April 2, 2019

Focus!

68 comments:

Ann Althouse said...

Talk about witty repartee and good dialogue!

Humperdink said...

Of course he is correct.

Humperdink said...

I find it amusing the Trump has labeled Schiff pencil neck but has yet to label Nadler as all neck.

Achilles said...

They need to keep the investigation going.

Else we will have to focus on what the Democrats actually want to do.

They don’t want to talk about that because nobody wants those things except their globalist owners.

Achilles said...

Humperdink said...
I find it amusing the Trump has labeled Schiff pencil neck but has yet to label Nadler as all neck.

Pencil neck and fatass.

Not Sure said...

When does he start referring to Nadler as "Jowls?"

Saint Croix said...

Try to say "Shifty Schiff fit for shit" five times fast.

rhhardin said...

Take Descarte's fix. A good God would not let everything be fake.

It works on balls of wax.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

It's time to throw Brennan in prison. Hillary too.

Schifty D MUST be investigated for fraud and lying and other corruption.

Michael K said...

The current story about security clearances is the latest skirmish in the war on Trump.

roesch/voltaire said...

Is this another April fool from Trump just like the Republican Health Plan he proposed to end ACA?

Inga...Allie Oop said...

Nadler weighs 228. Trump weighs 243.

“But the present Nadler is a person transformed since he underwent stomach-reduction surgery in 2001 and shed more than 100 pounds. He had been noshing himself toward a peak weight of 328 pounds back when he first roused Trump’s ire.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-nadler-have-warred-for-years-but-the-stakes-have-never-been-higher

FIDO said...

R/V. He is immune to criticism on healthplans. You own the House and you are the Resistance. So he cannot pass any legislation he wants because you've admitted your bad faith. Same as Nadler and Schiff.

FIDO said...

Now while the MSM will not characterize it as such, being the propaganda wing for Democrats, the rest of the nation can see labelling your party 'The Resistance' essentially admits that your side is operating in very bad faith from the get go.

So the onus is on Schiff and Nadler to prove that they aren't just partisan windbags trying to knock the wheels off of the Administration.

And remember kids, when we get another Democrat President, we Republicans are learning all these tips and techniques and writing them down.

MAYBE, just MAYBE, the Left should just bite their tongues and live with Trump the way Republicans lived with Obama. We opposed HORRIBLE legislation ala Obamacare and did NOT try to destroy the whole administration.

But we can change tactics if you'd like.

n.n said...

Fiduciary responsibility. #TrumpFocus

Inga...Allie Oop said...

So what will Trump call Barr after he’s forced to hand over the Mueller Report to the House Judiciary Committee ? I can hear him now, “If I knew he was going to double cross me I’d never have picked Big Belly Barr!”

FIDO said...

Good for Nadler! I know that losing weight is a difficult process, even if he cheated a whole bunch using surgery. But at 71, it's hard to crack out of that Cheeto eating rut so give some grace.

That said, he has always been a hyperpartisan twit in a safe seat. A Jewish Maxine Waters except with twice the brain cells, which puts him at 40.

He looks far better than his Jabba the Hutt phase.

Bay Area Guy said...

I like Trump's emphasis on focus, because a lotta folks get inundated and then overwhelmed by the news, much of it biased and irrelevant, and some of it, actual disinformation.

Here's the suggested proper formulation:

1. Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate and prosecute crimes relating to Russian interference with the 2016 election, true? Yes.

2. Did Mueller investigate this issue? Yes, for 2 years.

3. Did Mueller indict anyone on this issue? Yes, but not Trump. He found no evidence of a crime.

4. Did Mueller indict anyone on the Obstruction of Justice charge? No. He made no recommendation, and basically punted the decision to the DOJ. Rosenstein and Barr did not indict Trump.

End of Story.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

F said...

Eyebrows?

roesch/voltaire said...

The Republicans have been attacking the ACA for eight years, had all three branched of. govt and never produced a health care plan, so don't talk about bad faith just admit the joke is on the American public.

gadfly said...

Focus? He has got to be kidding, because his focus is only on himself, as demonstrated by his unscripted stream of consciousness blurt delivered in the midst of a campaign speech concerning "the Iran deal is bad for the United States."

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, okay, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, okay, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right — who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.

readering said...

Focusing on running the country was Nixon's line in 1973 to 1974.

readering said...

What, no moderation?

Michael K said...

The left is in hysteria stage 12. Good. Nothing will get doe on healthcare until the Democrats lose the House.

Mean while, there are developments going on about reform.

