Yesterday the Senate votes 50-47 to reject Patrick Leahy's amendment to send states an additional $250 million for election security. 50 voted YES and 47 voted NO, but 60 votes were needed to get by the Russian-GOP filibuster.
Sadly, I don't see Putin-Gate as being decisive in the midterms. As Republican Congressman Darrell Issa told Neil Cavuto on GOP-TV yesterday, that id Trump is "proven to have not told the whole truth about the fact that campaigns look for dirt, and if someone offers it, you listen to them, nobody’s going to be surprised.
No Puppet by Chip ProserWe have elections coming up in less than three months and change-- and then another presidential cycle in 2020. It's not so much that we need to know about how the Russians stole the election for Trump-- like in a gossip kind of way-- but that we have the information so we can prevent it from happening again. The House Republicans have already turned down financing underwriting any fixes to make sure it doesn't happen.
Polling the other day was very clear: most normal Americans are very concerned about Russian interference in the 2018 midterm elections-- and most Republicans are not concerned at all.
In 75 years the U.S. government will issue the real report about the Russian hacking that put Donald Trump in the White House-- and Facebook was just a small part of it. Voting machines weren't. No, they were a big part of it, almost all of it-- in key precincts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, perhaps Florida, Ohio and Iowa as well.
About 5 years ago a closeted Republican retired from Congress-- not a case like Mark Foley who was really forced out because he was found to be molesting underage pages-- but just a garden variety gay guy who, though notorious inside the Beltway, was relatively unknown for his homosexuality in his own district.
Tom Secker joins e today for our mid season breakdown of Homeland Season 7. We start off by discussing the first major arc of the season, the Ruby Ridge/Waco standoff between O’Keefe and and the FBI. Tom and I discuss the surprisingly balanced approach Homeland has taken to this topic. We discuss the idea that this is a clever attempt at portraying the CIA as the adults in the room willing to negotiate, as opposed to the psychotic gun totting FBI. We also explore the historical events Homeland is touching on: Ruby Ridge and Waco.
It's well, well worth watching all of this exchange between Laura Ingraham and former CIA director James Woolsey. Woolsey acknowledges that the US has meddled in other countries' elections in the past and is doing so now, and both he and Ingraham find this laudable and funny. pic.twitter.com/TR3X7VM7Np— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) February 17, 2018
I'm sure Señor Trumpanzee's only responses to this ominous NBC News headline: Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems, top U.S. official says, will be "fake news" and "no collusion, everyone agrees there was no collusion." Oh, yeah...
