Trump will also make up an excuse as to why he is not going to debate the dems nominee.

There will be no dem/rep presidential debates!!! Not even at the vice presidential level.

Trump's MO is to make some situation worse and then swoop in a pretend to fix it.

Exactly!!! Furthermore, his offer to the other side will be to restore only what he made worse if they improve the position he held prior to the negotiation as was the case with DACA. He took DACA away and then told the dems that he would give it back if they gave him money to build his wall! What kind of effin deal is that? Only a effin moron would accept such a deal. Only a disingenuous moron would offer it.

Former Republican governor Mark Sanford announced Sunday he is entering the race for his party's presidential nomination, in a long-shot challenge to President Donald Trump.

Time for a little pay back. Trump cost Sanford his seat and now Sanford is going to return the favor.

Since the Senate is a foregone conclusion, Pelosi decided to keep control over the investigations, rather than turning over control to Moscow Mitch and Roy Cohn, Jr.

Pelosi could stretch out the impeachment inquiry as long as was necessary to achieve her political goals. Constant revelations of Trump's high crimes and misdemeanors during the 2020 cycle would diminish Trump's support among independents; enough that would prevent his re-election.

Pelosi's actions are indefensible. Her desire to maintain control of the HOR by protecting dems in Trump leaning districts should not prevent her from holding Trump accountable for his misdeeds. It's as if she thinks that maintaining control of the HOR in 2021 would give her extra powers; powers that she doesn't now have. What is she going to do different in the next congress (assuming of course that dems maintain control of the HOR) that she can't do in the current congress? When you consider that dems may not be in control of the HOR in the next congress, the wise move would be to do what can be done now.

How many of those on the "Reasonable Right" supported Trump's Muslim ban? If they did, they are hypocrites to claim that they are unfairly being lumped in with racists and xenophobes who are also conservative.

Poor little Kim: Shooting off his missiles and nobody gives a damn.

Anyone with multiple citizenship deserves to have their loyalty questioned. In fact, if you hold elective office at the federal level, you should ONLY be a citizen of the US.

Farmers are a special group of voter: we all need them to survive (i.e. literally; to survive). We need farmers to produce enough food to feed the nation. However, because of bad trade deals, our politicians sacrificed manufacturing (union based and largely democratic) for farming (non union and largely republican). Now that we have lost millions of manufacturing jobs, we are losing many farmers.

If farmers continue to support Trump in 2020 in spite of what he has done to their businesses, the next dem president/congress should not seek to provide them with any support over and above that which will allow them to comfortably feed the nation.

Scaramucci asks Left to Create 'Off Ramp' for Trump Officials

Republicans put that lying POS in office and it should be up to them to correct their own effin mistake.

Once again the party of accountability is ducking accountability. They are looking for the dems to bail their sorry a.ses out of the jam that they got the country into. Suck it up repubs. If you want to fix the problem you caused by electing Trump, vote for the dem or stay your sorry a.s home.

Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress's generic favorability rating among the American people.

Dem candidates infuriate me by not calling out republican obstruction. Dems should be running as hard against the republican party as they are running against the republican candidate. However, because they have a few republican "friends" that will never take a public position contrary to party leaders, dems don't want to denounce the republican party.

Perhaps its the role of the DNC to take on the republican party. If so, the DNC isn't doing its job. Their mantra should be if you want government to work, vote for democrats up and down the ticket. DNC ads should feature all the obstruction, corruption and democracy threatening policies of republican governance at the federal and state levels.

Geez, why does she think she is entitled?

EXACTLY! Why should the husband's family shed a lifetime of habits because of her allergy? However, it's not unreasonable that the family should prepare a (properly labelled) dish or two that do not contain the allergen.

She should 1) eat her fill prior to going to these gathering; 2) bring properly labelled dishes that she can eat that can be shared. By preparing and sharing dishes that she can eat, other family members may like them and prepare them for the next gathering.

If you feel a condition of free speech means the speaker must identify himself and give up the right to anonymity, please identify yourself, Danni.

There are laws that limit who can contribute and the amount that each donor can contribute. If the donors don't identify themselves, there is no way to determine if these laws have been broken.

In order for them to be willing to do so, gun owners need assurance that liberal gun reform advocates will not march down a slippery slope from red-flag laws, regulating semi-automatic weapons and large capacity magazines and closing the gun-show loophole to intrusive regulations that start to break down a culture that millions of people value greatly -- one that enriches their lives and whose roots go back before America's founding....

The slippery slope argument is a specious argument to enable pols to do nothing. Just about any law can be thought of as a slippery slope to doing something that someone would disapprove of.

More needs to be done to correlate (and advertise) a representative's vote with the rep's 1) voting record; 2) amount of donations received from the NRA; and 3) constituent opinion poll(s). This type of information will clearly show whether or not the rep is truly reflecting the interests of his/her constituents.

If it's not already obvious, Trump is trying to do for the US what Putin did in Russia; get rid of any person or organization that can challenge him and put lap dogs in positions of power.

