‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

[Denizen]

GOP lawmakers look aghast as they scramble to find any words to defend Donald Trump from their empty sacks of sad rhetoric.

They are done. They are doomed by the words of decent public servants compelled by subpoenas and sworn testimony which is exposing the truth of Donald Trump's misdeeds.

The GOP lawmakers tried to assemble a Trump howling mob to attack the investigators, but fell short of a quorum and disgraced themselves in the eyes of the public by a howling example of lawlessness.

GOP lawmakers are whimpering louder than Al Baghdadi.

Don't worry ladies and gentlemen, your horror and pain will be over soon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...510698-f75f-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Oct. 28, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. GMT+7

Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case to defend his conduct and anxious about the historic reckoning that likely awaits them.
Recent days have delivered the most damaging testimony yet about Trump and his advisers commandeering Ukraine policy for the president’s personal political goals, which his allies on Capitol Hill sought to undermine by storming the deposition room and condemning the inquiry as secretive and corrupt.
President Trump on Oct. 25 repeated his claim that he had a “perfect conversation” with his Ukrainian counterpart. (Reuters)
Those theatrics belie the deepening unease many Republicans now say they feel — particularly those in the Senate who are dreading having to weigh their conscience against their political calculations in deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump should the Democratic-controlled House impeach the president.
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In hushed conversations over the past week, GOP senators lamented that the fast-expanding probe is fraying their party, which remains completely in Trump’s grip. They voiced exasperation at the expectation that they defend the president against the troublesome picture that has been painted, with neither convincing arguments from the White House nor confidence that something worse won’t soon be discovered.
“It feels like a horror movie,” said one veteran Republican senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the consensus.
What you missed this week in the impeachment inquiry
The Republican Party’s strategy is being directed almost entirely by the frenzied impulses of Trump, who has exhibited fits of rage over the Democrats’ drive to remove him from office for abuse of power.
“I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters Friday. “This is a takedown of the Republican Party.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Although Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has been a loud dissenter, he has been speaking for himself as opposed to acting as a frontman for some silent caucus of like-minded Republicans, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Most GOP senators have been taking cues from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose paramount concern has been maintaining his party’s control of the chamber in next year’s election.
AD
“They’ve decided that they’re going to take it all grudgingly — and privately, perhaps, in disgust — but they’re not going to give up the farm,” said Al Cardenas, former chairman of the American Conservative Union. But, he added, “It’s been piling on, piling on, piling on, and I see defense fatigue on behalf of the Republicans in the Congress.”
Graham condemns House impeachment inquiry, slams process as ‘dangerous to the country’
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution denouncing the impeachment inquiry into President Trump in a news conference on Oct. 24. (The Washington Post)
Trump and his allies have strained to focus the debate on the process, but Republican officials have struggled to answer for the substance of the startling statements made by the growing list of credible witnesses from the national security and diplomatic realms.
Trump’s season of weakness: A president who prizes strength enters key stretch in a fragile state
“There’s frustration. It feels to everyone like they’re just digging a hole and making it worse. It just never ends. . . . It’s a total [expletive] show,” said one Republican strategist who has been advising a number of top senators and who, like several others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
McConnell, who has shared related concerns in private conversations with other senators, has been preparing for a possible Senate impeachment trial. And earlier this month he showed a dry PowerPoint presentation to Republican senators explaining how one might unfold.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
McConnell remains engaged with Trump but has a mixed view of the president’s advisers, several Republicans said, noting that he misses his productive working relationship with former White House counsel Donald McGahn and is “less enamored” with his successor, Pat Cipollone, according to a McConnell ally. A Senate GOP aide said McConnell and Cipollone have a good working relationship.
AD
As they went about their work at the Capitol this past week, many Senate Republicans were all but mute when reporters asked questions about impeachment — a stark snapshot of a party rattled not only by the House inquiry but also by Trump’s removal of U.S. troops from northern Syria; his decision, later retracted, to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort; and his claim that the investigation into him amounted to a “lynching.”
“I’m a juror and I’m comfortable not speaking,” Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) said. Pressed again for comment, he reiterated, “I said I’m comfortable not speaking.”
“I’d be a juror, so I have no comment,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.
“I don’t need a strategy for impeachment because I may be a juror someday,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.

 

[depotoo]

 

[NoVote]

And your a friggin moron and the only one who can't see it.

 

[Thinker101]

It only feels like a horror movie to the loony left.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Washington Post.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

GOP lawmakers look aghast as they scramble to find any words to defend Donald Trump from their empty sacks of sad rhetoric.

They are done. They are doomed by the words of decent public servants compelled by subpoenas and sworn testimony which is exposing the truth of Donald Trump's misdeeds.