And they are not being written by the insurance industry like the ones who designed Obamacare.

Bay Area Guy said...

The latest scheme by the Dems is to scour the details of the Mueller Report -- ignoring the fact that Mueller chose not to indict -- and try to find trivial matters to blow up into grounds to impeach Trump.

Trump Tower meeting!

Pappadopolous!

He fired Comey!

Lester Holt Interview!

Stupid shit like that.

If they had any respect or brains, they would accept the Mueller DECISION NOT TO PROSECUTE, and move onto other issues.

Not Sure said...

What, no moderation?

Don't jinx it!

Ann Althouse said...

"Nadler weighs 228. Trump weighs 243."

Nadler is 5'4", Trump is 6'3".

That's a 30.4 BMI for Trump, a 39.1 BMI for Nadler.

Ann Althouse said...

At 328, that was a 56.3 BMI.

Mind-boggling.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“That's a 30.4 BMI for Trump, a 39.1 BMI for Nadler.”

True enough. I give Nadler credit for trying to get healthy, Trump keeps gaining weight. While weight might be fun to use when insulting others for people like Trump, it’s really the size of the brain that matters.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Trump is right, and he has an excellent example to follow in the Obama administration's response to Congressional subpoenas.

Skeptical Voter said...

Jabba the Hutt for Nadler? Or maybe he's just short little Schiff. But back in the Boss Tweed days, the well fed and overstuffed big belly look was all the rage for New York politicians.

I had to laugh when I read in the Los Angeles Times this morning that grand jury testimony had been provided to Congress some years ago, and they "kept it confidential for decades". The average bit of confidential information provided to a Democrat congress critter will be leaked to the press within not more than three days. Less time than that if it was given to Schiff.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

So what will Trump call Barr after he’s forced to hand over the Mueller Report to the House Judiciary Committee ?

"Attorney General."

You do realize Trump has called for the report to be made public, and that "the public" even in your screwed up universe still include's The People's House, right? Barr will not be "forced" to do anything he doesn't want to. He's already offered to appear for committees and provided days he's available later this month.

What he won't do is respond to subpoenas for more than the DOJ guidelines call for. Write it down. You'll want to recall this later.

Yancey Ward said...

That is why we call you a dim bulb, Inga.

Mike Sylwester said...

Yesterday George Papadopoulos's new book Deep State Target went on sale, and so this past weekend BookTV broadcast an hour-long interview of him about his book.

The interviewer asked relatively few questions and just allowed him to tell his story, which he did very cogently.

What was done to Papadopoulos by the FBI -- in particular by Robert "The FBI Whitewasher" Mueller -- was appalling and outrageous. I am sure that this book will make a big impact on future discussions of the RussiaGate hoax.

gadfly said...

@Area Guy said...

Wash, rinse, repeat.

The world is simple for those who refuse to recognize a criminal when abundant evidence presented has already proven otherwise, We all need to see the 400 page (sans exhibits) of the Mueller Report. Tricky Dick's made it into the brand spanking new "world wide web" in two days. Trump's personal AG cannot stop the ongoing grand jury investigation nor can he control criminal charges emanating from the SDNY and NY State investigations.

According to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, "Silence is golden but my eyes can see."

Bay Area Guy said...

Nadler is 5'4?!!?

See, that's the problem. Short fat guys are mad at the world. They got gipped in the Darwininian genetic evolution department.

If I were short and fat, I'd be humorless and miserable too!

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

The Republicans have been attacking the ACA for eight years, had all three branched of. govt and never produced a health care plan, so don't talk about bad faith just admit the joke is on the American public.

Yep. That's why Trump's efforts to get them to DO something positive on the issue won't hurt him if he fails. He's doing the things he ran on, but he was under the false impression that Rs actually WOULD repeal and replace the ACA. I mean, he knew they were feckless fools, but he didn't realize just how stupid elected Rs could be. IMO.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“You do realize Trump has called for the report to be made public...”

Yes. What he says and what he means aren’t always the same.

MacMacConnell said...

Nadler is 5' 4", Trump is 6' 3". Inga now do their BMI.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Nadler's adding inches. His old bio said 5'2" not 5'4".

MacMacConnell said...

If Trump ordered AG Barr to release the report un-redacted wouldn't that be OBSTRUCTION! The report doesn't belong to Congress, it belongs to DOJ. I would like the report released, but like Trump I mean the parts that would be legally released in accordance with the rules and law.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“Trump's personal AG cannot stop the ongoing grand jury investigation nor can he control criminal charges emanating from the SDNY and NY State investigations.”

