December 12, 2016 6:30 AM
Morning Reads — December 12
Happy Monday, everyone! I erected a 9ft inflatable minion yesterday to irritate my insufferable neighbors. T’is the season!
Jawja
- University System of Jawja to institutions of higher education: Don’t violate federal and state law–seriously.
- Three of the eight members in Chatham County’s delegation are associated with companies or organizations paid to provide services at the Chatham County jail.
- Some Jawja Republicans hoped to reform the electoral college until a month ago.
- What will be the hot-button issues of 2017?
- A funeral was held for one of the Americus police officers gunned down last week.
Murica
- A bipartisan group of senators call for an investigation into Russian interference in Murica’s elections.
- Confronting racist objects.
- Technology’s next frontier: Your home.
- One book’s political philosophy inspired a generation of Capitalist Murican politicians and the Communist Revolution in Russia.
- The Midwest was turning more red before 2016.
Important
- Care to fly non-stop for 17 hours? Now you can!
About Author
Will Kremer
Will is an active member of the Georgia Republican grassroots. He previously served as Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, 2nd Vice Chairman of the 7th District Republican Party, and Treasurer of the Forsyth County Republican Party. Promise Land = Forsyth County.
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In an effort to salvage a damaged brand, 538 Guru Nate Silver sputters that the midwest was already going red. Lol! Nice call! There are some chicken fights in Rabun County whose winners you may want to predict!
The Post may have had Murica’s (sp) di-version on the hacking, Forbes also had a version worth reading:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2016/12/11/the-battle-over-russian-hacking-is-over-the-legitimacy-of-the-trump-presidency/#6fa49cbe6ed7
I am in agreement with this article’s premise that an investigation devolving into a standard partisan battle will end with the normal non-results. However I am greatly disturbed that the official line coming from Trump’s camp is:
“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction…The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s now time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again.”
While the CIA had its issues with a lack of quality intelligence on Iraq the revelations last year finally bore out how Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al., edited their reports to support their hawkish agenda. Now a President Trump will be relying on the same CIA they have just put down for foreign intelligence in the future. They are no longer in a political campaign and taking pot shots at our own country’s top foreign intelligence organization to defend the purported actions of potentially foreign enemy agents is ludicrous.
Also along that same thought the spin doctors should quit adding the hype at this point. Percentage wise “…one of the biggest Electoral College victories…” actually ranks 46th in previous Presidential elections. Presidents have used hype before but it is unseemly for obvious exaggerations of this proportion to come from them or their people. The election is over. With this I agree. Quit the campaigning and marketing of the brand and get on to governing.
Trump has no concept of ‘governing’ just as he has no concept of ‘business’. He has flash and dazzle and a running line of crap to feed his cult.
Waiting on him to turn presidential will be a long, long wait.
Yeah, he will never be presidential, but we all know that Pence is really running the show so that makes me feel good. But you just keep on keeping on with the Trump derangement syndrome.
I know he (Trump) wasnt your guy but I find it hard to believe that you are really okay with the presidency being reduced to puppetry. Doesnt that rub you completely the wrong way?
It’s one thing when we find this out after the fact (ala Reagan or GWB) but knowing this upfront and being not just okay but happy about it is kind of appalling to me.
Who said I was happy he won? Of course it doesn’t make me happy to think that the presidency is being reduced to puppetry. But as a student of history I know that there have been many times in our history where presidents were painted as dumb or not capable of the job. Of course it pisses me off that I know he will have another “grab her by the you know what’ moment soon (probably before he’s sworn in).
He is the leader of my team and our country now. So it is what it is. I’m also okay with the people he is nominating. He’s not screwing the pooch as bad as I thought he would. I particularity like the people that he is appointing that are making the liberals foaming at the mouth crazy. Basically everyone. And most people here know I’m a fan of Tom Price so that makes me dislike slightly less.
Basically, it’s time to get on board or shut the hell up. I’ve decide to get on board and start pissing off liberals. Call me what you will.
