I may be drunk, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be ugly. Zinke responds to ethics criticism by calling Democratic lawmaker a drunk By BEN LEFEBVRE, Politico 11/30/2018 Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Friday accused the House Natural Resources Committee’s top Democrat of “drunken” behavior and paying “hush money” after the …
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Nov 30 2018
Dramatis Personae
The Masks of the Drama– (T)he main characters in a dramatic work written in a list. Such lists are commonly employed in various forms of theater, and also on screen. Typically, off-stage characters are not considered part of the dramatis personæ. In order to get this you need to understand that in most Classic Theater …
Nov 30 2018
The Perjury Trap
First off, what is perjury? See that line in the teeny tiny type near the one where you’re supposed to sign a legal document (like a tax form or an insurance or loan application) that says, “I attest the above statements are true under penalty of law.”? Yeah, well, people go to jail for that …
Nov 29 2018
The Pipes Are Calling For The Donny Boys
The big deal for me about today’s Michael Cohen Guilty Plea is not that Cohen has a new co-operation agreement with Mueller, it was always safe to assume that anything the Southern District of New York knew was directly piped to the Russia inquiry. No, it’s that the specific act he plead guilty to, lying …
Nov 29 2018
Professional Courtesy
It’s why Sharks won’t bite. The late breaking news from yesterday was the admission by Kevin Downing (Manafort’s lawyer) and Rudy Giuliani (Trump’s lawyer) that they continued to participate in a Joint Defense Agreement (basically information sharing) for months after Manafort agreed to co-operate with the Mueller investigation. Normally, while Prosecutors hate it, this is …
Nov 29 2018
Divine Intervention
So the story is Jerome Corsi (you remember him) was on a long airplane flight when he had a “Divine Intervention” (some would call it a revelation) that allowed him to correctly predict the nature of the DNC/Podesta emails and the timing of their release. They didn’t believe it. Jeannie Rhee, one of the prosecutors, …
Nov 28 2018
Promises, Promises
Not a good look. If only Trump cared. GM layoffs and plant shutdowns suggest U.S. economy may be starting to slow — and dent Trump’s claim of an industrial renaissance By David J. Lynch and Taylor Telford, Washington Post November 26, 2018 General Motors said Monday it will close five factories and lay off nearly …
Nov 28 2018
Stone’s Time In The Barrel?
So yesterday was all Manafort all the time. Today may very well be Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi. Jerome Corsi was a Soldier in the Stone Gang, senior enough to be trusted with a major continuing operation like disposing of stolen goods from a burglary but not a decision maker. Puzzled by my use of …
Nov 28 2018
Cartnoon
Sometimes, they’re not funny. Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. The Second Amendment is not for Black people. The Second Amendment states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Why was the term “free State” used, rather …
Nov 27 2018
Mississippi Goes Racist By 10+ Points
Dog bites man. Film at 11. Y’all stop being racist and I’ll stop talking about it.
Nov 27 2018
Wriggling On The Hook
So Manafort has violated his sentencing deal with Mueller. What does this mean? In terms of the investigation? Probably nothing. The way Mueller knows Manafort is lying is because he already has the facts. Would Manafort have been useful? Yes, as a witness against Trump. Both he and Roger Stone provide a direct connection between …
Nov 26 2018
Broken Clock
Though I could easily have titled this “I told you so“. Look, Chris Cillizza is a moron, useful only as a Barometer of Beltway Groupthink. I should not need to remind you that the Centrist No Labels Problem Solver Caucus has never solved a single problem and consists mainly of Democrats In Name Only who …