And in other witch hunt news, the Albuquerque Tea Party has been granted non-profit status after waiting 8 years. But nothing to see here, right Jim?…. Jim?….Jim?
Wow, that video doesn’t look good for Mueller. It is amazing that there was no special counsel assigned to investigate the abuse of Tea Party, Jewish, and pro-life groups by the IRS and other government organizations. We didn’t even get a special counsel after the Project Veritas videos showed the DNC organizing violent attacks against the Trump campaign.
That Mueller schemed to protect the Obama admin and that he got his current position through the scheming of another person who protected the Obama admin makes it look like the special counsel is purely political.
Having said that, how could you investigate the allegations without looking at finances? The question is whether or not they are looking for quid pro quo into the Podesta and DNC hack or whether they are just fishing. The Russian involvement that has been blamed for Hillary losing are those two hacks. Digging through the Trump admin’s lives for things other than any clear relation to paying for those hacks is a witch hunt.
IMHO, any improper financial dealings by Trump or his inner circle with Russia fall under the authority of the special council, because they might well be illegal – just like the proven payoffs to the Clintons (both personally and the foundation) from many foreign governments, including Russia.
However, the special council would be crossing the line if he goes beyond that. If that happens, Trump IMHO would be fully justified in ordering him fired, but, I suspect doing so might make things worse.
Further thought; if this wasn’t a witch hunt, the special council would be looking into ALL Russian links to the election, including those of Podesta and Clinton, and also why, exactly, the DNC would not let the FBI look at the only evidence of Russian involvement; the DNC server that was reportedly hacked.
Caveat: we actually have no idea what the special council is really doing, because the reports are based on unnamed sources.
Bingo. The goal is to find any dirt they can throw at Trump, while covering up for Clinton and Obama.
And, as I believe Ayn Rand pointed out many years ago, the goal of modern law is to ensure that everyone is guilty of SOMETHING so they can easily be controlled. The Anointed Ones will never be prosecuted, but their enemies will be.
ensure that everyone is guilty of SOMETHING
America has become a tyranny and this is how it provides itself cover. This is blatant and everyone from any party that goes along with it is a co-conspirator.
This isn’t a game where “other tyrannies are worse.” Other tyrannies being worse does not justify having our own. It’s time for a purge that should start with the courts and DOJ.
The deep state is a game that needs fixing. It should never ever have been allowed to even get close to what it is today and only has because of career politicians that don’t have the balls to fight for the peoples rights.
We have an illusion of freedom today. Our founders would have found King George much more palatable than our current government.
Trump isn’t crude enough. He needs an army of attack dogs working with him.
Actual application of the rule of law is the only way out of this mess. Sessions has got to be replaced with someone with the teeth to do the job which starts with firing Mueller and ends with thousands of [top down] indictments.
The Deep State is not the regulators and lawyers telling what to do; the Deep State is all the people at colleges and universities telling you what you may think.
If enough people though as you do, Special Prosecutors would not make a difference. How many divisions does Mr. Mueller control? Ultimately, that depends on the thought processes of a large number of men and women in uniform, and currently Mr. Mueller at least holds sway over a good many of them.
I think that Mr. Trump being president is what I call “existential.” If he weren’t “undisciplined” in saying what was on his mind, if we weren’t at least pandering to the sentiments you and many others hold — there is uncertainty as to whether he deeply believes them, if he weren’t lewd and crude Donald Trump, he would be constrained by the rules of social discourse laid down by our University Professor betters, and we would be saying “Madam President” right now.
Whereas his egotistical craziness has taken him where no other man has gone, there is this sense that it may take him and all of us over the edge? I thought he had gone too far with his attacks on John McCain in South Caroline, but that actually helped him because a lot of people were taking a lot of guff from Senator McCain who no one could criticize back because he was a war hero and everything. He broke down the barrier that Captain McCain was beyond criticism, and a lot of people were feeling that way and were silent about it.
With the Jeff Sessions thing, I am beginning to wonder at what point does our audacious Corporal outrun his supply lines? What point does he exhaust his men to the point of mass desertion? What point does an alliance between the British and their natural rival Prussians finish him off?
