The Politics Thread

[Wendy]

WaPo: Jeff Sessions spoke with Russian Envoy twice last year, which he failed to disclose during his nomination. As the GOP was so fond of shouting, LOCK THEM UP!

 

And this just seals that an independent counsel is needed for the investigation into Trump and Russia.

 

ETA: And I saw that, @Vee! Extra coverage works well here.  :-)

Edited March 2, 2017 by Wendy

[Vee]

Beat you to it by a minute! But by all means, keep it up. The more spotlight the better.

And yeah, the media is seizing on it.

 

This has been disclosed before, but more on how Obama's administration scrambled to leave a trail on the Russia issue for our intelligence agencies before leaving office.

Edited March 2, 2017 by Vee

[NothinButAttitude]

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Get rid of them all. 

[Vee]

The Atlantic on the State Department facing Trump.

[ReddFoxx]

The problem is that Congress is unwilling to intervene. Sessions did indeed lie to the Senate, but it doesn't matter unless the Republican leadership holds him accountable.

[NothinButAttitude]

 

That's fine. He better pull out the tricks out his ass when it comes to voter suppression to spare the GOP b/c come 2018 and 2020, the GOP will be decimated. Hopefully, all these scandals coming out about Trump and his cronies will drive the independents and undecided over the Dems. The Dems just need to remain firm and play their cards right. 

[DramatistDreamer]

Edited March 2, 2017 by DramatistDreamer

[ReddFoxx]

All the tricks in the world won't work, too many people are angry and all of them can't be kicked off the voter rolls. There are some seriously apathetic people who have become engaged now and they will show up to the polls.

[cassadine1991]

You got to love the hypocrisy on the right, doing the things they accused Obama and Clinton of doing. 

[Roman]

Barack Obama.....one dude I wouldn't pay spades or poker with. he set the Republicans up so well they either A. investigate or B. pay for not doing it next November. 

[marceline]

The glorious thing about the leaks is that a lot of them are obviously meant to undermine others in the administration. Trump likes to keep people competing with each other and that only fuels the leaks.

 

 

Bamz obviously learned a lot about thinking a few moves ahead when dealing with these charlatans. Term One Obama took way too long to figure out just how low these folks would sink.

Edited March 2, 2017 by marceline

[DramatistDreamer]

During the Obama administration, the FCC approved a regulation that would make telecommunications companies notify  and request permission from consumers when they wanted to sell consumers' information to a 3rd party- consumers would have the ability to accept or decline and if consumers accept, the company would have to compensate consumers for the use of their information.

 

Now with the new, Trump-approved FCC Cchief, he is now looking to delay implementation of that regulation, a signal to many that the new FCC chief intends to reverse the regulation.

 

FCC Chairman Pai moves to block broadband privacy rules

 

Internet privacy rules headed for showdown

 

 

In other Trump administration screw-ups, in case, anyone missed the video of Sessions lying under oath.

 

Edited March 2, 2017 by DramatistDreamer

[Roman]

Pelosi is on now saying that Dems and Repubs have signed on to an investigation into the Trump Admin's ties to Russian Agents. 

[GregNYC]

 

Didn't Obama hire Comey in the first place?

[Wales2004]

#TBT

 

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