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Many Congressional Democrats are asking Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, to follow his own rule concerning a president’s ability to nominate a new Supreme Court justice. McConnell prevented Barack Obama from nominating a justice to fill the seat of the late Antonin Scalia on the theory that a president should not be able to appoint a new Supreme Court justice during an election year.
Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, has asked McConnell to put off consideration for a new justice to replace the retiring Anthony Kennedy until after this year’s midterm elections. But trying to shame McConnell into abiding by his own rule seems like a complete waste of time. The man is incapable of self-reproach.
A better rule for Democrats to use in their effort to stop the consideration of the newly nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Court is the “Booker Rule.” Namely, there should be no Supreme Court pick while a president remains under criminal investigation.
Here is how Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) explained his position:
“President Trump is currently a subject of an ongoing criminal investigation, and any nomination of a Supreme Court justice while that investigation continues is unacceptable because of the clear conflict of interest inherent in the President installing someone who could be the deciding vote on a number of potential issues from that investigation that could come before the Court.”
Democrats need to keep repeating the “Booker Rule” until they’re blue in the face (no pun intended).
It is common sense that no person under criminal investigation should be able to literally pick his own judge. And on that matter, Kavanaugh has written, in a 2009 article for the Minnesota Law Review, that presidents should be immune while in office from “time-consuming and distracting” criminal investigations. “Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the President’s focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people. And a President who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as President.”
No, Democrats should not be playing the “shame” or “hypocrisy” card but the “conflict of interest” card. It is difficult to defend the idea that Trump should be able to choose a justice who may soon decide his legal fate. The “Booker Rule.”
Granted Dems don’t have the votes to block Kavanaugh’s nomination but if enough pressure is placed on a few moderate Republicans, and those Blue Dog Democrats, the day may yet be won.
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President Pelosi… the title has a nice alliterative ring to it, don’t you think?
Yes, while the possibility of the California representative ever moving into the White House is slimmer than a germ’s chance at a Lysol convention, it’s fun, and heck downright delicious, to consider!
Here’s the scenario. First, Democrats regain control of the House (and maybe the Senate, for good measure) after the mid-term elections. Following explosive revelations by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller of the Trump regime’s wrongdoing, the House impeaches both Trump and Pence. The Senate then votes to convict both and removes them from office at the same time. Of course, House Democrats would have to vote Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House once again. But as the next in line to the presidency, Pelosi becomes the nation’s 46th president.
If this farfetched scenario were ever to happen, it would not take place in 2018 but 2019, when the new Congress organizes in January. So the earliest this theoretical Democratic majority could consider articles of impeachment would be the start of the new year..
Hey, almost anything is possible, no matter how ridiculously unlikely. Remember when we all thought there was no way in hell we would ever mouth the words “President Trump?”
“Dreams, if they’re any good, are always a little bit crazy. ”
― Ray Charles
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Leave it to Fox News host Laura Ingraham to set the record straight. While some have called the federal detention centers, set up for brown children seeking refuge in the United States, “prisons” or “concentration camps,” Ingraham likened the facilities to “essentially summer camps.”
Is there any wonder why immigrant parents fleeing gang violence within there countries are rushing to our southern border to enroll their kids?
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Today Donald Trump celebrates his 72nd birthday. Messages are pouring in from around the world … Russia, China, Philippines and North Korea!
Donald Trump has called off his much-anticipated meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un scheduled for June 12 in Singapore.
In a letter to the communist leader he once called “Little Rocket Man,” Trump wrote:
Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place.
But in true Trumpian fashion, the man who is cancelling the tête-à-tête ends his letter by telling Kim Jong-un:
If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write.
The dramatic turn of events has caught everyone by surprise, especially the 18 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, all Republicans, who only three weeks ago nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
As a famous Seinfeld character might now say, “No Nobel Prize for you! Come back one year!”
In retrospect, it did seem farfetched Trump would actually meet with Kim Jong-un and, even more dubious, Trump could have convinced him to give up his nuclear weapons. But the Trump team believed and plowed right ahead. They even minted a commemorative coin for the historic meeting that will not take place.
