It’s gonna come as no surprise to you that in 2011 white evangelicals by 60 percent believed that a public official who “commits an immoral act in their personal life” cannot still “behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life.”

Clinton on their minds.

However, in 2016, right after the release of the Access Hollywood tape, that number dropped to 20%.  Holy cow, that’s a 40% drop of their morality pants.

So, this got pollsters curious. Is the drop due to enlightenment or something else?  So this time, they asked people about Clinton and Trump specifically.

White evangelicals had a substantially different reaction when asked about Trump or Clinton. When primed to think about Trump, only 6 percent of them say that an elected official who acts immorally in private is incapable of being ethical in public life. But when Bill Clinton is mentioned, that rises to 27 percent — a 21-point increase.

The study is worth a look-see. It explores other details but the results are always the same – Evangelical Christians believe Democrats are so unworthy of their respect.

Oh, you know that Donald Trump is going to be seething.  Deutsche Bank, which is pretty much a continuing gold star criminal enterprise, has considered the repercussions of ignoring a subpoena and has decided …

Last month, the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James issued subpoenas for records tied to funding for several Trump Organization projects.

Trump’s reaction?

Hell, the last time he got upset, he pretty much declared armed war against Mexico.  Everybody just ignored him. Remember when that kinda stuff was terrifying? Not so much now. We’ve come to expect it.

Thanks to Epp for the heads up.

Here we go.  I have to say that just watching this video gives me hope.

Run, Joe, Run!

Article 3 of the Articles of Impeachment of Richard Nixon.

… has failed without lawful cause or excuse to produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized subpoenas issued by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on April 11, 1974, May 15, 1974, May 30, 1974, and June 24, 1974, and willfully disobeyed such subpoenas. The subpoenaed papers and things were deemed necessary by the Committee in order to resolve by direct evidence fundamental, factual questions relating to Presidential direction, knowledge or approval of actions demonstrated by other evidence to be substantial grounds for impeachment of the President. In refusing to produce these papers and things Richard M. Nixon, substituting his judgment as to what materials were necessary for the inquiry, interposed the powers of the Presidency against the the lawful subpoenas of the House of Representatives, thereby assuming to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise of the sole power of impeachment vested by the Constitution in the House of Representatives.

Somebody needs to read this to Trump.

Popular post by Republicans on Facebook.

I dunno.  You might want to ask Genghis Khan about that.

Remember this morning when I said that Republicans have layers of crazy?  They also have layers of stoopid.

Published in 2012, this article about the Great Wall seemed to be predicting Trump’s desire for another wall.

Considering the size and effort put into its construction over 2,000 years ago, the failure of the Great Wall of China is rather spectacular.

… the construction took hundreds of years and some people still mistakenly believe it’s visible from the Moon. However, as a defensive measure against invading forces, it has been about as useful to China as a Bible on a battlefield. It can give you comfort, but it just won’t stop the enemy.

also …

Another argument is that the Great Wall was nothing more than an ambitious project contrived by a vainglorious emperor. The Great Wall was supposed to show the world China’s superiority, making a clear distinction between civilized people and barbarians.

There ya go.

Oh y’all, Steve King, Republican of Iowa, is the dangerous crazy version of Louie Gohmert.

Republicans are diverse like that. They are all white and far more male than any other gender, but they have diverse kinds of crazy everywhere.

King likes to say insane, hurtful stuff and then go into victim mode. He outdid himself last weekend.

Yeah, he went there.  Steve King lied for your sins.

“And, when I have to step down to the floor of the House of Representatives, and look up at those 400-and-some accusers, you know we just passed through Easter and Christ’s passion, and I have better insight into what He went through for us partly because of that experience.”

Oh yeah, the Republicans stripped him of his committee assignments for making startling racist comments.

Republicans: they have layers of crazy.