The GOP lawmakers tried to assemble a Trump howling mob to attack the investigators, but fell short of a quorum and disgraced themselves in the eyes of the public by a howling example of lawlessness.

GOP lawmakers are whimpering louder than Al Baghdadi.

Don't worry ladies and gentlemen, your horror and pain will be over soon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...510698-f75f-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Oct. 28, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. GMT+7

Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case to defend his conduct and anxious about the historic reckoning that likely awaits them.
Recent days have delivered the most damaging testimony yet about Trump and his advisers commandeering Ukraine policy for the president’s personal political goals, which his allies on Capitol Hill sought to undermine by storming the deposition room and condemning the inquiry as secretive and corrupt.
President Trump on Oct. 25 repeated his claim that he had a “perfect conversation” with his Ukrainian counterpart. (Reuters)
Those theatrics belie the deepening unease many Republicans now say they feel — particularly those in the Senate who are dreading having to weigh their conscience against their political calculations in deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump should the Democratic-controlled House impeach the president.
AD
In hushed conversations over the past week, GOP senators lamented that the fast-expanding probe is fraying their party, which remains completely in Trump’s grip. They voiced exasperation at the expectation that they defend the president against the troublesome picture that has been painted, with neither convincing arguments from the White House nor confidence that something worse won’t soon be discovered.
“It feels like a horror movie,” said one veteran Republican senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the consensus.
What you missed this week in the impeachment inquiry
The Republican Party’s strategy is being directed almost entirely by the frenzied impulses of Trump, who has exhibited fits of rage over the Democrats’ drive to remove him from office for abuse of power.
“I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters Friday. “This is a takedown of the Republican Party.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Although Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has been a loud dissenter, he has been speaking for himself as opposed to acting as a frontman for some silent caucus of like-minded Republicans, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Most GOP senators have been taking cues from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose paramount concern has been maintaining his party’s control of the chamber in next year’s election.
AD
“They’ve decided that they’re going to take it all grudgingly — and privately, perhaps, in disgust — but they’re not going to give up the farm,” said Al Cardenas, former chairman of the American Conservative Union. But, he added, “It’s been piling on, piling on, piling on, and I see defense fatigue on behalf of the Republicans in the Congress.”
Graham condemns House impeachment inquiry, slams process as ‘dangerous to the country’
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution denouncing the impeachment inquiry into President Trump in a news conference on Oct. 24. (The Washington Post)
Trump and his allies have strained to focus the debate on the process, but Republican officials have struggled to answer for the substance of the startling statements made by the growing list of credible witnesses from the national security and diplomatic realms.
Trump’s season of weakness: A president who prizes strength enters key stretch in a fragile state
“There’s frustration. It feels to everyone like they’re just digging a hole and making it worse. It just never ends. . . . It’s a total [expletive] show,” said one Republican strategist who has been advising a number of top senators and who, like several others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
McConnell, who has shared related concerns in private conversations with other senators, has been preparing for a possible Senate impeachment trial. And earlier this month he showed a dry PowerPoint presentation to Republican senators explaining how one might unfold.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
McConnell remains engaged with Trump but has a mixed view of the president’s advisers, several Republicans said, noting that he misses his productive working relationship with former White House counsel Donald McGahn and is “less enamored” with his successor, Pat Cipollone, according to a McConnell ally. A Senate GOP aide said McConnell and Cipollone have a good working relationship.
AD
As they went about their work at the Capitol this past week, many Senate Republicans were all but mute when reporters asked questions about impeachment — a stark snapshot of a party rattled not only by the House inquiry but also by Trump’s removal of U.S. troops from northern Syria; his decision, later retracted, to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort; and his claim that the investigation into him amounted to a “lynching.”
“I’m a juror and I’m comfortable not speaking,” Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) said. Pressed again for comment, he reiterated, “I said I’m comfortable not speaking.”
“I’d be a juror, so I have no comment,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.
“I don’t need a strategy for impeachment because I may be a juror someday,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.

 

[Wyatt earp]

They mad Trump canceled their subscription


LMFAO

 

[EvilCat Breath]

This is deja vu all over again. It's just what the losers said in 2016.

 

[Billy_Bob]

GOP lawmakers look aghast as they scramble to find any words to defend Donald Trump from their empty sacks of sad rhetoric.

They are done. They are doomed by the words of decent public servants compelled by subpoenas and sworn testimony which is exposing the truth of Donald Trump's misdeeds.

The GOP lawmakers tried to assemble a Trump howling mob to attack the investigators, but fell short of a quorum and disgraced themselves in the eyes of the public by a howling example of lawlessness.

GOP lawmakers are whimpering louder than Al Baghdadi.

