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Understand why this is important: GOP Senators (and even House) have staked their careers on a defense story that the White House encouraged. Now they look like they were part of the cover up.
@maggieNYT
Per sources, some GOP senators privately pushing White House for information on who at administration had visibility into the manuscript over the last month. Senators feel blindsided.
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TheBlackAdder
(28,286 posts).
Trump to GOP -- You fucked up! You trusted us!
McConnell to GOP
McConnell to GOP
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Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Docreed2003
(16,916 posts)we can do it
(12,233 posts)ffr
(22,686 posts)My hair is on fire, this WH lied!!?? No. Never!
Now I'm blindsided.
MontanaMama
(23,372 posts)Theyll probably get away with that charade too.
lastlib
(23,437 posts)My statement when the House Judiciary impeachment hearings began--Republicans can choose to be on the right side of infamy, or they can be buried by it.
Apparently they have chosen to be buried by it. They chose....poorly!
NBachers
(17,211 posts)lastlib
(23,437 posts)TeamPooka
(24,346 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,054 posts)Will Senators get out before they run out of lifeboats?
flor-de-jasmim
(2,128 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)To be charged with perjury.
Wounded Bear
(58,829 posts)they should at least face some honest voters, assuming we can find some in red states.
Both my Senators are Dems.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Michael Cohen is in jail for it.
Scruffy1
(3,258 posts)It's illegal to knowingly lie to congress. This is true whether you are under oath or not. Of course this won't hapen, but they could be disbarred because nearly all bar associations include lying to legislative bodies unethical.
mucifer
(23,658 posts)So no matter what the evidence is, nothing will change. Every effing one of them will vote to acquit and hope for the best.
FakeNoose
(33,016 posts)Not one!
Kompromat as far as the eye can see.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,222 posts)Last edited Mon Jan 27, 2020, 06:12 PM - Edit history (1)
I think they know that as well. They are beyond being traitors.
Grasswire2
(13,579 posts)sdfernando
(4,971 posts)Fix The Stupid
(952 posts)uponit7771
(90,379 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)Eff that straight away.
THEY ARE THE COVER-UP.
crickets
(26,007 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,262 posts)They knew but they hoped Dumpy Trumpy had coverred up most of the evidence. Now they know the evidence is coming out. Are they willing to go along with Dumpy?
I think they want to but they are worried it will look bad.
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Bolton's account is just another confirmation.
Farmer-Rick
(10,262 posts)So, there obviously isn't any blindsiding. What are they playing at?
LiberalFighter
(51,582 posts)They had a responsibility as Senators to find out what was happening. To be in the loop.
coti
(4,612 posts)usaf-vet
(6,262 posts)That would be the same Obstruction of Congress which is Article II of his Impeachment?
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/12/politics/impeachment-articles-annotated/
bucolic_frolic
(43,618 posts)"You think they'll find out before ... the election? Hate to throw my Senate career away for a loser."
"No worry, Mate. Trump has got this."
NJCher
(35,887 posts)If you haven't been there, your heart will sing with joy as you scroll down and the key parts are highlighted.
This makes me so happy.
MontanaMama
(23,372 posts)It should be its own OP. For real.
OMGWTF
(4,009 posts)Notice how TT's signature looks like a KKK rally. Melanie's does too. Weird.
marble falls
(57,869 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)turns to shit. This will, too.
uponit7771
(90,379 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,829 posts)Trump's been riding them for 4 years. A little payback would be fitting.
Moral Compass
(1,548 posts)One of my senators, The Dishonorable John Cornyn, is quoted as having said the impeachment is insane in the Dallas Morning News (I will admit to not having read the piece).
Cornyn must be spending some time this morning working on getting the egg off his face.
Of course, theyll circle the wagons ever more tightly and refuse to listen.
FakeNoose
(33,016 posts)... except now they can't do it anymore! It's right in their faces this morning.
yellowdogintexas
(22,300 posts)and get in his hair
bucolic_frolic
(43,618 posts)Please, these GOP53 are the lyingest sacks of shit to ever run for office
and poster children for anti-democratic movements because voters elected these shitheads!
liberalla
(9,290 posts)GOP53 needs to become a thing! Memed and hashtagged!
Those 53 gop senators need to be named and shamed.
Thanks to bucolic_frolic!
bucolic_frolic
(43,618 posts)Thank you! kind Sir!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,126 posts)They haven't been paying attention.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)is approve judges - they've basically done nothing else over the past year.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,126 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,829 posts)But shit, that's the most basic part of their fucking job. There's still the several hundred bills that the House sent them gathering dust.
Farmer-Rick
(10,262 posts)They drilled holes in Obama care and increased the cost of medical care for the military.
And they increased the budget deficit to huge amounts never before seen in the history of our country.
BadGimp
(4,029 posts)None of that matters to them.