The Deep State is/is not…
D.S. is that which is unaccountable to voters yet has power to control the state. It doesn’t matter what their job title or roll. As Pournelle pointed out, republicans won all branches of government but the democrats are still in control. Thus the election results are voided.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with a breakdown of accountability.
It takes absolutely no talent to blow smoke and throw mud. Anybody can do that. The breakdown is lawlessness which has become rampant.
The solution is law enforcement with severe punishment for breaking the law. Hillary and her entire pack should be in prison today. That’s Trump’s failure.
Three CNN reporters lost their jobs because of fake news. That’s the standard we need to enforce. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Again and again in rapid fire.
The first swamp to clean is DOJ. Sessions must go. Second is the FBI. The IRS should follow. That would just be a start.
C’mon, you know your Civics and recent history well enough that the Constitution grants considerable veto power to political minorities.
The ACA only got in when one party not only had Congress and the Presidency, they also had 60+ seats in the Senate, where the seat count was one Senator going turncoat and another guy getting elected because they counted votes “until they got it right.”
But they lost that in the Scott Brown election and then they had to finagle it through using Reconciliation.
As to John Roberts weighing in that the Individual Mandate penalty was not a penalty but rather a Federal Tax, that also imposes some restriction on it as this is set as judicial precedent, and they cannot increase this “tax” too much to make it look like a the penalty it is and invite more Supreme Court scrutiny.
So much of the inertia in the system you are frustrated with works in both directions, but it tends to keep stuff in place once it drags itself over the top.
This is your stroke of brilliance Paul,
it tends to keep stuff in place
Which is exactly what must be fixed. This is a natural human tendency I saw repeatedly over the years working with programming teams. It is universal with new programmers and almost universal with experienced programmers to the point I spent much of my time ripping old code out rather than adding new code.
Trump even addressed this with any new regulation requiring the removal of two previous. Which really won’t work because that human tendency will nullify the intent by making new regulations more complicated and compounded entities that continue to add rather than remove.
No rule can work when the implementers have another agenda. The only solution is not by rules but getting rid of those implementers (drain the swamp.)
And in other witch hunt news, the Albuquerque Tea Party has been granted non-profit status after waiting 8 years. But nothing to see here, right Jim?…. Jim?….Jim?
http://www.therepublic.com/2017/07/18/nm-tea-party-nonprofit-status/
Wow, that video doesn’t look good for Mueller. It is amazing that there was no special counsel assigned to investigate the abuse of Tea Party, Jewish, and pro-life groups by the IRS and other government organizations. We didn’t even get a special counsel after the Project Veritas videos showed the DNC organizing violent attacks against the Trump campaign.
That Mueller schemed to protect the Obama admin and that he got his current position through the scheming of another person who protected the Obama admin makes it look like the special counsel is purely political.
Having said that, how could you investigate the allegations without looking at finances? The question is whether or not they are looking for quid pro quo into the Podesta and DNC hack or whether they are just fishing. The Russian involvement that has been blamed for Hillary losing are those two hacks. Digging through the Trump admin’s lives for things other than any clear relation to paying for those hacks is a witch hunt.
IMHO, any improper financial dealings by Trump or his inner circle with Russia fall under the authority of the special council, because they might well be illegal – just like the proven payoffs to the Clintons (both personally and the foundation) from many foreign governments, including Russia.
However, the special council would be crossing the line if he goes beyond that. If that happens, Trump IMHO would be fully justified in ordering him fired, but, I suspect doing so might make things worse.
Further thought; if this wasn’t a witch hunt, the special council would be looking into ALL Russian links to the election, including those of Podesta and Clinton, and also why, exactly, the DNC would not let the FBI look at the only evidence of Russian involvement; the DNC server that was reportedly hacked.
Caveat: we actually have no idea what the special council is really doing, because the reports are based on unnamed sources.
Bingo. The goal is to find any dirt they can throw at Trump, while covering up for Clinton and Obama.
And, as I believe Ayn Rand pointed out many years ago, the goal of modern law is to ensure that everyone is guilty of SOMETHING so they can easily be controlled. The Anointed Ones will never be prosecuted, but their enemies will be.
ensure that everyone is guilty of SOMETHING
America has become a tyranny and this is how it provides itself cover. This is blatant and everyone from any party that goes along with it is a co-conspirator.