Don't worry ladies and gentlemen, your horror and pain will be over soon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...510698-f75f-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Oct. 28, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. GMT+7

Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case to defend his conduct and anxious about the historic reckoning that likely awaits them.
Recent days have delivered the most damaging testimony yet about Trump and his advisers commandeering Ukraine policy for the president’s personal political goals, which his allies on Capitol Hill sought to undermine by storming the deposition room and condemning the inquiry as secretive and corrupt.
President Trump on Oct. 25 repeated his claim that he had a “perfect conversation” with his Ukrainian counterpart. (Reuters)
Those theatrics belie the deepening unease many Republicans now say they feel — particularly those in the Senate who are dreading having to weigh their conscience against their political calculations in deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump should the Democratic-controlled House impeach the president.
AD
In hushed conversations over the past week, GOP senators lamented that the fast-expanding probe is fraying their party, which remains completely in Trump’s grip. They voiced exasperation at the expectation that they defend the president against the troublesome picture that has been painted, with neither convincing arguments from the White House nor confidence that something worse won’t soon be discovered.
“It feels like a horror movie,” said one veteran Republican senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the consensus.
What you missed this week in the impeachment inquiry
The Republican Party’s strategy is being directed almost entirely by the frenzied impulses of Trump, who has exhibited fits of rage over the Democrats’ drive to remove him from office for abuse of power.
“I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters Friday. “This is a takedown of the Republican Party.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Although Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has been a loud dissenter, he has been speaking for himself as opposed to acting as a frontman for some silent caucus of like-minded Republicans, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Most GOP senators have been taking cues from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose paramount concern has been maintaining his party’s control of the chamber in next year’s election.
AD
“They’ve decided that they’re going to take it all grudgingly — and privately, perhaps, in disgust — but they’re not going to give up the farm,” said Al Cardenas, former chairman of the American Conservative Union. But, he added, “It’s been piling on, piling on, piling on, and I see defense fatigue on behalf of the Republicans in the Congress.”
Graham condemns House impeachment inquiry, slams process as ‘dangerous to the country’
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution denouncing the impeachment inquiry into President Trump in a news conference on Oct. 24. (The Washington Post)
Trump and his allies have strained to focus the debate on the process, but Republican officials have struggled to answer for the substance of the startling statements made by the growing list of credible witnesses from the national security and diplomatic realms.
Trump’s season of weakness: A president who prizes strength enters key stretch in a fragile state
“There’s frustration. It feels to everyone like they’re just digging a hole and making it worse. It just never ends. . . . It’s a total [expletive] show,” said one Republican strategist who has been advising a number of top senators and who, like several others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
McConnell, who has shared related concerns in private conversations with other senators, has been preparing for a possible Senate impeachment trial. And earlier this month he showed a dry PowerPoint presentation to Republican senators explaining how one might unfold.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
McConnell remains engaged with Trump but has a mixed view of the president’s advisers, several Republicans said, noting that he misses his productive working relationship with former White House counsel Donald McGahn and is “less enamored” with his successor, Pat Cipollone, according to a McConnell ally. A Senate GOP aide said McConnell and Cipollone have a good working relationship.
AD
As they went about their work at the Capitol this past week, many Senate Republicans were all but mute when reporters asked questions about impeachment — a stark snapshot of a party rattled not only by the House inquiry but also by Trump’s removal of U.S. troops from northern Syria; his decision, later retracted, to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort; and his claim that the investigation into him amounted to a “lynching.”
“I’m a juror and I’m comfortable not speaking,” Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) said. Pressed again for comment, he reiterated, “I said I’m comfortable not speaking.”
“I’d be a juror, so I have no comment,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.
“I don’t need a strategy for impeachment because I may be a juror someday,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.

BWHAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa

Two far left wing bigots who are butt hurt... They are making shit up.. AGAIN...

Get over yourselves... You have another 5 1/2 years of Trump...

 

[Third Party]

GOP lawmakers look aghast as they scramble to find any words to defend Donald Trump from their empty sacks of sad rhetoric.

They are done. They are doomed by the words of decent public servants compelled by subpoenas and sworn testimony which is exposing the truth of Donald Trump's misdeeds.

The GOP lawmakers tried to assemble a Trump howling mob to attack the investigators, but fell short of a quorum and disgraced themselves in the eyes of the public by a howling example of lawlessness.

GOP lawmakers are whimpering louder than Al Baghdadi.

