It will take more than a couple of election cycles to drain the swamp and elect more conservatives! We need to remove more extreme liberal Democrats and RINO liberals as well! If we do that, we would have more politicians who will serve the people instead, of themselves for once!
This sad, embarrassing wreck of a man
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It will take more than a couple of election cycles to drain the swamp and elect more conservatives! We need to remove more extreme liberal Democrats and RINO liberals as well! If we do that, we would have more politicians who will serve the people instead, of themselves for once!
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Putting aside the fact that Oreilly is/was a bloviator and bookseller, and putting aside who is right or wrong on whatever the issue is here, there nevertheless is MASSIVE entertainment value here in watching George Will take a beating.
Note how George Will's eye-blink rate picks up speed as they go along.
Yeh. Entertainment value.
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gwb-trading, post: 4690987, member: 9113"]This sad, embarrassing wreck of a man
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4217d749b20e
by George F. Will
America’s child president had a play date with a KGB alumnus, who surely enjoyed providing day care. It was a useful, because illuminating, event: Now we shall see how many Republicans retain a capacity for embarrassment.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, a Democrat closely associated with such Democratic national security stalwarts as former senator Henry Jackson and former senator and former vice president Hubert Humphrey, was President Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations. In her speech at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, she explained her disaffection from her party: “They always blame America first.” In Helsinki, the president who bandies the phrase “America First” put himself first, as always, and America last, behind President Vladimir Putin’s regime.
How is addressing, as Trump puts it, “The US and Russia relations are at the lowest point ever” putting himself first? Of course there are huge potential political gains to be made for Trump should he “turn” Putin. After all, Putin has been the one who has been partially funding Leftist political campaigns for years around the world.
Because the Democrats had just held their convention in San Francisco, Kirkpatrick branded the “blame America first” cohort as “San Francisco Democrats.” Thirty-four years on, how numerous are the “Helsinki Republicans”?
Although the Democrats have lost Putin’s funding, the political fallout from their former “special relationship” with Russia is just beggining. There is a massive deflection campaign going as part of media pressure on Trump to avoid future meetings with Putin.
What, precisely, did President Trump say about the diametrically opposed statements by U.S. intelligence agencies (and the Senate Intelligence Committee) and by Putin concerning Russia and the 2016 U.S. elections? Precision is not part of Trump’s repertoire: He speaks English as though it is a second language that he learned from someone who learned English last week. So, it is usually difficult to sift meanings from Trump’s word salads. But in Helsinki he was, for him, crystal clear about feeling no allegiance to the intelligence institutions that work at his direction and under leaders he chose.
Interesting to see this author did not include a Trump statement showed he was “crystal clear” about feeling “no allegiance” to the intelligence institutions...
Speaking of Republicans incapable of blushing — those with the peculiar strength that comes from being incapable of embarrassment — consider Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), who for years enjoyed derivative gravitas from his association with Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). Graham tweeted about Helsinki: “Missed opportunity by President Trump to firmly hold Russia accountable for 2016 meddling and deliver a strong warning regarding future elections.” A “missed opportunity” by a man who had not acknowledged the meddling?
Actually, the Democrats have been a beneficiary of Russian meddling for many decades. Putin has seen the benefits of Capitalism and appears slowly moving his country towards this more productive economic system. Putin’s need for the Democratic Party has diminished and the rift between Hillary may never be healed. However, the Democratic Socialists of America do seem to be getting huge funding from somewhere.
After the Democrats lost Russian funding, presumably during Hillary’s Secretary of State days, Obama had to find additional funding sources. More money was needed. This came from increased infrastructure projects where the award winning business committed to contributing money for political purposes. In addition, Obama’s ramp up of regulatory requirement on businesses required goods and services to be purchased from those businesses that were already committed to Democratic fundraising.
Contrast Graham’s mush with this on Monday from McCain, still vinegary: “Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.” Or this from Arizona’s other senator, Jeff Flake (R): “I never thought I would see the day when our American president would stand on the stage with the Russian President and place blame on the United States for Russian aggression.” Blame America only.
Which country has seen it’s area of influence diminish greatly since the Reagan Administration? Which country has nuclear missiles almost on their border. US nuclear missiles can reach Moscow in minutes and their launch would provide almost no warning. Didn’t the Untited States risk WWIII over Russian missiles in Cuba in 1962?
We keep poking at the Russian Bear and someday they will poke back. Hard.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and others might believe that they must stay in their positions lest there be no adult supervision of the Oval playpen. This is a serious worry, but so is this: Can those people do their jobs for someone who has neither respect nor loyalty for them?
Media and scrutiny by public officials should work both ways. All actions our government, departments, businesses, and media should be constantly and critically evaluated in their performance. It is desirable for Trump to be critical of the FBI, especially when there is ample evidence of partisanship. There are few failures of law enforcement or justice department leadership greater than the continued allowance of actual or appearence of conflicts of interests or biases.
