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In reply to the discussion: Regarding the tea leaf reading of Diane Feinstein's body language after the Comey meeting yesterday. [View all]The Sand Reckoner
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Regarding the tea leaf reading of Diane Feinstein's body language after the Comey meeting yesterday. [View all]
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2017
OP
I am hoping that they all (top Dems as well) have not decided for the sake of "stability"
LiberalLovinLug
Mar 2017
#154
I think they're upset b/c their colleagues in Congress are implicated in this mess.
bathroommonkey76
Mar 2017
#163
Burr seems likely. Did you notice how sick Nunes looked at his news confrence with Schiff yesterday
Mars and Minerva
Mar 2017
#171
I just hope she's not sad because Republicans will get away with all the crimes.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#137
Remember "... it's the Cover-up"? Well what if the reason for the tweet was
populistdriven
Mar 2017
#153
republican Comrade Casino plans to dodge responsibility for treason against USA
Achilleaze
Mar 2017
#2
Her eyes and expression looked the same when she announced Moscone and Milk had been killed.
mulsh
Mar 2017
#3
MTE! I seriously thought EXACTLY the same thing, and I hesitated to post it since that incident
anneboleyn
Mar 2017
#45
She did look as if to break down and cry. It's bad, whatever it is. The both of them already know
monmouth4
Mar 2017
#4
This is the second time Feinstein has been caught on video after meeting with Comey
bathroommonkey76
Mar 2017
#165
And that is an apt description of things, if it all is true. Without excising it,
joet67
Mar 2017
#43
It seems to go further than Trump. We're going to need rolling impeachments.
KittyWampus
Mar 2017
#6
The Constitution is clear about lines of succession. It doesn't include your scenario.
Eyeball_Kid
Mar 2017
#28
remember she said "I'm not going anywhere" almost like she knew it would eventually happen
Laura PourMeADrink
Mar 2017
#93
Your positing a conciliatory gesture on the part of Republicans that is not in their nature.
Eyeball_Kid
Mar 2017
#128
That is exactly what the Constitution says. Remove POTUS and VP takes over. After Pence
KittyWampus
Mar 2017
#87
Unfortunately, there no longer seem to be ANY moderate Republicans in office. nt
tblue37
Mar 2017
#144
Wrong again. Pence is in line to the Presidency. Ryan is not in line as VP.
KittyWampus
Mar 2017
#142
I know Pence would be the president, who is VP if not the "speaker of the house" as VP?
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#145
yes, it will be Pres Pence and VP Ryan. This is something Republicans have planned for over a year.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#177
I think we'd see a more annoyed and angry Feinstein if it was a matter of Comey obstructing.
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2017
#11
from what I gleaned over months- Russians paid people using the "russian pensions" system.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#147
I doubt that Comey could have been blackmailed over something like the Hatch Act. Should he have
politicaljunkie41910
Mar 2017
#156
I think the most probable explanation is that Comey told them nothing, and that the investigation is
still_one
Mar 2017
#14
This feels a lot like the Iran/Contra scandal to me. Actually, Reagan should have been impeached
still_one
Mar 2017
#64
I think if Comey had said he wouldn't talk about it, she/they would have looked frustrated. nt
LAS14
Mar 2017
#27
Harry Reid alluded to this in October. So did John Lewis. However, I am not so confident that
still_one
Mar 2017
#10
I didn't say that, I am just speculating, and basing it on the fact that the republicans control
still_one
Mar 2017
#46
Was a good but sad article a while back - the different mechanisms to get rid of him - and
Laura PourMeADrink
Mar 2017
#96
These are questions I have been pondering with a sick stomach all along.
Pacifist Patriot
Mar 2017
#24
I'm frighten you are right he will not leave even if it take starting a shooting war
usaf-vet
Mar 2017
#131
The problem is that the Republicans hold majorities in both houses of Congress.
yardwork
Mar 2017
#34
My hope is that if heroic patriotism doesn't work here, purely selfish ambition will.
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2017
#37
very rarely does something dramatic come along to change the way our government is effected...
Javaman
Mar 2017
#26
He's doing a good job of pissing off the CIA, and the military, after Yemen.
dixiegrrrrl
Mar 2017
#50
Similar expression I had after the 2nd doctor confirmed I had a brain injury, I balled though...
uponit7771
Mar 2017
#67
The story here is not Impeachment but the impugning of the entire election.
Ford_Prefect
Mar 2017
#68
Persuasive. Yet how can we trust this GOP Congress to impeach based on classified findings. nt
ancianita
Mar 2017
#70
if they had any of the goods before the election, we needed to know more than about Hillary's email
yurbud
Mar 2017
#76
Republicans will scrape their russian collusion off on trump.He's NEVER been an R party insider.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#140
Hillary is very wise to keep her head down now. She may know some things.....
northoftheborder
Mar 2017
#82
Not as much as I worry about the consequences of his not resigning or being impeached.
bluedigger
Mar 2017
#94
I just hope there's not some kind of peripheral action, however benign, that Obama
Laura PourMeADrink
Mar 2017
#101
In my heart I wish the OP read the body language correctly and that Trump is rightfully toast
Boomerproud
Mar 2017
#150
We will be lucky if Trump/Pence are impeached before 2018 because they are dismantling
mnhtnbb
Mar 2017
#115
Imagine the economic hit. If Watergate was a cancer on the presidency this is a
bronxiteforever
Mar 2017
#116
Tears... imaging the tears in the eye of parents when their young child (adult)
usaf-vet
Mar 2017
#121
It's strange that him and Burr did not attend these meetings with Comey yesterday.
bathroommonkey76
Mar 2017
#168