dagblog - Comments for "Impeachment? Mitch McConnell Could Ignore It" http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/impeachment-mitch-mcconnell-could-ignore-it-27982 Comments for "Impeachment? Mitch McConnell Could Ignore It" en Act Blue has a PAC raising http://dagblog.com/comment/267874#comment-267874 <a id="comment-267874"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/impeachment-mitch-mcconnell-could-ignore-it-27982">Impeachment? Mitch McConnell Could Ignore It</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Act Blue has a PAC raising money to  <em><a href="https://twitter.com/TurnoutPAC/status/1106582214320500736">DESTROY Mitch</a></em>. Just thought you might like to know.</p> </div></div></div> Sat, 18 May 2019 05:33:00 +0000 artappraiser comment 267874 at http://dagblog.com Former GOP House member: http://dagblog.com/comment/267667#comment-267667 <a id="comment-267667"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/impeachment-mitch-mcconnell-could-ignore-it-27982">Impeachment? Mitch McConnell Could Ignore It</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Former GOP House member:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">While this thread is lengthy, the point of the exercise is to show that in a mere 14 tweets the case can already be made for the impeachment of President Trump.<br /><br /> The opportunity for decisive action is sitting right in front of the Congress, right now.<br /><br /> Respectfully submitted.</p> — David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidJollyFL/status/1126643297051709440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Fri, 10 May 2019 01:21:42 +0000 artappraiser comment 267667 at http://dagblog.com FWIW, there's a list of star http://dagblog.com/comment/267440#comment-267440 <a id="comment-267440"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/impeachment-mitch-mcconnell-could-ignore-it-27982">Impeachment? Mitch McConnell Could Ignore It</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>FWIW, there's a list of star Dems who don't want to be in the Senate and it just gained Stacey Abrams:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote height="" width=""> <p>Lots of top-tier Dems apparently saying thanks but no thanks to senate bids. <a href="https://t.co/RH1Jo1CuqY">https://t.co/RH1Jo1CuqY</a></p> — Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) <a href="https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1123081919812345856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2019</a></blockquote> </div> </div></div></div> Tue, 30 Apr 2019 05:04:36 +0000 artappraiser comment 267440 at http://dagblog.com Chuck and Nancy want to http://dagblog.com/comment/267420#comment-267420 <a id="comment-267420"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/impeachment-mitch-mcconnell-could-ignore-it-27982">Impeachment? Mitch McConnell Could Ignore It</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Chuck and Nancy want to ignore it for a while too? Is the work of those guys over there? Chuck/Nancy ready to pretend it's not happening?</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">‘I hope he has learned his lesson’: Chuck and Nancy’s rematch with Trump ⁦⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/heatherscope?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@heatherscope</a>⁩ <a href="https://t.co/7MD7GgXD2E">https://t.co/7MD7GgXD2E</a></p> — Burgess Everett (@burgessev) <a href="https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1123006109760012288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:22:35 +0000 artappraiser comment 267420 at http://dagblog.com In that vein, it is http://dagblog.com/comment/267337#comment-267337 <a id="comment-267337"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/267335#comment-267335">The Republicans love Trump, </a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>In that vein, it is interesting that this Never Trumper GOP group has decided to use Senator Graham as a target, no? They could just as easily used another anti-Trump meme for an ad and left Lindsey to his games unremarked, along the lines of "a GOP guy's gotta do what he's gotta do".  It will be interesting to see if they target other Senators, as in: the guys who run an impeachment trial.</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:34:29 +0000 artappraiser comment 267337 at http://dagblog.com The Republicans love Trump,  http://dagblog.com/comment/267335#comment-267335 <a id="comment-267335"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/267333#comment-267333">Lindsey Graham explains that</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The Republicans love Trump,  tax cuts for the rich, trash EPA, increase defense $$ etc. so IT'S OK!</p> <p>They hated Nixon, too liberal. So they let the Dems loose on him. pre-Watergate, August, '71: <a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,877188,00.html">Time</a>:</p> <p>Disowning Richard Nixon, his right-wing former supporters carefully point out, is a decision reluctantly reached. After all, one does not toss off an old ally and champion without shedding tears for what once had been. But the moderate tone of Richard Nixon's presidency—while not liberal enough to satisfy critics in the center or on the left —has so disturbed many of his conservative backers that he appears to be in some danger of alienating a constituency he has counted as his for 25 years. Welfare reform, cutbacks in defense spending.....EPA, OSHA, index SS to inflation, Clean Water Act...</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:21:37 +0000 NCD comment 267335 at http://dagblog.com Lindsey Graham explains that http://dagblog.com/comment/267333#comment-267333 <a id="comment-267333"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/impeachment-mitch-mcconnell-could-ignore-it-27982">Impeachment? Mitch McConnell Could Ignore It</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Lindsey Graham explains that a president stonewalling Congressional oversight is an impeachable offense. <a href="https://t.co/tv88AilKUJ">pic.twitter.com/tv88AilKUJ</a></p> — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1121822658050572288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:02:35 +0000 artappraiser comment 267333 at http://dagblog.com Hillary's op-ed is currently http://dagblog.com/comment/267299#comment-267299 <a id="comment-267299"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/267297#comment-267297">Hillary published a full op</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Hillary's op-ed is currently #1 most read article @ WaPo.</p> <p>They have this summary video at top of the article, it may be free to watch so I will post it here separately, I am not sure to because I am a subscriber:</p> <div class="media_embed" height="290px" width="480px"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="290px" mozallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/c/embed/7f574258-3735-42e4-b6a9-331f33f35527" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="480px"></iframe></div> <p>Usually one can find the most popular WaPo op-eds eventually re-published by sister papers where there isn't a paywall.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:41:28 +0000 artappraiser comment 267299 at http://dagblog.com This NBC reporter manage to http://dagblog.com/comment/267298#comment-267298 <a id="comment-267298"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/impeachment-mitch-mcconnell-could-ignore-it-27982">Impeachment? Mitch McConnell Could Ignore It</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>This NBC reporter manage to snag some words on topic from Pence (found retweeted by Maggie Haberman):</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Vice President Mike Pence refuses to answer if 1) he regrets using hacked emails during the 2016 campaign &amp; 2) if he pledges not to do so in the next presidential campaign. He walked away upon attempted follow-up. <a href="https://t.co/l2TficTFn2">pic.twitter.com/l2TficTFn2</a></p> — Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) <a href="https://twitter.com/VaughnHillyard/status/1121149632313286669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:33:12 +0000 artappraiser comment 267298 at http://dagblog.com Hillary published a full op http://dagblog.com/comment/267297#comment-267297 <a id="comment-267297"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/267253#comment-267253">Hillary is backing Nancy&#039;s</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Hillary published a full op-ed on topic @ WaPo:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Hillary Clinton on impeaching Trump: "A crime was committed against all Americans, and all Americans should demand action and accountability." <a href="https://t.co/EJ3SYQhv3i">https://t.co/EJ3SYQhv3i</a></p> — Alan Rappeport (@arappeport) <a href="https://twitter.com/arappeport/status/1121156574028787713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:30:23 +0000 artappraiser comment 267297 at http://dagblog.com