14 - 20 August 2017 | 126 comments (126 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Two more to go (h/t Digby)

All of the men surrounding VP Pence are now gone. pic.twitter.com/KVousMN08C
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 18, 2017

by Bernard (bernard) on Fri Aug 18th, 2017 at 08:10:46 PM EST
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< wipes tears >

Of lesser evil: never gets old in US America. [TINA ALERT]
A Liberal Case for President Pence

I wouldn't say I'm a big Pence fan. But everything's relative. He doesn't approach each hour as a mortal threat to precarious manhood, and it's hard to imagine Pence groping women, or bragging to others that he did. When Nazis went on a homicidal rampage, Pence's response, aside from the requisite media bashing that all Trump White House employees must engage in, seemed both professional and perturbed, suggesting he did not, on the whole [?!], approve of murderous thugs. ...

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Aug 18th, 2017 at 08:43:51 PM EST
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Re: Enemy of the People (none / 0)

I prefer Trump to Pence. Trump creates so much chaos that little gets accomplished - and that is the best thing about him. The less he accomplishes the better off we all are. Pence, OTOH, would try to create as little chaos as possible and could get much more of the very same agenda passed into legislation. Let Trump hang in there until December of 2018.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Aug 21st, 2017 at 02:33:30 PM EST
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Re: Enemy of the People (none / 0)

hmm, yes, well. I'm a casual cockroach theorist: Where there is one, there are many. Apply.

See here, 18 Aug weekend sighting.

Vice President Mike Pence and national security adviser H.R. McMaster rehearsed their pitch heading into the Camp David strategy session in an effort to persuade Trump to accept commanders' proposals to beef up the 8,400 American troops in the country, the sources said.
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The two sources -- an administration official and a senior White House aide -- also confirmed that Erik Prince, founder of the former Blackwater private security firm, had been scheduled to attend the session but that he was blocked at the last minute. The administration official said McMaster was the one who blocked Prince.

So. What else is Mr Pence up to?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Aug 21st, 2017 at 04:10:32 PM EST
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Re: Enemy of the People (none / 0)

And I certainly did not mean that I am happy with Pence. I can only wish that we had a repeat of the Agnew/Nixon sequence, but that would depend on Pence having done something egregiously illegal AND apprehendable as such by a majority of the US electorate. And just who could be appointed in Pence's place? A fifty food diameter meteror striking the White House when both Trump and Pence are there seems more likely.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Aug 21st, 2017 at 04:56:15 PM EST
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Re: Enemy of the People (none / 0)

And even then we would get Paul Ryan.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Aug 21st, 2017 at 04:56:59 PM EST
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Re: Enemy of the People (none / 0)

yep :) can't win for losing these days.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Mon Aug 21st, 2017 at 09:35:35 PM EST
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