It's the Democrats fault the supreme Court filibuster was nuked. After all they nuked the filibuster for lower judicial nominees.

I know everything else. But specifics, concrete lists, help fight gaslighting.

Or for you Chronicles of Narnia fans. Specifics are like Puddleglum sticking his foot in the fire to cut through the Witch-Queen of Underland's spell.

Still pissed the movies died at Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I think The Sliver Chair would have made the best movie. After that though it descends into a bunch of anti-Arab stuff. The Horse and His Boy is basically a gigantic dig at Islam. I can't even remember what book 6 is. The Last Battle would have been insufferable - like the last half of Return of the King x 10. All lame anti-climax.

There's nothing wrong with a backchannel to a country.

There's nothing wrong with talking to an ambassador.

Dems are obstructionists.

So & so Clinton got 5 million from Saudi Arabia.

This nation was divided before I got here.

Comey is a grandstander.

Lyin' Ted.

Crooked Hillary.

It's a witch hunt.

There's lots.

Maybe Blendle is something for you. It's basically a ppv article aggregator. WaPo and NYT are partnered up. Afaik it's in beta in the US.

Christian persecution.

Anything from Sessions on marijuana.

No president has accomplished more in their first 100 days.

Biggest electoral college victory since Reagan.

Here is a nice example of partisan politics and false equivalency (R-TN Senator on Trump vs Obama foreign trips):

https://twitter.com/SenBobCorker/sta...33347254067201
https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/868868303564845056

Some dude went on a rampage and killed 8 people in Mississippi, including a cop. It barely gets covered. Sad state of affairs for our country.

I think people miss something about Trump's tweets. They sound like mostly stupid gibberish, but they often represent an effort at strategic thought or "that's what I intended all along." So the tweet about more money for healthcare just means that he now realizes the house bill isn't going anywhere so he's trying to pivot to another plan. Better late than never.

Was a great episode of charlie rose with Ezra Klein and Peter orzag last week on the basic constraints of healthcare economics. Some of the info seems to be seeping into Trump (not from exposure to Ezra Klein, obv). Of course, if he pivots on HC he needs to pivot on "tax reform" and torpedo GOP fantasies, which is about when he'll be impeached.

Yeah Trump's got major major problems right now, trying to carefully play a balance game between pleasing his base, staying out of legal trouble for him & his team, avoiding public exposure of secrets, and pursuing a GOP policy agenda. "Carefully" is the key word and Trump, the idiot, cannot do "carefully" at all.

Without context yes. With context, a lot of states that have oil and natural gas used high prices as a pretext to cut taxes because the oil and gas were bringing in the revenues. When oil and gas prices fell, which was 4(?) years ago, because of anti tax orthodoxy, states have been politically unwilling to raise taxes to the levels they need. To a significant minority of Republicans the government is inefficient so then having taxes so low these government services stop working is a good thing because private enterprise will step in. So none of this a surprise.

This is new to me. It looks like NSA and Mike Rogers have been DOing (pun intended, read on) some heavy duty document & evidence preservation on Trump/Russia to report back to Mueller. Has anyone heard about this DO and SIGINT stuff?

NSA in Unprecedented Hunt for KremlinGate Evidence

Trump told NYT he has total confidence in Jared and that he's a very good person.

Now where have we heard this before?...

"An undertaking of this size and scope has never happened in NSA’s 65-year history. Although preservation orders have been issued previously, never has the entire DO been told to search all its databases for SIGINT on named individuals, then preserve anything that’s discovered. KremlinGate is a unique event in our nation’s history, with accusations of nefarious meddling by hostile intelligence agencies in our democracy, and it’s bringing about unprecedented developments in our spy agencies too.

Given the complex nature of SIGINT—such a DO preservation order will require thousands of analysts to reexamine at least hundreds of thousands of intercepted communications—it seems likely that some relevant information will be uncovered. Although the public may not learn of new evidence anytime soon, we can rest assured that anything pertinent to the KremlinGate inquiry will be shared with the FBI and Bob Mueller’s investigators without delay."

Article written by former NSA analyst. Good luck with the Lendowski war room. I honesty think Trump is listening to Stephen Miller.

BUT WHO IS GOING TO PERFORM THE UNMASKING

If trump pulls out of Paris accord history will judge him as the president who caused the most death and economic loss in history.

Gonna have to call in Susan Rice.

In Trump's favor, an investigation this thorough will surly absolve him of anything shady.

Imagine the same guy except he registered as a D instead of a R. He doesn't have any ideology except himself.

Well, maybe for unrelated reasons. As I understand it, the agreement does not have mandatory targets. It's more like a statement of principle. It just weakens the US internationally and economically and props up dictators, just standard Trump stuff.

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Boehner said he “never envisioned” Trump in the Oval Office, and while he said Trump “did what he could” with healthcare, his presidency still faces big problems.
“Everything else he’s done has been a complete disaster,” Boehner said. “He’s still learning how to be president.”

The former Speaker also hit back at some House Democrats’ calls for Trump’s impeachment.

“Talk of impeachment is the best way to rile up Trump supporters,” he said. “Remember, impeachment is not a legal process; it’s a political process.”

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...89169695911937

"It's really kind of perfect that Trump's conflict of interest hotel is directly across the street from Jeff Sessions' Justice Department."

replace "cooperate" with "plead the 5th" and you have the reality for the near future.