Posted on 01/11/2017 7:34:00 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
The GOPestablishment wants WW3 with Russia while Iran builds nukes and threatens our Navy every other day.
And China, well, there’s just too much money tied up for the donor class over there.
Subpoenas also on the U.S. putting no fly zones in Syria train. Syria is still a sovereign nation, we were not invited there and Russia was, so other than invading and starting an outright war with our military, how were we supposed to do this? At least Russia seems to be successful in getting rid of the terrorists, and this is making our warmongers look bad.
Rubio was born to TWO Cuban nationals.
He is not a natural born citizen.
He is ineligible to be President.
“Young Master Rubio is doing someone’s bidding.”
Yes, the Military/Intelligence Agency Industrial Complex.
I couldn’t understand this idiot. It was like a child was interviewing an adult.
What was he trying to prove by constantly asking Tillerson to accept anything that the Senate proposes?
If they do not pass this guy, it will be a travesty.
I watched the last 30 minutes of the Rex Tillerson confirmation hearings. He is a very impressive: Measured, informed, clear thinking and articulate. Pending some kind of bombshell new evidence, we would be grossly ill-served if we do not take advantage of his skills and capabilities. The differences with Clinton and Kerry are astonishing in terms of the clarity and concreteness of his responses.
I missed the interchange with Rubio. I would guess Rubio got politely schooled. Tillerson sounds like he has no trouble operating on multiple levels at the same time - unlike most of our politicians.
I am a John Bolton fan, but Tillerson is a far better choice for SoS.
He is inconsistent. That means he cannot be depended upon.
With a country to fix, you don’t know if he is for you, or against you.
Little Marco needs a good talking to.
He and his globalist pals are sore losers.
Rubio remains a disappointment - Trump and his nominees all capable of looking at big picture and staying relevant.
Putin is a thug, a crook, a murderer and - very likely - also a war criminal. But he’s the elected leader of one of the largest and most powerful countries in the world. Trump is not going to bow down before Putin but he’s smart enough not to use overblown rhetoric at a time when such language will not advance any American interest. It’s not coincidence that the Obama squad and its Republican apologists have suddenly woken up to fact - shocked! - that Putin is not a choirboy. They are trying to incite open conflict with the Russians so that Trump will have this giant turd on his plate his first day in the White House. Kudos to Trump and his team for not taking the bait.
Rubio needed to be replaced.
He had already shown he was against us with his amnesty bill and his arming of jihadists.
I was watching this. Rubio is smarmy and has hitched his wagon to McCain and Graham. He is being a useful idiot and one who I will never vote for for national office. I thought Tillerson was so much more intelligent and knowledgable than Rubio or any of the other political hacks on the committee. He rebutted their gotcha questions well and didn’t allow them to put him in a box. I see why Trump nominated him. He is strong, knowledgable, and someone who can negotiate pitfall thrown out by the opposition. Good pick.
Isn’t it interesting that for decades, the western left just loved atheistic, totalitarian, communist Soviet Union, but they hate, with the white hot heat of a thousand suns, capitalistic (somewhat anyway), Christian(at least nominally), anti-sodomite Russia?
As usual, their timing is 180 degrees out of whack with reality.
Yep. The Left has never forgiven Russia for turning their back on Communism.
The Left has never forgiven Russia for turning their back on Communism.
It’s precisely what Solzhenitsyn warned would happen.
Solzhenitsyn wasn’t the first.
It’s a tendency in history that other writers have noticed: the victor sometimes takes on many of the characteristics of the vanquished.
I have wondered before if it wouldn’t have been better for the US to have assisted the Soviet Union’s survival. It would have had to have been covert assistance, of course, and it would have required incredible prescience.
One of the advantages would have been less mischief from the muzzies, if the world was still cordoned off between East and West.
Just a thought, not all that serious... just idle musing.
I felt that when the Soviet Union ended, what was need was a “Marshall Plan” to ease the transition. But the bankers couldn’t wait to feed on the carcass. This is what Putin alluded to when he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century.
It certainly was botched, and it was a missed opportunity. And I suspect had Reagan still been in the White House, instead of Bush and Clinton, it wouldn’t have been.
Good point. When the Soviet Union collapsed we didn’t keep our eye on the ball.
Bush was side-tracked by his role as Avenging Muslim Protector of Kuwait, and Clinton was distracted by sex and mega-bucks.
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