Like the purloined letter in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story with that title, collusion with Russia is hiding in plain sight. We shall learn from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation whether in 2016 there was collusion with Russia by members of the Trump campaign. The world, however, saw in Helsinki something more grave — ongoing collusion between Trump, now in power, and Russia. The collusion is in what Trump says (refusing to back the United States’ intelligence agencies) and in what evidently went unsaid (such as: You ought to stop disrupting Ukraine, downing civilian airliners, attempting to assassinate people abroad using poisons, and so on, and on).
The above is a case of accuse others what you are doing yourself. The speed in which the Democrats came up with the Russian collusion idea after Trump won the election implies they had a lot to fear from from his suprise victory and needed a way to somehow blunt it’s long term political effect.
Americans elected a president who — this is a safe surmise — knew that he had more to fear from making his tax returns public than from keeping them secret. The most innocent inference is that for decades he has depended on an American weakness, susceptibility to the tacky charisma of wealth, which would evaporate when his tax returns revealed that he has always lied about his wealth, too. A more ominous explanation might be that his redundantly demonstrated incompetence as a businessman tumbled him into unsavory financial dependencies on Russians. A still more sinister explanation might be that the Russians have something else, something worse, to keep him compliant.
Let me get this straight: The media is insinuating Putin has some sort of control over Trump and they don’t want us to be in contact? Putin has offered the US investigators access to a dozen indicted Russians. It sounds like the Democrats want it both ways: Only tell us stuff that we might be able use against Trump, but do not disclose our prior agreement with Russia concerning political contributions and other help.
The explanation is in doubt; what needs to be explained — his compliance — is not. Granted, Trump has a weak man’s banal fascination with strong men whose disdain for him is evidently unimaginable to him. And, yes, he only perfunctorily pretends to have priorities beyond personal aggrandizement. But just as astronomers inferred, from anomalies in the orbits of the planet Uranus, the existence of Neptune before actually seeing it, Mueller might infer, and then find, still-hidden sources of the behavior of this sad, embarrassing wreck of a man.
A more appropiate title of this article might be “The final thrashings of a political party that when all in and lost”.
gwb-trading, post: 4690987, member: 9113"]This sad, embarrassing wreck of a man
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4217d749b20e
by George F. Will
America’s child president had a play date with a KGB alumnus, who surely enjoyed providing day care. It was a useful, because illuminating, event: Now we shall see how many Republicans retain a capacity for embarrassment.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, a Democrat closely associated with such Democratic national security stalwarts as former senator Henry Jackson and former senator and former vice president Hubert Humphrey, was President Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations. In her speech at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, she explained her disaffection from her party: “They always blame America first.” In Helsinki, the president who bandies the phrase “America First” put himself first, as always, and America last, behind President Vladimir Putin’s regime.
How is addressing, as Trump puts it, “The US and Russia relations are at the lowest point ever” putting himself first? Of course there are huge potential political gains to be made for Trump should he “turn” Putin. After all, Putin has been the one who has been partially funding Leftist political campaigns for years around the world.
Because the Democrats had just held their convention in San Francisco, Kirkpatrick branded the “blame America first” cohort as “San Francisco Democrats.” Thirty-four years on, how numerous are the “Helsinki Republicans”?
Although the Democrats have lost Putin’s funding, the political fallout from their former “special relationship” with Russia is just beggining. There is a massive deflection campaign going as part of media pressure on Trump to avoid future meetings with Putin.
What, precisely, did President Trump say about the diametrically opposed statements by U.S. intelligence agencies (and the Senate Intelligence Committee) and by Putin concerning Russia and the 2016 U.S. elections? Precision is not part of Trump’s repertoire: He speaks English as though it is a second language that he learned from someone who learned English last week. So, it is usually difficult to sift meanings from Trump’s word salads. But in Helsinki he was, for him, crystal clear about feeling no allegiance to the intelligence institutions that work at his direction and under leaders he chose.
Interesting to see this author did not include a Trump statement showed he was “crystal clear” about feeling “no allegiance” to the intelligence institutions...
Speaking of Republicans incapable of blushing — those with the peculiar strength that comes from being incapable of embarrassment — consider Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), who for years enjoyed derivative gravitas from his association with Sen. John McCain (Ariz.). Graham tweeted about Helsinki: “Missed opportunity by President Trump to firmly hold Russia accountable for 2016 meddling and deliver a strong warning regarding future elections.” A “missed opportunity” by a man who had not acknowledged the meddling?
Actually, the Democrats have been a beneficiary of Russian meddling for many decades. Putin has seen the benefits of Capitalism and appears slowly moving his country towards this more productive economic system. Putin’s need for the Democratic Party has diminished and the rift between Hillary may never be healed. However, the Democratic Socialists of America do seem to be getting huge funding from somewhere.
After the Democrats lost Russian funding, presumably during Hillary’s Secretary of State days, Obama had to find additional funding sources. More money was needed. This came from increased infrastructure projects where the award winning business committed to contributing money for political purposes. In addition, Obama’s ramp up of regulatory requirement on businesses required goods and services to be purchased from those businesses that were already committed to Democratic fundraising.