Don't worry ladies and gentlemen, your horror and pain will be over soon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...510698-f75f-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Oct. 28, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. GMT+7

Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case to defend his conduct and anxious about the historic reckoning that likely awaits them.
Recent days have delivered the most damaging testimony yet about Trump and his advisers commandeering Ukraine policy for the president’s personal political goals, which his allies on Capitol Hill sought to undermine by storming the deposition room and condemning the inquiry as secretive and corrupt.
President Trump on Oct. 25 repeated his claim that he had a “perfect conversation” with his Ukrainian counterpart. (Reuters)
Those theatrics belie the deepening unease many Republicans now say they feel — particularly those in the Senate who are dreading having to weigh their conscience against their political calculations in deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump should the Democratic-controlled House impeach the president.
AD
In hushed conversations over the past week, GOP senators lamented that the fast-expanding probe is fraying their party, which remains completely in Trump’s grip. They voiced exasperation at the expectation that they defend the president against the troublesome picture that has been painted, with neither convincing arguments from the White House nor confidence that something worse won’t soon be discovered.
“It feels like a horror movie,” said one veteran Republican senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the consensus.
What you missed this week in the impeachment inquiry
The Republican Party’s strategy is being directed almost entirely by the frenzied impulses of Trump, who has exhibited fits of rage over the Democrats’ drive to remove him from office for abuse of power.
“I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters Friday. “This is a takedown of the Republican Party.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Although Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has been a loud dissenter, he has been speaking for himself as opposed to acting as a frontman for some silent caucus of like-minded Republicans, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Most GOP senators have been taking cues from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose paramount concern has been maintaining his party’s control of the chamber in next year’s election.
AD
“They’ve decided that they’re going to take it all grudgingly — and privately, perhaps, in disgust — but they’re not going to give up the farm,” said Al Cardenas, former chairman of the American Conservative Union. But, he added, “It’s been piling on, piling on, piling on, and I see defense fatigue on behalf of the Republicans in the Congress.”
Graham condemns House impeachment inquiry, slams process as ‘dangerous to the country’
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution denouncing the impeachment inquiry into President Trump in a news conference on Oct. 24. (The Washington Post)
Trump and his allies have strained to focus the debate on the process, but Republican officials have struggled to answer for the substance of the startling statements made by the growing list of credible witnesses from the national security and diplomatic realms.
Trump’s season of weakness: A president who prizes strength enters key stretch in a fragile state
“There’s frustration. It feels to everyone like they’re just digging a hole and making it worse. It just never ends. . . . It’s a total [expletive] show,” said one Republican strategist who has been advising a number of top senators and who, like several others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
McConnell, who has shared related concerns in private conversations with other senators, has been preparing for a possible Senate impeachment trial. And earlier this month he showed a dry PowerPoint presentation to Republican senators explaining how one might unfold.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
McConnell remains engaged with Trump but has a mixed view of the president’s advisers, several Republicans said, noting that he misses his productive working relationship with former White House counsel Donald McGahn and is “less enamored” with his successor, Pat Cipollone, according to a McConnell ally. A Senate GOP aide said McConnell and Cipollone have a good working relationship.
AD
As they went about their work at the Capitol this past week, many Senate Republicans were all but mute when reporters asked questions about impeachment — a stark snapshot of a party rattled not only by the House inquiry but also by Trump’s removal of U.S. troops from northern Syria; his decision, later retracted, to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort; and his claim that the investigation into him amounted to a “lynching.”
“I’m a juror and I’m comfortable not speaking,” Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) said. Pressed again for comment, he reiterated, “I said I’m comfortable not speaking.”
“I’d be a juror, so I have no comment,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.
“I don’t need a strategy for impeachment because I may be a juror someday,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.

I like you, so I hope you are right, but I think you are wrong. Get a hobby in case Trump is re-elected.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

It's a horror movie for the rest of America as well.

 

[Third Party]

It's a horror movie for the rest of America as well.

Good-those stuffed shirts need to deal with a street fighter to understand real life!

 

[wamose]

Trump's reelection is in the bag. There's absolutely no viable alternative. But even if Democrat party didn't turn completely to socialism-communism, they still don't have any leader who can lead. When you're talking about Biden, Sanders and Warren and then hoping that Hillary, Michelle or Oprah will come along and rescue them, you can really grasp the depth of desperation the Ds are experiencing. As for the fake news, they'll keep pounding impeachment and when that's over they'll switch to humping the leg of the Democratic nominee, raving how she is the greatest nominee in the past 40 years. Predictable.

 

[Third Party]

Trump's reelection is in the bag. There's absolutely no viable alternative. But even if Democrat party didn't turn completely to socialism-communism, they still don't have any leader who can lead. When you're talking about Biden, Sanders and Warren and then hoping that Hillary, Michelle or Oprah will come along and rescue them, you can really grasp the depth of desperation the Ds are experiencing. As for the fake news, they'll keep pounding impeachment and when that's over they'll switch to humping the leg of the Democratic nominee, raving how she is the greatest nominee in the past 40 years. Predictable.

