So Kremlin Barbie and her husband Ken were given high-security clearances despite the strong objections of John Kelly — and Kremlin Barbie lied about it, as she is wont to do:
Category: Politics As Usual
From the horse’s mouth
When you come at the king, you best not miss
I don’t believe for one minute they don’t want to impeach. They are just trying to game it out so impeachment has the best chance of success:
Elijah Cummings, mensch
This was powerful:
Mark Meadows and his tender white feelings
So Meadows brings in Lynne Patton, a black woman who works in Trump’s office, to disprove Cohen’s statement that Trump is a racist. He says she wouldn’t work for Trump if he was racist — and she’s standing right there, silent!
Rep. Rashida Tlaib says that was a racist thing to do, to use Patton as a prop, and all hell breaks loose.
So Meadows freaks out insists he’s not a racist… which he totally is.
When was the last time you heard a non-racist insist Obama is from Kenya?
And about Lynne Patton:
I don’t know if you watched yesterday
But the Republicans were even more vile and stupid than usual. Fortunately, Elijah Cummings cleared the air:
At the close of the Michael Cohen hearing, Elijah Cummings gave a long and heartfelt speech in which he offered forgiveness and encouragement as Cohen teared up. He talked about the nation we want, and not the one we have with Trump.
“I’ve sat here and listened to all of this and it’s very painful. You made a lot of mistakes, Mr. Cohen, and you’ve admitted that. You know that one of the saddest part of this whole thing is that some innocent people are hurting, too, and that’s your family…I don’t know where you go from here…We are better than this. As a country, we are so much better than this…It sounds like you’re crying out for a new normal, to get back to normal. It sounds to me like you want to make sure that our democracy stays intact. I’m hoping that the things you said today will help us to get back there.
“I want to first of all thank you. I know that this has been hard. I know that you face a lot,” Cummings said.
“I know that you are worried about your family. Destiny, and hopefully this portion of your destiny will lead to a better Michael Cohen, a better Donald Trump. a better United States of America. And a better world. And I mean that from the depths of my heart. When we’re dancing with the angels, the question will be asked: Did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? Did we — I’m tired of statements saying, people coming here saying oh, this is the first hearing, it is not the first hearing.” (He was referring to Republicans yammering at him that his “first hearing” featured a convicted felon.)
“The first hearing was with regard to prescription drugs. Remember a little girl, a lady sat there, her daughter died because she could not get $333 a month in insulin. That was our first hearing. Second hearing. HR1, voting rights. corruption in government.
“Come on now. we can do more than one thing. And we have got to get back to normal. with that, this meeting is adjourned.”
If you felt like you’d been to church, you weren’t the only one.
Our finest hour
This makes decent people sick:
No wonder we won!
If you read this carefully, it seems to confirm that the Russians did have an impact on vote totals because why else would we be blocking them? To stop Facebook posts?
I just want it all to be over
But it will go on for another 20 years, feels like: