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ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#176651: Mar 2nd 2017 at 7:44:41 AM

[up]Which means nothing-prior to this regime, it was a given that anyone that high up would recuse themself from any possible conflict of interest. I will take notice if Senate Republicans put him to an ouster vote.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#176652: Mar 2nd 2017 at 7:50:31 AM

The Senate Democrats are now officially calling for Sessions resignation, and for a special prosecutor to investigate this case.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/politics/democrats-sessions-russia-resignation-call/index.html?adkey=bn

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kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176653: Mar 2nd 2017 at 7:53:52 AM

[up]Here we go again. Or in other words, ya'all got FLYNNED! Again.

Luigisan98 A wandering user from Venezuelan Muscat Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
A wandering user
#176654: Mar 2nd 2017 at 7:54:25 AM

[up] Say, do you think the situation is currently feeling like a Tom Clancy plot?

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ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#176655: Mar 2nd 2017 at 7:56:34 AM

[up]If Tom Clancy wrote this novel, he would have been laughed out of the publishing house for trying to pawn off such a ridiculous story as a realistic possibility.

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#176656: Mar 2nd 2017 at 7:57:45 AM

@ Kkhohoho-

I hope so, although I would have thought prior to his confirmation that the guy being a white supremacist would have been enough to keep in him power (those were the days).

I'm a bit skeptical though that he will be forced to resign. Sessions' actions are less clearly criminal than were Flynn's. And I suspect (supported by the fact that Republicans voted for Sessions) that Republicans know how much the party base loves Trump and so they considered the potential damage of having voted for the guy as a less serious risk than rejecting any of his nominees. And forcing Sessions to resign would signal disloyalty to Trump.

Edit- Although, I'm sure there are plenty of people (i.e. Kris Kobach) who would enforce the law in the same unequal way as Sessions and are less obviously white supremacists. So, if the Republicans can get one of these guys, they probably have a lot less incentive to keep Sessions.

edited 2nd Mar '17 7:59:46 AM by Hodor2

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#176657: Mar 2nd 2017 at 8:12:25 AM

Trump's new Travel Ban will not include Iraq, according to US Officials. So instead of 7 banned countries, it'll be 6 (Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Sudan).

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#176658: Mar 2nd 2017 at 8:13:39 AM

The ACLU is calling for investigation for Session's possible perjury

edited 2nd Mar '17 8:14:28 AM by NoName999

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#176659: Mar 2nd 2017 at 8:13:45 AM

I mean, banning nationals who make up the vast majority of the ground forces dealing with ISIS is a big dick move, even by Trump standards.

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#176660: Mar 2nd 2017 at 8:13:54 AM

Because all the terrorists come from those countries, and not from others not on the ban list, amirite? Trick question: what's the total count of terrorist attacks perpetrated in Western countries by nationals from the six nations on the travel ban executive order? zero

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Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#176661: Mar 2nd 2017 at 8:17:54 AM

The only country that makes any sort of sense at all is Somalia, and even then it only makes sense if you saw Captain Phillips and didn't really get it, cause of the pirate thing.

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#176662: Mar 2nd 2017 at 8:18:55 AM

And the first state to embrace the zeitgeist...note 
A Trumpian bill makes its debut in the state Capitol

The most Trumpian bill in the Legislature, the one that may best reflect the political angst that our new president has tapped, made its debut in the state Capitol on Tuesday.

Senate Bill 195 was greeted mostly with awkward silence from members of the Senate economic development committee, and will not move this session. But it is the kind of measure that could bedevil Republicans next year — an election year, if they cannot formulate the proper response.

The bill violates most legislative norms. Its author is state Sen. John Albers of Roswell, a very conservative Republican. But the bill’s content is union-inspired.

Virtually every Democrat in the Senate (some signatures are illegible, so it’s best to fudge) and the most conservative members of the GOP caucus are co-sponsors — a total of 38 in a chamber of 56.

The bill makes only one small demand: All companies that accept state tax incentives, and all companies awarded state contracts, would be required to send an email or two to the Capitol if they shift any jobs out of state.

Just to let the right people know.

Tax credits wouldn’t be yanked back. Contracts wouldn’t be canceled. The only thing to happen would be the placement of a simple fact on the public record. [Wink. Wink.]

Albers said his bill isn’t punitive, but communicative. I would add that it also goes straight to the we’ve-been-suckered zeitgeist of last year’s presidential campaign. The bill’s formal name: The “Georgia Jobs First Act of 2017”

Tilley [a Mc Donough lobbyist for the Communications Workers of America and who first conceived of (a narrower version of) the bill] acknowledges that SB 195 is a reflection of the times we live in. Specifically, the worry among white working class workers that they no longer have a secure place in our society. His union endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton last year. But many CWA workers were – and are – Trump supporters.