Indeed. I’d love to know who the company is that is involved in the Mueller grand jury investigation that is ongoing. I wonder how many sharp knives in the drawer here even know there is STILL a Mueller grand jury investigation that is “robustly” ongoing.

Michael K said...

The world is simple for those who refuse to recognize a criminal when abundant evidence presented has already proven otherwise,

I see we have more than one nut among the commenters.

Humperdink said...

Inga said: "Nadler weighs 228. Trump weighs 243."

I saw this comment and laughed. Danny Devito and Schwarzenegger come to mind.

As noted by our hostess above, there is another set of numbers that puts the weights in context. Why I am I not surprised they were omitted.

Mike Sylwester said...

I heard that Robert "The FBI Whitewasher" Mueller obtained the Russian video that shows Donald Trump watching prostitutes urinating on a bed in a Moscow hotel. The video shows a sign on the adjacent wall, and the sign says, "Barack and Michelle Obama slept on this bed". Mueller's report includes key screenshots from the video.

However, William Barr did not mention that finding in his summary.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“I saw this comment and laughed. Danny Devito and Schwarzenegger come to mind.”

Trump looking all buff and muscular.

Mike Sylwester said...

I heard that Robert "The FBI Whitewasher" Mueller found that Vladimir Putin, in disguise, played the role of Jesus in the Facebook ad that shows Jesus arm-wrestling Hilary Clinton. Mueller included that finding, along with snapshots showing Putin putting on his Jesus disguise, in his report.

However, William Barr did not mention that finding in his summary.

Anonymous said...

Inga: Yes. What he says and what he means aren’t always the same.

Is there a better example than this of how, regardless of what Trump says or does, the Inga's of this world, will find that statement or act to be proof of his evil nature, or that the statement or fact is duplicitous and, thus, once again, proof of his evil nature. With the Inga's of this world, there is never a moment when they can read Trump's mind and know with utter certainty, his true intent.

Humperdink said...

I have taken a liking to Pencil Neck and Waddler.

Anonymous said...

when they "can't" read his mind. typo

StephenFearby said...

Cambridge Dictionary definition of Hypocrisy:

'...a situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really believe, or that is the opposite of what they do or say at another time: "There's one rule for her and another rule for everyone else and it's sheer hypocrisy."'

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hypocrisy

Current principled examples:

Top Democrat [Nadler] calling for full Mueller report had different view when Bill Clinton was investigated

But back in 1998, as a member of the same committee, he vociferously opposed the release of the full Starr Report, saying that “as a matter of decency and protecting people’s privacy rights, people who may be totally innocent third parties, what must not be released at all.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-democrat-calling-for-full-mueller-report-had-different-view-when-bill-clinton-was-investigated


Eric Holder wants Mueller report out, but argued against full transparency after Starr report

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/eric-holder-wants-mueller-report-out-but-argued-against-full-transparency-after-starr-report

Drago said...

Inga seems very very upset that Barr is following the law as written.

I wonder why that is?

Drago said...

"But back in 1998, as a member of the same committee, he vociferously opposed the release of the full Starr Report, saying that “as a matter of decency and protecting people’s privacy rights, people
who may be totally innocent third parties, what must not be released at all.”

Nadler and the dems changed the law for Independent Counsels (must provide full report to Congress) to todays Special Counsel law (special counsel provides report to AG; AG NOT required to give anything to Congress).

Dems once again upset that they passed laws that they now dislike.

Inga doesnt know any of that because history began thus morning.

wendybar said...

He's right again.

Bruce Hayden said...

Dems are getting ready to subpoena the entire Mueller report. That isn’t going anywhere, and those two know it. If everything were reversed, Obama were still in the WH, and the Republicans were the ones asking for the report, the WH would be telling them to pound sand. That is what they did for the almost six years when the Dems hadthe WH and Reps had Congress. They never did produce much of the requested information from Eric Holder’s gun running to Mexico in Fast and Furious, by spurious invocations of Executive Privilege. Ditto for Benghazi, though some of the information there might have legitimately been protectable under Executive Privilege - the stuff going on at Foggy Bottom (State Dept HQ) was not. Some, maybe much, of the Mueller report contains information protected under law. For example, it contains grand jury information. Disclosing that without the permission of the judge is a felony. That is what those two bozos are demanding, that Barr and his people become federal felons for the Democrats’ hoped for partisan advantage. Which is why it isn’t happening any time soon. Maybe eventually, after they get enough judges to intervene, but not anytime soon.

