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I suppose the President of Russian does not get that many Christmas presents. Maybe I’m wrong about that but the present to President Vladimir Putin from President Donald Trump looks like a good one.
I suppose he shares that gift with President Assad of Syria, The Supreme Leader of Iran, and the President of Turkey. It makes you wonder if the generosity of President Donald Trump knows any limits.
Chaos seems to be a major feature of the US government now. A lot happening lately. But it all seem to go back to my earlier point that the chaos seems to be meant to distract us from important stuff. Maybe the Mueller investigation or maybe something else. The problem many of us have is we can’t tell which are the distractions in President Trump’s administration and what is important.
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President Donald Trump just forced Jeff Sessions to resign. Now is the time to contact Congress. I sent my comments tonight to my Representative and Senators.
Now is the time to pass legislation to protect the Mueller investigation. It should not be shut down or interfered with in any way.
The GOP is rolling out the Big Lie. Sure there have been plenty of lies in the past couple years but this seems to be the biggest, boldest, and most absurd. The Republicans now claim they will protect health care and specifically mention pre-existing conditions.
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The Senate Republicans were in a big rush to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. As I said before, they proceeded quickly –
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Is advertising for Supreme Court nominees a new thing? I was very surprised to see ads for Judge Gorsuch when he was nominated. Now I see ads for Judge Kavanaugh and I am still saddened but less suprised.
Judge Kavanaugh may be the next Justice on the Supreme Court if this rushed and deeply flawed confirmation process continues. But he really needs to clarify his stances on the prolife/prodeath issue.
For example, President Trump has promised to appoint Justices who will overturn Roe vs. Wade and Brett Kavanaugh’s history seem to indicate he will not only repeal a woman’s right to an abortion but also reduce access to contraception.
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The rush to confirm President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy Brett Kavanaugh continues. Seems to me there are several reasons to stop or delay but Republican leadership is committed to this folly. I hope enough Senators see a problem to stop this Kavanaugh madness.
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Why the rush to confirm President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy Brett Kavanaugh? In the words of Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) “What is the rush? What are we afraid of?”
The Senate Judiciary Committee began confirmation hearings today. I was listening while driving and heard Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) complain that the committee has seen only 7% of the documents needed to evaluate the nominee. And only about half of that could be shared with the public.
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I mentioned in my last post that I think we should pass legislation to protect the Special Counsel and his investigation. President Trump has repeatedly threatented to end the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election which Mr. Trump has called a Rigged Witch Hunt and illegal .
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Should we protect the Special Counsel from President Trump? Speaker Paul Ryan doesn’t think so.
But Speaker Ryan did not think the President was serious about revoking security clearances. I would think that now that President Trump has done so, we should no longer have great faith in the Speaker’s predictions.
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The Omarosa thing seems to be dominating the news these days. I am wondering if the White House orchestrated the timing of the firing of FBI agent Peter Strzok with this Omarosa thing so that this firing would get less news coverage than it would otherwise.
Since this firing seems to be part of a plan to discredit the FBI, I’ll just call it the FBI thing . It seems to me that this FBI thing is related to the Russia thing.
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President Trump tweeted again. President Trump has been called the Tweeter-in Chief and seems to use Twitter to communicate what he is thinking. It is not always a pretty picture.
For example, today he tweeted about firing FBI agent Peter Strzok. The tweet was illogical. I hope the FBI used a better rationale for their actions.
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Rep. Devin Nunes fails at what he should be doing. He has been busy not doing his job for the past year and a half or so. First he manges to turn the respected and bipartisan House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence into a national disgrace with his wild claims of wrongdoing by our intelligence community and sharing his “evidence” with the Trump administration rather than his committee (see articles in Wired and this blog).
As a result, he was recused from the investigation into Russian election interference but still did his best to stop the Russian election interference investigation including the “extraordinarily reckless” release of a previously classified and highly biased memo.
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President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has suggested that special counsel Robert Mueller is going to spring a perjury trap if he gets President Trump under oath before a grand jury.
It is simple to avoid this problem if President Trump tries the truth this time.