Trump is hated. It COULD cost him. Just hope the Dems remain clueless.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Trump's reelection is in the bag. There's absolutely no viable alternative. But even if Democrat party didn't turn completely to socialism-communism, they still don't have any leader who can lead. When you're talking about Biden, Sanders and Warren and then hoping that Hillary, Michelle or Oprah will come along and rescue them, you can really grasp the depth of desperation the Ds are experiencing. As for the fake news, they'll keep pounding impeachment and when that's over they'll switch to humping the leg of the Democratic nominee, raving how she is the greatest nominee in the past 40 years. Predictable.

Trump is hated. It COULD cost him. Just hope the Dems remain clueless.

Democrats are hated as well.

 

[deannalw]

GOP lawmakers look aghast as they scramble to find any words to defend Donald Trump from their empty sacks of sad rhetoric.

They are done. They are doomed by the words of decent public servants compelled by subpoenas and sworn testimony which is exposing the truth of Donald Trump's misdeeds.

The GOP lawmakers tried to assemble a Trump howling mob to attack the investigators, but fell short of a quorum and disgraced themselves in the eyes of the public by a howling example of lawlessness.

GOP lawmakers are whimpering louder than Al Baghdadi.

Don't worry ladies and gentlemen, your horror and pain will be over soon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...510698-f75f-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Oct. 28, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. GMT+7

Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case to defend his conduct and anxious about the historic reckoning that likely awaits them.
Recent days have delivered the most damaging testimony yet about Trump and his advisers commandeering Ukraine policy for the president’s personal political goals, which his allies on Capitol Hill sought to undermine by storming the deposition room and condemning the inquiry as secretive and corrupt.
President Trump on Oct. 25 repeated his claim that he had a “perfect conversation” with his Ukrainian counterpart. (Reuters)
Those theatrics belie the deepening unease many Republicans now say they feel — particularly those in the Senate who are dreading having to weigh their conscience against their political calculations in deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump should the Democratic-controlled House impeach the president.
AD
In hushed conversations over the past week, GOP senators lamented that the fast-expanding probe is fraying their party, which remains completely in Trump’s grip. They voiced exasperation at the expectation that they defend the president against the troublesome picture that has been painted, with neither convincing arguments from the White House nor confidence that something worse won’t soon be discovered.
“It feels like a horror movie,” said one veteran Republican senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the consensus.
What you missed this week in the impeachment inquiry
The Republican Party’s strategy is being directed almost entirely by the frenzied impulses of Trump, who has exhibited fits of rage over the Democrats’ drive to remove him from office for abuse of power.
“I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters Friday. “This is a takedown of the Republican Party.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Although Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has been a loud dissenter, he has been speaking for himself as opposed to acting as a frontman for some silent caucus of like-minded Republicans, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Most GOP senators have been taking cues from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose paramount concern has been maintaining his party’s control of the chamber in next year’s election.
AD
“They’ve decided that they’re going to take it all grudgingly — and privately, perhaps, in disgust — but they’re not going to give up the farm,” said Al Cardenas, former chairman of the American Conservative Union. But, he added, “It’s been piling on, piling on, piling on, and I see defense fatigue on behalf of the Republicans in the Congress.”
Graham condemns House impeachment inquiry, slams process as ‘dangerous to the country’
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution denouncing the impeachment inquiry into President Trump in a news conference on Oct. 24. (The Washington Post)
Trump and his allies have strained to focus the debate on the process, but Republican officials have struggled to answer for the substance of the startling statements made by the growing list of credible witnesses from the national security and diplomatic realms.
Trump’s season of weakness: A president who prizes strength enters key stretch in a fragile state
“There’s frustration. It feels to everyone like they’re just digging a hole and making it worse. It just never ends. . . . It’s a total [expletive] show,” said one Republican strategist who has been advising a number of top senators and who, like several others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
McConnell, who has shared related concerns in private conversations with other senators, has been preparing for a possible Senate impeachment trial. And earlier this month he showed a dry PowerPoint presentation to Republican senators explaining how one might unfold.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
McConnell remains engaged with Trump but has a mixed view of the president’s advisers, several Republicans said, noting that he misses his productive working relationship with former White House counsel Donald McGahn and is “less enamored” with his successor, Pat Cipollone, according to a McConnell ally. A Senate GOP aide said McConnell and Cipollone have a good working relationship.
AD
As they went about their work at the Capitol this past week, many Senate Republicans were all but mute when reporters asked questions about impeachment — a stark snapshot of a party rattled not only by the House inquiry but also by Trump’s removal of U.S. troops from northern Syria; his decision, later retracted, to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort; and his claim that the investigation into him amounted to a “lynching.”
“I’m a juror and I’m comfortable not speaking,” Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) said. Pressed again for comment, he reiterated, “I said I’m comfortable not speaking.”
“I’d be a juror, so I have no comment,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.
“I don’t need a strategy for impeachment because I may be a juror someday,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.

