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It doesn’t look like they’re handing over everything, however the chair of the committee has said that he still wants everything, basically the justice department has bought themselves a couple weeks, they’ll hand over this load and then be threatened with enforcement again.
Thank god someone is will to make the threat of enforcement, looks like the Barr blinked, fingers crossed that when we’re back at this in two weeks Dems follow though on enforcement.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranJerry Nadler's pretty cool. I've been rather cross with Pelosi over the last couple weeks, but it warrants noting that Nadler and his Judicial Committee have been pushing those contempt charges pretty hard. Nadler's got fire in the furnace for Trump's obstructive Administration.
It's only when the charges leave his hands that they fizzle out into inaction and delay.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.We've got another subpoena ruling: A judge has tossed out Trump's lawsuit to prevent Deutche Bank and Capital One from handing over his financial records to Congress.
This is in addition to the ruling a few days ago that tossed out his lawsuit to prevent his accounting firm, Mazar, from turning over their records to the House.
Former Governor Steve Bashear's son, Andy, is now the Democratic candidate for November 5th's election. He's the state Attorney General and not who I voted for because he's a Democrat in the context of being like 2 ticks to the left of a conservative in a saner country. It's just that in Kentucky he might as well be a hippie.
However, he does oppose the insanity of Governor Bevin's policies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Beshear#Gubernatorial_candidacy
Andy opposes:
- Attempting to get Obamacare declared against Kentucky's constitution
- Removing all medical support for the unemployed after two years.
- Removing all state budget for universities
- Attempting to remove teacher's pensions so they're work for hire.
Andy also sued the pharmaceutical companies on behalf of the state for the opiod epidemic.
By the way, if you read those four bullet points and came up with questions....no, that is Not Hyperbole. Those are real Bevin policies and hardly his only ones that are batshit insane.
Andy is basically running on the "straight male white man" ticket that will do nothing but try to keep things from getting worse and support teachers.
Frankly, it's sad that's what passes for electable.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on May 22nd 2019 at 2:48:55 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Trump is notably already getting involved in the Kentucky election because it's basically his litmus test for his base (ugh, I feel disgusted).
Also, unfortunately, Trump may influence things toward Bevin.
"It may be all about corruption and personal stuff now, but Bevin for sure will want to make this about the national issue because the national Democratic Party is much more unpopular than state Democrats," he said. "Beshear wants to pull together the same coalition that elected his father not that long ago, and I do believe that has the potential to work, but his main enemy is his national party."
"In 2016, we were the first state in America to vote for Donald Trump," Bevin said. "What a powerful impact that has made at the national level."
Trump holds a 55% approval rating in Kentucky, which is one of three off-year statewide elections — along with Louisiana and Mississippi — ahead of the 2020 presidential contest. That popularity outpaces Bevin by about 30 percentage points, according to the firm Morning Consult.
That last sentence is fucking hilarious, though, and lets people know that Mitch and Bevin are hated in my state—it's just Trump is inexplicably popular.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Trump is far less evil than the Evil Turtle and Bevin is far more direct than Donald. And Bevin hurts the wrong people, to paraphrase a morally repellent but revealing comment quoted a while ago here.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanTrump and Mc Connel want the same thing, it's silly to act as if one is eviler then the other.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on May 22nd 2019 at 3:33:35 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangTrump wants to hurt minorities, be adored, be unchallenged, make lots of money and piss on the legacy of Obama, he’s not shown the same desire to see poor white people die in droves that Mc Connell has.
Trump sees killing the poor as a means to an end, for Mc Connell it seems to be the end in of itself.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThe Evil Turtle is a lot more thorough than Trump. Remember that that "healthcare" bill that Donald called "kinda mean" was Mitch's doing and had the apparent purpose to strip as much money from the healthcare system in order to line their (Evil Turtle's donors') pockets - and I am pretty certain it didn't just target the poor (for one thing Evil Turtle doesn't stop at America's borders
). The other healthcare policies the administration pursues often are not Trump's doing, either.
Edited by SeptimusHeap on May 22nd 2019 at 12:51:02 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynmanhttps://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/05/22/day-853/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-congress-idUSKCN1SS1R7
‘I pray for the president,’ Pelosi says after Trump cuts short infrastructure meeting, blasts Democrats. "In an orchestrated – almost to an 'oh, poor baby' point of view – he came into the room and said that I said that he was engaged in a cover-up and he couldn't possibly engage in a conversation on infrastructure as long as we are investigating him," Pelosi said. (Boston Globe / The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/445074-pelosi-trump-cover-up-could-be-impeachable-offense
Trump rails about impeachment, says Democrats are fishing. Trump claimed that his approval rating "would be at 65%" if there were no investigations. (NBC News)
2/ The House Intelligence Committee reached a last-minute deal with the Justice Department over the redacted material in the Mueller report and announced that will not enforce the subpoena against Attorney General William Barr. The DOJ agreed to turn over the material and the underlying information in Mueller's report, but committee chairman Adam Schiff said the subpoena "will remain in effect and will be enforced should the Department fail to comply with the full document request." Schiff said he expects the DOJ to finish turning over the 12 categories of counterintelligence and foreign intelligence material from Mueller's report "by the end of next week." In a letter sent to Schiff on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd warned that "the Department will not likely be able to continue to work with the Committee to accommodate its interest in these materials" if the committee takes "the precipitous and unnecessary action of recommending a contempt finding or other enforcement action against the attorney general." (Washington Post / New York Times)
