This has certainly been an exciting season full of amazing and unbelievable plot twists, but I am very much ready for the final episode.
debbie
I like that Hoarse Whisperer guy!
dmsilev
Is being a former wrestling coach with …exposure to molestation of said wrestlers a prerequisite for being a candidate for GOP Speaker? Or is it just a bonus?
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: Are you not entertained?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie: I often wonder if that’s the old horse of Media Whores Online, if you remember that blog
piratedan
@Jeffro: well, I think there are three types of GOP house members:
a) those incredibly stupid ones who rarely have a modest grasp of civics
b) those that are on the take and are grifters at heart who enjoy the power that they enjoy to punish people unlike themselves
c) members that are both a and b
Adam L Silverman
@Jeffro: They’ve already reported it. It is most likely Congressman Brian Mast, but Congressman DeSantis is also a likely recipient too.
Millard Filmore
“As the Stomach Churns” I think that was a recurring skit put on by Ed Walker and Willard Scott in their daily WRC radio show. “Brought to you by Scuff-No-More, the miracle space age plastic coating you spray on your kids to protect them from fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, chiggers, and prickly heat.”
“We are the joy boys of radio! Chasing electrons to and fro.”
debbie
@Jeffro:
Is there no talk of investigating the NRA?
Adam L Silverman
@Platonailedit: It’s already been quashed by Ryan. He wanted no part of this. It also didn’t help that Jordan and Meadows, or whomever on their staffs they dictated the articles of impeachment to, misspelled Rosenstein’s name, so they were trying to impeach someone who doesn’t exist. Also, three of the five charges took place before Rosenstein was the Deputy AG. The fourth accuses him of not recusing himself from an investigation that doesn’t exist because AG Sessions refused to appoint a second special counsel. I don’t remember what the fifth one was, but it was equally non-sensical.
Inventor
@Adam L Silverman: Rohrbacher is swimming in Russian money….and Russian young men, but that’s another story.
Sebastian
@debbie: It’s a her
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: Wut, not Comrade Dana? He’s even on board giving Alaska back to the Russians. I wonder how he feels about giving Alta California back to Mexico?
Adam L Silverman
@Inventor: Yep, he’s currently got a hot case of the butina. I think he may need penicillin.
Ohio Mom
“Gym Jordan.” Heh. Good one, Howard.
@Adam L Silverman: I’m finding this akin to a movie or book that needs editing because it’s starting to drag. There’s not a lot of suspense — we know what happened — and the characters aren’t sympathetic, can’t we just wrap it up already?
Mai Naem mobile
Part of me wants it just go through the House and see the Senate Republicans fight over it.
Mike in NC
What powers, if any, does the Speaker actually have? Could he force the Freedumb Caucus to disband themselves? John Boehner sure couldn’t do much to control them.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: This was specifically about a Florida GOP congressperson receiving this info. Everyone is pretty sure it’s Mast. There is speculation that other Florida Republican congresspeople may have also used it in 2016 and the name that usually is brought up for that is DeSantis.
debbie
@Sebastian:
Even better!
Adam L Silverman
@Ohio Mom: The butler did it.
Happy?
Inventor
@Adam L Silverman: I’m not a microbiologist, but I would guess Rohrbacher’s bacteria spread penicillin on their biscuits for breakfast.
debbie
@Mike in NC:
Let Nancy take the floor and mock them all.
Ken
@r€nato:
I’m worried it’ll be a cliffhanger, like “Who killed Peter Campbell” or “Who shot JR”.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: I have it on good authority that it was Colonel Mustard in the Drawing Room with a candlestick.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike in NC: He can’t do that. He does control the calendar and what is brought to the floor. He controls committee assignments, as well as office assignments and who gets how much staff. A decent Speaker, not Boehner and not Ryan, would’ve had his or her lieutenants bring him Jordan’s and Meadow’s kneecaps seven years ago.
Adam L Silverman
@Inventor: Ewwww!
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
Adam, I didn’t know you could speak Latin with an Aussie accent. You really ARE multi-talented.
Zelma
Did anyone read Josh Marshall’s piece on the context of the Republican leaders discussion of who was being paid by Russia? It discusses the context of the snippet that was broadcast which was all about the warning that the President of Ukraine had shared with Ryan and McCarthy that day about what Russia was up to in Europe and how dangerous it was. Apparently he was particularly worried about the hire of Manafort. This was the day after the news of the hack of the DNC. Ryan, McCarthy and Rogers seemed genuinely concerned about what Putin was up to. And their suspicions of Trump. Which makes their subsequent behavior all the more disgusting, especially McCarthy who went full bore in his support of Trump. Despicable people all around.
Adam L Silverman
@SFAW: I contain multitudes. It’s very cramped in here.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
Not in this year’s Super Bowl, he didn’t.
But apparently Belichick doesn’t like to be questioned about shipping him to Sibirsk.
Yarrow
@Jeffro:
You forgot Rohrabacher. Traitor Dana has a sad. And the answer is all of them, Katie.
Waynski
@Adam L Silverman:
Nice Gladiator reference, Adam… shadows and dust.