What a pantsload of crap.

 

[Denizen]

GOP lawmakers look aghast as they scramble to find any words to defend Donald Trump from their empty sacks of sad rhetoric.

They are done. They are doomed by the words of decent public servants compelled by subpoenas and sworn testimony which is exposing the truth of Donald Trump's misdeeds.

The GOP lawmakers tried to assemble a Trump howling mob to attack the investigators, but fell short of a quorum and disgraced themselves in the eyes of the public by a howling example of lawlessness.

GOP lawmakers are whimpering louder than Al Baghdadi.

Don't worry ladies and gentlemen, your horror and pain will be over soon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...510698-f75f-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Oct. 28, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. GMT+7

Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case to defend his conduct and anxious about the historic reckoning that likely awaits them.
Recent days have delivered the most damaging testimony yet about Trump and his advisers commandeering Ukraine policy for the president’s personal political goals, which his allies on Capitol Hill sought to undermine by storming the deposition room and condemning the inquiry as secretive and corrupt.
President Trump on Oct. 25 repeated his claim that he had a “perfect conversation” with his Ukrainian counterpart. (Reuters)
Those theatrics belie the deepening unease many Republicans now say they feel — particularly those in the Senate who are dreading having to weigh their conscience against their political calculations in deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump should the Democratic-controlled House impeach the president.
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In hushed conversations over the past week, GOP senators lamented that the fast-expanding probe is fraying their party, which remains completely in Trump’s grip. They voiced exasperation at the expectation that they defend the president against the troublesome picture that has been painted, with neither convincing arguments from the White House nor confidence that something worse won’t soon be discovered.
“It feels like a horror movie,” said one veteran Republican senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the consensus.
What you missed this week in the impeachment inquiry
The Republican Party’s strategy is being directed almost entirely by the frenzied impulses of Trump, who has exhibited fits of rage over the Democrats’ drive to remove him from office for abuse of power.
“I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters Friday. “This is a takedown of the Republican Party.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Although Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has been a loud dissenter, he has been speaking for himself as opposed to acting as a frontman for some silent caucus of like-minded Republicans, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Most GOP senators have been taking cues from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose paramount concern has been maintaining his party’s control of the chamber in next year’s election.
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“They’ve decided that they’re going to take it all grudgingly — and privately, perhaps, in disgust — but they’re not going to give up the farm,” said Al Cardenas, former chairman of the American Conservative Union. But, he added, “It’s been piling on, piling on, piling on, and I see defense fatigue on behalf of the Republicans in the Congress.”
Graham condemns House impeachment inquiry, slams process as ‘dangerous to the country’
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution denouncing the impeachment inquiry into President Trump in a news conference on Oct. 24. (The Washington Post)
Trump and his allies have strained to focus the debate on the process, but Republican officials have struggled to answer for the substance of the startling statements made by the growing list of credible witnesses from the national security and diplomatic realms.
Trump’s season of weakness: A president who prizes strength enters key stretch in a fragile state
“There’s frustration. It feels to everyone like they’re just digging a hole and making it worse. It just never ends. . . . It’s a total [expletive] show,” said one Republican strategist who has been advising a number of top senators and who, like several others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
McConnell, who has shared related concerns in private conversations with other senators, has been preparing for a possible Senate impeachment trial. And earlier this month he showed a dry PowerPoint presentation to Republican senators explaining how one might unfold.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
McConnell remains engaged with Trump but has a mixed view of the president’s advisers, several Republicans said, noting that he misses his productive working relationship with former White House counsel Donald McGahn and is “less enamored” with his successor, Pat Cipollone, according to a McConnell ally. A Senate GOP aide said McConnell and Cipollone have a good working relationship.
AD
As they went about their work at the Capitol this past week, many Senate Republicans were all but mute when reporters asked questions about impeachment — a stark snapshot of a party rattled not only by the House inquiry but also by Trump’s removal of U.S. troops from northern Syria; his decision, later retracted, to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort; and his claim that the investigation into him amounted to a “lynching.”
“I’m a juror and I’m comfortable not speaking,” Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) said. Pressed again for comment, he reiterated, “I said I’m comfortable not speaking.”
“I’d be a juror, so I have no comment,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.
“I don’t need a strategy for impeachment because I may be a juror someday,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.

