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“Squeaker” McCarthy

Iā€™ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesnā€™t seem to do any good.

No one could have predicted…

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Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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  4. 4.

    Elizabelle

    @MattF:  Who was playing?

    I am glad to see Amb Y getting public acclaim. It might sink into a few skulls of people who have some serious decisions to make.

    And it’s a very positive form of throwing a finger at Trump, Barr, Pompeo, Giuliani. All the criminals.

  7. 7.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Republican congressmen are pathetic, abject cowards.Ā  Remember the Obamacare repeal period?Ā  When they would go to great lengths to only hold town halls with Republican voters, and when they failed would duck out in the middle rather than face angry constituents?Ā  And these were angry liberal constituents, not the kind who would threaten them physically.Ā  It’s going to be one Hell of a campaign season.

  10. 10.

    MattF

    @Elizabelle: Iā€™ve had a semi-regular evening-before-New-Years-Eve date there for several years. You get the New Years Eve headliner at a more reasonable price. Until recently, they had Ahmad Jamal, for the past few years itā€™s been Cyrus Chestnut.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    eat in a Louisville restaurant

    “I’ll have the turkey breast, mashed potatoes and cauliflower. Oh, and no brown gravy.”

    //

  13. 13.

    Duane

    Moscow Mitch reaps what he’sĀ  sewn. The NRA’S pet is scared of being shot. Oh, who’s kidding? He’s scared of his shadow. Go find a traitor flag and take a picture jackass.

  16. 16.

    AM in NC

    I was college friends with Lisa Dickey, who posted that first tweet – what a nice surprise to see it here! Ā And to see the way Amb. Yovanovitch is being treated by regular citizens as she moves on from the hearings! Ā Imagine that – doing the right thing gains you accolades rather than condemnation once you’re outside the rightwing bubble of evil. Guessing AG Barr wouldn’t receive quite the same reaction.

  23. 23.

    catclub

    Isn’t Pete Sessions not running for re-election. I wonder if he wants to get himself out of the impeachment (and related prosecutions) spotlight.

    In addition, Parnas and Fruman directed huge contributions to then-Rep. Pete Sessionsā€™s campaigns. On the same day that Parnas visited him in his Capitol Hill office, Sessions wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo complaining that Yovanovitch was not loyal to Trump and should be fired

    .

  26. 26.

    catclub

    @germy:Ā  i find it amazing that thre have been demonstrations in HK for 6 months and about 1 fatality.

     

    meanwhile in Iraq, there have been hundreds killed in demonstrations.

  29. 29.

    Adam L Silverman

    I’ll just leave this here.

  31. 31.

    Adam L Silverman

    He didn’t run in 2018 and was replaced with a Democrat if I’m recalling correctly. Apparently he was considering a run in an adjacent district in 2020, but this may be the end of that.

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    Whoa. Ā Someone else is shrill at the FTF NY Times today. Ā Marie Yovanovitch’s example has put some steel in some writers’ spines.

    Tom Friedman does not mince words.

    Mike Pompeo: Last in His Class at West Point in Integrity

    The secretary of stateā€™s behavior has been cowardly and self-serving.
     

     

    It seems like every story you read about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo always includes the sentence that he graduated ā€œfirst in his classā€ from West Point. That is not a small achievement. But it is even more impressive in Pompeoā€™s case when you consider that he finished No. 1 even though he must have flunked all his courses on ethics and leadership. I guess he was really good in math.
     
    I say that because Pompeo has just violated one of the cardinal rules of American military ethics and command: You look out for your soldiers, you donā€™t leave your wounded on the battlefield and you certainly donā€™t stand mute when you know a junior officer is being railroaded by a more senior commander, if not outright shot in her back.
     
    The classes on ethics and leadership at West Point would have taught all of that. I can only assume Pompeo failed or skipped them all when you observe his cowardly, slimy behavior as the leader of the State Department. I would never, ever, ever want to be in a trench with that man. Attention all U.S. diplomats: Watch your own backs, because Pompeo wonā€™t.

  33. 33.

    Keith P

    @geg6: Why can nobody in the TrumpĀ  universe (other than the long-gone Mooch) wear a properly-fitted suit?Ā  If they’re under 40 (i.e. Jared, Miller…I’ll even throw in Spicer), the suit’s look like they came from the Boy’s Department; if they’re over 70 (or, inexplicably, Andrew Giuliani) they wear these giant Talking Heads suits.

  34. 34.

    germy

    @Jay:

    Watching DW news on our local PBS World channel, they keep reporting violent demonstrations, but then when they show footage it’s basically police lobbing tear gas at peaceful protesters.