It appears that the coin is still being sold on the White House Gift Shop website at the price of $24.95… but if you act today, you can buy a coin at a discounted price: The coins are now sold at the Gift Shop’s “Deal of the Day” price of $19.95.
It would not be surprising if Trump has gotten his hands on a batch of the coins. After all, our avid golfer-in-chief could use the gaudy “minted-before-its-time” coin to mark his ball on the golf course.
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While the North Vietnamese were holding John McCain a prisoner of war, Donald Trump, who avoided Vietnam because of a “bum foot”, was telling Howard Stern:
It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of […] It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider.
Here is more of the transcript from the 1998 interview with radio shock jock Howard Stern::
STERN: A lot of guys who went through Vietnam came out unscathed. A lot of guys going through the 80’s having sex with different women came out with AIDS and all kinds of things.
TRUMP: This is better than Vietnam, but it’s uh… it’s more fun.
STERN: A little better, but every vagina is a landmine, haven’t we both said that in private?
TRUMP: [intense laughter] I think it is a potential landmine. There’s some real danger there.
STERN: When you go to a bar, do you ever go with a fleet of doctors and have them check all the women, and then party with the uninfected?
TRUMP: [laughter] The few! You mean the few uninfected!
TRUMP: You have to have a roving doctor, his office has to be in your briefcase. He has to be your best friend. He has to go with you at all times. He has to do onsite tests. [laughter]
Cadet Bone Spurs, there is only one great and very brave soldier in the above photo. For damn sure it isn’t you!
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Cognitive Dissonance – “The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.”
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According to the Independent, Donald Trump plays golf almost three times as much as Barack Obama. That’s the same Donald Trump who promised voters, “I’m not gonna play much golf because there’s a lot of work to be done.”
Obama played a total of 333 rounds of golf during his 8 years as president. According to Trumpgolfcount.com, Trump has already hit the links 105 times in 1 1/3 years in office… at a cost of over $65 million to John Q. Public.
Like so many Trump lies told to his gullible supporters during the presidential campaign, the “no golf” whopper is a real doozy. It is like the “hole-in-one” of lies… a spectacular feat!
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Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, is everywhere these days. In the last few months he has practically become a regular on MSNBC, especially Lawrence O’Donnell’s, The Last Word.
If you didn’t know any better, you might think Avenatti is some off-Broadway bit player who suddenly got his big shot on the Great White Way thanks to his high-profile client, Miss Daniels.
You’d be wrong!
Michael Avenatti is considered one of the top trial lawyers in the country, having built a reputation as an aggressive litigator through many noteworthy cases across the land. He has brought lawsuits against the National Football League, various celebrity defendants, including Paris Hilton and Jim Carrey, athletes, high-ranking business executives and Fortune 100 companies.
Avenatti’s website claims he has been responsible, as lead counsel, for over $1 Billion in verdicts and settlements, including many well in excess of $10,000,000.
The now ubiquitous attorney is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, making him a fellow alumnus with Donald Trump! Avenatti went on to attend the law school at George Washington University, graduating Order of the Coif, first in his class.
In an alternate universe, Avenatti would be Trump’s lawyer, not one who has initiated two lawsuits against him. Avenatti is bold, brash, self-confident and fearless … just the kind of qualities Trump likes.
But Avenatti is saddled with one trait that Trump seems to shy away from… brains.
Trump’s lawyers, whichever ones are still left representing him, are mostly a subservient group who cannot control their client. No matter the sound legal advice given him, Donald Trump wants to call the shots, legal wisdom be damned.
Thanks to Stormy Daniels and her lawsuits against Trump, Michael Avenatti has made his way out of the insular world of the legal community and into primetime.
No doubt Avenatti’s stock has increased dramatically thanks to one Donald J. Trump. Don’t expect Avenatti to fade into the woodwork anytime soon.
When it comes to Trump, I picture Avenatti repeating, in his mind, the words made famous by George M. Cohan … “my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!”
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