What a pantsload of crap.

I agree with your opinion of GOP lawmakers. No balls, no brains.

 

[DOTR]

GOP lawmakers look aghast as they scramble to find any words to defend Donald Trump from their empty sacks of sad rhetoric.

They are done. They are doomed by the words of decent public servants compelled by subpoenas and sworn testimony which is exposing the truth of Donald Trump's misdeeds.

The GOP lawmakers tried to assemble a Trump howling mob to attack the investigators, but fell short of a quorum and disgraced themselves in the eyes of the public by a howling example of lawlessness.

GOP lawmakers are whimpering louder than Al Baghdadi.

Don't worry ladies and gentlemen, your horror and pain will be over soon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...510698-f75f-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Oct. 28, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. GMT+7

Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case to defend his conduct and anxious about the historic reckoning that likely awaits them.
Recent days have delivered the most damaging testimony yet about Trump and his advisers commandeering Ukraine policy for the president’s personal political goals, which his allies on Capitol Hill sought to undermine by storming the deposition room and condemning the inquiry as secretive and corrupt.
President Trump on Oct. 25 repeated his claim that he had a “perfect conversation” with his Ukrainian counterpart. (Reuters)
Those theatrics belie the deepening unease many Republicans now say they feel — particularly those in the Senate who are dreading having to weigh their conscience against their political calculations in deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump should the Democratic-controlled House impeach the president.
AD
In hushed conversations over the past week, GOP senators lamented that the fast-expanding probe is fraying their party, which remains completely in Trump’s grip. They voiced exasperation at the expectation that they defend the president against the troublesome picture that has been painted, with neither convincing arguments from the White House nor confidence that something worse won’t soon be discovered.
“It feels like a horror movie,” said one veteran Republican senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the consensus.
What you missed this week in the impeachment inquiry
The Republican Party’s strategy is being directed almost entirely by the frenzied impulses of Trump, who has exhibited fits of rage over the Democrats’ drive to remove him from office for abuse of power.
“I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters Friday. “This is a takedown of the Republican Party.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Although Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has been a loud dissenter, he has been speaking for himself as opposed to acting as a frontman for some silent caucus of like-minded Republicans, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Most GOP senators have been taking cues from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose paramount concern has been maintaining his party’s control of the chamber in next year’s election.
AD
“They’ve decided that they’re going to take it all grudgingly — and privately, perhaps, in disgust — but they’re not going to give up the farm,” said Al Cardenas, former chairman of the American Conservative Union. But, he added, “It’s been piling on, piling on, piling on, and I see defense fatigue on behalf of the Republicans in the Congress.”
Graham condemns House impeachment inquiry, slams process as ‘dangerous to the country’
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution denouncing the impeachment inquiry into President Trump in a news conference on Oct. 24. (The Washington Post)
Trump and his allies have strained to focus the debate on the process, but Republican officials have struggled to answer for the substance of the startling statements made by the growing list of credible witnesses from the national security and diplomatic realms.
Trump’s season of weakness: A president who prizes strength enters key stretch in a fragile state
“There’s frustration. It feels to everyone like they’re just digging a hole and making it worse. It just never ends. . . . It’s a total [expletive] show,” said one Republican strategist who has been advising a number of top senators and who, like several others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
McConnell, who has shared related concerns in private conversations with other senators, has been preparing for a possible Senate impeachment trial. And earlier this month he showed a dry PowerPoint presentation to Republican senators explaining how one might unfold.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
McConnell remains engaged with Trump but has a mixed view of the president’s advisers, several Republicans said, noting that he misses his productive working relationship with former White House counsel Donald McGahn and is “less enamored” with his successor, Pat Cipollone, according to a McConnell ally. A Senate GOP aide said McConnell and Cipollone have a good working relationship.
AD
As they went about their work at the Capitol this past week, many Senate Republicans were all but mute when reporters asked questions about impeachment — a stark snapshot of a party rattled not only by the House inquiry but also by Trump’s removal of U.S. troops from northern Syria; his decision, later retracted, to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort; and his claim that the investigation into him amounted to a “lynching.”
“I’m a juror and I’m comfortable not speaking,” Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) said. Pressed again for comment, he reiterated, “I said I’m comfortable not speaking.”
“I’d be a juror, so I have no comment,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.
“I don’t need a strategy for impeachment because I may be a juror someday,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.

Washington Post practices the occult art of “visualization”.
But we ignore the ruling elite and can’t be separated from our president.

 

[harmonica]

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Denizen]

GOP lawmakers look aghast as they scramble to find any words to defend Donald Trump from their empty sacks of sad rhetoric.

