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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Considering the hot potatoes game that the Republicans played with that position I don't think they could have found someone to run at the time. Boehner was long gone, and is probably relieved to not have to deal with this Trump induced travesty.
As for Bannon: one thing that can be said for the guy is that he's stubborn enough to stick it out and follow through on his agenda. It would take a hell of a lot to get him out of the White House at this point. Trump would have to lose a lot of faith in him.
Bannon will go only when Trump does. They're too closely connected at this point. And the same likely applies to all of the other reactionary nationalists (like Miller, Sebastian Gorka,
and Michael Anton
) standing in the shadow of the attention whore in chief.
Although at the least the spotlight has now shifted to Miller and shown him to be the piece of shit that he is.
edited 13th Feb '17 10:20:38 PM by Eschaton
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TRUMP: Hey Bannon, did you see what I did with my toupee? I could've sworn I left around the office somewhere...
BANNON: Wait, that was a toupee? I thought it was a dead ferret.
TRUMP: ...What did you just say?
BANNON: I said, I thought it was a dead ferret—
TRUMP: You're fired.
edited 14th Feb '17 7:10:23 AM by kkhohoho
Didn't Steve Bannon talk Trump out of using torture at one point? Or am I confusing him with someone else?
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edited 13th Feb '17 11:24:05 PM by SeriesOfNumbers
That was actually Flynn and possibly one other military guy. That was like, the one good point in Flynn's favor out of the whole shit show. And then some other guy talked Trump back into thinking torture was a good idea.
As long as Gabbard is the ambassador to the UN, I don't think she's running for anything else. Ambassadorships and a career in Congress are both full time jobs and simply can't be done at the same time.
edited 13th Feb '17 11:29:01 PM by AceofSpades
You've heard wrong.
Assad helped create ISIS by letting their leaders out of prison, trades with ISIS (buying their oil) and has regularly pulled troops away from fighting ISIS so as to target more moderate and pro-democracy groups (that's how ISIS gained so much ground at the beginning of the war and recently when Assad focused on fighting the non-radical rebels in Aleppo he basically surrendered a city to ISIS so as to focus his fighting on non-radical rebels). On top of all of that there are non-radical groups in Syria, mainly the Kurds and non-Kurdish groups operating under their umbrella but also the southern rebel groups who are connected to Jordan and not with Turkey like the northern rebel groups are.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
We're wasting our time engaging in good faith here.
Chaffetz believes that the people protesting at his town hall were all paid off by the Democrats
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Nah Mc Mullin should run for the senate seat in 2018, Hatch might be retiring and if the Dems though in behind him Mc Mullin could have a serious shot as an independent. Even if the Dems can't take the Senate seat I'd bed a happy man if I saw it taken from the republicans.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranI thought Trump and the CIA didn't get along. You'd think them calling him an idiot would've had the opposite result to what we're seeing now.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.The CIA appear to already been exercising some level of autonomy, as they're apparently holding back intel due to fears that it will end up in Russian hands if given to the White House. It's entirely possible that the CIA simply told Trump to get bent.
That or they've decided that if Russian intelligence are going to blackmail the president they might as well counter blackmail the president.
edited 14th Feb '17 2:08:06 AM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranOh man if there's a money trail, General Flynn is squeal like a piggy.
Chaffetz may be primaried, so there's that
. Anyone got an idea where his potential Republican challenger stands on the issues]]?
People are sending Jason Chaffetz invoices following his accusations that the people protesting him were paid to do so
. $500? That's, like, the starting wage for a fresh graduate in Kuala Lumpur! Where do I join?
Intel Committee Chairman doesn't want to investigate Flynn, but wants to investigate those who leaked everything.
Party. Over Country.
New Survey coming this weekend!"My birth mother was 15 when she gave birth to me," Kidd said. "So my views on that are pretty strong."
Kidd named several reasons he decided to challenge Chaffetz. For starters, he thinks Chaffetz, who was first elected in 2008, has been in office for too long.
"I'm a big believer in limiting terms," Kidd said. "I think it's time for him to get back in the private sector and do something else."
Kidd said if elected, he planned to term-limit himself to no more than three or four terms in office.
But beyond Chaffetz's multiple terms in office, Kidd said he is disappointed in the way Chaffetz has handled his leadership position as chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
"He is not operating the committee in a non-partisan way," Kidd said. "I'm a conservative Republican, and I hope Donald Trump succeeds, but the House Oversight Committee shouldn't be protecting Trump from common sense oversight standard review. Yet, it sounds like he'll continue to investigate Hillary (Clinton)."
Kidd said his leadership style would differ from Chaffetz in that he would listen to input from those on the opposite side of the political spectrum from himself.
"I think that's one problem we have," Kidd said. "Everyone in Washington is so divisive, and they're not finding solutions to hard problems."
So he would be bad for abortion but probably not as bad for other social issues. Sounds closer to the "proper conservative" we've all talked about before.

@kkho It'd be Ryan stabbing Pence in the back.
It'd continue his theme of falling upwards from Representative to Speaker of the House to President without ever being elected.