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    Meanwhile, another rat runs for cover and WBE, this one will bring you some joy. Say good-bye to Peter King.

    U.S. Rep. Peter King of New York says he will not seek reelection in 2020. The Long Island Republican has cultivated a reputation for bipartisanship during his 14 terms in Congress, while maintaining a hard line on immigration and crime. https://t.co/P5hHbWt21C

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Whoa! I had no idea denial was a river in Iowa!
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Whoa! I had no idea denial was a river in Iowa!
    I think that river flows through many states and is probably longer than the Mississippi.
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    Mulvaney’s move to join impeachment testimony lawsuit rankles Bolton allies

    White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s last-minute effort to join a lawsuit that could determine whether senior administration officials testify in the impeachment inquiry was an unwelcome surprise to former top national security aides, highlighting internal divisions among President Trump’s advisers in the face of the probe.

    Former national security adviser John Bolton’s advisers and allies were taken aback to learn late Friday that Mulvaney had gone to court seeking to join a separation-of-powers lawsuit filed against Trump and the House leadership, according to people familiar with their views, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing inquiry.

    The suit was filed by Bolton’s former deputy, Charles Kupperman, who is asking a federal judge to determine whether a congressional subpoena takes precedence over a White House order not to comply with the inquiry. Bolton is willing to testify if the judge rules in favor of the House, The Washingon Post previously reported.
    People close to Bolton and Kupperman said the two were flabbergasted by Mulvaney’s surprise request to join the lawsuit because they and others on the national security team considered Mulvaney a critical player in the effort to get the Ukrainian government to pursue investigations into Trump’s political opponents.

    Their objection is twofold: Bolton views Mulvaney as a key participant in the pressure campaign, a situation that the then-national security adviser referred to derisively as “a drug deal,” according to congressional testimony by his aides. The two men were barely on speaking terms when Bolton left his post in September, according to White House officials.

    And they believe Mulvaney’s goal is to avoid testifying by joining a suit involving officials whose attorney has argued they may be limited in what they can share with Congress because of their role advising the president on national security matters.
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    How the Trump Administration Eroded Its Own Legal Case on DACA

    WASHINGTON — When Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared before news cameras at the Justice Department in early September 2017 to announce that President Trump was ending deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, he knew the administration had left itself more legally vulnerable than it should have.

    At a contentious meeting in the White House Roosevelt Room several days earlier, Elaine C. Duke, then the acting secretary of homeland security, had broken with the rest of Mr. Trump’s team and balked at its demand that she issue a memo ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program known as DACA that shields immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

    Ms. Duke was deeply bothered by the idea that she could be responsible for deporting hundreds of thousands of young people from the country they considered their own. And she did not want her name on the policy rationales put forth by Mr. Sessions; Stephen Miller, the president’s powerful immigration adviser; and others who argued that the program encouraged new waves of illegal immigration and was an undeserved amnesty.

    She eventually relented under merciless pressure. But her refusal to cite their policy objections to the program is now at the heart of what legal experts say is a major weakness in the government’s case defending the termination of the program, which will be argued on Tuesday at the Supreme Court.
    The bare-bones rescission memo by Ms. Duke, a career civil servant who volunteered with an immigrant aid group in her free time, relied solely on an assertion by Mr. Sessions that it was unlawful. Even Mr. Sessions knew that was the thinnest possible rationale, according to several people familiar with his thinking who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal private deliberations. If courts disagreed, Mr. Sessions knew, the president would lose.

    That is just what happened in lower courts. Judges have ruled that by citing only a flawed legal rationale for ending DACA — and no policy justifications — the administration’s decision was “arbitrary and capricious,” an illegal exercise of presidential power without any legitimate basis to end a program relied on by about 700,000 people. Had the administration simply declared that it was changing direction as a matter of policy, the rulings indicated, the rescission would have been a routine exercise of executive discretion.
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    Another defense that just has me shaking my head, this one's worse than Graham's
    Mac Thornberry: While it was inappropriate for Mr Trump to have asked a foreign country to help discredit a political opponent, he should not be impeached for it because it’s the way he acts all the time. There’s not really anything the president said in that phone call that’s different to what he says in public all the time.
    So is there some sort of abuse of power that rises to that threshold that is different than the American people have been hearing for three years? I don’t hear that.

    So because he's been corrupt since before he was elected it's okay to be corrupt now?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thwhtGuardian View Post
    Another defense that just has me shaking my head, this one's worse than Graham's
    Mac Thornberry: While it was inappropriate for Mr Trump to have asked a foreign country to help discredit a political opponent, he should not be impeached for it because it’s the way he acts all the time. There’s not really anything the president said in that phone call that’s different to what he says in public all the time.
    So is there some sort of abuse of power that rises to that threshold that is different than the American people have been hearing for three years? I don’t hear that.

    So because he's been corrupt since before he was elected it's okay to be corrupt now?
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    Do you hold Morales accountable to any of his actions that lead to this?

    There seems to be plenty of reasons to not support this person and their behavior in office. Merely being a socialist, in a country America has wrongly interfered with, does not make him innocent or laudable either.

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    After push from Perry, backers got huge gas deal in Ukraine

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two political supporters of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry secured a potentially lucrative oil and gas exploration deal from the Ukrainian government soon after Perry proposed one of the men as an adviser to the country’s new president.

