US Politics January 2019: we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger

He wants to overturn Roe vs Wade, believes the President should be able to fire any US attorney, all but said that as AG he will redact the Mueller report, and is anti-LGBTQ rights.

I agree these are not reasons that Republicans will vote against him.

My biggest takeaway from this so far is that both Grassley and Leahy are soooooooooooooooooooooo old.

basic GOP shit. He's already done the job, I will be curious who of the Dems would vote against him. He's not an idiot, he actually came off ok during the hearing. I also don't give a shit about career advice to little Jimmy, Ethan, Jayden, Squi, that was driving me crazy.

TSA guy at LaGuardia Airport when asked if he’s getting paid: “No and I voted for him, the f***in’ Bozo.”

— Mike Barnicle (@mikebarnicle) January 14, 2019

I think it would be worth the sacrifice/gamble to get this turd in ASAP to get Whitaker out.

yeah Barr was always getting in, and having done the job under Poppy he's difficult for Dems to oppose (and it's possible if they held the majority a few of them would defect).

Trump is not going to nominate someone more palatable than Barr.

Oh his answer to jailing journalists is bad. FFS I hope the entire legacy of his career ends up dog food.

getting barr confirmed in the era of no filibusters is a foregone conclusion, unless the proverbial dead woman or live boy comes to light

Trump can wake up with both and the base will applaud his audacity.

An exchange to watch. Cory Booker confronts William Barr's record on the criminal justice.

"Sir, I was a young black guy in 1990s. I was a 20-something-year-old. And I experienced a dramatically different justice system." Via CSPAN pic.twitter.com/QUwInNExvq

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 15, 2019

Here is a reminder that due process is a constitutional standard that does not apply here which you would think a possible AG would know 🤷🏻‍♀️

— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) January 15, 2019

Harris gets Barr to say he thinks a wall would help prevent drug trafficking then notes that most drugs trafficked into the US enter through ports of entry

Barr concedes this quietly

It's been about 30 years since he's been to a port of entry he says

— Jessica Mason Pieklo (@Hegemommy) January 15, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS is recalling 46,000 workers — nearly 60 percent of its workforce — from furlough to handle tax refunds without pay.

— darlene superville (@dsupervilleap) January 15, 2019

Rep @SteveKingIA: “13 words have caused this firestorm.”

— Alex Moe (@AlexNBCNews) January 15, 2019

should've added one more

heh

Staffer behind Cory B is amazing as always -- she was also possibly the best thing about the Kavanaugh hearings.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A52bs7D4qHw/0.jpg

Meantime

https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Politics/mueller-plows-ahead-issuing-subpoenas-associates-conservative-commentator/story?id=60391636

So many of the Barr questions (from both sides!) are either literally or implicitly variations on "Trump, his family and his associates are under all sorts of investigations, criminal and otherwise: Federally, privately, in several states. Can you promise to let these play out?" Does not bode well for the 300 pound elephant in the room.

I will say it's sort of refreshing, GOP ass or not, that Barr is not relying on "that's a hypothetical" as a lame dodge. He's generally given reasoned responses, like them or not. For example, on the legalization of cannabis, he flat out said he would prefer it be illegal even while stating he would not undermine what's going on at the state level and going further by saying (more or less) he'd prefer they just go ahead and legalize it on a national level rather than deal with these ad hoc contradictions. He's even responding, right now, on the "indict a sitting president" question, at least to some degree.

kinda feel for mueller having to interview all these lying shitbags. between corsi, stone, credico and nunberg and I dont know how you could cut through the bullshit and obfuscation to get the truth of the matter. probably explains why its taking so goddamn long to indict stone.

I also omitted one very obvious lying shitbag to my post above but you get my drift

Speaking of Mueller, some fun details in here

Mueller's submission on evidence that Manafort lied is a 31-page sworn declaration from FBI agent Jeffrey Weiland, accompanied by a few hundred pages of exhibits. Lots of redactions. pic.twitter.com/y2SimWaEsb

— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) January 15, 2019

just wanted too examine

https://s.abcnews.com/images/Politics/manafort-roger-stone-gty-hb-181017_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg

nice Hitler haircut

Yay I mean uh.

Couple senior Republican lawmakers tell me the only way this breaks open is if TSA employees stay home and Americans get furious about their flights. That’s the only out, they say. And they’re close to the WH.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) January 15, 2019

I like how they're strategy is just to wait until things get really awful - hey maybe even some people will die! - before they cave.

Roffle

Steve King just unloaded on House GOP in interview w conservative talker Ed Martin.

"I'm comfortable standing before God. If I had anybody else's soul, I would not be."

On Kevin McCarthy: "He decided he's going to believe the New York Times over Steve King."

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 15, 2019

their strategy

xp

Lots of Trump supporters receive food stamps.

"Steve King not sorry! No one believe Steve King, but Steve King good person! Steve King good! If people have problem with Steve King, bring up with Steve King. Steve King have problem with New York Times, New York Times real problem, not Steve King!"

XP "Let them eat Wendy's..."

When you speak the truth for the wrong reasons.

Steve King on Liz Cheney: "She's called for my resignation! She's been here two years! What would give her the moral authority or the intellectual judgment to do something like that?"

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 15, 2019

Whoops!

Whoa: this @peterbakernyt story reveals that Trump called a Times reporter shortly after meeting Putin in July 2017 "and argued that the Russians were falsely accused of election interference" https://t.co/v34eHzKyAX pic.twitter.com/yx7MnnDEbm

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 16, 2019

based, no doubt, on Putin's "very strong" denials, even though Trump put the screws to him, by asking him three times if they'd interfered.

Huh, I didn't know Cheney spawn was in Congress.

News: @SpeakerPelosi letter to President Trump suggesting he move State of the Union until after government re-opens - or submit his speech in writing instead - due to Shutdown effect in DHS and Secret Service, via @FoxReports & @arogDC: pic.twitter.com/CPMvjm7shr

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) January 16, 2019

Good morning!

Could he summarize the state of the union in a photograph? I have a recent one in mind.

i dunno if i'd describe goatse as recent per se but otherwise otm

despite the headlines it doesn't seem like Pelosi is "asking" him, exactly

also this is Trump's biggest ratings event of the year so lmao

lol Christie got left on read by the WH now trashes them

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/425578-christie-says-trump-is-surrounded-by-revolving-door-of-grifters

Politico reports:

President Donald Trump is often called thin-skinned. It’s usually not meant literally. But the back of Trump’s right hand was covered with an adhesive bandage during a Thursday trip to McAllen, Texas, with blood visibly seeping through the dressing. His hand was similarly bandaged again on Monday as he departed for a trip to New Orleans.

Armchair medics studying photos that circulated online this week leapt to dramatic conclusions. But the White House said on Tuesday that Trump sustained the injury while playing with his 12-year-old son. “The President was having fun and joking around with his son Barron and scratched his hand,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told POLITICO.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/15/trump-health-bloody-hand-bandage-1102245

let the fun theories begin

".. on a cheese grater.."

trump 'having fun and joking around' with barron is perhaps the least plausible explanation they could have come up with

Yeah, Pelosi is definitely not asking, she presides over joint sessions of Congress and is telling him outright he can either reschedule for when the government is open, or submit the SOTU in writing.

Barron fending off Trump with scimitar

I'm guessing 'having fun and joking around with' is basically code for 'making a clumsy attempt at killing and eating'.

lmao he couldn't pick Barron out of a lineup

love too quote The Constitution when addressing the president