Ugh.
AT&T needs the Justice Department’s approval for that deal. Normally, that decision would be housed off at the Antitrust Division at the Justice Department. But no one thinks that’s how it works in the Trump Administration. AT&T needs Donald Trump’s sign off, possibly mediated through the hand of Jeff Sessions but maybe not. Indeed, there has already been quite a bit of concern on Capitol Hill that Trump would try to hold up the AT&T deal as a way to exert pressure on Time Warner?
Why would the President want to pressure Time Warner? Because Time Warner owns CNN. And the White House has already put out word that it wanted to use the deal as a way to place pressure on CNN to rein in its coverage. Senators have pressed the administration to make the decision purely on legitimate antitrust grounds. Finalizing the deal has gone over schedule. It’s been suggested that to help move things along AT&T might suggest (or perhaps already has suggested) that it will rein in the “fake news” at CNN as a way to get President Trump to Yes.
Clay
5855
You want to see Wall Street turn on your Administration? This is how you do it.
None
5857
Should have offered to give slaves every other weekend off?
ShivaX
5858
The compromise of not letting the dude who won the election take office?
In Kelly’s defense, he’s just saying exactly the same thing Shelby Foote said in the Civil War documentary. (I know Foote was an ornery Suth’ner, but he was still a smart cookie.)
In theory, there could have been a compromise path forward – some kind of phased-in, compensated emancipation, as certain states had been toying with, and as Lincoln himself proposed to the border states (who would have none of it). Whether the total suffering thus inflicted by extending slavery would have exceeded the suffering of >600,000 dead is an unanswerable question.
Brazil, on the other hand, managed to pull off non-compensated emancipation without fighting a war:
Scuzz
5860
Is there actually any evidence that people are leaving the GOP? Being disgusted with Trump doesn’t make you a Hillary or Sanders voter. It may make you not vote at all for president in 2020 but you will probably vote for your GOP congressman or Senator.
Timex
5861
I think both Strollen and myself left the GOP this past year, so we’ve got evidence of at least TWO voters.
And no, I don’t support sanders and I don’t like Clinton, but I absolutely refuse to be associated with Trump.
rowe33
5862
It’s true. Even the horrific policies and events of the past couple years can’t cure idiocy.
Republican voters have been ignoring/celebrating the monstrous, horrific effects of their voting for far longer than a couple of years, mate :-)
A Republican pollster mentioned it on TV, and it was largely millennials. I’ll see if I can track down his source later tonight.
There was a Pew poll back back in May:
Well at least under-30s weren’t gonna vote anyway, so no harm, no foul!
It’s not too late for the Republicans to get the voting age increased to 30 anyway while they still have control of Congress. If you’re going to gerrymander…go big or go home.
Whatever the Fox News demographic is!
60+, morbidly obese, and angry!
“Attention : Beginning with the 2018 election cycle, you must have at least this much economic anxiety to vote. No exceptions!”
CNN finally decides to descend into the pig pen:
Network news bitch fights for the win!