Wait till the details come out and they find out how badly they've been Conned.
But they will still vote to acquit imo.
Wounded Bear
(58,829 posts)gonna get ugly, I think.
This is why Speaker Pelosi and House leaders were reluctant to impeach. But we're in the shit now, the only way out is through.
gibraltar72
(7,522 posts)They don't even know what they are signing onto. Republicans bought a pig in a poke. It ain't gonna get better only worse.
Toorich
(391 posts).... the repuglikan senators either don't know or don't care
that they are going to be boiled alive.
denem
(11,045 posts)is his 'executive time' for Fox and Friends.
Joe Nation
(963 posts)Truth is not the goal here.
mnhtnbb
(31,450 posts)Don't these people get that a pathological liar will lie about anything and EVERYTHING?
Or are they really so stupid that they believed he hasn't been lying about EVERYTHING?
Scruffy1
(3,258 posts)IMHO it's all about the upcoming election. They know if they lose the voters who support dear leader they are toast. I think a lot of these voters would not show up for the election if he had no chance or wasn't the nominee. Boltons revelations won't really change anything in the Senate and his supporters don't care about facts.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,557 posts)Orange Menace, errr, I mean each and every Rethuglican Senator.
Dukkha
(7,341 posts)SayItLoud
(1,703 posts)No one at the WH/Oral Office has seen the manuscript. Never said that they saw excerpts, or notes from NSC to WH. By the way...who's part of the NSC? All the #Dotards flunkies.
ecstatic
(32,829 posts)Everyone! So why would "senators feel blindsided?" Did they really think trump had the ability to silence every single person with knowledge of the drug deal?
It really is time for most of the GOP senators to retire. Clearly, they are too senile and /or corrupt to have so much power.
sarge43
(28,947 posts)Moron can't pour pee out of a boot even with the instructions on the heel.
If there's a pile of poo in the time/space contin, Moron will find it and step in it.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)appears one has to be on guard for a major bent over the table move.
catrose
(5,080 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Every day until the election more worse stuff will be getting exposed, and on their crimes also. The longer he's allowed to remain in office the more republicans will lose their elections, and their conspiring with trump will put them in legal jeopardy too.
Raster
(20,998 posts)... were hoping tRump* had this in-hand???
Enoki33
(1,590 posts)has been the exposure of additional damning evidence that shames the entire GOP. Bolton is the latest to condemn, and over the next few months more will surely follow. I suspect this is what really worries their fear of losing their stranglehold on power - what else is the traitor hiding, and how damaging will it be to them? They are walking up a dark blind alley.
UCmeNdc
(9,602 posts)The whole GOP is part of the cover up!
bucolic_frolic
(43,618 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Are you freakin kidding me!!!!!
What's worse... traitors, or just plain stupid?
Well, both!
patphil
(6,275 posts)Worst case of wilful blindness I've ever seen.
Add that to their wilful deafness and you can also call them wilfully ignorant.
The sum total is deliberate, wilful stupidity.
Stupid traitors!
Patrick Phillips
paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)and there were plenty of public hints that Bolton would corroborate it. The only blindness here was entirely self-inflicted and they have no one to blame for it.
C Moon
(12,228 posts)uponit7771
(90,379 posts)... then effectively told Nixon they weren't supporting him
C_U_L8R
(45,054 posts)Proof that Fox News rots your brrrrraaaaaaaaiiiiinnnzzzzzz
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,471 posts)They should have been doing their jobs first and foremost and not blindly going along with Trump.
RockRaven
(15,139 posts)a foundation of Trump lies.
HE ALWAYS LIES. EVEN TO HIS ALLIES. HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS? You have to make your corrupt plan independent of anything Trump tells you. Jesus Christ, the crooks and traitors in the GOP are low-quality.
Skittles
(153,442 posts)Nitram
(23,052 posts)rockfordfile
(8,712 posts)Besides the GOP Senators are desperate un-American pos.
PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)... The victim said she was putting her kids to bed upstairs when she heard someone in her house. When she went downstairs, she discovered the Bulls running out the back door of the house.
She followed the Bulls outside of the house and observed them placing bags of her items on their bicycles. A neighbor of the victim was driving in the alley when the Bulls tried to escape and stopped them ...
Among the items stolen were a full tool box, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, various tools and wires and a large blue duffel bag containing the womans purse and various items ...
The Bulls were arrested, and during questioning told police ... there are always houses listed as free where the homeowner needs to get out immediately.
Pernella Bull told police she entered the house and asked Is anyone here? and got no response. She said she assumed the house was vacant, starting taking items and giving them to her husband outside ...
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/05/27/couple-charged-with-burglarizing-south-st-paul-home/
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,117 posts)meadowlander
(4,413 posts)they just bet that most people wouldn't care or that they could repel any interest with procedural rules.
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