“Where do we deliver the polonium tea?”
gruntled
5067
“Highly partisan” is just his default response. He thinks calling Mueller’s team “angry democrats” played well with his base, so anyone who comes after him is just denounced as doing it for partisan reasons.
Someone is certainly an international joke.
I know some of y’all can’t stand him but Andrew Sullivan’s thoughts mirror my own in today’s column:
As I’ve said over and over again, the instinctual tyrant never stands still. Each time he survives, he moves the baseline. The corruption, profound now, will only intensify. The abuse of power will grow. Each time we fail to hold the tyrant accountable is an opportunity for him to up the ante yet again. Which is to say there is one obvious remedy for this lawlessness and borderline treason. Impeach!
Madam Speaker, the ball is now in your court. Please don’t fuck it up again.
Impeach. His. Worthless. Ass.
Exactly. Someone who was loyal to the cause would never have done such a thing, therefore “highly partisan”.
I’m confused. I read that Sullivan column you linked. It’s…really bad. But forget that it is really bad. I didn’t find the piece you quoted in it?
It’s there under the Foreign Interference, Part II heading. Perhaps you didn’t peruse the whole article? Andrew tends to ramble on about several topics in his weekly column.
Ah, I just read the first article at the link. Got it.
Edit:
This:
The trouble in our constitutional system is that a confidential presidential phone conversation with a foreign leader is obviously covered by executive privilege. In fact, I’d say it’s one of the most defensible cases of executive privilege there is. The president must have the ability to speak candidly with foreign leaders, and his conversations should not be available to anyone outside the Executive branch. Separation of powers requires that even the Congress be excluded from the details of this kind of discussion. And yet that discussion may well present a real threat to national security, and constitute an impeachable offense.
…is incomplete. Executive privilege doesn’t apply to crimes or attempts to cover up crimes. The claimed conversation seems to violate 18 USC 201 (Trump is basically soliciting a bribe), in which case the whistleblower’s account is evidence of a crime and can’t be hushed up with claims of executive privilege.
Let’s send DJT to prison instead and call it even, you effete putz. ‘Snitches’, JFC.
rowe33
5077
Holy fucking shit. So much for protecting whistleblowers. Holy fuck. This guy is such a slimy piece of shit.
Since I just took my training on the Whistleblower act, I can tell you that you are immune from prosecution if you go through the proper channels that are in place for whistleblowing. If instead this person went to the press first instead of through regular channels, they could indeed be sent to prison. So it really depends on what process they followed (which I don’t think we know at this point, because we don’t know who is leaking the information).
Plus, Lindsey Graham is an obnoxious sycophant.
Timex
5079
This has got to be satire. I find it hard to believe Jim Jordan actually said that, which makes me doubt the previous tweet by Graham.
It’s a joke, but who the hell can tell anymore.
That can’t be real. I know Jimmy Jordan, and he’s a meathead, but no way that’s real.
Edit: but yeah, hard to tell sometimes.
KevinC
5083
Indeed.
EDIT: Jeez, knock off the satire already. No one can tell the difference between outlandish satire and reality these days.
My bad, apparently just trolling, but I would be zero percent surprised if Graham really said that, or something along those lines. He may well still do so.
KevinC
5085
Yeah, exactly. It’s entirely believable for Graham to say that. And for that to actually happen.
