DANNI

Another reason I'm leaning toward Biden is because of his foreign policy experience. Trump is going to leave one hell of a mess in his wake and 2020 is no time for on-the-job training.

Warren would be great on cleaning up Trump's domestic mess but foreign policy is another whole animal. I'd rather see Warren use her talents cleaning up Trump's domestic quagmire.

DANNI

I like Warren, too, but I'm deeply concerned about her Medicare-for-All ambitions. It's going to cost Trillions and Trump has already driven the deficit into the stratosphere. There would be no choice but to raise taxes on those who can least afford the cut in their income. It would be nice if she could claw back Trump's tax cuts for the rich to help cover the costs but I'm keeping in mind that those 1% are also campaign donners for the Dems, too. And money buys a lot of influence on both sides of the isle, especially from Big Pharma.

Warren says she'll have a "plan" coming out in the next couple weeks. If it's based on reality and not a lot of smoke, mirrors, ifs, buts, maybes and shoulda,coulda, wouldas I'll give her candidacy more consideration.

Right now I'm still leaning toward Joe Biden's no-nonsense approach without any pie-in-the-sky promises.

ABORTED

"Orange Adolf is the master projectionist."

Nice of him to publicly announce his own guilt in this case. Have you noticed that sometimes he does it even BEFORE anybody actually accuses him?

So Perry is gittin' out while the gittin' out is good. I didn't think Perry was smart enough to figure out that Trump was setting him up to be the fall guy.

I still don't think so. Perry must have had some help.

OCU

U.S. Republican Senators are puppets-on-a-string. They dance to whatever song Trump is singing ~ on a moment to moment basis. I wouldn't count on any of them to step out of line over this G-7 flap. They're just one tweet from becoming cord-wood as it is.

This sudden about-face on Trump's part sounds more like something Ivanka would have a hand in. She's the only one who seems to have that kind of clout.

SPEAK

I was just thinking about those "tapes" that got Nixon crucified.

If more than one person knows about them, it's not a secret.

DANNI @ #6

"The Trump administration is doubling down on their bet that Americans are dumber than rocks."

Think back.

That was Karl Rove's winning strategy, too. Now Trump's methodology is just history repeating itself. Apparently it works, too, because that's how we ended up with that other mental midget, i.e. George W. Bush.

So it must be true. Not all Americans, obviously, but at least the ones who keep voting for a Republican. Then there are the single issue voters like the evangelicals who pray that the NEXT (and next and next) Republican will finally abolish abortion.

Actually, I think the "visual" (use your imagination) is rather funny. All those eager trumpers, standing there in the pre-dawn hours, hoping that the slight drizzle evaporates when the sun comes up. Anxiously, tap-tap-taping on their cells while gazing up the empty highway for some sight of the promised busses. Minutes drag by like hours, and impatience turns into fear and fear turns into anger. Murmurs turn into verbal protests. Speculations turn into accusations. It's all Hillary's fault! No, it's all Obama's fault! No, it's Joe Biden's fault because he's afraid of the truth and THEY are the vanguard of the truth.

Poor misguided fools.

"Trump says he has a lot of confidence in acting chief of staff Mulvaney"

Ut Oh . . . in Trump-speak those words are the kiss of death.

I think we can expect Mulvaney to suddenly discover he needs to "spend more time with his family." ~ LOL

SPEAKS

Why bother when Trump will spill anything and everything they want to know. Plus . . . I think Trump will rub Russia in the nose of the G7 by inviting Putin as his personal guest.

"Our Republic is under attack . . . "

McRaven's words are music to the ears of the shortsighted Trumphumpers on this site.

TFD

Elijah Cummings said it best (to Michael Cohen) ~ "This is your fate."

"[David] Correia was one of four people, including Parnas, Igor Fruman and Andy Kukushkin, who allegedly conspired to circumvent federal campaign finance laws by engaging in a scheme to funnel money to candidates for federal and state offices so they could buy potential influence with candidates, campaigns and the candidates' governments."

LOL ~ Rudy Colludy and Trump's Gang who tripped all over themselves.

Correia and the others will have to "drop a dime" on Giuliani to get reduced sentences.

LAMP @ 14

"Will this make two-for-two of Pres Trump's personal lawyers going to jail? What does that say . . ."

It says that each lawyer is dumber than the one before him.

MUSTANG

Right. You just failed to mention that one was legally earned, on-the-books, compensation and the other had dark undertones of compensation for subverting the U.S. elections in 2020.

That's the point where the amount isn't as important as its purpose.

MUSTANG

Enlighten us. What laws, foreign or domestic, did Hunter Biden break during that 5.5 years.

Pretend this is a court of law and show your evidence without conjecture, speculation or suspicion.

'NOTCH

"it's go time, finally, right?"

Wrong!

All the fat ladies haven't even begun to sing yet. Plus the GOP Trumpers in the Senate will try to squeeze through any pinhole in the evidence they can find to escape a vote to impeach.

It's not that they don't want shed of Trump . . . they do. They just prefer that the onus be on the voters as a whole in 2020 so they don't have to suffer the consequences of Trump's wrath individually.

DANNI

Trump has a demonic thirst for power so I never expected him to be happy with a mere presidency of the United States when the world was within reach.

What does Pompeo and Barr expect to get out of all this?

A co-dictatorship? World-wide freedom to rampage and pillage? Enormous power and wealth?

It is a little odd that FOX has had this sudden about face.

Loss of advertising revenue is the only thing I can think of.

I hope they count the wet wipes during the autopsy and maybe solve that problem too in The Esplanade in Sidmouth, Devon.

For some reason this reminded me of one of Martha Stewart's "Rules for Rednecks."

ZED @ #8

"That's what Trump's best at, isn't it?"

What he's best at is hurting people. I think it gives him that sense of ultimate power he's never had his whole life.

If he wasn't born with money he'd probably end up a compulsive serial killer.

I also wonder sometimes if Joe Biden is the rabbit in this race to keep Trump occupied while Warren ends up being the nominee.

GAL

I've thought for a long time that Putin is waning. Trump's been so preoccupied with his own sick agenda for the past three years that Russia's agenda was getting short shifted.

However, this impeachment thing is going to end up hurting Trump's badly in 2020 plus Putin probably has a better read on Trump's re-election prospects than we do. It's their investment. The pressure has no doubt ramped up quite a bit recently. That's also probably why Trump is throwing the Kurds to the wolves, too.