Work Stress Pushes Some Doctors to Suicide

Admittedly doctors are under a lot of stress; that's why they get paid the big bucks.

More needs to be done to increase the number of nurse practitioners and physician assistants to relieve some of the patient load and therefore, some of the stress. However, that costs money; money that will likely come from the pool of money used to pay doctors which would result in less pay for the doctors. If doctors are unwilling to trade stress for money, then they are stuck with the stress.

The state and federal government has ways to help poor, destitute people. It's called WELFARE.

So. These people are to good to take welfare (because that's what black and brown people do) but willing to ask Trump to give them money from the federal coffers?

Military Retirement Program Money Diverted to Trump's Wall

While this is and looks bad, the funds will be replenished by congress. It's just another way for Trump to force congress to fund his wall because he knows that congress will not let the military's retirement fund go broke.

Nancy Pelosi if you're listening: do your effin job and impeach the lying POS masquerading as the POTUS. Force the hand of Moscow Mitch's and Trump's other enablers in the senate to take a stand. I believe that the evidence for conviction is so overwhelming that if the senate doesn't vote to convict and remove Trump from office that there will be enough republican senators voted out of office to tip the balance in favor of the dems by a decent margin.

Nancy, if you don't want to lead, get the f..k out of the way.

Maybe it's because the DOJ didn't want to open a can of worms about the way the GOP coerced Comey into releasing the information about the FBI re-opening the "missing" e-mail (that weren't missing at all) investigation of Hillary Clinton a couple weeks before the election.

Maybe but maybe not. I think a lot has to do with what might happen with a changing of the guard once Trump (or any president) is out of office. A new administration could seek to prosecute those from previous administrations, then when the new admin is out, the next admin could seek to prosecute its previous admin and so on and so on.... Eventually it would lead to each president granting a pardon to everyone that worked in his administration for any and all federal crimes that they may have committed as one of their last official acts. That when the US government would truly turn into a criminal organization because admin officials could act with impunity as long as the HOR lets them get away with it.

Opposition leaders in Russia have to know that there is a bull's eye on their back. They need to surround themselves with an impenetrable curtain of loyalists whenever they are out in public.

If I was the Baltimore mayor, Bernard Young, I would enlisting support from the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce in launching an aggressive promotional campaign to highlight Baltimore's business opportunities and tourism ...

Amen! Unfortunately, the discussion by the pundits focused on Trump's racism rather on the problem that he highlighted: the deplorable state of living conditions in our urban centers populated by poor black and brown people. By ignoring those conditions, the status quo is maintained; as if it is ok for poor black and brown people to live in those conditions.

I have long felt that the CBC is worthless. They are to content to stay in their lane i.e. civil rights. However, when it comes to promoting and advocating for profound change that would positively affect their constituents, change that would cost serious money, they are in the shadows. It would be interesting for some enterprising journalist to publish how the networth of CBC members have fared during their time in congress.

I think Donald Trump is a lying POS but I am glad that he has highlighted this issue: what black representatives have/have not done for their black constituents.

Every American should be outraged over this, but many will be happy just to poke libruls in the eye.

You can bet this stonewalling on national security issues will be a major issue for republicans during the 2020 senatorial and presidential debates. It may even cost the republicans control of the senate.

WRT the presidential debates (if there are any): I suspect that one of the first questions to be asked of Trump during a debate will be if he is seeking and/or accepting support from a foreign entity. He's going to have to come up with a better answer than he did a few weeks ago when he said that he would accept support. That, with all of the stuff in the Mueller report, I predict that there will be no presidential debates for 2020.

China's big mistake was ticking off its largest customer: the USA. It's ok to tick off your largest supplier as long as they aren't your only supplier. Suppliers can more easily expand to meet the demand than it is to grow customers.

The game will be over if China can grow a large and robust middle class. When they do that, it's game over. The US market will become irrelevant. However, for China to do that, they will have to pay their workers more. But if they pay their workers more, they will no longer be the low cost provider which is their claim to fame.

If Barr is so convinced that the constitution grants the president such extra-ordinary powers (i.e. imperial powers) why the subterfuge? He should openly state his opinions and let the power structures deal with it! Let Muller say what he wants and dare the dems to do anything about it!

As an aside, Mueller's stated intention of staying within the 4 corners of the report hurts republican questioners MORE than democrat questioners. Practically ALL republican questions will be outside the 4 corners of the report i.e. details of how the investigation began, FISA warrant, influence of the Dossier, conflicts of interest, friendship with Comey, etc. Republicans will use their time not asking questions but making statements that Mueller won't respond to if he stays within the 4 corners of the report.

You shouldn't be allowed to play with toys if you don't know how to take care of them.

UK ambassador to US called Trump 'inept,' 'incompetent' in memos: report

Trump's popularity amongst his base is a testament to the power of bigotry. Trump's base sees what the world sees: his ineptness, incompetence, lack of fitness for the job and threat to democratic institutions. Yet they continue to support him because of his bigotry.

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."