They are welcome to the party. Congressional committees have spent two years getting heavily redacted records from the DoJ and FBI, it turns out for no other reason than the unredacted information was embarrassing to some Deep State swamp dweller. We are finally seeing what was redacted, and much was not done legally. I think that what Pencil Neck and Nadler May be doing is preemptive damage control. The Deep State was using the existence of the Mueller investigation to keep many of the details about what had been done in the FBI, DoJ, CIA, and State Dept from sometime early in 2016 up through the start of the SC investigation, out of the view of the public and Congress. It was easily the biggest American political scandal of at least the last century, and the Mueller investigation, itself, was part of the coverup. And a good part of why that worked so well, is that Mueller’s people pretty much knew within maybe three months that there was no Russian collusion, and shifted, with Rosenstein’s second scope memo, to concentrating on Obstruction of Justice, and exposing that the Mueller investigation was a partisan witch-hunt in the middle of the investigation would, of course, be spun by the investigation as Obstruction of Justice. It’s over now, and the reason for most of the redactions is no longer present. Ditto for the stalling of the OIG investigations. Things are about to get really bad for the Obama Administration players in the scandal (DAG Yates, AG Lynch, Amb Powers, NSA Rice, CIA Dir Brennan, DNI Clapper, etc) as well as the Deep State swamp dwellers involved. Bottom line - the Obama Administration ignored rampant felononies committed by their candidate for President, while using our national security tools, designed to protect the US from another 9/11 attack, to spy on and sabatogue the other party’s candidate, and then his transition and early Administration. All highly illegal and immoral, and intentionally covered up for most of two years by the existence of the Mueller investigation. And I think Pencil Neck and Nadler know that this is getting ready to finally blow open, and are doing whatever they desperately can, to divert attention.

Bruce Hayden said...

“Trump's personal AG cannot stop the ongoing grand jury investigation nor can he control criminal charges emanating from the SDNY and NY State investigations.”

Not sure if you realize that the SDNY reports to and is run by a US Attorney who was nominated by Trump, and reports to and is subject to oversight by AG Barr (“Trump's personal AG“).

Michael K said...

I think Pencil Neck and Nadler know that this is getting ready to finally blow open, and are doing whatever they desperately can, to divert attention.

And the fools and scoundrels in this thread and others ignore that Mueller is deciding what to redact from the report before it is published.

It's not Barr that is doing redacting but the idiots ignore that. It's a wonder that they remember to breathe.

Bruce Hayden said...

“Pencil Neck and Waddler”

Like that. Thanks. Needed a good nickname for Nadler.

exhelodrvr1 said...

Drago,
"Inga seems very very upset that Barr is following the law as written.

I wonder why that is?"

She's not upset, she's just confused. Thanks to Holder, she had forgotten what it was like to have a law-abiding AG.

Rick.T. said...

"Needed a good nickname for Nadler."

I wonder if he ever used the campaign slogan: "Go, Nadler!"?

Curious George said...

"Trump looking all buff and muscular."

Trump goes home to gorgeous ex-model. You go home to Mr. Tonka Toy and a couple of fresh C cells.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“You go home to Mr. Tonka Toy and a couple of fresh C cells.”

You go home to your female goat.

Curious George said...

"You go home to your female goat."

+ I am a dullard. Sad.

Howard said...

Trump goes home to a freshly rogered supermodel and wolf's down a couple supersized big macs

Inga...Allie Oop said...

“Just take a look at the oranges of the investigation.”
Trump

Inga...Allie Oop said...

““My father is German, was German,” Trump said. “Born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany.” This is not true. Fred Trump is of German descent and his father was a German immigrant. But Fred Trump was born in New York.”

Ooops. Maybe he forgot about the oranges of his father’s birth.

Gospace said...

roesch/voltaire said...
The Republicans have been attacking the ACA for eight years, had all three branched of. govt and never produced a health care plan, so don't talk about bad faith just admit the joke is on the American public.


Last I checked our constitution, I couldn't find the part where the government provides healthcare to the people. It's just not there.

The government staying out of healthcare is a plan. I'm in NY. NY requires health insurance to provide all kinds quack coverage be included in health insurance premiums, like chiropracty. So every time someone in NY sees a quack chiropractor, some of my premiums help pay it. And in patient substance abuse treatment. Which does not have a huge success rate- and which I'LL NEVER NEED! But I have to subsidize it.

Greg Q said...

Well played by Trump

1: He's entirely correct about the Dems
2: The Dems spent the last two years supporting and celebrating the deep state refusing to answer Congressional Republican queries

They're going to get 0 sympathy when their enquiries are similarly ignored