Froth Slosh B'Gosh

Well, It Seems....

That "Send her back" will be the "Lock her up" of the 2020 campaign.  

This sort of rhetoric gets people killed.

LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP!

From a purely political standpoint, this is the most earth-shattering day of my life.  Two of Trump's close confidants are off to prison, and Cohen admitted he coordinated payments to porn stars to influence the election.  

 

In a normal world, this would be the end of Trump.  But the spineless Republican cowards in Congress will do nothing.

IOKIYAR

Because it always is.

"And you have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week when we thought that was one of the options," Shannon Edwards, a forensic psychologist in Pittsburgh with whom the congressman admitted last month to having a relationship, wrote to Mr. Murphy on Jan. 25, in the midst of an unfounded pregnancy scare.
A text from Mr. Murphy’s cell phone number that same day in response says, "I get what you say about my March for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don't write any more. I will."
The congressman has been lauded by the Family Research Council, for his stance on abortion, as well as for family values, generally. He also has been endorsed by LifePAC, which opposes abortion rights, and is a member of the House Pro-Life Caucus, an affiliation that is often cited by his office.

And he will pay no price politically, because he's a Republican.

Buyer's Remorse

You thought that Trump and the Republicans actually cared about you. You were wrong. I'm very, very sorry and saddened that you're getting shafted by the politicians you trusted, but we tried to warn you, and you didn't listen.

 

Another Day, Another Scandal

Jeff Sessions is a liar.

At his Jan. 10 Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Sessions was asked by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) what he would do if he learned of any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of the 2016 campaign.

“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” he responded. He added: “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I did not have communications with the Russians.”

Of course, we now know that he did, in fact, have at least two encounters, one of which was a private meeting, with the Russian ambassador.  Now, amid calls for his resignation, Sessions announced he was recusing himself from the probe into Russian efforts to influence the election.  As well he should, since he's now a potential target.

Not even two months in, and this is shaping up as the most corrupt administration ever.

Your Asshole Of The Day

This woman.

 

They are who we thought they were.

Associate Groper Of The Supreme Court?

Well, this is interesting.

An Alaska lawyer said Justice Clarence Thomas groped her at a dinner party in 1999, a claim that Thomas said is “preposterous,” the National Law Journal reported Thursday.

The publication said Moira Smith posted on Facebook about the alleged incident Oct. 7, the night of the disclosure of Republican presidential nominee’ Donald Trump’s taped boasts about grabbing women.

The NLJ report said Smith, at the time a 23-year-old Truman Foundation scholar, said that the incident occurred at the Falls Church, Va., home of her boss. She said Thomas grabbed and squeezed her buttocks several times.

“He groped me while I was setting the table, suggesting I should sit ‘right next to him,’ ” Smith wrote, according to the NLJ report...

Thomas, in a statement through the Supreme Court’s press office, denied Smith’s allegations.

“This claim is preposterous and it never happened,” Thomas said.

Now, IIRC, Congress spent quite a bit of time and money investigating a certain president accused of having a consensual relationship with a woman.   It seems to me that if a sitting Supreme Court Justice, a person who can only be removed from office via impeachment, is accused of sexual assault, shouldn't the Congress put together an investigative committee to determine if the accusation is credible or not?  Think that will happen?  Because IOKIYAR, I seriously doubt that will happen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 "She had HUGE....tracts of land!"

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Your Asshole Of The Day

Curt Schilling.

Congresscritters Say The Darndest Things!

Let's hear from Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.)!

“The grievance in their minds — the animus, the anger — they hate white people, because white people are successful and they’re not,” Pittenger told BBC Newsnight when he was asked about what is driving heated protests in Charlotte.

What century is it again?  The 19th?  Early 20th?

 

The Company He Keeps

Ben Carson looks shadier by the day.

Dr. Carson wrote that Costa was "an extraordinarily successful real estate developer" and "a man of his word. ... I could literally trust him with all of my earthly possessions and rest assured that I would get them all back with interest." Other than his wife, Dr. Carson wrote, "there is no one on this planet that I trust more than Al Costa."

The context for the laudatory comments, though, was Costa's sentencing on one count of health care fraud....

Five years later, the Associated Press reported, Dr. Carson said that those convicted of health care fraud should go to prison for at least a decade and be forced to forfeit “all of one’s personal possessions.”

Costa, by contrast, got two years of probation, a $250,000 fine and $44,579 in restitution.

Obviously, just because Costa committed fraud doesn't mean that Carson is guilty of Costa's crime, but it does reveal that he holds his close friends to a different standard.  This, along with the lies in his autobiography and associations with another questional business certainly call his judgement into question.