fullspinzoo

As I've been saying all along, it's basically OVER!!!!! https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/465779-trumps-gop-impeachment-firewall-holds-strong

bahmer

Amen and Amen

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Political Cowardice In The Face Of Disaster

Thursday, September 26, 2019 5:05 a.m. by Tom King

The Republicans seem to be circling the wagon around the most corrupt President in US history. It really is appalling how complicit they are not only in the rise of Trumpism but the ignoring of all of the corruption that would have sent any other President packing long ago. This whole idea that calling for an impeachment inquiry will somehow hurt Democrats in the 2020 election is wrongheaded and beside the point. There comes a time in any politicians career when they must put country ahead of party. Todays Republicans in DC refuse to do that and up until yesterday Democratic leadership wouldnt do it either. The founders put the impeachment process into the Constitution for a reason. There is no clause in there that tells them to only use it when it won't hurt your re-election chances. When Richard Nixon was subverting the country 50 years ago it wasnt just Democrats who brought him to heel. It was Republicans in Congress who had a spine and knew what needed to be done for the good of the country. Now we have gutless weasals like Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham and John Cornyn...cowards all. Mike Myers, a former Mitt Romney advisor said yesterday that a Republican Senator told him that if it was a secret vote, 30 Republican Senators would vote to impeach Trump. I wonder if Ron Johnson is one of them? That is the problem in a nutshell right there. All but the most partisan hacks and talk-show squawkers know what Trump and his administration are. They have known it for a long time. But they have played along and propped up this compromised slimeball for a handful of tax cuts and the ability to pack the courts with ideologues. Republican Senator Ben Sasse said yesterday that Republicans should not be so quick to come to judgement on the merits of the case against Trump. Maybe that will be the start. Maybe the complicity will end. Even Nixon had his supporters until the evidence became so damning that only a fool would have still given their support. We passed that rubicon long ago. Today's Republican Party is riddled with fools...or those who know the corruption that is rotting the country and refuse to do anything about it. You decide which is worse.

fullspinzoo

Who would read this crap? Another communist trying to insult the best president since Reagan. GTH!!!!! I read 4 words and the rest not worth toilet paper.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Supposedly, you did. Out of curiosity, which four words did you select to read

The mantra for today's GOP'ers: “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Painting everyone on the right with one big brushstroke.

In that vein, you strongly support everything Antifa.

waltmoreno

So sorry to hear about your TDS. It sounds like you’ve been infected with it pretty badly.
Take heart! There’s a proven cure that’s 100% effective.
Here’s the Rx:
Take your head outta yer a**, look around, inhale deeply, and realize you’ve been operating in a fog orchestrated by biased leftists who care not one whit about your well being but rather their own power.
Then for icing on the cake, be grateful. Express your gratitude to Almighty God for allowing you to be living in America at this point in history. Where things are better for the majority of Americans than they have ever been for anyone in the history of the world. And thank God that in President Trump, you know have a leader who will take the slings and arrows meant for you yet will continue to persevere in fighting for you.
Follow this Rx and you’ll be among the healthy, happy, industrious constitutional conservatives that make up the majority of people in this country today.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Very sound advise, Sir.

fullspinzoo

There are so many more who should follow this great advice to overcome this powerful virus.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Good morning, Walter. Thanks for your sincere concerns, but I suggest that it is you infected with TDS, as explained by the following...

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a satirical psychological diagnosis used to explain the hysterical reaction and belligerent behavior of people, pro or con, generally directed towards anything related to President Donald Trump as pertaining to his presidency. It isn't intended to be a logical argument, rather a jab at another individual's excessive emotional reactions as well as aggressive physical displays. It is an ad hominem argument, not a strawman argument as suggested by definition...and, there are numerous variations on TDS, all of which have their own particular partisan/ideological twist to them.

TDS was originally a made-up condition, conceived as an insult label by the alt-right to attack anyone who criticizes or refuses to support Donald Trump. The idea being the left is so obsessed with Trump they have collectively lost their minds. Like many of their other little online crusades, this one has backfired. People dislike Trump for actual reasons which often go well beyond just politics or partisanship, and if anyone has Trump Derangement Syndrome it's those on the right that blindly support him. They have lost their sense of morality, religious convictions, principles, objectivity, all discernment, and even the ability to have a civil discussion or reason. So the term has now been co-opted by others to refer to Trump supporters who are blinded by their unrealistic devotion to Trump.

The origin of the term 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' is traced to political columnist and conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist, who originally coined the phrase 'Bush derangement syndrome' in 2003 during the presidency of George W. Bush. That syndrome was defined by Krauthammer as "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency – nay – the very existence of George W. Bush." The first use of the term 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' may have been by Esther Goldberg in an August 2015 op-ed in The American Spectator; She applied the term to "Ruling Class Republicans" who are dismissive or contemptuous of Trump. Krauthammer, himself a harsh critic of Trump, later defined "Trump derangement syndrome" as a Trump-induced "general hysteria" among the chattering classes, producing an "inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and ... signs of psychic pathology" in the President's behavior.

And, oh, BTW: Fullspinzoo's thread and this response inspired me to post it as a thread of its own. Enjoy.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

That's a pretty big & broad brushstroke you're exhibiting of your own, my friend.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

We're at a crossroad of contention that will spiral into our national ruin.

But..thats what the left is seeking...to dissolve the U.S.

woodguru

This is not holding strong...
https://dennismichaellynch.com/report-top-state-department-official-arrives-for-testimony-in-impeachment-probe/

Hill broke the dam when her attorneys told white house attorneys there was no executive privilege where investigations about violations of the law are concerned...

White house attorney's response...crickets

woodguru

We're at a crossroad where Trump and a boatload of his administration complicit in his abuses of power are going to be going to jail...

If we had an actual AG instead of a Trump protector that AG would be all over this Ukraine thing, instead Barr has and is running as much interference as he can

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

So when Obama covered for his wingman Holder by executive privilege for contempt of Congress.

You're saying Obama broke the law, or laws do not apply where the leftist deity Hanuman is concerned.?..Which or both?