Perfect Day
Impeachment hearings start in a few minutes. It *almost* froze here last night, meaning it’s colder than a witches’s teat in a brass bra to native south Texans who live here because snow is pretty for only one day but after that it’s frozen mud. It snows here once every 10 years or so and it’s gone after one day, which is perfect.
Today will be spent in my jammies and favorite housecoat watching the teevee. I’ll be here if something big breaks but feel free to comment on anything you hear.
If Devin Nunes says “nude Donald Trump” one more time, angels will descend from heaven and sing the Hallelujah Chorus over California’s 22nd Congressional District.
AFTERNOON UPDATE: Okay, here’s my question. The reason that Bill Taylor and George Kent are hearsay witnesses is because the primary witnesses are refusing to testify. If Pompeo ever gets the cajones that Hillary Clinton has, he can march his sweet patootie to the hearing room, get sworn in, and answer questions for 11 hours. Republicans can’t have it both ways.
They also can’t whine about not getting to question the whistleblower when we don’t get to question Rudy Giuliani. Besides, everything the whistleblower said was admitted to by Donald Trump.
Jim Jordan is what Republicans think a smart person sounds like. First off, smart people rarely screech. They also rarely laugh out loud when they lose an argument, thinking smugly that they won.
Dr. megasoid here. Writing a scrip for hot chocolate and warm cookies, hot apple pie and later on, brandy before bed.
1Taylor is really trashing the administration and quisling Giuliani after highlighting Putin’s aggression.
But hey, cheeto wants so badly to see the mayday rockets and tanks parade. Maybe they’ll put a dunce cap on him when he sits behind Putin.
2Mulvaney just implicated and burned by Taylor.
3Mulvaney, Pompeo, Giuliani, and Pence. Who among them will IQ4.5 suddenly not remember ever having known them? Jack up the bus. It will need much more clearance to drive over this pile of bodies.
4It is just so refreshing to hear adults talk.
5“I want president Zelenski in a box unless he makes a public statement about the investigation.”
“My nightmare is the day the Ukrainians agree to the statement and the assistance is with held.” – Taylor
6First off, doesn’t Taylor come across as a seasoned, professional man who this nation can trust? His testimony was objective, fact-filled, substantive, and objective.
Second, it sure looks like his testimony alone sunk Trump & a couple of his cohorts.
7Turn on Closed Caps if you want to transcribe a quote,
8I thought the Repubs had pulled Nunes from the opening lineup. Nope, guess not.
All I have to say is, thank God for stupid criminals.
Of course, Jordan would have been at least as bad. The party seems to have gotten rid of anyone who could have lent them any semblance of impartiality or rationality.
9Taylor has impeccable credentials and laid out a damning scenario on Trump’s actions and their negative ramifications. The best part was when Taylor’s aide heard Trump state he cared more about investigating the Bidens than Ukraine.
As I was driving in the snow, I couldn’t listen to Nunes or Gym Jordan as the violent retching would cause me to lose control.
10twocrows @ 9 I just read that Jordan is going to repeatedly drop the whistleblowers name to blow up the hearings. Don’t know if he has access to the hearings.
11Boy, the Rethugs are dumb as dirt. They insist on bringing up the spurious slander that Ukraine was involved in the 2016 election. Nope. It was Russia.
They are forcing Nancy Pelosi to go down the “All roads lead to Putin” road, which is where they will all be hoisted on their own petards.
12“You can’t promote an anti corruption campaign without pissing off corrupt people.”
-Kent
Best testimony of the day.
13magasoid @13: True dat. I laughed out loud.
And here’s an observation:
When the Democrats have the floor, they ask questions.
When Republicans have the floor, they make speeches, usually including telling “The American People” what is important to us.
Hello? I’m perfectly capable of figuring out what is important to me, thankyouverymuch.
14Mulvaney, Pompeo, Giuliani, and Pence.
Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Dean.
15slipstream @ #15,
What are political henchmen?
16I hope that was at least an $800 or $1000 question here on Juanita’s Jeopardy.
I soooo want to slap Jim Jordan. That self-righteous sexual preditor protector.