Contrast Graham’s mush with this on Monday from McCain, still vinegary: “Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.” Or this from Arizona’s other senator, Jeff Flake (R): “I never thought I would see the day when our American president would stand on the stage with the Russian President and place blame on the United States for Russian aggression.” Blame America only.
Which country has seen it’s area of influence diminish greatly since the Reagan Administration? Which country has nuclear missiles almost on their border. US nuclear missiles can reach Moscow in minutes and their launch would provide almost no warning. Didn’t the Untited States risk WWIII over Russian missiles in Cuba in 1962?
We keep poking at the Russian Bear and someday they will poke back. Hard.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats and others might believe that they must stay in their positions lest there be no adult supervision of the Oval playpen. This is a serious worry, but so is this: Can those people do their jobs for someone who has neither respect nor loyalty for them?
Media and scrutiny by public officials should work both ways. All actions our government, departments, businesses, and media should be constantly and critically evaluated in their performance. It is desirable for Trump to be critical of the FBI, especially when there is ample evidence of partisanship. There are few failures of law enforcement or justice department leadership greater than the continued allowance of actual or appearence of conflicts of interests or biases.
Like the purloined letter in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story with that title, collusion with Russia is hiding in plain sight. We shall learn from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation whether in 2016 there was collusion with Russia by members of the Trump campaign. The world, however, saw in Helsinki something more grave — ongoing collusion between Trump, now in power, and Russia. The collusion is in what Trump says (refusing to back the United States’ intelligence agencies) and in what evidently went unsaid (such as: You ought to stop disrupting Ukraine, downing civilian airliners, attempting to assassinate people abroad using poisons, and so on, and on).
The above is a case of accuse others what you are doing yourself. The speed in which the Democrats came up with the Russian collusion idea after Trump won the election implies they had a lot to fear from from his suprise victory and needed a way to somehow blunt it’s long term political effect.
Americans elected a president who — this is a safe surmise — knew that he had more to fear from making his tax returns public than from keeping them secret. The most innocent inference is that for decades he has depended on an American weakness, susceptibility to the tacky charisma of wealth, which would evaporate when his tax returns revealed that he has always lied about his wealth, too. A more ominous explanation might be that his redundantly demonstrated incompetence as a businessman tumbled him into unsavory financial dependencies on Russians. A still more sinister explanation might be that the Russians have something else, something worse, to keep him compliant.
Let me get this straight: The media is insinuating Putin has some sort of control over Trump and they don’t want us to be in contact? Putin has offered the US investigators access to a dozen indicted Russians. It sounds like the Democrats want it both ways: Only tell us stuff that we might be able use against Trump, but do not disclose our prior agreement with Russia concerning political contributions and other help.
The explanation is in doubt; what needs to be explained — his compliance — is not. Granted, Trump has a weak man’s banal fascination with strong men whose disdain for him is evidently unimaginable to him. And, yes, he only perfunctorily pretends to have priorities beyond personal aggrandizement. But just as astronomers inferred, from anomalies in the orbits of the planet Uranus, the existence of Neptune before actually seeing it, Mueller might infer, and then find, still-hidden sources of the behavior of this sad, embarrassing wreck of a man.
A more appropiate title of this article might be “The final thrashings of a political party that when all in and lost”.
Try and read the Nunes memo (your team guy) instead of rambling incoherent nonsense.
if there is a devil in this world then it must be putin..any pact with this gangster is immoral and as it is with the devil it is a zero sum game..
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobby...trump-the-man-whose-arse-youre-kissing-killed
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobby...trump-the-man-whose-arse-youre-kissing-killed
yeah, it is funny how America says it doen't negotiate with terrorist! 
but somehow it does negotiate with gangsters, it even bows to them!.. what's the foocking difference??
yeah,vote Republicans! the only pro soviet party in the US!! soon your gdp will be similar to that of the ruskies) go for it!
btw, an average rusky doesn't get ANYTHING out of it!! nothing! just vague pride - to be macho and and brutal force oriented..
but somehow it does negotiate with gangsters, it even bows to them!.. what's the foocking difference??yeah,vote Republicans! the only pro soviet party in the US!! soon your gdp will be similar to that of the ruskies
) go for it!btw, an average rusky doesn't get ANYTHING out of it!! nothing! just vague pride - to be macho and and brutal force oriented..
yeah, it is funny how America says it doen't negotiate with terrorist!
yeah,vote Republicans! the only pro soviet party in the US!! soon your gdp will be similar to that of the ruskies
yeah, it is funny how America says it doen't negotiate with terrorist!
yeah,vote Republicans! the only pro soviet party in the US!! soon your gdp will be similar to that of the ruskies
btw, an average rusky doesn't get ANYTHING out of it!! nothing! just vague pride - to be macho and and brutal force oriented..
We proudly claim Saudi Arabia as an ally. How does their human rights record stack up? We constantly strive for better relations with the communist government of China, which has murdered millions and continues to steal US technology, spy on us and launch non-stop cyber attacks. The establishments of both parties are aghast at Trump confronting China because China essentially owns them.
But let's focus on Russia because Putin is Dr. Evil.
