GOOD GOVERNMENT???
With all the power the Republicans have...
...what they are doing cannot possibly be called "good government."
The Weasel gets impeached
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GOOD GOVERNMENT???
With all the power the Republicans have...
...what they are doing cannot possibly be called "good government."
Fentoine Lum
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Hopefully that effort will fare a tad better than draining the swamp.
https://www.propublica.org/article/...rules-let-lobbyist-help-run-agency-he-lobbied
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/...s-now-theyre-on-his-transition-team.html?_r=0
http://time.com/donald-trump-drain-swamp/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...7d93165c6d4_story.html?utm_term=.c6f6ade76246
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-...ry-lobbyist-to-hud-transition-team-1480453288
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/27/coal-doj-trump/
http://fortune.com/2016/11/16/trump-lobbyists-dc-establishment/
Another of Don’s Swamp Rats Bails …
... just before publication of this New Yorker article. Must be "fake" n shit.
Icahn’s role was novel. He would be an adviser with a formal title, but he would not receive a salary, and he would not be required to divest himself of any of his holdings, or to make any disclosures about potential conflicts of interest. “Carl Icahn will be advising the President in his individual capacity,” Trump’s transition team asserted.
In the months after the election, the stock price of CVR, Icahn’s refiner, nearly doubled—a surge that is difficult to explain without acknowledging the appointment of the company’s lead shareholder to a White House position. The rally meant a personal benefit for Icahn, at least on paper, of half a billion dollars. There was an expectation in the market—an expectation created, in part, by Icahn’s own remarks—that, with Trump in the White House and Icahn playing consigliere, the rules were about to change, and not just at the E.P.A. Icahn’s empire ranges across many economic sectors, from energy to pharmaceuticals to auto supplies to mining, and all of them are governed by the types of regulations about which he would now potentially be advising Trump.
Janet McCabe, who left the E.P.A. in January, and now works at the Environmental Law and Policy Center, told me, “I’m not naïve. People in business try to influence the government. But the job of the government is to serve the American people, not the specific business interests of the President’s friends. To think that you have somebody with that kind of agenda bending the President’s ear is troubling.”
Conflicts of interest have been a defining trait of the Trump Administration. The President has not only refused to release his tax returns; he has declined to divest from his companies, instead putting them in a trust managed by his children. Questions have emerged about the ongoing business ties of his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who, since Trump took office, have reaped nearly two hundred million dollars from the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., and from other investments. Although Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” he has assembled a Cabinet of ultra-rich Americans, including two billionaires: Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, and Wilbur Ross, the Secretary of Commerce.
But Icahn is worth more than the Trump family and all the members of the Cabinet combined—and, with no constraint on his license to counsel the President on regulations that might help his businesses, he was poised to become much richer. Robert Weissman, who runs the watchdog group Public Citizen, told me, “This kind of self-enrichment and influence over decision-making by an individual mogul who is simultaneously inside and outside the Administration is unprecedented. In terms of corruption, there’s nothing like it. Maybe ever.” In conversations with me, financiers who have worked with Icahn described his appointment as a kind of corporate raid on Washington. One said, “It’s the cheapest takeover Carl’s ever done.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/carl-icahns-failed-raid-on-washington
EZ Frank.. one abomination at a time..
Funny all the rightys jumped into this thread saying Rosenstein was going down for sure and impeachment was coming. It lasted for 2 days. Don't you guys ever see how you are being played for suckers? Over and over your great and explosive reports tuirn out to be bullshit, and you start a thread just as bad the next day. is learning impossible for you guys? Is Trump your religion?
You do realize that this does NOT mean he is impeached, right? Your title is very incorrect.
I will BET you a permanent ban from the forum Trump will NEVER be impeached. I haven't found one lying weaselly liberal yet who will take that bet.
You're such a lying partisan hack. The amazing thing is that you aren't embarrassed by it.
Idiot can't even spell bullshit let alone create a grammatically correct coherent sentence. 
Partisan hack thinks Democrats can lead. Must be why they don't control much of anything politically and whine like little babies from the sidelines. Meanwhile, Trump will put at least TWO jurists on the Supreme court, dismantling Obamunism, continues to move his agenda forward and continues to WIN when it comes to foreign policy and tariffs.
That has got to FRY America hating dullards on the left and the Democratic Party of the Jackass.
MAGA Baby!!
They don't get more clueless and stupid than this people. This moron thinks Democrats are winning.
They are mine because of a letter after their name is an R, and you think that must speak to me?
thanks for proving again what a partisan scumbag you are.
Everybody knows this is just a stunt. At least, everybody but righties.
And now this phony caper is finished. " Hardline conservatives have backed down from a threat to imminently force a House vote on impeaching Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein."
And Ryan already killed it, end of story
Darth Omar
Russian asset
That’s literally funny lol.
Hey Sessions, guess what? Your personal opinion of Rosenweasel means exactly squat in the face of the facts. And the fact is Rosenweasel is conflicted by the fact he’s a potential material witness should Mullet charge Trump with obstruction. In which fricking alternate universe is it ethical for a potential witness to oversee an investigation into something they themselves took part in??
Instead of yapping about how much you think of Rosenweasel, explain how he is NOT conflicted in overseeing Mullet
He’s too swell a guy to recuse doesn’t cut it.
Darth Omar
Russian asset
Does that mean Rosenweasel isn’t conflicted lol?