This isn’t a game where “other tyrannies are worse.” Other tyrannies being worse does not justify having our own. It’s time for a purge that should start with the courts and DOJ.
The deep state is a game that needs fixing. It should never ever have been allowed to even get close to what it is today and only has because of career politicians that don’t have the balls to fight for the peoples rights.
We have an illusion of freedom today. Our founders would have found King George much more palatable than our current government.
Trump isn’t crude enough. He needs an army of attack dogs working with him.
Actual application of the rule of law is the only way out of this mess. Sessions has got to be replaced with someone with the teeth to do the job which starts with firing Mueller and ends with thousands of [top down] indictments.
The Deep State is not the regulators and lawyers telling what to do; the Deep State is all the people at colleges and universities telling you what you may think.
If enough people though as you do, Special Prosecutors would not make a difference. How many divisions does Mr. Mueller control? Ultimately, that depends on the thought processes of a large number of men and women in uniform, and currently Mr. Mueller at least holds sway over a good many of them.
I think that Mr. Trump being president is what I call “existential.” If he weren’t “undisciplined” in saying what was on his mind, if we weren’t at least pandering to the sentiments you and many others hold — there is uncertainty as to whether he deeply believes them, if he weren’t lewd and crude Donald Trump, he would be constrained by the rules of social discourse laid down by our University Professor betters, and we would be saying “Madam President” right now.
Whereas his egotistical craziness has taken him where no other man has gone, there is this sense that it may take him and all of us over the edge? I thought he had gone too far with his attacks on John McCain in South Caroline, but that actually helped him because a lot of people were taking a lot of guff from Senator McCain who no one could criticize back because he was a war hero and everything. He broke down the barrier that Captain McCain was beyond criticism, and a lot of people were feeling that way and were silent about it.
With the Jeff Sessions thing, I am beginning to wonder at what point does our audacious Corporal outrun his supply lines? What point does he exhaust his men to the point of mass desertion? What point does an alliance between the British and their natural rival Prussians finish him off?
The Deep State is/is not…
D.S. is that which is unaccountable to voters yet has power to control the state. It doesn’t matter what their job title or roll. As Pournelle pointed out, republicans won all branches of government but the democrats are still in control. Thus the election results are voided.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with a breakdown of accountability.
It takes absolutely no talent to blow smoke and throw mud. Anybody can do that. The breakdown is lawlessness which has become rampant.
The solution is law enforcement with severe punishment for breaking the law. Hillary and her entire pack should be in prison today. That’s Trump’s failure.
Three CNN reporters lost their jobs because of fake news. That’s the standard we need to enforce. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Again and again in rapid fire.
The first swamp to clean is DOJ. Sessions must go. Second is the FBI. The IRS should follow. That would just be a start.
C’mon, you know your Civics and recent history well enough that the Constitution grants considerable veto power to political minorities.
The ACA only got in when one party not only had Congress and the Presidency, they also had 60+ seats in the Senate, where the seat count was one Senator going turncoat and another guy getting elected because they counted votes “until they got it right.”
But they lost that in the Scott Brown election and then they had to finagle it through using Reconciliation.
As to John Roberts weighing in that the Individual Mandate penalty was not a penalty but rather a Federal Tax, that also imposes some restriction on it as this is set as judicial precedent, and they cannot increase this “tax” too much to make it look like a the penalty it is and invite more Supreme Court scrutiny.
So much of the inertia in the system you are frustrated with works in both directions, but it tends to keep stuff in place once it drags itself over the top.
This is your stroke of brilliance Paul,
it tends to keep stuff in place
Which is exactly what must be fixed. This is a natural human tendency I saw repeatedly over the years working with programming teams. It is universal with new programmers and almost universal with experienced programmers to the point I spent much of my time ripping old code out rather than adding new code.
Trump even addressed this with any new regulation requiring the removal of two previous. Which really won’t work because that human tendency will nullify the intent by making new regulations more complicated and compounded entities that continue to add rather than remove.
No rule can work when the implementers have another agenda. The only solution is not by rules but getting rid of those implementers (drain the swamp.)