by NoahOn Thursday October 17th, White House Chief Of Staff Mick Mulvaney went on live national TV and self-immolated faster than some poor suicidal Saigon monk soaked in kerosine. Mulvaney didn't just display the out of control arrogance that got him his job; he confessed about Ukraine for the president and turned himself into the proverbial smoking gun.
Rebecca Ballhaus, Siobhan Hughes and Natalie Andrews reported for the Wall Street Journal that members of Congress were shocked by Bill Taylor's testimony.
When I studied the revolutionary period in high school, the teacher, Mr. Feinstein, a relatively conservative guy, loved Alexander Hamilton, who seemed pretty conservative to me. I preferred the more populist Thomas Jefferson, who I associated with the left. Hamilton hated the "common people," and democracy and wanted a king instead of a president and a House of Lords instead of a Senate.
Chris Wallace-- not on Comcast-TV, but on Fox-TV-- gave Mick Mulvaney enough rope to hang himself. And he did, painfully, excruciatingly. Watch the video above; Mulvaney struggled to de-infuriate Trump by trying, weakly, to walk back his quid pro quo statement about the Democrats' biggest major impeachment weapon.
by NoahMAGA: My Attorneys Get Arrested. Another example of Trump always knowing "the best people."It's time to arrest the entire Trump administration for being his accomplices and make it MAGA: My Administration Got Arrested. That's the MAGA hat I want to see! Drag them all away in chains. I have a dream that the Trumpies will be truly judged by the content of their character! And sentenced accordingly!
"It will be said of House Republicans, when they found they lacked the courage to confront the most dangerous and unethical president in American history, they consoled themselves by attacking those who did."Not even Señor Trumpanzee is stupid enough to have imagined the House was going to censure Adam Schiff today-- to censure him for doing a good job on Trump's impeachment.
Carl Hulse reported for NY Times readers that Moscow Mitch has told Republican senators that impeachment is real and that they need to prepare to try Trump.
Finally, Republicans are started to break. Yesterday, Digby pointed out that younger Republicans are finally starting to jump off that sinking ship. Florida GOP Congressman Francis Rooney said he's open voting for impeachment-- the first one to say anything like that, as when their are still a handful of Blue Dogs who haven't!
Everybody ready for Halloween?Assuming-- as you should-- that Mulvaney was speaking for the White House, he admitted that the aid to Ukraine was indeed held up as part of a quid pro quo. So everyone agrees that the military equipment was the quid; the only disagreement is what the quo was.
by NoahRudy Giuliani: Just the latest in a long, long line of Trump "Coffee Boys." "Neva hoida him!"Who's going to be the next Traitorous Trump Wise Guy to be dismissed to the media as just a Coffee Boy? Pence? Pompeo? Barr? Jared? Moscow Mitch? Who will be the next goon that Trump claims to not know or have never even met? Trey Gowdy? Devin Nunes?"I did not have treason with that man, Mr. Giuliani!"
