14 hours ago, janea4old said:

Re: Patrick Leahy, senior Democrat senator from Vermont, who is now president pro temp of Senate and will preside over impeachment trial:
NEW: according to a statement from Leahy's spokesperson ...

Leahy wasn't feeling well this evening (Tues Jan 26) and was examined by the attending physician, who recommended ("as an abundance of caution") that he go to the hospital for observation  -- which is where he is now, and is being evaluated.

Update -- he's fine.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 27, 20214 yr by janea4old

7 hours ago, janea4old said:

Now *that* is the kind of tweet I want to see from my President.

 

Agree!!

@khan thought you'd be interested or you might already know. 2 million dollars out the window in Oklahoma. And we all know Trump was getting some sort of kickback

 

Oklahoma trying to return its $2m stockpile of hydroxychloroquine (readfrontier.org)

10 hours ago, janea4old said:

Now *that* is the kind of tweet I want to see from my President.

 

The administration is handling this very well. They set up theme days. (I think today is climate change.) Then they drop a bunch of policy then they send out tweets like that one reiterating what they accomplished in one day. His Comms team is top notch. This is how they avoid the "Infrastructure Week" style jokes from the previous admin.

 

  

I know that a lot of people don't want to think about his but we've seen enough reports that the insurrectionists had all kinds of information. Some of these suicides, and the ones we will undoubtedly see in the future, might be because of guilt at involvement.

 

More proof that we're in a whole new world. 

 

 

Edited January 27, 20214 yr by marceline

1 hour ago, JaneAusten said:

@khan thought you'd be interested or you might already know. 2 million dollars out the window in Oklahoma. And we all know Trump was getting some sort of kickback

 

Oklahoma trying to return its $2m stockpile of hydroxychloroquine (readfrontier.org)

 

Thanks, @JaneAusten.  Nothing about the people who run my state surprises me anymore.  And we're just as idiotic as they are, if not more, because we keep electing them.

 

 

In any case of spasms, the kind being attributed to Sen. Leahy, are usually connected to stress. JMO.

These Capitol police suicides are yet another reason why just moving on as if none of this ever happened is not a sensible option. Regardless of the outcome, it would have been irresponsible not to had a trial, it would be an invitation for this to happen again.

These Capitol police suicides are yet another reason why just moving on as if none of this ever happened is not a sensible option. Regardless of the outcome, it would have been irresponsible not to have had a trial, it would be an invitation for this to happen again.

Edited January 28, 20214 yr by DramatistDreamer

Hoo lord!

 

 

I predict that he'll get a book deal. Of course, it will all depend on if/when he's called as a witness in the Impeachment trial and anything else he and "Mother" are willing to spill.

16 minutes ago, amybrickwallace said:

I predict that he'll get a book deal.

 

Yep.  And maybe a deal to appear on "Celebrity Big Brother," too.  And then we'll have to hear this-or-that Z-level "celebrity" go on and on about how they got to know the former veep and that he isn't at all the bland, stuck-in-the-mud evangelical Christian that the rest of us made him out to be.

 

Edited January 28, 20214 yr by janea4old

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Yep.  And maybe a deal to appear on "Celebrity Big Brother," too.  And then we'll have to hear this-or-that Z-level "celebrity" go on and on about how they got to know the former veep and that he isn't at all the bland, stuck-in-the-mud evangelical Christian that the rest of us made him out to be.

 

I could see him going on Dancing With the Stars if it weren't for him seemingly taking his views very seriously about not being around other women.

 

He should have had better exit plans post-Trump. He clearly thought he could glom on for 4-8 years and be set up, but Trump never gave a damn about him (and wouldn't have even if Pence had gone even further in trying to steal the election), and now Trump's brain-dead cult will also ensure he has no real future post-VP.

 

Such a craven slug.