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"G.O.P. Collusion with
Trump Continues Despite the Mueller Revelations
Speaker of the House
Paul Ryan, if you believe him, is not all that bestirred by the
indictment of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former
campaign chairman. “I really don’t have anything to add, other
than nothing is going to derail what we’re working on in Congress,
because we’re working on solving people’s problems,” he told
a Wisconsin radio host. What Ryan really wanted to talk about,
he said, was tax reform. That suggests that Ryan doesn’t put
possible foreign intervention in the election, or influence peddling,
stealth lobbying, tax fraud, and money laundering—which are strands
in the indictments of Manafort and his associate, Rick Gates, who
both pleaded not guilty—in the category of “people’s problems.”
News of the indictment was accompanied by the unsealing of a related
plea deal that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, reached with
George Papadopoulos, a former campaign adviser. These are questions
that go to the heart of the integrity of our electoral and
legislative systems. (Indeed, the Manafort indictment, because it
concerned lobbying Congress on behalf of Ukraine, was in some ways as
much in Ryan’s realm as in Trump’s.) Whose problem, one might
ask, does Ryan think they are?
Not his ...
… Ryan, anyway, does
seem genuinely excited about tax cuts. Republican hunger to get those
through, coupled with fear about primary challengers in some quarters
and blind loyalty to the President in others—opportunism,
cowardice, and ideology—have done their work, making it less likely
that the G.O.P.’s own collusion will end soon, or that it will end
for reasons having to do with political or public shame. If that
changes, it may be sooner because the Party is punished at the polls
than because, or only because, Mueller brings more indictments. (And,
at this pace, he surely will.) After all, for a bill of impeachment
to get through, the House has to pass it, and then the Senate has to
hold a trial, and convict. That, as Ryan might say, is how our
legislative process works. This is, in the end, an American problem,
and there tend to be constitutional solutions for those.
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Please note,
the January 6, 2017 date of the referenced article below and be aware
a lot has happened since then – which, in my opinion, adds up to a preponderance of evidence that:
One: Russia invaded our sovereignty to help
the GOP install Donald Trump into the Oval Office and Two: The GOP
does not care as it is darn near bursting with joy as thoughts of
dismantling an America based on the values/principles of The Common
Good, agreed to via Compromise and implemented per Federal Supremacy
as the Law of the Land of the United States of America dance in a majority of its membership's heads.
Personally,
I am of the mind that if a preponderance of the evidence is enough for a finding in a civil court of law a preponderance of evidence is more
than enough for the American electorate to vote the GOP out of office and
to vote the Democrats into office -- with the power to consider the impeachment
of the impeach-able and the expelling of the expel-able IF Articles of
Impeachment are adopted by the House and if the House and/or the
Senate determine the criteria for expulsion of congressional members
is met, respectively.
There simply should not be presidential succession for a GOP that is under a Russian Cloud
with Trump and does not care!
“Read the
US Intelligence Report on Russian Hacking”
The Office of
the Director of National Intelligence on Friday released its
declassified report on Russia’s efforts to influence the outcome of
the 2016 election by hacking Democratic outfits during the campaign.
The report
comes a day after top intelligence officials, including Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper and National Security Agency
Director Michael Rogers, testified before the Senate Armed Services
Committee on the issue. During the hearing, Clapper said the
intelligence community has grown more “resolute” in its
assessment that Russian intelligence was involved in the hacks aimed
at the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign
chairman John Podesta. … “
You can read
the declassified report, as reported by Mother Jones on January 6,
2017, here
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The Wave Of Women Running For Office Is Now 20,000 Strong — & Growing
There are now 20,000 more cracks (and counting) in the glass ceiling. Emily’s List announced at the Women’s Convention in Detroit on Saturday that more than 20,000 women across the country have thrown their hat into the ring to run for public office.
… Roughly half of the women who’ve reached out to Emily’s List, which was founded in 1985 to elect pro-choice women to office, are under age 45. All 50 states are represented. Schriock estimates that around 40% are looking to run in local races, such as city council and school board in their communities. Others are eyeing congressional races, some as soon as 2018.
“They’re not all running right now, but what they’re saying is I want to run. I want to serve. I want to make sure the voices of my community are heard. And I believe I can win,” Schriock says. “And they can! These are the voices that have been missing.”
… Earlier this week, Politico reported that the GOP has been working on building a copycat of Emily’s List. Their effort, named Winning For Women, will work to funnel dollars to Republican women candidates as a way to address another gap: the number of Republican women serving versus the number of Democratic women.
Schriock is not convinced that strategy will work, saying, “As long as the Republican Party continues to push for policies that hurt women, they will have trouble recruiting and electing women candidates for office.” … “
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