3975

They’re lying then because even Fox News has reported on this stuff. They know it’s true but if they claim ignorance they can still crap on the moral high ground.

3976

Your regular reminder that it doesn’t matter whether Trump literally takes orders from Putin or not, because the results are exactly the same:

3977
3978

Anything to get out of his cell I guess. I’m surprised it took this long, he’s been pleading to cooperate with just about anybody for a year now.

3979

Yeah - guess I should have posted with the standard internet comment “posted without comment”.

3980

This guy gets it.

3981

Yeah Dan and Jon Favreau have been making that point for a long time on Pod Save America – basically the current ‘twilight impeachment’ scenario is the worst of all possible worlds.

3982

IMHO, it needs to rise above politics. These people were elected to perform a duty, and swore an Oath to the Constitution to do so.

3983

But impeachment is a political process; there’s no “above politics” where it is concerned. It’s not a judicial process. It’s all about convincing Representatives and Senators that the President has violated his oath of office, and to do that you better convince the people as well.

3984

Ok, rise above Party over Country politics. Duty calls.

3985

The party-line vote came as House Democrats have struggled to define the committee’s probe, with Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler saying the committee is conducting an impeachment inquiry, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders are refraining from calling it that.

Of course.

3986

We’ll have to do it ourselves in about 14 months.

3987

It’s true that it isn’t a judicial process, but it isn’t true that it is a ‘political process’ in the sense of modern partisan political maneuvering. The founders believed that members of Congress and Senators would have some sense of decency and some threshold of shame and that they would do the right thing with respect to checking abusive executive power. Turns out they were wrong, about conservatives anyway.

3988

Holder continued: “For the good of the nation, we must make sure the President of the USA is not held accountable for crimes while in office or from before he or she was elected. To do so would be to irrevocably change what we’re about as a country.”

3989

Wait, what what in the what now? So if it turned out the President murdered someone before taking office, they should get a pass for the good of the country?

3990

From before he was President is off limits too? That’s complete garbage.

3991

Yes, also if he possibly raped multiple women, was a money launderer, and mingler with organized crime. For the good of the Country.

3992

To be 100% fair to Holder, I believe Menzo’s comment was snark and not an actual quote.

3993

Funny how we always need to qualify every potential absurd snark now as if it might be a joke.

3994

Sad, but true, Mike. Sad, but true. We’re really in the stupidest freaking timeline.