This is so frustrating. In our system, it's EASY to funnel money to candidates... I mean REALLY EASY (yes, too easy). And this guy still finds a way to do it illegally? I don't care who the money went to, lock this dude up.

The question is: Just how many of those bills are worthy of being passed into law. One cannot go by the 'title/purpose', rather the contents of the bill and how it affects 'We The People'.

#15 | POSTED BY MSGT AT 2019-12-04 06:20 PM | FLAG:

Then let's see a debate and a vote on the bills! If they're so bad, the GOP should come out and say they're bad! Instead, they just sit there gathering dust while nothing gets done, or worse, dummies lap up the "Do Nothing Democrats" argument even though it's the Senate stonewalling.

#16: Again, then let's debate and vote. If there's not a consensus, then our elected leaders should vote and show that there's not a consensus. Here's the great secret though; then We The People would have a record for how our leaders really felt about these issues, and might reward or punish them for actually having to grow a pair and vote.

I don't care in all 400 bills were voted down in the Senate (well, I do,but not for this argument). If the House passes a bill, the Senate should debate and vote on it; if it sucks it should be voted down. Period.

390 of the bills are ot re-name post-offices and streets.
#9 | POSTED BY SNIPER AT 2019-12-04 05:32 PM | FLAG:

What a moron, didn't even read the article.

"Ten of those 70 bills this year have been renaming federal post offices or Veterans Affairs facilities"

The Senate GOP is perfectly fine with processing and voting on those types of bills, it's the 400 substantive bills with policy and lawmaking implications that they're actively avoiding.

Isn't that sort of the whole point of our government structure?
#2 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON AT 2019-12-04 09:54 AM | FLAG: | NEWSWORTHY 1

So I've heard this argument before, and while the system is supposed to be slow and deliberate, it's not supposed to be paralyzed. The problem is that the Senate isn't voting down bills that it doesn't like, it's that they're not voting on or even debating the bills passed by the House. That is not gridlock - that's paralysis. If the Senate GOP leaders truly believed they had the ability to shut down these 400 bills, they'd vote on them. But that would then force their membership to vote on popular bills that the people actually want passed.

Maybe the race needs to stop doing things that get them involved with the penal system.
#5 | POSTED BY BOAZ AT 2019-12-04 02:02 PM | REPLY

Could you elaborate on what Chasity Hunter should have done differently to avoid getting involved with the penal system?

I admitted my ignorance regarding the Burisma story. I admitted that due to my ignorance I made false statements regarding it.
#71 | POSTED BY JEFFJ AT 2019-11-20 01:35 PM | REPLY

So let's take things to the next logical step.

You've stated that the story about Biden getting a quid pro quo to stop an investigation is false. Do you think the GOP is aware this story is false? If so, why do they keep making false statements to the press and to their base?

The GOP isn't spinning this story anymore, they're straight up lying about it. Why do you think that is, and do you think lying - not spinning, not leaving some details out, but lying - to protect Trump is an appropriate exercise for our elected leaders?

And if they're willing to lie about this story that's easy to disprove, what else might they be lying about?

funny where do all the leaches on gov live
#8 | POSTED BY SNIPER AT 2019-11-07 08:46 AM | FLAG:

This is a thread about Virginia. The White House is in DC.

#10 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE AT 2019-11-06 12:10 PM | REPLY | FLAG

Trump supporters saw DonnyT as a big ol' middle finger to "libs", that's all it took to vote for him... and look, he still blames everyone else for the country's problems.

BTW, Trump never asked for an investigation of Biden or dirt on Biden...
#21 | POSTED BY IRAGOLDBERG AT 2019-11-06 12:43 AM | REPLY | FUNNY: 1

It's good to know the Trump defenders are outright lying at this point. From the transcript:

The other thing, there's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it ... It sounds horrible to me.

Not a bad series, lots of firsts. Good job Nats, Astros will have to take it back next year.

Seventh Inning Shocker

Astros had a fun series but bombed in almost every home game 7th inning for some reason.