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: Reassigning Jordan etc. to offices in the sub subbasement, next to the steam boilers and just down the hall from the garbage chutes, would seem to be an obvious course of action for any Speaker.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
The only multitudes I contain are the voices inside my head. Fortunately, there’s plenty of empty space in there, so none of them complains too much about the crowding.
Adam L Silverman
@Zelma: I’ve read it. Here’s the thing he missed: as constitutional officers, specifically constitutional officer serving in leadership positions, they had an obligation to notify the National Security Division at the FBI, not try to laugh it off as a joke and state that it had to be kept in the family and no one was to leak it.
Yarrow
@Ohio Mom:
I think he stole it from Rick Wilson. It’s absolutely perfect, isn’t it?
Adam L Silverman
@SFAW: I don’t watch football, so I have no idea what you’re talking about other than I know what the Super Bowl is and who Bill Belicheck is.
Adam L Silverman
@Waynski: Never actually saw the movie.
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: At the GSA surplus office furniture and equipment depot across town.
Adam L Silverman
Well that didn’t take long:
Platonailedit
@Adam L Silverman:
Brimful of swamp. maga.
Platonailedit
Courtesy cohen’s pandora phone.
oatler.
@Adam L Silverman: Forwarded to the “Whiff of Grapeshot Would Do No etc” Committee
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
Are you sure you’re American?
Malcolm Butler was a cornerback for the Patriots. He gained fame in Super Bowl XLIX (Feb 2015), when he intercepted a Seattle pass in the end zone, guaranteeing the Patriots’ win. In Super Bowl LII, he was conspicuously absent, apparently benched by Belichick for the entire game, who has never deigned to explain his decision. There are some who believe that, were Butler on the field, the Pats might have beaten the Eagles. Not an unreasonable sentiment.
Although I’ve been a Jets fan for over 50 years, and have no love (to put it mildly) for the Pats, I think Belichick has been one of the all-time great coaches. But he’s also an arrogant prick (in my perhaps unedumacated opiniion), and hell will freeze over before he tells anyone why he benched Butler.
OK, now that I’ve explained something that you probably wish I hadn’t, it’s time for you to toddle off and watch Gladiator, you goddam commie.
Platonailedit
That collusion wall is coming along nicely.
SFAW
Goddammit!!! Trump lying about the Russkie meeting, his new EPA destroyer having a possible ethics investigation, Gym Jordan filing a ridiculous impeachment resolution — and it’s too fucking late to go out to Market Basket to buy a shit-tonne of popcorn! Goddammit!!!
Mike in NC
@Adam L Silverman: I am frankly shocked that anybody in this administration could be acused of having any knowledge of this meeting.
Steeplejack
@Zelma:
It’s behind the “TPM Prime” paywall.
Adam L Silverman
Now this is funny!
Adam L Silverman
@SFAW: I stopped watching back in the mid 90s. After living in Scotland and watching rugby, after coming home to the US, I found the game very slow and boring. So I stopped watching it. Given all the NFL’s other problems that have subsequently come to light, I don’t regret the decision in the least.
As for watching Gladiator, I’m not a big Russell Crowe fan, so no thank you.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike in NC: Eez a puzzlement!
Steeplejack
@Adam L Silverman:
Don Beyer: my congressman—and my Kia dealer! A multi-talented guy.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
Whatever. Yer still a commie, rugby or no.
efgoldman
@Adam L Silverman:
I’m old enough to remember when speak4rs and senior committee chairs had real power, which they did not always use judiciously.
Find a biography of Sam Rayburn, or a history of the house during his time.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: Is it a decent dealership? Because a lot of the Kia dealerships really suck in terms of customer service across all categories of what a dealership is supposed to do. Which is a shame because they’re new sports car looks like a keeper.
https://jalopnik.com/i-tried-to-get-a-deal-on-a-kia-stinger-from-a-florida-d-1825235100
https://jalopnik.com/the-2018-kia-stinger-gt-is-the-real-deal-1822643041
jonas
@Jeffro:
Republican corruption? ZZZzzzzzz! If the FTFNYT spent 5% of the resources covering this that they spent on the buttery mails, they’d be running 10 extra editions a day. But Jake, it’s MSM-town. Whaddya gonna do?
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: While I’m not an aged and venerable elder like yourself, I’m well aware of who Sam Rayburn was.
Steeplejack
@Adam L Silverman:
My experience at Beyer Kia has been good. I bought my car from CarMax but take it to Beyer for pretty much everything. Service staff is competent, they keep to a good schedule, and they have a good waiting room with Keurig coffee, fast wi-fi and non-Fox TV (soothing HGTV).
chopper
@sigaba:
they flunked flank.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack: Apparently you’ve lucked out, as that doesn’t seem to be the norm:
https://jalopnik.com/kia-will-have-a-hard-time-selling-the-stinger-gt-unless-1790975835
That said, the Lexus dealer down here, on the sales side, is like a we’ll finance anyone used car place. The service side is very good if you need something that only the dealership can do, and fortunately my Lexus has been virtually trouble free, but I far preferred the dealership in Camp Hill, PA. The entire experience from sales to service was excellent.
California Stars
More importantly, can we talk about Jim Jordan’s hair? Something is not right up there. Are those implants?
That Weekly Standard philippic is worth a look-see.
Kathleen
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: How I miss that blog! Interesting speculation.