Category Archives: Current Affairs

Excitable Chuck Schumer Thinks He Can Dictate How Senate Impeachment Goes

After Democrats dominated the House hearings, laying out the rules without GOP input, limiting who the GOP could call, refusing to include exculpatory evidence in their final report, and, essentially, as Rep Doug Collins wrote, “the majority decided to pursue impeachment first and build a case second,” Democrats in the Senate think they have power […]

CNN: Supreme Court Is Interfering With Democrats Attempts To Get Trump’s Private Records

See, because only lower courts stocked with Democrat supporters should be able to rule on Constitutional issues Intervening! Keep private records private! How dare they consider Constitutional issues! Congress should be allowed to Demand records of all citizens anytime they want! (CNN) On the same day that a Democratic-led US House committee voted for articles of […]

Bummer: Trump Just Got His 50th Judge Confirmed

How’s that impeachment theater going, Dems? In less than three years, President Trump has appointed and the Republican Senate has confirmed 50 circuit judges. That is already the most in any president’s whole first term since 1980. https://t.co/3Ns65gvCje pic.twitter.com/r0mZgunu7f — Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) December 11, 2019 Obama only got 55 appointed in 8 years. But, […]

Democrats Might Hold Impeachment Articles Till McConnell Agrees To Their Rules Or Something

They’re searching for some sort of leverage, because the charges need to be presented as vividly as possible Democrats seek leverage for trial Senate Democrats are quietly talking about asking Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to hold articles of impeachment in the House until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) agrees to a fair rules package […]

Democrats Articles Of Impeachment May Not Include Bribery Or Quid Pro Quo

As Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia (R) said about this “They can’t get over the fact that Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and they don’t have a candidate that can beat him.” They’ve been working towards this since Trump won the election, and now we get Dems expected to announce at […]

Trump Signs Two Bills For Hong Kong Democracy, Angering China Or Something

The bills he signed are a good thing. Somehow, the NY Times almost makes it out, it’s very subtle, like this is a bad thing, and that Trump didn’t really want to do it Trump Signs Hong Kong Democracy Legislation, Angering China President Trump on Wednesday signed tough legislation that authorizes sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong […]

Fail: Americans Lose Interest In Impeachment Theater

Perhaps if the Democrats had had any sort of actual evidence of serious wrongdoing, other than what is simple Politics 101 along with a parade of witnesses who had feelings and thoughts but didn’t actually witness the phone call American public loses enthusiasm for impeachment despite blockbuster hearings Democrats hoped it would be the week […]

Associated Press Seems Surprised That GOP Isn’t Abandoning Trump Over Impeachment Theater

Despite the news media attempting to spin the hearings yesterday (Anand is Time’s editor in chief) https://twitter.com/Flying59Vette/status/1197276537445335045 along with most other days, because yesterday ended up hurting the Democrat Narrative (all he had was his own thoughts), the AP is confused In wake of impeachment testimony, no signs yet of GOP cracks Congressional Republicans are […]

GOP Rep Mike Turner Says Volker’s Testimony Essentially Destroyed Democrats Ukraine Narrative

What is the Democrats narrative these days, anyhow? They had run with quid pro quo, but, after poll testing it in focus groups, they switched to bribery. Especially since Americans will surely learn, if they don’t already know, that quid pro quos are the way politics, especially international ones, are done. And then they might […]

Devin Nunes Demands Adam Schiff Testify In Place of “Whistleblower”

Hey, why not? Schiff has as much firsthand knowledge of the Ukraine phone call as the so-called whistleblower (Breitbart) House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Friday sent a letter to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) requesting that the House Intelligence Committee chairman testify as part of the impeachment inquiry. In the letter, Nunes […]

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