“A lot of my members vote Republican. If we’re not talking to both sides, we’re turning our backs on part of our membership,” he acknowledged.

He’s getting comfortable with the nickname he’s given SB 195. “I call it my Trump card,” Tilley said.

(Emphasis added.)

Huh. Well the unions are solidly struggling together...(and there's more to the story, specifically Albers giving stereotypical responses to questions on how the bill may among other things and frighten businesses off and set them up for retaliatory action). note 

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#176663: Mar 2nd 2017 at 8:28:45 AM

I hope so, although I would have thought prior to his confirmation that the guy being a white supremacist would have been enough to keep in him power (those were the days).

You know how it is with most people. They're just gonna take Sessions' statement about the KKK as a bad joke at worst and discount all the allegations since they're "just hearsay" and bringing up the whole "prosecuting a KKK member" thing, ignoring his atrocious civil rights record which lends a lot of credence to that "hearsay".

TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#176664: Mar 2nd 2017 at 8:36:31 AM

Regarding an issue from the last page: for people who do just want to get a quick round up of the news and events unfolding, this might be a good resource. For the most part sources are reliable, (although some are a little questionable) sometimes very local, and there are often updates as new info comes in.

edited 2nd Mar '17 8:37:18 AM by TheWanderer

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#176665: Mar 2nd 2017 at 9:17:39 AM

Sean Spicer screwed the tweet.

He meant to say Carson was confirmed as HUD Secretary, but wrote it out that Trump was HUD secretary.

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#176667: Mar 2nd 2017 at 9:32:53 AM

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s eldest son was likely paid at least $50,000 for an appearance late last year before a French think tank whose founder and wife are allies of the Russian government in efforts to end the war in Syria.

Donald Trump Jr. addressed a dinner on Oct. 11 at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, hosted by the Center of Political and Foreign Affairs. Its president, Fabien Baussart, and his Syrian-born wife, Randa Kassis, have cooperated with Russia in its drive to end the Syrian civil war, according to U.S., European and Arab officials. In December, Mr. Baussart formally nominated Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mrs. Kassis is a leader of a political faction endorsed by Russia in negotiations to end the war in Syria. The couple said they don’t represent Russia and are solely focused on ending the Syrian conflict.

The meeting in October represents one in a string of contacts over the past year between members of the president’s inner circle and individuals connected to Moscow and to Russian interests. The Wall Street Journal in November reported Donald Trump Jr.’s appearance at the event.

Trump JR likely got $50K for an October speech for a Moscow-allied think tank.

It's so obvious that these guys are compromised.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#176668: Mar 2nd 2017 at 9:40:17 AM

[up][up][up] The guy in charge of WH press public relations and former communications director managed to screw up a simple tweet. SMH

...Spicer needs to stick to feuding with Dippin' Dots.

edited 2nd Mar '17 9:40:43 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#176669: Mar 2nd 2017 at 10:04:47 AM

Well, when we we first met him he was feuding with people's eyes about dots in a picture. Really, his first press conference being about the size of the crowd was quite the Establishing Character Moment. Then this week, he's resorted to taking his own staffers' phones away to cut down leaks.
I think communicating and building consensus on policy and gathering allies is beyond him.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#176670: Mar 2nd 2017 at 10:08:23 AM

To be fair, it might not have been Spicer, could easily have been a staffer. And its not a terribly difficult mistake to make.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#176671: Mar 2nd 2017 at 10:08:58 AM

[up]x4 But would that mean that Carson was President? Seems like that would be just a horizontal shift.

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TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#176672: Mar 2nd 2017 at 10:10:24 AM

If it was a staffer, it was probably deliberate. The Orange House is already leaking like the unsinkable Trumptanic. What's a little trolling for good measure?

edited 2nd Mar '17 10:10:45 AM by TobiasDrake

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#176673: Mar 2nd 2017 at 10:10:49 AM

Carsen would be terrible, no doubt about it. But I doubt that he's in bed with the FSB/a threat to the trans Atlantic alliance. Its why I think that Pence would be better than Trump, he isn't crazy on foreign policy matters and his awful domestic agenda is probably going to be put into place even with him as VP and POTUS.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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#176674: Mar 2nd 2017 at 10:17:04 AM

Agreed. If we can get rid of Trump, it isn't smooth sailing with Pence. But it is just the normal white-water rapids we'd be navigating with a Republican president and supermajority. None of the weird shit like jumping snapping piranhas and unexploded Soviet mines.

Mike Pence would be content merely to be a shitty President.

edited 2nd Mar '17 10:18:05 AM by TobiasDrake

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Asgore Adopts Noelle
#176675: Mar 2nd 2017 at 10:20:43 AM

Russian Critic and former NSA member Fiona Hill to be put into the NSA's Europe and Russia Wing.

Too little, too late, means diddly, other then that Trump is now recognizing the "Russian Problem" is serious to the populace.


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