In lieu of the arrest of Roger Stone, and his closeness to the Trump campaign,

[still_one]

the Democrats should push the argument that no more justices should be confirmed until the Mueller investigation is over.

While it won't be successful because of our minority status in the Senate, I think it is important that the message gets out that we are dealing with an administration whose participants have been accused of being involved in illegal activities altering our election process, and until the extent of this is determined, we should proffer the argument that all justices appointments by this administration need to be halted

[Cha]

1. KR!!

[empedocles]

2. Agreed. Good timing of that argument will be important.

Doesn't seem that the Roger Stone arrest is all that much for a number of voters to be influenced.

[still_one]

3. Agreed, but his closenes to the Trump campaign, including after he was suppossed to have left, and

the connections Stone had to Kushner and others, if nothing else will highlight to those voters who currently are not particularly influenced by this, that things are not quite right.


As part of the indictment that has been reported, they have included parts of text messages and correspondence with Stone and individual one, directly or an indirect intermediary who is assumed to be Julian Assange, where Stone has lied about when questioned by the FBI.


It is about a hostile foreign government interfering with our election, and its connection to the trump administration, and a very important link has been made.

[empedocles]

4. fox news at 7:15a this morning, panelist said, 'President Trump has nothing to worry about.'

Then the panel switched topics to border security. So we have an idea what the official trump line is for the day.

[still_one]

5. As this starts to unwind, it will be interesting if fox news starts losing some of its loyal viewers

as it becomes evident that this administration worked with a hostile foreign power to interfere in our election process.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, and has the house of cards starts to crumble, it is going to be very hard for them to ignore hard evidence

I wonder how nervous Hannity is?

[empedocles]

10. MSNBC passed fox in key ratings analyses.

fox has longer term ratings decline with trump problems. Some fox hosts going off script at times. Much more to come and be done.

[still_one]

11. very interesting. Thanks for that info

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Absolutely. "No confirmations in the last year of his presidency." . . . nt

[still_one]

9. I don't think we will be able to stop it because of our minority status in the Senate, but we sure

should try, and make it an issue

[FreepFryer]

7. Not so minor correction - you mean "In light of" not "in lieu of" (in lieu of means "instead of")

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Read correctly, your post suggests the charges against Stone be dropped in exchange for a freeze on Trump justice appointments.

Otherwise, agreed with what you intended to say!

[duforsure]

8. I agree

But McConnell won't. He needs them appointed for self protection.