"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
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It’s difficult for me to imagine that the Republicans aren’t in trouble right now, but the keyword is imagine. I’m not going to believe anything I read in the media about that. But just as POTUS uses a weather event to argue against climate change, it’s going to be difficult for folks not to do the same with the current stock market adjustment, and there will go conservatives’ one and only argument about why Trump’s “comportment” is not an issue. “My portfolio’s looking good, so Trump’s good.”
Trump Drops the T-Word
Democrats who fail to applaud him aren’t betraying the country.
Updated Feb. 5, 2018 7:47 p.m. ET
By The Editorial Board
Treason by any other name is not defined by refusing to applaud Donald Trump during his State of the Union speech last week. Still, at a discursive speech Monday in Cincinnati that was nominally about the strong economy, President Trump decided to drop the T-word on the Democratic hand-sitters. “They were like death, and un-American,” Mr. Trump said to the Ohio factory workers. “Somebody said treasonous. Can we call that treason? Why not? They certainly don’t seem to love our country very much.”
When politicians start accusing opponents of treason, our former Journal colleague Seth Lipsky has made it a practice to recall that “treason” is defined narrowly in Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution.
Perhaps we should be grateful to Mr. Trump for giving us the opportunity to quote the Founding Fathers: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.”
Watching Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer scowl through the State of the Union speech, several words occurred to us: churlish, grumpy, resentful. But treasonous didn’t spring to mind. Mr. Trump’s mind no doubt is filled with smoldering anger because opponents have called him authoritarian, totalitarian, Hitler and insane.
Voters may be getting turned off by the hyperbolic rhetoric of politics, but they’d better expect more of the same. Mr. Trump tweeted Monday that Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee “must be stopped,” whatever that means for a duly elected Member of Congress, while Mr. Schiff accuses Mr. Trump of colluding with Russia based on little evidence. The real treason here, in the non-constitutional meaning, is against normal political debate and reason.
Appeared in the February 6, 2018, print edition.
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> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/07/2018 at 21:37 |
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“while Mr. Schiff accuses Mr. Trump of colluding with Russia based on little evidence.”I’m going to guess he has more intelligence on the matter than the WSJ.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
02/08/2018 at 01:16 |
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Ultimately, the WSJ piece amounts to a “both sides” argument as it seeks to normalize 45's choice of words.
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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/08/2018 at 21:58 |
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What amazes me is the number of whom i used to consider wholesome individuals complelty go to bat, for him. People who used to go on about sexuality and swearing on TV, then turn around and go “it was just locker room talk., If I was a billionare I’d hit on her too...” really, does our spose know that? and how would they react if it was them. My mind just can’t comprehend the logical gymnastics
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
02/09/2018 at 12:23 |
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That’s why I like Jeff Flake, the Mormon from Arizona. If he ran for president in 2020, I’d twist an ankle getting to the poll to vote for him. And all the king’s horses and men couldn’t have kept me from voting for Barack Obama either time.
What I am curious to see is after the Republicans have reset themselves, if they to, post-Trump, how many of these people are jettisoned. How many Rs are heading for the doors right now rather than stand up for Trump?
And conservative pundits are all saying that everything’s hunky dory.
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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
02/09/2018 at 21:49 |
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On one side, my grandparents were long term GOP donors and fundraisers, my grandfather used to chew the fat with a few regional polticians. Theres a photo of me at dinner with Tip ONeil, all I remember is his big nose.
As of consequence my family was best charecterized as Rockefeller republicans. Tearing apart slick willy was a famil pastime. It was the second Gulf war that made me go “wtf, didn’t agree to this”. I felt like the black sheep. In 2005, when they were starting to organize for the 2006 elections, my grandfather irritated by thedirection the GOP was heading just went “i’m sitting this one out”. It felt a bit redeeming, maybe I’m not going crazy.
If he lived to see 45 he would have had a heart attack.
I think the current crop of GOPs retiring is the same. My major fear is that the replacements are going to be like the tea party in 2010 and they’ll all be like 45, or Roy moore.