One wonders how senators feel having to actually work an 8 hour day in the Senate chamber.

Bet there are lots of "whew!! I'm exhausted!!" in private.

#137 | Posted by LampLighter

Dershowitz was on Anderson Cooper last night, claiming that abuse of power isn't a criminal offense and therefore not an impeachable offense.

Then Cooper played a 1998 video where Dershowitz was claiming the exact opposite was true about the abuse of power charge agasint Clinton, and therefore impeachable.

What if People of Color Showed Up to Protest Armed?

Gun control by next Tuesday

Failing to remove Trump from office was a foregone conclusion.

A majority of Americans wants witnesses and a fair trial.

The blatant hypocrisy of McConnell, Graham, and the entire GOP process may very well cost them the Senate.

He would have been better off predicting his own demise. Eventually he'd have been right.

In the 60's, Van Impe raised money preaching about the end times the Soviet Union was going to bring about.

In the 70's, Van Impe raised money preaching about the end times other communists were going to bring about.

And so on ...

There are 330,000 companies in the Ukraine.

Ask yourself, "why, if Trump & Co's concern was corruption, was Burisma the only one they focused on, requesting that Zelensky make a public announcement an investigation was being undertaken."

Any honest person can answer that question easily:

Trump was seeking the mention of an investigation to harm a likely opponent in this year's election. He and the others involved had zero interest in rooting out corruption.

Speaking of which: U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Yovanovich was doing just that. For that she was fired by Trump.

And apologies for an error on my part:

I intended the remark about posting this thread to be given to ROC, not you. My bad.

Over the years I've seen countless times the left assigning motivations and pretending to know what's in the hearts and minds of GOP voters. It's mostly been nothing but petty and rank partisanship being revealed by folks who make such absurd accusations.

EBERLY

Show me where you stuck up for 'me' or democrats.

Your rant was all about 'the left.'

Have a good day.

Ooooo, butt hurt.

You obviously care because you just expended all that time and energy being an -------.

"Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin have stated the tax cuts would pay for themselves. "

They knew it was a lie when they said it.

#92 | Posted by Danforth

Of course they did. Two rounds of Bush tax cuts took us from surpluses to trillion dollar deficits.

Why would they think another round would lead to anything but more trillion dollar deficits?

AU's got nothing so he's slaughtering the source, and even then AU misses.

#24 | Posted by AndreaMackris

You live in a world of 'alternate facts,' unable to tell the difference between 'opinion' and actual facts, which you refuse to even acknowledge.

-Whose 'opinion' you posted.

I posted my own words.

#23 | Posted by eberly

This article is 'fake news.'

You jumped right on the 'whataboutism' bandwagon as though the 'opinion' writer of this article was stating fact.

Stating that, for instance, Republicans are hypocrites, is fact. "Moral" people voted for a guy with a track record as a cheat and admitted sexual assaulter. Republicans have since turned their backs on everything Trump has done that goes against the historical moral norms of America.

15,000 documented lies. Oh, and where are those tax returns?

By Liz Peek, Opinion Contributor " 10/10/19 09:30 AM EDT

The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill

Over the years I've seen countless times the left assigning motivations and pretending to know what's in the hearts and minds of GOP voters. It's mostly been nothing but petty and rank partisanship being revealed by folks who make such absurd accusations.

EBERLY

Exactly like the 'opinion' writer of the piece and this thread has done

Whose 'opinion' you posted.

When the Trump tax cuts were done, how many filibusters were done to stop them?

#87 | Posted by Petrous

McConnell pushed the individual and pass through tax cuts through via 'reconciliation,' which requires only a simple majority. The only portion that will not sunset in 2017 is the corporate tax rate.

Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin have stated the tax cuts would pay for themselves.

With deficits back over a trillion a year - in a 'booming economy' - they are obviously NOT paying for themselves, are they?

DOC

Would you kindly drop me an email so I have your current e-address?

#1 wait until his "library" opens...

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2020-01-18 07:11 AM | Reply | Flag:

JPW " I've wondered about that, off and on. Whatever form it takes and wherever it takes it, the project (presumably overbuilt to look like a cross between Versailles and the lunatic's version of the Berlin Wall) will, like Trump himself largely empty and risibly embarrassing.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Some of Epstein's mansions are vacant. Also, lot of Trump properties haven't been able to get any tenants since he was elected. Putting it in one of his properties would be just like him and his family of grifters.

#3 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Maybe because it's fake news? Only 8% of blacks voted for Trump in 2016 and support is still around that now.

#4 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar

That isn't what right wing sites are telling BOAZ. Obviously.

Biden is popular with the AA community (who hate Trump). Because Trump has increased racism and is highly unpopular in the AA community, turnout among that demographic should go up from 2016 levels.

But BOAZ lives in an alternate reality that peddles 'alternative facts.'

(the last two sentences are mine)

POLITICO:

Trump shocks black voters " by trying to get their votes

Trump received just 8 percent of the black vote in 2016, and his campaign aides concede he's never going to win more than a narrow slice of African American support.

And they'll be much more motivated to vote after 4 years of Trump's racism.

All but the Clayton Bigsbee's of the world will vote to boot Trump out of office.

Trump had this to say about Starr in 1999:

"I think Ken Starr is a lunatic. I really think that Ken Starr is a disaster," President Trump declared in the clip. "I hated the way the president handled it, it was a long and terrible process. I really think that Ken Starr was terrible."

"I'll hire only the best people" - Trump 2016

Guess he thinks hiring 'terrible' people is fine since he has a track record of doing just that.

Dershowitz? Keep your friends close and your fellow pedophiles closer!

Trump is a petty -----.

Guess he thinks since he's an obese moron who lives on fast food kids should too.

FROM POLITICO:

Lev Parnas, the Rudy Giuliani associate caught in the middle of President Donald Trump's impeachment, said on Wednesday that the president was fully aware of his actions in Ukraine, and leveled a string of potentially damaging accusations against the president's closest allies, including Vice President Mike Pence, Attorney General William Barr and the House Intelligence Committee's top Republican, Rep. Devin Nunes.

"President Trump knew exactly what was going on," Parnas, who was indicted over an alleged campaign finance scheme in October, told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow when asked to correct the biggest inaccuracy about his dealings with the president. "He was aware of all of my movements. I wouldn't do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani or the president."

Speaking in an interview aired on Wednesday night, Parnas said Trump and Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, directed him to urge Ukrainian officials to publicly open an investigation into a Trump Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. Parnas asserted that the ouster of Marie Yovanovitch as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine last spring was entirely motivated by her interference in their efforts to start a Biden investigation. And he even apologized to her for his conduct.

Parnas added that Pence, Barr and former national security adviser John Bolton were all aware of or involved in parts of the scheme.

Parnas did an interview that aired last night.

Said Trump was fully aware of what they were doing. So was Pence.

And there were multiple 'quid pro quos':

- Lesenko, the crooked prosecutor, offered to re-investigate Biden/Burisma in exchange for the firing of U.S. Ambassador Yovonavich because she said he was corrupt. Trump did.

- After Zelensky won the Ukrainian presidency and fired Lesenko, Trump withheld the already appropriated military funding for Ukraine in a shakedown where he wanted Zelensky to order the new prosecutor to find somethin, anything, about Hunter Biden.

All for Trump's personal, political gain.