17Peter Welch (D) Vermont Re: Whistleblower…
“I’d be glad to have the person who started all this to testify. And I’ll say right now, President Trump is welcome to take a seat right there.” (laughter)
18BarbinDC @ #17,
19Jim Jorden sure can fast talk, like a used car salesmen with his rent due tomorrow, can’t he? I too look forward to the day he gets slapped across his ever open mouth, or slapped with a jail sentence. He’ll probably find the four walls of his cell better listeners for his stream of nonsense babbling than the rest of us.
As Trump’s toadies face the decision of whether to testify truthfully, or continue to cover up for the current occupant of the White House, or simply duck the subpoena, they might do well to consider what happened to Nixon’s toadies.
G. Gordon Liddy: burglary, conspiracy, wiretapping. 54 months in prison.
E. Howard Hunt: burglary, conspiracy, wiretapping. 33 months in prison.
Bernard Baker: burglary, theft of documents, wiretapping. 30 months in prison.
Virgilio Gonzales: burglary, conspiracy, wiretapping. 13 months in prison.
Eugenio Martinez: burglary, conspiracy, wiretapping. 15 months in prison, pardoned by Reagan.
James W. McCord Jr.: burglary, conspiracy, wiretapping. 4 months in prison (reduced from 25 years after he implicated others).
Frank Sturgis: burglary, conspiracy, wiretapping. 14 months in prison.
John Mitchell: conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury. 19 months in prison.
H. R. Haldeman: conspiracy, obstruction of justice. 18 months in prison.
John Ehrlichman: conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury. 18 months in prison.
John Dean: obstruction of justice. 4 months in prison (reduced from 1 to 4 years after he testified against Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mardian, and Parkinson).
Charles Colson: obstruction of justice. 7 months in prison.
Herbert W. Kalmbach: illegally soliciting campaign funds. 6 months in prison.
Jeb Stuart Magruder: conspiracy to wiretap, obstruct justice and defraud the United States. 7 months in prison.
14 henchmen serving prison terms; Nixon walking on the beach at San Clemente.
20The Republicons in the House are goats for the ***king moron biggest goat molester of all time. But it is nice of them to perform as they have, thus giving Moscow Mitch one hell of a chit show to usher through the Senate. Old Scratch will need more than turtle wax to polish the pile sliding his way.
21The Rethugs were pathetic WATBs.
One lame comparison most of them kept trying to make was that the Obama admin withheld some serious armament from the Ukrainians for their fight against the Russians, and sent them MREs and blankets instead.
But that ‘heroic’ Dear Comrade Donnei sent the Ukes a bunch of heavy stuff to blast the Russkis with [like those Javelin missiles mentioned over and over].
What nobody mentioned, and this was a seriously missed opportunity for the Democrats, is that during most of the Obama admin the Ukrainians had a very unreliable and corrupt heavily Russian-influenced client/puppet government in control [sort of like us, ehhh?]; and that holding back with it was actually a wise move.
Obama and Biden were instrumental in finally toppling that old corrupt Ukrainian regime [its’ President fled to refuge in Russia] and getting it replaced with a more open, democratic, reliable, and less corrupt government. Which was superseded by an even better one this year.
Those recent Ukrainian admins are far better US allies, much more trustworthy and deserving of military assistance, than the Russian puppets that the Obama admin held back the heavy arms from.
A delicately balanced Ukrainian government and military under active Russian siege, which the bottom-feeding crimeboss Dear Leader Donnei promptly and predatorily put the “Arms For Dirt” extortion bite on as long as he could.
Rep. Joaquin Castro did pretty good near the end, setting up a good analogy about “attempted” criminal endeavors being actual crimes; but he didn’t get Amb. Taylor, after a long pause, to quite bite for “attempted extortion”.
22Nunez et all speaking for the R party really showed how scared they are. Somewhere somehow a single R has to be thinking, “we screwed ourselves. We’ve got to unscrew somehow. Maybe we ought lose the biggest screw we got – Trump.”
23We took care of almost 10 inches of snow on Tues.
24And – 2 with the wind chill. It really is pretty but…..
I spent yesterday in my jammies, recovering and watching the hearings.
Weren’t the Democrats marvelous!