They are done. They are doomed by the words of decent public servants compelled by subpoenas and sworn testimony which is exposing the truth of Donald Trump's misdeeds.

The GOP lawmakers tried to assemble a Trump howling mob to attack the investigators, but fell short of a quorum and disgraced themselves in the eyes of the public by a howling example of lawlessness.

GOP lawmakers are whimpering louder than Al Baghdadi.

Don't worry ladies and gentlemen, your horror and pain will be over soon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...510698-f75f-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

‘It feels like a horror movie’: Republicans feel anxious and adrift defending Trump

By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Oct. 28, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. GMT+7

Republican senators are lost and adrift as the impeachment inquiry enters its second month, navigating the grave threat to President Trump largely in the dark, frustrated by the absence of a credible case to defend his conduct and anxious about the historic reckoning that likely awaits them.
Recent days have delivered the most damaging testimony yet about Trump and his advisers commandeering Ukraine policy for the president’s personal political goals, which his allies on Capitol Hill sought to undermine by storming the deposition room and condemning the inquiry as secretive and corrupt.
President Trump on Oct. 25 repeated his claim that he had a “perfect conversation” with his Ukrainian counterpart. (Reuters)
Those theatrics belie the deepening unease many Republicans now say they feel — particularly those in the Senate who are dreading having to weigh their conscience against their political calculations in deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump should the Democratic-controlled House impeach the president.
AD
In hushed conversations over the past week, GOP senators lamented that the fast-expanding probe is fraying their party, which remains completely in Trump’s grip. They voiced exasperation at the expectation that they defend the president against the troublesome picture that has been painted, with neither convincing arguments from the White House nor confidence that something worse won’t soon be discovered.
“It feels like a horror movie,” said one veteran Republican senator, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the consensus.
What you missed this week in the impeachment inquiry
The Republican Party’s strategy is being directed almost entirely by the frenzied impulses of Trump, who has exhibited fits of rage over the Democrats’ drive to remove him from office for abuse of power.
“I did nothing wrong,” Trump told reporters Friday. “This is a takedown of the Republican Party.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), center, talks to journalists at the Capitol on Oct. 22. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Although Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has been a loud dissenter, he has been speaking for himself as opposed to acting as a frontman for some silent caucus of like-minded Republicans, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Most GOP senators have been taking cues from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose paramount concern has been maintaining his party’s control of the chamber in next year’s election.
AD
“They’ve decided that they’re going to take it all grudgingly — and privately, perhaps, in disgust — but they’re not going to give up the farm,” said Al Cardenas, former chairman of the American Conservative Union. But, he added, “It’s been piling on, piling on, piling on, and I see defense fatigue on behalf of the Republicans in the Congress.”
Graham condemns House impeachment inquiry, slams process as ‘dangerous to the country’
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution denouncing the impeachment inquiry into President Trump in a news conference on Oct. 24. (The Washington Post)
Trump and his allies have strained to focus the debate on the process, but Republican officials have struggled to answer for the substance of the startling statements made by the growing list of credible witnesses from the national security and diplomatic realms.
Trump’s season of weakness: A president who prizes strength enters key stretch in a fragile state
“There’s frustration. It feels to everyone like they’re just digging a hole and making it worse. It just never ends. . . . It’s a total [expletive] show,” said one Republican strategist who has been advising a number of top senators and who, like several others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
McConnell, who has shared related concerns in private conversations with other senators, has been preparing for a possible Senate impeachment trial. And earlier this month he showed a dry PowerPoint presentation to Republican senators explaining how one might unfold.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been explaining to Republican senators how a possible impeachment trial might unfold. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
McConnell remains engaged with Trump but has a mixed view of the president’s advisers, several Republicans said, noting that he misses his productive working relationship with former White House counsel Donald McGahn and is “less enamored” with his successor, Pat Cipollone, according to a McConnell ally. A Senate GOP aide said McConnell and Cipollone have a good working relationship.
AD
As they went about their work at the Capitol this past week, many Senate Republicans were all but mute when reporters asked questions about impeachment — a stark snapshot of a party rattled not only by the House inquiry but also by Trump’s removal of U.S. troops from northern Syria; his decision, later retracted, to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort; and his claim that the investigation into him amounted to a “lynching.”
“I’m a juror and I’m comfortable not speaking,” Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho) said. Pressed again for comment, he reiterated, “I said I’m comfortable not speaking.”
“I’d be a juror, so I have no comment,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.
“I don’t need a strategy for impeachment because I may be a juror someday,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.

Washington Post practices the occult art of “visualization”.
But we ignore the ruling elite and can’t be separated from our president.

You have superglued yourself to Donald Trump's anus?