  35. 35.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    OT: Thanks all for the kind comments for my pics in the “On The Road” post this morning, I crashed out early last night and didn’t get to comment in real time.Ā  I also answered a couple of folk who had questions in several comments after I’d woke from my slumber.

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    Jay

    @catclub:

    Hong Kong as a port, handles 18% of Chinaā€™s imports and exports, as a FinCen and Corporate HQ, about 54%.

    Crippling Hong Kongā€™s protests also cripples Chinaā€™s economy.

    In contrast, in Iraq, the people in power and the security forces are factional. Many of the ā€œsecurity forcesā€ are just gangs with badges and a political patron.

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    the Conster

    I’m convinced that Trump has only recently come to understand that he can’t fire Nancy Pelosi, nor control her, nor threaten her in any way, and that’s what put him in the hospital.

     

    I just also want to say that her superpower is the ability to control the drip drip drip of information for as long as it takes to drive him absolutely mad, and letting Mitch McConnell get his filthy mitts on the House investigation is the last thing she intends to happen, unless it’s the right time of her choosing.

  43. 43.

    O. Felix Culpa

    The applause clip brought me to tears. The ambassador deserves the accolades. I’ve been on the receiving end of a workplace smear campaign at a MUCH lower level and it is indeed devastating. She is a hero.

  44. 44.

    Jay

    @germy:

    Itā€™s a standard media meme globally.

    When Naziā€™s stabbed bystanders and protesters at Berkley, the FBI investigated antifa for possible violations of the KKKā€™s Civil Rights and the DA brought criminal charges against a school teacher for pushing away from the victim a Nazi who was stabbing someone.

    SSDD.

  49. 49.

    Dan B

    @O. Felix Culpa: It takes a woman to get it done.Ā  I wonder if Mueller and Comey were anxious about seeing the guys at the club, the one that Yovanovich and Vindman would not be welcomed at, at least not with open arms.

     

    The contrast with Moscow Mule’itch and Ambassador Yovanovich is stark.Ā  The emotions put Yovanovich in a beam of light and Mitch in a dark that vampires would relish.

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    rikyrah

    @the Conster:

     

    Iā€™m convinced that Trump has only recently come to understand that he canā€™t fire Nancy Pelosi, nor control her, nor threaten her in any way, and thatā€™s what put him in the hospital.

     

    He finds out that Nancy Smash has completely schooled him, and it pisses him off.

    I’m still back at her taking time during her press conference last week to actually define the word for him. Not that I think he understood what the word meant, but, that it was so cold, and that she didn’t break a sweat as she went back to ‘ regular programming’ once she did it.

  52. 52.

    p.a.

    They deserve much much worse, but at least being debased in public is a start at some consequences for these fascists congresscritters.

  54. 54.

    Jay

    Brutal thread,….

    Yesterday I accompanied a woman to see her loved one in prison. We left before dawn to make it for the AM visit. Several hours later, we were headed back home, our visit denied. I wanted to share a bit about the experience. 1/— Liliana Segura (@LilianaSegura) November 17, 2019

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Elizabelle:

     

    She is truly remarkable. I sure hope President WarrenHarrisBidenButtigieg plugs Masha into the Secretary of State slot. Sheā€™d be a fantastic SoS.

  56. 56.

    J R in WV

    @germy:

     

    I got “Phillipa Fallon Performs “High School Drag” in High School Confidential when I clicked that Youtube link.

    Ā 

    And when I used the Youtube search to look for Amb. Yovanovitch all I got was clips of Impeachment testimony, even when I included Blues Alley in the search terms. But B J is kinda wacky for me today, buttons quit working, back button goes anywhere but the my previous location, etc. Should reboot, I guess, but that won’t fix Youtube…

     

    So glad to see Tom Friedman woke up after 15 years of napping! His description of the scum in our government was accurate, if four years too late!

  59. 59.

    topclimber

    @Keith P:Ā  Along these lines, has anyone started a go fund me for Jim Jordan so he can buy a complete suit? Something in a tan shade perhaps.

  60. 60.

    Yutsano

    @rikyrah:

    Iā€™m still back at her taking time during her press conference last week to actually define the word for him. Not that I think he understood what the word meant, but, that it was so cold, and that she didnā€™t break a sweat as she went back to ā€˜ regular programmingā€™ once she did it.

    That was one of the best nonna moments ever.

  62. 62.

    Anya

    @germy: I donā€™t like when people pick on the kids. He hasnā€™t done anything so why is he the focus.

     

    also, too, does Trump know the younger Giuliani voted for Obama?

  63. 63.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @Anya: Andrew Giuliani is another nepotism hire as Public Liaison Assistant to Donald Trump. He’s an adult who chose to associate and advance himself with this corrupt administration, so fair game. Agree that minor children should be left out. Andrew is not one of them.

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