May 17, 2017 7:31 AM
Morning Reads for 5/17
Which of these songs best represents your Mother’s Day (and I know one of these two will cover all of GAPol.com’s readership)
“Mama Used to Say” by Junior or “I Wanna Get Rid of You” by Psychotic Pineapple?
- Remember when Trump said Snowden should be “executed” for sharing classified info with Russia?
- It’s nuts how he can’t even remember what he’s said to stop incriminating himself.
- Sanford Bishop: Re-work, don’t repeal, Obamacare.
- How Trump is more and more like President Jimmy.
- Experts: Time for Jimmy to return to North Korea.
- Just wait for it: Race to enter ATL Mayoral Race.
- Fmr. State Rep Mitchell Kaye: Why Handel deserves your vote.
- NYTimes: Stacey Abrams one of the “young black Democrats eager to lead from the left” qua governor.
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Donald Trump to James Comey in a February Oval Office meeting, as documented by Comey in memo prepared by Comey soon after the meeting, per the NYT:
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting Flynn go. He’s a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” spoken after Trump told Comey he should consider imprisoning reporters that publish classified information.
It’s only a matter of time before enough Republicans will put their loyalty to America ahead of their loyalty to their party. After Trump’s impeachment, he can be fined and locked up courtesy of 18 USC 1505, Obstruction of proceedings….
It’s all open to interpretation. He didn’t order him to drop the investigation, he suggested that he wished he’d let it go. Trump didn’t INTEND (there’s that word again…) to run afoul of actual laws by expressing a simple sentiment.
Oh come on.
When your 3rd-level manager comes to you, Noway, for a sit-down meeting and says “I hope you’ll stop working on Project B-432,” do you treat that as a casual request and keep devoting 50% of your billable hours to Project B-432, or do you drop it on the floor and close the project?
You may have a point IF Comey had actually dropped the Flynn investigation. Instead he wrote a memo to the file three months ago and didn’t bring it up until he fired. Very, very courageous! Granted we all roll our eyes and say, “I really wish Trump would just shut the eff up!” But there’s actually no there there.
Comey is well known for keeping notes and memos on off the record conversations. He penned thousands while Assistant AG under Ashcraft, and while in charge of SP Fitzgerald which lead to the trial against Scooter Libby.
Plus who said Comey brought it up? It could have come from inside the FBI, the DOJ, or from a number of congressional investigation if they have copies.
“when you consider that Comey was fired for continuing the investigation into Russia’s connection to Trump associates.”
You’re stating that this statement by you is FACT?? You cannot know that.
Nope…that statement is your opinion as to the motivation for his being let go.
So, for me to get this clear: You’re saying that that statement alone from Trump to Comey is enough for the House to impeach and the Senate to convict Trump?
“They — he (Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein) made a recommendation. He’s highly respected. Very good guy, very smart guy. And the Democrats like him. The Republicans like him. He had made a recommendation. But regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire Comey knowing there was no good time to do it. And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself — I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won.”
Pres. Trump
Interview with Lester Holt
Just one of ‘many’ things that ‘could’ be use to indicate intent. It will take much more. Predictions about Trump have a way of leading to nowhere, so forecasting actually what’s ahead is a fool’s errand at this point by either of you (she says nicely…)
He is leaving soon on a foreign trip, so the “pump is primed” for more Republicans to prepare to abandon ship.
– Trump in Saudi Arabia? What could go wrong?
– Is he going to talk about The Wall with the Pope?
– NATO? Really?
– Oh, and Israel. No particular tension there right now. Oh, wait…
– I wonder how the “America First” voters are going to feel after this trip?
It’s a sad state of affairs when him again talking about how huge his electoral victory was is on the positive end of the scale of possible outcomes.
Discerning intent given Trump’s clear mental defects will be interesting.
This is the part that I don’t understand. McConnell and Ryan clearly don’t like Trump, and I’d say that most of the Republican conference in the Senate don’t care for the man either. Getting rid of him would be great. They get Mike Pence as the President (until 2020 cause he’s not electable) and can finally get on with their legislative agenda (as you referred to earlier).
Every Democrat would prefer Mike Pence as well. Say what you will about Pence’s policies, at least he’s sane and would be a steady hand for the country both domestically and internationally.
Ruh-Roe!!!…James, James, James…tsk, tsk, tsk…
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/16/gregg-jarrett-comeys-revenge-is-gun-without-powder.html
The Psychotic Pineapple video is preceded by a Jon Ossoff ad.
You know the ads are focused based on a targeted audience related to the type of video and your own personal browsers/Gmail (if you use it) mined history right?
I got a Grammarly ad with the Psychotic Pineapple video and Farmer’s Insurance for Junior’s. I use dictionary and Chicago Style sites, and the office of the Georgia Commissioner of Insurance site a lot, so I’m guessing that’s how I got those ads.
I got a Loan Depot ad. Hmm, do they know something I don’t?
I didn’t get an ad because I use uBlock Origin.
Meanwhile in Savannah…
http://savannahnow.com/news/2017-05-16/415-million-plan-presented-savannah-s-proposed-canal-district
Atlanta should take note. Something about water. Most great cities exploit their water features. Atlanta, not so much.
I have been a supporter of Chattahoochee Riverkeeper in the past, but now I think it’s time to commercialize the river in the metro area. We can preserve it elsewhere. Maybe we can even commercialize it in a responsible way.
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/ap-exclusive-the-last-days-of-the-ringling-bros-circus/
I was lucky to grow up about 90 mins. from their museum (hometown of the Bailys) and have the trains pulling the original cars and road cages for the yearly Great Circus parade in Milwaukee as made its rounds through the track systems of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and northern Illinois a few times past my parents house before the big Milwaukee parade.
In the early 90’s in Savannah, I once watched the elephants walk from the tracks, up Louisville Road to the Civic Center. There is nothing that can make you feel so small in the scheme of things as having a elephant walk past a police car and be longer then a Crown Vic.
Another piece of childhood, lost.
And no more “Zebra loose on the downtown connector” stories, as I saw on national TV when visiting Mom in California.
“No politician in history . . . has been treated worse or more unfairly.”
Those poor Coast Guard grads just wanted to start partying with their friends and family and instead they had to listen to that crap.
Laughs here (that TR was a bad man): http://juanitajean.com/whine-whine-whine/
My first thought when hearing about another White House fence jumper the other day was that it must have been Sean Spicer trying to get out. Now today we see he is being eased out anyway and daily news conferences from this administration are soon to be history. I’m not sure a I’ve ever seen a government official in a more thankless role.