I’m baseballing tonight so please feel free to comment on the election results tonight.
Eight states are holding primaries today. Here are the poll closing times in The Texas Time Zone
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Okay, so it’s a Deal a Day with Scott Pruitt.
Four days ago, it was $1,560 on personalized fountain pens.
Three days ago, it was ethically challenged ringside seats at a basketball game.
Yesterday, it was a used mattress from a Trump hotel. (Doesn’t he know what Trump likes hookers to do on mattresses?)
Today, it’s that he used government staff to try to get his wife a job at Chick-fil-A. And, hell, it’s only noon. There could be a Daily Double today!
Now if this is what he does in public, can you even imagine what he does in a $43,000 soundproof phone booth?
Records are showing that Pruitt lived far beyond his means before he got to Washington, and now he’s living far beyond my means. Typical Republican.
The Washington Post did an opinion piece on the man likely to be the next speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy of California.
The Post lambasted McCarthy for his inability to say that Trump was wrong to lie to the American people about the Trump Tower meeting.
There was a line that tickled me.
McCarthy seems to be more of a memory-foam Republican — taking the exact shape of presidential pressure.
The column also says, “When the king is a liar, truth becomes treason.”
There is a simple, yet powerful, explanation how under Republican reasoning, Trump truly is above the law and can shoot some guy on Fifth Avenue and nothing will happen.
Give it a read if you can. But if TL;DR —
According to Trump and his lawyers, the president’s role as chief law enforcement officer gives him “absolute” power to fire investigators, terminate investigations and pardon himself at any time, for any reason. This means obstruction of justice by the president is a practical impossibility, because his actions are the definition of justice.
Since, in this view, any violation of federal law by the president (including, according to his lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, the shooting of former FBI director James B. Comey) could be immediately self-pardoned — and any resulting investigation ended on his order — the only relevant legal check during his time in office is impeachment. And because the Constitution makes impeachment so difficult — requiring a two-thirds supermajority vote in the Senate for conviction and removal — any president who retains the loyalty of his party has essentially no practical limits on his power in criminal matters.
Including imprisoning children in the Rio Grande Valley. Here is the story from the McAllen Monitor. Can we call in the Red Cross?
This kind of stuff makes me crazy.
“Pushed False Story Line?” Is that the best you got, New York Times? He knowingly lied. Sarah Hunkybooboo knowingly lied. Trump’s lawyers knowingly lied to the public.
For nearly a year, the denials from President Trump’s lawyers and spokeswoman were unequivocal. No, the president did not dictate a misleading statement released in his son’s name.
But in a confidential, hand-delivered memo to the special counsel, Mr. Trump’s lawyers acknowledged that, yes, Mr. Trump had dictated the statement, which attempted to deflect questions about a meeting with a Kremlin-tied lawyer at Trump Tower.
Push a False Story Line sounds like a party game. I mean, you could make a board game called that and it would sound a little silly, but fun nonetheless. Or, it could be a cheer at a high school football game: Push The False Story Line, Tigers! Push it waaaay back!
Hell, next thing I know my Republican neighbors will be insisting that Trump has a new exercise routine.
They did not push a false story line – They lied.
Dammit, New York Times, if you truly write by your motto – Truth: It Demands Our Attention –
Then for Pete’s sake, stop using euphemisms for LIED.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled laughs.
Eric Trump did a magazine interview in which he said …
“My father’s life became exponentially worse the minute he decided to run for president.”
Me, too, Eric. Me, too.