Thursday, January 16, 2020

Things suddenly looking much, much worse for Republicans

Lots of tweeting going on about an interview Rachel Maddow has done with Parnas - one of the key figures in the Ukraine scandal - in which he is dumping on absolutely everyone from Trump down.  He reckons Bolton will back all of this up.   As Corn says:

How could the Republicans in the Senate possibly justify not calling him and Bolton as witnesses?

I was a bit sceptical when Jennifer Rubin ran the line in WAPO this morning that they had to call witnesses or they would loss all credibility, but after this interview, I think she is right.


33 comments:

Not Trampis said...

We already knew this

Steve said...

The documentary evidence of calls and text messages has just come out, though, Homer. And it is making a raft of other Republicans look implicated in trying to hide knowledge of the evidence.

Jason Soon said...

yawn
all this because Biden's own son did something dodgy

Steve said...

Got a job through a family connection? Like the entire Trump family?

Yeah, I can see how that can justify a President sending an envoy of thugs to tell Ukraine's PM that the Congressional military aid would not be coming until he does him a personal favour.

And said thugs then work to get the US Ambassador sacked when she says she's not helping this corrupt scheme.

It's very scandalous behaviour - and immediately recognized as such by lots of people in Washington who knew of it - even Bolton!

but your political judgement is in your arse now, so yawn away and scratch it.

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Steve said...

Ukrainian President, not PM. (They have both, I see.)

By the way, what I find dismaying about any reaction like Jason's is the way it indicates that Trump and the alternative reality building Right wing media, has successfully (for far too much of the population) shifted the Overton window of what's "not worth getting upset about" in a President so extremely far towards corruption, secrecy and lying.

(I think that's a appropriate use of "Overton window", no?)



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Not Trampis said...

Our Soony is taking stupid pills. He is saying things on climate change so stupid I thought it was someone from Catallaxy.

I knew him when he did have an intellect

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Not Trampis said...

now the GAO finds illegal conduct.
Who would have thunked it. Certainly not our Soony.

By the way both Nixon and clinton cooperated with Congress when investigated. not trump.

He really does act like a tinpot dictator.

GMB said...

You idiot. How old were you when you decided you could believe rubbish and never be able to come up with evidence? Is this going to be fucking terminal you stupid old man?

Anonymous said...

Another nothingberger.

Stepford, Biden and his son are crooks.

Homer, GMB is correct. You have very low intelligence.

Not Trampis said...

tell it to the GAO.

NO conservative would support Trump but fellow dopes would

Jason Soon said...

GMB dropping a lot of truth bombs here, homes

Anonymous said...

Oh Okay, "Gomer". 44% of D'rat supporters support far left loons like Crazy Bernie, Liz High Cheeks and other assorted morons. Don't dare

Anonymous said...

Yes Jason, sometimes even GMB speaks the truth.

You know, speaking truth to power, Gomer and Stepford.. I really can't tell which one of these idiots is worse.

Stepford thinks posting David Corn's rubbish is being credible and Gomer picks up on it.

These two morons think Liz high cheeks is brilliant not to mention Crazy Bernie.

The Green New Deal... Lol.

Steve said...

What I don't get about Trump apologists is that they think they know better than the (what sounds like) scores of people in the State Department, and the Pentagon, probably from Bolton down, who knew that Trump's actions was were wrong and probably illegal and objected to it.

Probably believe some bullshit "deep state" talk about why he was whistleblown, because years of Right wing media propaganda has rotted their brains.

Anonymous said...

Stepford

Biden’s son made millions and his father tried to cover it up. This is unacceptable and the president as the head of the executive branch is has the power to ask for an investigation even with a quid pro and a quo. Total authority.

You’re a Biden apologist and so is Gomer. Shameful .

Not Trampis said...

Name one Soony,
you are sounding as stupid as JC these days

Anonymous said...

Gomer, get back in the garden shed... where you belong.

Steve said...

JC, you Fox News ignoramus.

"... his father tried to cover it up."

There is no evidence of that - it's wingnut rumour mongering of a situation which was reported transparently at the time. The US and other European nations wanted a prosecutor who was holding up investigations sacked, and he was.

This has been dealt with before here:

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2019/09/more-on-biden-story.html

You have to be approaching Trump level dumb to think that Biden Snr is so dumb as to brag about getting the prosecutor sacked if he knew it was corrupt protection of his son.

That's the trouble with Trump supporters and apologists - you have become so dumbed down by propaganda that you think everyone else is as a dumb as you.

And yes - there has been plenty of criticism from the Left side that Hunter taking that job was a bad look. But that does not make it (necessarily) corrupt.

Steve said...

By the way - I hold no candle for Biden. I think he's too old to be running against Trump, and don't understand his popularity amongst Democrats.

Steve said...

Another link for gullible Fox News swallowing JC -

Here is what Joe Biden actually did in Ukraine

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-05/bidens-visits-to-ukraine-under-scrutiny


Anonymous said...

Oh yea.. Look over there it's Trump.

Hunter Biden was hired because of his massive business acumen.

jut shut up, Stepford.

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Not Trampis said...

JC hitting peak stupid again.
Soony cannot identify what Birdy has said which is correct.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoBvqDUCAkw