damn_registrars's Journal: POTUS Emeritus Alfred E Neuman on Trump

Bush's comments came after a prominent Republican in Congress, Rep. Darrell Issa of California, called for a special prosecutor to investigate whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and was in touch with Trump's top advisers during the campaign.

Bush said he would trust Senate Intelligence panel Chairman Richard Burr to decide if a special prosecutor is necessary.

But, Bush added, "I think we all need answers ... I'm not sure the right avenue to take. I am sure, though, that that question needs to be answered."

Indeed our world has now been turned upside-down. Not only does Trump make GWB look intelligent and well-spoken, he even makes him look presidential or diplomatic. While we already knew a while ago that the GOP took such a hard right turn that it would reject Reagan himself as a commie, now they've dove headfirst so enthusiastically into the loonie bin that Bush seems like a born leader and statesman.

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[Captain Splendid]

If Darrell Issa, of all people, is calling for a special prosecutor, things are way worse than anyone thinks for Team Cheeto.

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[damn_registrars]

Last I heard, bookies in Vegas are giving better odds against Trump finishing his 4 year term than to finish it. Nonetheless I expect we'll here the GOP tagging Issa as a "RINO" soon; after all he is from Califoni-stan which produced that evil liberal Ronald Reagan.

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[Zontar The Mindless]

And now Trump's blaming all dissent on Obama [bbc.com]. WTF??

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[damn_registrars]

Worth noting that we have also gone back to dissent being dangerous, "Un-American", and dangerously "Un-American". In other words we're back to 2002, only we have an even bigger idiot in residence at 1600 Pennsylvania and the people working the levers of power are even more drunk on power juice and empty rhetoric. If only the opposition had a spine we might be able to save our democracy, though at this point we might all find ourselves with front row seats to the inferno instead.

I heard it was a nice

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[Zontar The Mindless]

Fortunately, it's a bit more difficult for him to argue with his own party and the military [bbc.com], or to dismiss them as Obama-inspired rabble.

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[damn_registrars]

Your third-from-last word is their new dog whistle, though. He just needs to remind the GOP that his new efforts will work to discredit Obama and they'll sign off on whatever he wants. If he said that he wanted to raise taxes on the top 1% to fund a Trump moon base to assert American dominance in the wake of the Obama Administration the GOP congress-critters would trip over each other to be the first to cast their votes in favor.

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[damn_registrars]

I just poked through your comments and saw you got our buddy the fake conservative going. I'd love to see him dodge a request for an example that supports the allegation he laid in that discussion; that should be good theater.