Whoa. I didnt say you were happy. I was just surprised by your ability to be on Team Trump given your views pre election. But you have laid out how you are able to rationalize it so no big deal. I just was looking for insight into how you are dealing with it.
I do have an issue with anyone’s political goals/aspirations being “pissing off liberals” (or pissing off conservatives if thats your preferred bent). That automatically makes what should be a collaborative effort (running a government) adversarial. But meh. If that’s your thing, go for it.
I know how politics works. Get on board and try to get things done (aka piss liberals off) or shut the hell up. That’s pretty much how it works. The democrats really had a “collaborative effort” when they forced Obamacare care through. And I hope republicans use the same collaborative effort when they repeal and replace it with something that will work. What goes around comes around. Especially in politics.
I still don’t like the guy and would have picked 16 other people before him. But I’m fine having Pence as the most conservative president this country has ever had. I left “Vice” out on purpose.
Pissing off liberals and getting things done are frequently, almost exclusively, at cross purposes. And if Republicans had been less focused on ‘pissing off liberals’ and provided bipartisan cover, you might never have had Obamacare at all because that was what plenty of the Senate Dem Caucus was interested in for all of 2009, and the full 60 only got on board when it was clear that wasn’t going to happen. If the GOP had given them anything to grab on to, Baucus, Nelson, Lieberman and co. would have jumped ship.
Sure. Everything is bipartisan with you guys when you have just lost everything. Take a breather on the sidelines for a while. We will take care of things and piss you off in the process. 🙂
I like this “new” Eiger! Damnnnn….Bart and I don’t have to do ALL the heavy lifting any more!!
This isn’t a new me. This is who I’ve always been. You just misunderstood my hatred for trump during the campaign as a dislike of republicans in general. I’m a very conservative person and simply hated trump because I thought he was ruining our chances of winning.
Carousel of contestants continues for SOS. Now we have Rex Tillerson as leading contender? Certainly would be an interesting pick.
Others have serious flaws. Petraeus has legal and ethical problems, Romney has credibility issues, Giuliani too many foreign business contacts, Newtie maybe does not want it or something and Bolton perhaps is too strident.
I find that a Tillerson appointment as our top statesman has some serious flaws as well. Primarily with perception. We already have accusations if not pure facts that big oil has dictated much of our foreign policy in the past. Deposing a democratically elected leader in Iran to put a monarch/dictator with the Shah on behalf of big oil started that ball rolling way back when. Our coddling of the Saudis through the years regardless of their back channel terrorism support has continued that tradition. Even to the point of fighting wars on their behalf. Now we go with a guy whose only real political statesmanship has been representing Exxon’s interests in Russia. This is not encouraging.
Tillerson’s ties to Russia would make for a close confirmation vote but ultimately he would be confirmed. Another one under consideration is James Stavridis but he might be too close to Hilly. Maybe best to say that all are flawed.
Stephen Hadley or Corker would get confirmed 95-0.
Tillerson has both a committee problem and a full Senate problem. Foreign Relations Committee is 10-9: Lose a Republican there and he’s done in committee, and Paul, Flake, and Rubio could be wild cards on varying degrees. (Dems are all solid blue staters, so none of them would flip. Lose that vote, and the nomination is probably over.
If they push forward anyway, they can only stomach 3 GOP defections if the Dems don’t bite. McCain + Graham + one other GOP, and it fails. With the stench of Putin all over the Administration and the stench of Putin all over him, doubling down on Tillerson is plain stupid unless they can unflip the hawk caucus against it.
Committee recommendation is not binding on the senate. If it’s a 50/50 tie in the full senate Pence is the tiebreaker.
True, but no nominee who failed in committee has won Senate approval since 1945. And that’s why I said they need McCain + Graham + one more. 48 Dems + 3 Rs = 51 And if he failed in committee and they went forward anyway, well there’s your extra R to go with McCain/Graham.
