Tag: Mitch McConnell
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Integrity Is An All Or Nothing Proposition
Nothing is funnier than a Republican drawing himself up, having just been asked a serious question about his integrity. He knits his brows, purses his lips and goes all “earnest” with his voice. Mitch McConnell talking “patriotism” — having just lifted the sanctions punishing Oleg Deripaska for changing the outcome of election 2016, say. That’d…
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It ISN’T About Politics, Part II: Even For Republicans It Isn’t Always About Politics; Sometimes It’s About Criminal Conspiracy…
Dear MSNBC, CNN & The Whole Rest of The MSM: Yesterday I ranted at you for ascribing everything the Democrats do to “politics“. It’s not true. Some people, when they take an oath of office, actually take their oaths seriously. To assume everyone does what they do for political reasons is to assume every one…
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Republicans Are The “Mission Accomplished” Party; That’s Great Until You Realize What Their “Mission” Is…
Who can forget W aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 2, 2003 – proudly proclaiming just what the banner behind him said: “Mission Accomplished”. That image haunted W’s presidency. It haunts him to this day because nothing had actually been accomplished. The only thing they’d succeeded at, mission-wise, up to that point was successfully hanging…
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This Should Be Simple — If You Took Any Russian Money In Order To GET Elected? You Did Not Legally Get Elected
The law is pretty simple: Political campaigns are PROHIBITED from receiving ANY kind of contribution from a foreign national. That means any political campaign that takes ANYTHING from a foreign national is breaking the law. You cannot break the law to win political office. Breaking the law to win disallows your win. In fact, because…
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Corruption, Thy Name Is GOP
Politics is the art of compromise. Republican politics is the art of making compromise unnecessary because the other side is powerless to stop you. To the GOP’s credit, they saw from a distance that they had a problem and actively did something about it. Post Reagan, as America’s demographics trended with greater rapidity away from…
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If Brett Kavanaugh Is Still Working As A SCOTUS Judge, That Means The Rule Of Law Is NOT Working
The Rule Of Law is kinda like a soap bubble made of iron. In and of itself, it’s incredibly solid — it’s made of iron, isn’t it? But it’s still got the delicacy of a bubble. There’s no “slightly popped”. There’s popped and not popped. The Rule Of Law is a radical notion if you…
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This Is That Point In The Movie Where The Villains Decide To Go All Out…
No writer could have written what we’re still living through and gotten away with it. No one would have bought it — way too unbelievable. Yet here we are. Perversely, the villains in this piece operate by the exact same rules by which a Bond Villain operates — power & money cos why not? With…
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Dear Conservatives — Your Problem Is: No One (Except YOU) Wants To Conserve What YOU Want To Conserve
Want to know what a conservative wants? Look no further than their name: “CONSERVATIVE”. Conservatives want to “conserve“. Now — ask the next logical question — “WHAT do conservatives want to CONSERVE?” Do conservatives want to conserve the future? Of course not — you can’t conserve what doesn’t exist. Do conservatives want to conserve the…
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Dear America: We Are Living Through World War III And Don’t Even Know It
Anyone who thinks it takes bombs and bullets to win a war will lose every single war they ever wage going forward. Right now, that would be us — still thinking that Donald Trump is anything other than a literal weapon, fully loaded and pointed directly at our heads. If Russia wanted to (hell, a…
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Why Did OUR Bond Villain Have To Be Such An IDIOT?
You would think that a Great Nation deserves a great villain. Or villains even. America has villains by the bucket. It’s the word “great” that I’m bumping on… Donald Trump is a villain. Even most of supporters think of him as a villain who’s THEIR hero. I bet most of Trump’s kids — if you…