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

I prefer to remain blissfully ignorant of how he speaks now, since I can't bring myself to ever actually watch him talk

ha

"I haven't decided who I'm going to endorse in 2020," Romney tells @jaketapper

— Rick Klein (@rickklein) January 2, 2019

until I see an actual vote against Trump I'm consider all this just a lot of posturing bullshit akin to his "maverick" predecessors

yup, for sure

ask and ye shall ... not receive

.@MittRomney to @jaketapper on shutdown: "i'll be with republicans. I think it's important to secure the border."

— Abigail Crutchfield (@ACrutchfield14) January 2, 2019

also important to secure dogs to roofs of cars iirc

"I acknowledged the president was successful and I was not," Romney said. "He did something I couldn’t do. He won, and I recognize that and appreciate that. But no, I’m not running again and we’ll see whether someone else does in a Republican primary or not."

the most common rebuttal I see to dunking on the flakes and romneys for their pearl clutching is “well what do you want them to do, abandon GOP policies” and well friends let me remind you the GOP has exactly zero policy positions except whatever trump says they have

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 2, 2019

Why — why — why — why is he not running one of those outlet malls. Why in the name of God can’t you tell me that? https://t.co/jFLn7Ga6za

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) January 2, 2019

I just realized that, now that it's January, we all can look forward to another State of the Union address from our current president. It may be the longest thing he reads all year.

isn't the Speaker of the House in charge of scheduling those lol

someone suggested upthread that she will request one during the shutdown for maximum embarassment, which would be lol

i think the suggestion was to request it on the day the next shutdown would have begun, but since we're already in shutdown ...

oh right

I wouldn't be surprised if this shutdown dragged on for weeks and maybe even months, Trump is so fucking stupid

and now is not a good time for the IRS to be furloughed btw

By 2/16/18, the IRS had paid out 01.2 billion in refunds. That's still six weeks away, but people will notice that. https://t.co/Mz6lMWaiTR https://t.co/v7Lglm88nr

— Richard Rubin (@RichardRubinDC) January 2, 2019

it's political suicide for him but hey what the hell

The IRS needs to put their union reps to work.

If I were Pelosi I would obtain an unwholesome enjoyment from savouring when I would ask Trump to give the State of the Union. Imagine what you could time it to coincide with, or follow on from.

Trump will probably just refuse to give one.

or hand in something written in sharpie

He'll be Facetiming the SotU from the toity this year, mark my words.

Look, the PAYGO rule is bad policy. But if Dems ditch it, they'll lose all those single-issue, deficit-reduction voters who plan to carefully study the Democratic Party’s changes to House procedure before going to the ballot box in 2020! https://t.co/qzPLcDcEpi

— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) January 2, 2019

Sure like to see ol' donny trump wriggle his way out of *this* jam

It's been a high honor to serve @POTUS & the American People as @Interior Secretary. We've restored public lands “for the benefit & enjoyment of the people,” improved public access & shall never be held hostage again for our energy needs. God bless America & those who defend her. pic.twitter.com/JXzVmrpDTg

— Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) January 2, 2019

You posted that so I would spit on my monitor, right?

Zinke's handwriting is kind of hard to read but I'm pretty sure that says "avaricious people," not "American people"

have they said what committees romney will be on?

Trump's already appointed him head of The Itty Bitty Mitty Committee.

That cabinet meet today was great. When he used the phrase "We're not talkin' about..." at one point (in reference to what, I forget), I thought of Allen Iverson not-talking about practice.

"meeting"

According to CNN witches favor Democrats and they are offended that the Meuller investigation is described as a Witch Hunt. There is no reason for the witches to be offended because Witch Hunt derives from,for example,the Salem Witch Hunts where people were executed unjustly.

— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) January 3, 2019

at what point do these people get laughed out of town??

When the first missiles hit

let the subpoenas roll!

good morning!

bring it

"Mr Trump reportedly told Ms Pelosi she should support the wall as she was a "good Catholic" and the Vatican City had a wall."

got 'er

I hated border wall until I remembered that my house has walls now I am fan of border wall.

just don't call wall (or farmer subsidies) socialisms

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/thom-hartmann-the-gop-is-reviving-one-of-its-favorite-scams/

"Mr Trump reportedly told Ms Pelosi she should support concentration camps as she was a "good Girl Scout" and Scouts go to camp."

"Mr Trump reportedly told Ms Pelosi she should support torture as she was a "good Jackson 5 fan" and "Torture" was a jam."

something there is that totally loves a wall, absolutely the best wall, just so good

Who could hate wall, it start with same letter as water and everybody need water

I don't know how this fuckin' dumbshit manages to walk upright, I really don't.

Give'em hell, Mitt!

Senator-elect @MittRomney: I would vote for the border wall https://t.co/zYdIqx4TXf @TheLeadCNN

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 2, 2019

20-foot jenga wall, my friend

Who on earth honestly believed that Romney was going to diverge from the party line in any respect beyond incredibly meek resistance to Trumpism?

Morning Joe

Joe and Mika

What is the name of this condition that, absent any solid supporting evidence, makes people think that someone is suddenly going to start behaving more virtuously than they've behaved for literally their entire adult life?