Posted on 02/28/2019 4:44:23 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
“I have lied, but I am not a liar. Now, let me introduce my wife, er, ah, ummmm…Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, that’s the ticket!” – As their first witness in the 106th congress, Chairman Elijah Cummings and the Democrats who now run the House Oversight Committee called as their very first witness Michael Cohen, a man who will soon be going away to federal prison for the crime of …wait for it…LYING TO CONGRESS. You seriously cannot make this stuff up. Presumably, their next witness will be this guy:
Yeah, I know – it’s an old reference, but it’s a perfect one. All you Millennials out there can ask your parents about him. Hint: He’s a character from the years when Saturday Night Live used to be an actual comedy show. Bet you kids didn’t know that was ever even a thing, right? Right.
Other than that, what else does one say about this shameful circus? That the Democrats on the committee pretty much all disgraced themselves? Who didn’t expect that to happen? That Cohen got caught in several more examples of outright perjury by Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows and other Republicans on the committee? Again, I could have told you that was going to be the case on Wednesday. That Cohen outright admitted to coordinating his opening remarks with Cummings, Adam Schiff and other congressional Democrats? Knock me over with a feather. That Cohen’s own lawyer, Lanny Davis, sat there throughout the hearing looking like the consigliere for a mob outfit? Well, hey, he has worked for the Clintons for 25 years now.
Perhaps the most remarkable, unexpected takeaway from the hearing is the fact that no one is talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s performance in it this morning. From the news coverage, you wouldn’t even know she was on this committee, but she was there, and she actually was one of the more restrained Democrats at the hearing, doing a fine job of reading her script that was prepared by her uniformly-paid staff and avoiding going off on tangents irrelevant to the hearing’s purpose. Good for her.
At the end of the day, what had this DC Swamp circus hearing accomplished? Not a damn thing. Even some of the Trump-hating talking heads at CNN were tsk-tsking about what a bald-faced liar Cohen is, and the New York Times was accusing the Democrats of “overreaching”. In this anti-Trump fake news world, when the Democrats and their star witness have lost CNN and the New York Times, it’s an epic fail.
Deal? Or No Deal? – The answer is no deal, at least for now. If you, unlike anyone in our fake news media, invested the time to read Donald Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal”, you would know that one of his key negotiating principles is that you have to be willing to walk away. As soon as your opponent knows you aren’t willing to do that, you have lost the negotiation.
In the wee hours of this morning, American time, it initially appeared as if a major deal was about to be announced, as the members of the leering press were informed that both President Trump and the Crazy Little Fat Guy would be coming into the press room shortly to take questions. But a little bit later, the press was informed that President Trump would be the only leader coming out.
According to Fox’s Ed Henry, the President and Sec. State Mike Pompeo had been led to believe that Kim was committing to decommissioning all of his country’s nuclear facilities in exchange for the release of U.S. (but not UN) sanctions on North Korea. But then, as the signing documents were being prepared, Kim clarified that he was only willing to decommission a single nuke facility, so President Trump did what any good negotiator would do – he walked away.
But he’ll be back, and another meeting between the two will probably be held before this year is over. Because negotiations are a process, a process that involves the establishment of relationships, of trust, of terms, and of pesky little details. The first two meetings between Trump and Kim have obviously done much to move the ball forward on the establishment of relationships and trust. That itself is rather amazing given the abject refusal of America’s previous four presidents to even have a conversation with any North Korean leader, not to mention the fact that the Democrats pulled the stunt of holding the Cohen hearing in an obvious, despicable effort to derail the negotiations.
The next meeting, or two, or three between the two men will have to work on the ironing out of terms and details. In the meantime, 459 days have now passed since the last North Korean missile test launch, an event that took place on average once every 24 days during the Barack Obama Administration.
We’ll just have to wait and see who Rep. Cummings will call as his committee’s star witness while the next summit meeting is taking place.
Jussie Smollett will probably be looking for a gig.
That is all.
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They have no shame. Awful people all reading planned remarks.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out the dims actually coordinated this with the Urchin.
What percentage of the people who were happy to have Dems back in power in the House will be happy that this disgraceful House spectacle ceertainly set back, and possibly derailed, the move to a safer Korean Peninsula and thus a safer world? I hope not all of them.
Of course the Dems don’t care how shameful they look. They know the media will cover this circus for them and spin the news reports just right and all the millennials will accept it as gospel truth.
Don’t blame the Democrats for this behavior. Rats do what Rats do. If you have an agenda and know what you’re doing and have a complicit media to watch your back, this is the result.
75% of the people,who voted dems into office probably have NO CLUE there even was an NK summit!!!
The Republican Party Completely and Utterly Disgraced Itself at Michael Cohen's Hearing [Mega-three bagger barf alert]
In part you have to have understood that Cohen and the Democrats were enagaged in a suicide pact. If you expected a different outcome you might have wanted a deal with Kim, but Trump certainly knew that teh Dems were relying on a Joker to win the hand for them.
The Dems colluded with North Korea!
“”Lanny Davis, sat there throughout the hearing looking like the consigliere for a mob outfit?””
Honestly as I said in a thread on this yesterday, the other attorney who sat behind Cohen looked like he came from the cast of “The Godfather” - one of the mob who got wiped out - only this guy survived somehow. I got a kick out of watching the gal way in the back with the long blonde hair - she wasn’t very good at controlling her expressions. Come to think of it, none of them were.
At one point when Jackie Speer was questioning Cohen, that gal looked petrified at what Cohen’s answer might be and was holding her breath. It was a classic “tell”....
“”75% of the people,who voted dems into office probably have NO CLUE there even was an NK summit!!!””
I believe that - nor could they locate it on a globe... “Globe”, what’s that?
That is sadly very true. Most of the events happened during our night or early morning. There is a short White House video showing PDJT with several different Vietnamese dignitaries. Great pictures, not to be seen outside of conservative websites. Sigh.
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