Posted on 07/21/2018 8:25:07 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Where there’s flak...
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”
Putin has all the evidence of high treason by the US Congress and Intelligence Agencies.
Of course their freaking out!
Obama tells Russia's Medvedev he'll have more flexibility after election
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-summit-obama-medvedev/obama-tells-russias-medvedev-more-flexibility-after-election-idUSBRE82P0JI20120326
Right now Moscow is driving the discussion. They said that the President was very open to having Russian officials question our people here in the U.S., and the White House has had to deny it. Russia is saying that the President supported the idea of a referendum to settle ownership of eastern Ukraine, and the White House has had to deny it. Unless the President gets his own version out there then he’s going to be denying and denying and denying.
I’ll have more leverage after the election. But you have to remember...Obama WAS President when he said this...and I believe the backdrop was dropping missile sites per Putin’s request.
:-)
But Reagan didn’t.
Just imagine if (it’s a big IF) Trump is able to
* denuke North Korea
* stabilize Syria enough that the rest of the middle east isn’t in constant threat/chaos
* cause changes in Iran (even seemingly minor changes)
* improve trade with countries all around the world
* Improve the situation in Israel (or even “fix” it)
If even a few major things happen
* SO MANY diplomats will be embarrassed (including congressmen who “play diplomat on TV” even though they aren’t diplomats)
* SO MANY ideas will be proven wrong
* Even the voters’ definition of “success” could change along with expectations. Politicians will no longer be able to claim “success” because they “tried”, or they “passed a resolution”, or they “sent people to talk with XYZ about issue ABC”.
Russia will play a part in most if not all of these. IF Trump succeeds in ANYTHING big, politicians MUST be part of it so they can claim credit. If they are not allowed to claim credit, the entire political atmosphere (their entire world) could be rattled. Re-election and may not be as easy (they may need to get things done between elections)
It could end up that Putin, Xi, and Kim are willing do make deals that help America more than what even Rs in congress are willing to do. With that ammunition for tweets and rallies, Trump may be able to run congress since they aren’t winning reelection if Trump says “Putin is better for America than Flake” and has results to back it up.
D politicians have the additional concern that if an R president succeeds in many major areas, their electoral vote advantage could disappear for decades. They’ll still have their liberal strongholds, but the additional votes to win could be a struggle. And they’ll have to give up the “Make America Mexico Again” and “Make America Venezuela Again” efforts to have any hope of taking back the white house.
The same idiots who don’t care that the DOJ is stonewalling Constitutional oversight by Congress.
Subpoena the taxes
Has anyone figured out that Trump might have wanted it to be private because anything that isn’t private gets immediately leaked to the press, and that the leaks often are not even true?
Media hysteria over Helsinki is fagging out, seen now as limp as a homo’s wrist.
Cooler heads are assessing the events. The bottom line is that Trump wins on all fronts:
<><>Foreign Policy,
<><>Counter Deep State,
<><>the Resistance, and,
<><> most importantly, the upcoming midterms.
The disgusting display of hyper-ventilation by his enemies ends with Advantage Trump.
Not hardly and definitely not to the Heartland GOP!
That’s why they’re leaving office, though not without lifetime taxpayers’ funded retirement accounts, free health insurance, etc.
Just as soon as they ask what Obama meant by saying he “will have more flexibility to act after the election”, then I’ll care about their curiosity here. But since that was 6 years ago, even if they do finally get curious, they will have established that one can wait 6 years to answer, and Trump will also be out of office by then... so, go do whatever. Idiots.
The same Republicans who never said a word when Obama and Clinton were secretly giving away the store in deals with Russia, Cuba, Iran, and China.
The only good news here is that Corker, Flake, and McCain will soon be gone. Hopefully one day will have 67% of the politicians be pro-American, unlike the 42% now (100% minus all Democrats and establishment Republicans = 42%).
They sure do sound pretty scared that Putin might have let the cat out of the bag and informed President Trump of the massive corruption in DC and that he has the Evidence to prove it. He will being it to the White House in the Fall.
If NATO “allies” are getting a little nervous, that’s a good thing. Maybe they’ll start taking some responsibility for their own defense.
Okay. According to our Constitution, the President, not the Congress, negotiates with foreign governments. The Constitution, however, gives Congress important responsibilities, including writing budgets. Unfortunately, Congress generally doesn’t write budgets but instead issues multi-trillion-dollar spending plans (well in excess of revenue) thousands of pages long in complete secrecy and passes them quickly in the dark of night at the last possible hour.
When will someone demand that the Congress open its legislative process enough that its own distinguished members have some clue about the contents of the legislation on which they vote? If Congress cannot open its legislative negotiations to its own members, then why should the President open sensitive, secret negotiations with foreign leaders to the scrutiny of Congress?
Why does Congress busy itself with all sorts of matters over which it lacks jurisdiction while it fails to attend to its own authority and jurisdiction?
This situation epitomizes why the people despise Congress so intensely. Congress needs to balance the federal budget and implement a plan to repay the federal debt. Then it can review and revise the entire catalog of federal statutory law, repealing whatever extends beyond federal jurisdiction or otherwise causes logical or logistical quandaries. Congress needs to avoid these publicity stunts over matters outside its jurisdiction until it completes its Constitutional tasks.
Funny how they believe Russia over the President of the United States but Trump shouldn’t believe them over the corrupt “Intel” community. BTW, why is Flake on the foreign relations committee? Seriously. Why?
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