3/ The IRS must honor congressional requests for Trump's tax returns unless Trump invokes executive privilege to protect them, according to a confidential draft legal memo written by IRS staffers. The memo undercuts Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's argument that the White House doesn't have to comply with Congress' requests because they lack any "legitimate legislative purpose." Mnuchin said he came to that conclusion after consulting with attorneys from the Treasury Department, the IRS, and the Justice Department, but the memo says the Treasury Secretary does not have the authority to deny requests for taxpayer returns made by tax-writing committees in Congress. (Washington Post / New York Times)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/politics/new-york-state-president-taxes/index.html
4/ Judge Edgardo Ramos ruled at a U.S. District Court hearing in New York that Congress has the legal authority to demand the Trump Organization's financial records from Deutsche Bank AG and Capital One Financial Corp. Lawyers for Trump, his three older children, and the Trump Organization argued that the subpoenas should be quashed. The ruling clears the way for the banks to comply with subpoenas issued to them last month by two congressional committees, and comes just two days after a different federal judge in Washington, D.C. said Trump’s accounting firm has to comply with a congressional subpoena for Trump's personal financial records. (Reuters / CNBC)
poll/ 70% of Americans say they have confidence in the condition of the U.S. economy and their own financial situation. 41% of those who said the economy was in good shape also credited Trump's policies as the reason why the economy is doing well, up from 32% at the beginning of 2018. 41% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president. (ABC News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-feel-good-about-economy-and-give-trump-credit-cbs-news-poll/
Rex Tillerson met with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee for more than six hours in a private, closed-door session, during which he talked about his time serving under Trump, the frictions between himself and Jared Kushner, and his attempts to tackle issues like Russian interference in the 2016 election. (Daily Beast)
Trump’s golf trips have cost taxpayers at least $102 million in extra travel and security expenses. Trump's trips to Florida cost $81 million, his trips to New Jersey cost $17 million, his two days in Scotland last summer cost at least $3 million, and another $1 million went toward a trip to his resort in Los Angeles. (Huff Post / New York Magazine)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-golf-102-million-taxpayers_n_5ce46727e4b09b23e65a01bb
Steve Mnuchin says the Harriet Tubman redesign of the $20 bill will no longer be unveiled in 2020. The unveiling had been scheduled to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Mnuchin says the design process has been delayed, and no new imagery will be unveiled until 2028. (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/harriet-tubman-20-bill-no-longer-coming-in-2020.html
Mick Mulvaney is looking to install one of his political allies as the new head of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Mulvaney has signaled that he wants someone who worked with him at the Office of Management and Budget to replace the outgoing current head, Shahira Knight. Having someone he trusts as the new head of the team would allow him to be directly involved with negotiating and passing critical pieces of legislation during the remainder of Trump's term. (CNBC)
Senator Mike Lee of Utah says the U.S. census should include questions about criminal records in order to help policymakers get former convicts back into the workforce. Lee suggested the idea at a hearing about the Census’s impact on the economy. (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-census-crime-idUSKCN1SS2E9
U.S. Customs and Border Protection only installed 1.7 miles of fencing with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for Trump’s border wall with Mexico. The administration recently updated a federal judge on the status of its border wall efforts, and "based on that updated information," the court filing reads, "it appears that CBP has now constructed 1.7 miles of fencing with its fiscal year 2018 funding." (Bloomberg)
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/federal-wall-funding-of-1-57-billion-yields-1-7-miles-of-fence-1.1262220
Michael Avenatti was charged with extorting Nike and stealing $300,000 from his former client, Stormy Daniels. Federal prosecutors in New York charged him with fraud and aggravated identity theft involving Daniels and a book deal, and with attempting to extort more than $20 million from the sportswear giant, Nike. Avenatti has denied the allegations. (Southern District of New York / Associated Press / Reuters / CNN / CNBC)
Edited by sgamer82 on May 22nd 2019 at 5:22:42 AM
The primary difference between Trump and Mc Connell is that the latter extends his hatred to poor whites while Trump extorts their praise.
I'm of the mind that's a lateral move.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Trump has the literal exact same economic and healthcare policy as the Republicans and by extension Mcconnel, like, there's a reason that the Republican Establishment was only critical of him when he was running. Because that was the only time he appeared to be supporting populist economics.
Trump wants the literal same endpoint of Mcconnel, plutocratic white supremacy.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on May 22nd 2019 at 4:41:00 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangMc Connell got his position as the head of the Republican Party by basically throwing himself on Trump's graces as you can see all the other various GOP heads flitter away. However, if you think they have the same ideology then you don't understand either man. This is not to praise one or the other but its the fact that they have consistently been at loggerheads repeatedly because Mc Connell depends on Trump and Trump is utterly undependable.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.That's exactly why they've had friction because Trump is an incompetent narcissist that gets in the way of Mc Connell's machinations.
Not because they have different ideological goals. Trump simply cares about Trump's power and Mc Connel cares about Mc Connel's power. The policy they support is identical.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangWell that's the rub as Trump is why Mc Connell's ACA thing failed.
And the war with Iran.
And withdrawing from Syria.
Trump backs out whenever things get dicey politically while mitch is full steam ahead.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Uhhh Mc Connell has been around longer than Trump; he’s not dependent on Trump or a product of Trump.
Schiff on Barr: He's Rudy Giuliani without 'all the good looks and general likability' – Schiff called attorney general a "personal attorney" for the president.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/22/adam-schiff-william-barr-good-looks-1340061

And in more bright news, it seems the Intelligence Committee will be getting the requested documents
as a direct result of that subpoena threat to Barr. They're still keeping it right on the table to make sure they get all of the documents in a timely manner, though.
And in even more good news (though I expect an appeal), Judge Edgardo Ramos ruled that Deutsche Bank and Capital One can turn over financial records to Congress after being subpoenaed by them
. Capital One, notably, is the account Trump used to reimburse Cohen for the hush-money payments to his mistresses.
Edited by ironballs16 on May 22nd 2019 at 4:25:24 AM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"