Congressional hearings should be of general interest to every citizen (Page 9): Libertarians can be all over the place. A lot of people - from what I've seen

Rose42

Common_Sense_Matters wrote:

I don't know, the "Libertarians" I have ... (show quote)

Libertarians can be all over the place. A lot of people - from what I've seen - call themselves libertarian but they aren't really.

The democrat party during JFK's time is more the democrat party I'm envisioning. More toward the center. The republicans also used to be more toward the center.

Today's republicans aren't really true conservatives just as todays democrats aren't true liberals. If they were we'd be better off. A libertarian/conservative mix would be more toward the middle. Or just call them moderates as most people don't fully buy into their party's entire platform anyway.

The current system has each party putting themselves first over what's best for the country. That won't change and will only get worse. The "us vs them" mindset is only getting worse as well. The fault doesn't lie solely with either party - both shoulder the blame.

Common_Sense_Matters

Rose42 wrote:

Where did I say no parties? I said we need major reform. That doesn't mean no parties. No parties would be total chaos.

What we have now is increasing gridlock. Less and less gets done because all they do is snipe at each other. Its only getting worse. How is it logical to stick with a system that is working against us?

I don't vote based on what's best for me. I vote for who I think is best for the country.

The party system will ALWAYS come down to partisan politics, even when some administrations worked their hardest to move beyond partisan politics, the opposition ALWAYS bucks and dig in their heels. There is no way we can reform the system to force humanity to work together for a better America, it just isn't going to happen. The only way to eliminate partisan politics seems to be that we do away with parties. That has it's own challenges as I pointed out already.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Congressional hearings should be of general interest to every citizen only if said citizen is into watching crimes in progress and progressive freak shows.

Rose42

Common_Sense_Matters wrote:

The party system will ALWAYS come down to partisan politics, even when some administrations worked their hardest to move beyond partisan politics, the opposition ALWAYS bucks and dig in their heels. There is no way we can reform the system to force humanity to work together for a better America, it just isn't going to happen. The only way to eliminate partisan politics seems to be that we do away with parties. That has it's own challenges as I pointed out already.

It'll never be eliminated but its never been this bad either and it sure ain't gonna get any better. So we either try and change it or we're going to be stuck with something even worse next go round. Get rid of lobbies, make it illegal for any politician to turn around and become a lobbyist. Get rid of career politicians, term limits, there are many things that can be done. We can't just throw our hands up and say 'it'll always be partisan so no point in changing'.

Dinty

Rose42 wrote:

It'll never be eliminated but its never been this bad either and it sure ain't gonna get any better. So we either try and change it or we're going to be stuck with something even worse next go round. Get rid of lobbies, make it illegal for any politician to turn around and become a lobbyist. Get rid of career politicians, term limits, there are many things that can be done. We can't just throw our hands up and say 'it'll always be partisan so no point in changing'.

Rose42- You are spot on. I think on the same lines.

Nickolai

proud republican wrote:

Interesting how you people couldnt stand Cohen bef... (show quote)

Rat is a mob term for snitch and cons hate snitches so when Cohen gets to prison some one will put a screw driver in his back hopefully That's the way the mob works and Humpty Trumpty runs his criminal enterprise like a New York mob boss

Nickolai

padremike wrote:

Those, like yourself, who hate Trump have already made up their minds about his guilt without any evidence. And you insist on being called Americans.

Are you kidding the evidence just keeps piling up. Now we have evidence Trump perjured himself on the written questions he answered for Mueller regarding Roger Stone and Wikileaks and he committed a crime in covering up the payment to Stormy Daniels. The guy keeps tripping over his little dick

Nickolai

Smedley_buzkill wrote:

No matter how ridiculous or unbelievable something is, if it is negative and attributed to Trump, you Liberals will believe it, no proof. or even evidence required.

The evidence is so obvious it smashes us in the face. Just today we have discovered evidence Trump perjured him self with his written answers to Mueller regarding whether of not he discussed Wikileaks with Roger Stone. He answered no --now we know tat was a lie

Common_Sense_Matters

Rose42 wrote:

It'll never be eliminated but its never been this bad either and it sure ain't gonna get any better. So we either try and change it or we're going to be stuck with something even worse next go round. Get rid of lobbies, make it illegal for any politician to turn around and become a lobbyist. Get rid of career politicians, term limits, there are many things that can be done. We can't just throw our hands up and say 'it'll always be partisan so no point in changing'.

I agree with you on many of those points. What are your thoughts on appointing lobbyists to federal appointments, perhaps heading up the EPA (Andrew Wheeler, Deputy Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency), our healthcare (Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services and Lance Leggitt, Chief of Staff of Department of Health and Human Services), Homeland Security (Thomas Blank, Chief of Staff, Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Transportation (Chris Brown, Associate Administrator for Government and Industry Affairs at the Federal Aviation Administration), Defense (Mark Esper, Secretary of the Army), Dept. of Labor (Geoffrey Burr, Chief of Staff), Commerce (Peter Davidson, General Counsel), Agriculture (Kristi Boswell, Senior Advisor to the Secretary at USDA), Dept. of the Interior (David Bernhardt, Deputy Secretary of the Interior), Dept. of Justice (Makan Delrahim, United States Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust), and Dept. of the Treasury (Drew Maloney, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs). Should we appoint lobbyists to these positions?

tNotMyPrez Loc: So. CA, USA

Michael Cohen Congressional Testimony Editorial Cartoons:

https://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-153717-1.html

trucksterbud

tNotMyPrez wrote:

Michael Cohen is expected to tell Congress that Trump broke the law while in office

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/26/michael-cohen-expected-to-tell-congress-that-trump-broke-law-while-in-office.html

Cohen arrives to give a closed-door interview to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

As I posted elsewhere on OPP, Michael Cohen violated attorney / client priveledge, that right there is end of story.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Nickolai wrote:

The evidence is so obvious it smashes us in the face. Just today we have discovered evidence Trump perjured him self with his written answers to Mueller regarding whether of not he discussed Wikileaks with Roger Stone. He answered no --now we know tat was a lie

Is this because Cohen said so?

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Nickolai wrote:

Rat is a mob term for snitch and cons hate snitches so when Cohen gets to prison some one will put a screw driver in his back hopefully That's the way the mob works and Humpty Trumpty runs his criminal enterprise like a New York mob boss

So, you hope a man gets a shive in his back, nice. You sound like a mob member yourself or a communist.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Nickolai wrote:

Are you kidding the evidence just keeps piling up. Now we have evidence Trump perjured himself on the written questions he answered for Mueller regarding Roger Stone and Wikileaks and he committed a crime in covering up the payment to Stormy Daniels. The guy keeps tripping over his little dick

Here say isn't evidence. You're on a roll today.

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Nickolai wrote:

The evidence is so obvious it smashes us in the face. Just today we have discovered evidence Trump perjured him self with his written answers to Mueller regarding whether of not he discussed Wikileaks with Roger Stone. He answered no --now we know tat was a lie

We know this from a person who lied under oath more than once. He also lied as to his ethics when he became a lawyer. He also is testifying to keep his wife out of prison who could also be charged with bank fraud. Muller strikes again.