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flotsam's JournalDemocrats did not take the High Road today
Today was an extra-judicial lynching and if that is to be the wonderful new democratic standard-that due process and rule of law are trumped by outraged moralizing and the baying of the pack, than I quit the party and so should every person who would not be willing to become prey for the hunt. I have not been so disappointed in an existing social milieu since my first reading of "To Kill a Mockingbird"...Every concern could have been addressed in a fair and open hearing AS ASKED FOR by the accused and instead this fucking travesty is being celebrated. It is pluperfect horseshit and I am ashamed
Totally horseshit smearing of Al Franken...
2 women publicly identified as tied to the GOP make accusations neither of which rise to the level of a crime and then an entire series of totally anonymous claims by women who swear they are democrats with the latest claiming to be a staffer. And of course all are terrified of the wrath of Al Franken should their identities become known...
I hope every democrat supporting resignation instead of a full and open investigation gets their fucking turn in the smear barrel too because they are assholes (Hope my senator Maggie Hassan is reading this) and will have earned it. You pluperfect jackasses better pray your re-election doesn't come down to my contribution or my vote-both are available to a democrat seeking your job if they show a spine.Go bipartisan yourselves!
It's a technical violation...
You'll hear this more and more as the investigation rolls on. But it's a lie and it's bullshit-if there is a law, and the law spells out the elements of a crime and the law specifies a penalty than there is simple guilt or innocence. You cannot merely "technically" murder or rob or steal or maim. Perhaps the Hatch Act and the Logan Act are underused and under prosecuted but I assure you that a felony is a felony under law no matter what a talking head says.
Does the DC bar association ethics code...
...address the question of an attorney who impersonates his client?
Democratic leadership should tie tax reform to Trump
Do our colleagues truly want to pass this President's corrupt bill on the very day the first of his insiders has offered to testify to the criminality of his administration? Will you not even slow to consider it fully in the light of charges of treason???
You know, Trumps father could have joined the greatest generation
But like Dick Cheney during Vietnam it seems he "had other priorities". Fred was born in 1904 just like Henry Fonda who joined the navy and served on a destroyer. While he was three years older than Jimmy Stewart who entered combat as a B17 bomber pilot, he was also three years younger than Clark Gable whose wife Carole Lombard was killed in an airplane crash while on a war bond tour. Gable responded by joining up and becoming an aerial gunner over Germany. Hitler put a bounty on his head. But Fred had other priorities as a developer building military housing and after the war was over and the other guys ran back to suck at Hollywood's teat poor Fred had to endure investigations of war profiteering that continued until 1954. Poor, poor Fred Trump...no wonder his kid hates warriors!
Status Quo Ante
Democrats should demand that if Trump is impeached or convicted due to Russian election interference that all appointments and executive orders be voided and only caretaker appointments are made by a two thirds majority of the senate until the next presidential election. All appointments and executive orders must be considered as "Fruit of the poisonous tree". And democrats should start saying this publicly as soon as possible.
Al Franken 'e turned me into a newt! N/T
My family had certain standards
You don't fuck around on the wrong side of the sheets. Ring of Hell 1
You never strike a women for any reason. Ring of Hell 3,750
You never force a women. Ring of Hell 7,500
You don't molest Children. Ring 15,000
I got zero respect for violating marital vows-Bill Clinton is pond scum to me. How do you think I feel about Roy Moore? Well-I thought Newt was as low as a republican could get until Trump gave his tips for horny celebrities. And now he refuses to condemn Roy Moore. And we need Dante to tell us what are the republicans just desserts...
Franken must be investigated
And oh yeah, since we have been shown data on harassment payouts from congress on a year by year basis then EVERY complaint after the date of Franken's supposed transgression must be released to the public and examined by the ethics committee-I'm betting several Democrats show up, but I'm liking our chances.
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