When you're getting insurance for any property you're going to buy, they all use flood maps, the most recent ones by FEMA. You have to shop the insurance before the purchase goes through as a condition on the financing.
#17 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG AT 2019-10-30 07:00 PM | REPLY

Here's the problem though - those maps are woefully out of date. FEMA just updated the maps for my area (between Houston and Galveston); previous maps were 30 years old and did not account for 75% of the development in my area. A significant number of my neighbors suddenly found they were in the 100 year flood plain THIS year when in previous years they officially weren't. Disclosing the risk of flooding , especially in overdeveloped, under flood-controlled Houston, is a right step in the right direction.

He's already being slandered on Fox and by Fat Nixon himself.
#119 | POSTED BY NIXON AT 2019-10-30 07:49 AM | REPLY

This is why the whistleblower wants to remain anonymous, and honestly this is why Trump defenders want to know their identity... not to "confront Trump's accuser", but to slander and discredit the person based on irrelevant information and characteristics. Dix calling Vindman a commie because he had the nerve to be born in Ukraine (and sign up to be a spy by the age of 3 apparently) is a prime example of this. Since they can't address the charges, they attack the process, the people involved, anything to take negative attention off their boy for just a few more seconds. They're not interested in the truth, just the spin.

Taubman sounds like a jerk.

Go 'Stros!

Idaho,
I would very much like to read this op-ed but it's hiding behind a pay-wall.

#18 | POSTED BY JEFFJ AT 2019-10-23 10:35 AM | REPLY

Pro tip: Open the article in Incognito Mode. I know papers hate it but it gets around the paywall.

Well... except for the tree, and the rope... but besides that, totally a lynching IN EVERY SENSE!

For Boaz:

"Eyewitness News reached out to the police department several times Wednesday but did not hear back."

Point to the exact wording in the "delivered...writing to Congress by the President himself" that says that military aid will be withheld if that "favor" isn't done.

#25 | POSTED BY RIGHTOCENTER AT 2019-10-14 01:38 PM | REPLY

It's ridiculous to expect exact wording explicitly requesting a quid pro quo. You're familiar with the law and should know that an explicit request for quid pro quo isn't necessary for quid pro quo to take place. Here's a linguist's take on the implicit quid pro quo requested between Trump and Zelensky.

He probably will, but Turtle said no conviction today (or any day for that matter).
#13 | POSTED BY HOMERJ AT 2019-10-07 03:56 PM | FLAG:

Interesting... MM making promises about no conviction before seeing the evidence and weighing the charges. Yeah, sounds about right for the current Senate Majority Leader.

"...if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits..."

Sounds like Turkey knows they have free license to start grabbing the Kurds by the p****....

Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has vowed to force all whistleblowers to testify publicly if the Democrats impeach Trump
#11 | POSTED BY TWINPAC AT 2019-10-06 08:42 PM | REPLY | FLAG

Have you noticed how focused Trump and his allies are on learning who the whistle blowers are? It's because all they can resort to is personal attacks, and they can't do that if they don't know who to attack. The second the whistle blowers' identities are revealed, expect a non-substantive but ugly personal attack from the president.

make it personal...It may be cathartic but it's also pretty childish.
#12 | POSTED BY JEFFJ AT 2019-10-07 10:18 AM | FLAG:

Were you talking about Trump, because that's literally all he does - see Tweets from this weekend on Schiff, Pelosi, Romney, etc.

According to the data table, the "average American unit" had income of $78,635. Taxes, very liberally defined in this article, totaled $18,618. That comes out to a total Tax Burden of 23.68%. Doesn't sound so bad when you put it that way. That tax burden is federal, state, local, SS, and property, btw.

Also, articles like these are fairly misleading - notice how they talk about the necessities of food, clothing, and healthcare but completely skip over the necessity of housing/shelter? That's because the average expenditure for housing is $20,090, thus completely blowing out their talking point that "taxes > necessities of life!"

I don't understand why conservatives keep repeating this and thinking it's a good thing. Trump would literally be facilitating terrorism in Europe (and possibly America) by doing this; why would Trump supporters keep repeating this?