If he has a solid performance in the hearings and shows good knowledge on foreign policy he gets the job.
Best comment I’ve seen on the revelation of Tillerson as the nominee:
“It isn’t his ties to Putin that bother me so much as his ties to Exxon-Mobil.”
Well, of course Republicans don’t want an investigation into Russian hacking. It would most likely reveal their Party and others in government did not have secure email servers. Bwahahaha.
If those republicans were knowingly sending emails that had classified data in it they should go to jail.
Lololol! Just like Hilly!
Constant Trump bashing, Jawja and Murica are ignorant, Politico on bad capitalism ? For someone who portrays themselves as a GOP leader, if one can’t find an article to promote the philosophy or have an idea with a few positives over perceived warts, I’d say, “you’re fired”.
Some of us prefer propaganda-free postings.
I don’t live in an ideologically pure bubble. If that’s what you seek, you’re in the wrong place.
What ? you left the no spin zone. If you have read my positions, pure bubbles aren’t my bag.
Point is leadership is like parenting, negative ranting as the primarily method is failing, try leading. Or be true and change your party affiliation.
I enjoyed reading the Polticio piece yesterday. However the Ivory tower author overlooked other writers and poets of the Russian Neoclassical era which were inspired by both the French and American revolutions, all of which influence mid 19th century eastern Europe. It also failed to mention the effect of the Prussian and Crimea wars and the political and finical havoc it had on minor Russian duchies. This made Chernyshevsky’s poorly thought out novel an idealistic escape for the minor aristocrats and their 4th and 5th sons which formed the base of the socialist movement of the era.
McConnell should immediately resign. His wife should not accept her Cabinet appointment. Why reward Russian hackers and their enablers with high government posts?
What? McConnell’s wife, a former cabinet official, is a Russian hacker? You be trippin?
Laugh away. These are dark days for the US.
One word for you: Lithium.
I agree, Lithium would work great here. The question is how do we make sure Trump has his daily dose. (sarc)
Lithium is used mostly to treat bipolar disorder and in conjunction with antidepressants (to increase their efficacy) to treat major depression disorder.
If someone is upset about Trump being president I’d recommend a stiff drink (if you’re not an alcoholic) or a joint.
Trump: Making day drinking acceptable.
Vodka and caviar, of course
When has day drinking not been acceptable? There is always a place for happy lunch.
How can inanimate objects be “racist”? Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call them offensive?
Offensively tasteless was once a home serving syrup other than Aunt Jemima’s.
Let’s see…Jill-ary Stein’s recount efforts flopped! “OMG” shriek Hilly supporters, “What can we do now…?” Say the Russians delivered the election to Trump?!?!?! Yeahhhhhh….
So, to summarize, Podesta’s emails were leaked by Wikileaks and show embarrassing content that has not been denied. Media in the tank for Hilly. Confirmed what everyone always suspected. Everything that could be done to stop him was tried. And failed miserably. Can you say “Electoral College blowout”?
Ok, so the Russians supposedly hacked Podesta but not Hilly’s server? Yeah, that’s believable.
The Libs will do anything, anything to de-legitimize Trump, anything but admit they had a sh*tty, unpopular candidate in anyplace other than NY and CA and whose arrogance, condescension and elitism got her ass kicked.
Her defeat was likely caused by the culmination and literal disgust of four recent socialist phrases:
1. “Trump’s supporters are a basket of deplorables.”
2. “blah, blah, blah…..cling to their God and guns.” (Bitter Klingers!!) Pardon me Jaime Farr…
3. “You didn’t build that…”
4. “We need to spread (the fruit of your effort, Joe the Plumber) the wealth around…”
So, either realize this and get back on your horse or be prepared to lose more senate seats than God in 2018.
Hillary’s server was at least more secure than the OPM server. or several Sec’y of State servers…
she may very well have been afraid that Russians intended to hack into wherever she had emails stored.
If I voluntarily committed myself eould you and Ellynn come and visit?!?!?! Lol!