    Perry’s efforts to influence Ukraine’s energy policy came earlier this year, just as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s new government was seeking military aid from the United States to defend against Russian aggression and allies of President Donald Trump were ramping up efforts to get the Ukrainians to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
    Ukraine awarded the contract to Perry’s supporters little more than a month after the U.S. energy secretary attended Zelenskiy’s May inauguration. In a meeting during that trip, Perry handed the new president a list of people he recommended as energy advisers. One of the four names was his longtime political backer Michael Bleyzer.

    A week later, Bleyzer and his partner Alex Cranberg submitted a bid to drill for oil and gas at a sprawling government-controlled site called Varvynska. They offered millions of dollars less to the Ukrainian government than their only competitor for the drilling rights, according to internal Ukrainian government documents obtained by The Associated Press. But their newly created joint venture, Ukrainian Energy, was awarded the 50-year contract because a government-appointed commission determined they had greater technical expertise and stronger financial backing, the documents show.

    Perry likely had outsized influence in Ukraine. Testimony in the impeachment inquiry into Trump shows the energy secretary was one of three key U.S. officials who were negotiating a meeting between Trump and the Ukrainian leader.

    The sequence of events suggests the Trump administration’s political maneuvering in Ukraine was entwined with the big business of the energy trade.
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    Trump has announced that he's considering attending Russia's May Day parade.

    Biden is taken aback.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...-may-day-event
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    Quote Originally Posted by Theleviathan View Post
    Do you hold Morales accountable to any of his actions that lead to this?

    There seems to be plenty of reasons to not support this person and their behavior in office. Merely being a socialist, in a country America has wrongly interfered with, does not make him innocent or laudable either.
    Rosa's earlier links do address some of these points.

    The Supreme Court of Bolivia did rule that he could run for another term. Rural votes do come in later, and that's where his base is, so there is an explanation for discrepancies.

    The article is kinda vague about what exactly is going on in Bolivia that is so outrageous. Is the retaliation against protesters by pro-government gangs something Morales should be blamed for?

    There is an argument that governments can't survive when a high enough percentage of the population is protesting in the streets. That could have happened in Bolivia.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ist-techniques

    This does seem to an odd comparison for the American left since you could imagine a similar situation for Trump. We're in a country that's divided regionally (urban and inner suburban areas for Democrats; outer suburbia and rural areas for Republicans) so this can be a test case for how to respond to the aftermath of a divisive election.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rosa Luxemburg View Post
    A source on what?

    Are you expecting the CIA to come out and admit they're involved in a military coup in Latin America?

    A Socialist leader in Latin America has been ousted by the country's right-wing and you don't think the CIA is involved? Are we going to pretend Operation Condor never happened?
    So it's just more socialist conspiracy theories then.

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    Oh darn! Information Geek got there before I did.

    We can say good riddance to Peter King. <3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    Rosa's earlier links do address some of these points.

    The Supreme Court of Bolivia did rule that he could run for another term. Rural votes do come in later, and that's where his base is, so there is an explanation for discrepancies.

    The article is kinda vague about what exactly is going on in Bolivia that is so outrageous. Is the retaliation against protesters by pro-government gangs something Morales should be blamed for?

    There is an argument that governments can't survive when a high enough percentage of the population is protesting in the streets. That could have happened in Bolivia.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ist-techniques

    This does seem to an odd comparison for the American left since you could imagine a similar situation for Trump. We're in a country that's divided regionally (urban and inner suburban areas for Democrats; outer suburbia and rural areas for Republicans) so this can be a test case for how to respond to the aftermath of a divisive election.
    You think that whole Supreme Court thing was legit? A guy starts lose credibility with me when they scheme the system to avoid term limits.

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    'A circus and a hoax': how rightwing media are covering impeachment

    Televised public impeachment hearings on Donald Trump start on Wednesday and are likely to grip America with a litany of damaging testimony.

    Transcripts of private hearings already show witnesses testifying about the same basic scenario: Trump wanted Ukraine to investigate his potential rival in the 2020 election Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who had worked in the country. That has spurred weeks of negative news cycles for Trump. When those same witnesses are grilled live on television it is likely to only get worse for the president.

    Except on conservative media.
    The themes advanced by conservative commentators have been wildly supportive of the president and hostile toward impeachment, often painting an alternative reality of a brutal, bullying, illegal and unfair plot against Trump.

    Jeanine Pirro, on her eponymous Fox News show, recently groused: “There’s been a lot of talk about constitutional crises – but the only constitutional crisis right now is the lawless attempt to impeach the sitting president.”

    Fox Business’s Lou Dobbs celebrated a Republican protest saying, “the Republicans, God bless them for actually doing something. I am so impressed.” He also described the inquiry as the “illegal efforts of the radical Dems who are holding secret hearings in their attempts to unseat the president”, Columbia Journalism Review noted.

    On the far-right news website Breitbart, some of the recently trending topics were “Hoaxblower Madness” – a reference to the anonymous whistleblower, whose complaint ultimately spurred the impeachment inquiry. One Breitbart headline about the House intelligence committee chair, Adam Schiff, claimed: “Adam Schiff Makes Up New Rules for Impeachment Inquiry; Restricts Republican Witness Questions.”
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