Missouri Senator Eric Greitens?

Eric Greitens wants to be our next Missouri US Senator?

--He sexually abused and tried to exploit and blackmail his hairdresser; --He stole from his Veterans' charity and from taxpayers; --He resigned hours after a judge ordered him to reveal his dark money donors. No. Heck no. Hell no.

When Will KCPT Stop Blackmailing Us?

Every Spring and Fall, for one week, our local KCPT, Kansas City Public Television, PBS , turns insipid. It's all for fundraising. Like now, this week.

The other 50 weeks it's intelligent and/or entertaining and usually informative. For these 2 weeks, it turns into a blackmailing jukebox. It goes from intelligent to insipid and isnulting. It makes no sense. There has got to be better ways, much better ways to raise money than playing music for Boomers. And trust me, this is coming from a Boomer.

Pretty Damning Information--Evidence?--Today On This President

There is a pretty significant, if not out and out huge revelation today on President Trump and his "quid pro quo"/blackmail/extortion of Ukraine with our federal tax dollars.

White House official ordered aid to Ukraine be withheld 90 minutes after Trump call with Ukraine president, documents show

That's a pretty incredible development here, folks. It's not a big surprise but it certainly weakens this President's case and situation. It also weakens his Republican Party's defense of him and his actions.

Sadly, to date, the Republican Party has been largely lockstep with their man. It's party over country and power over all, for sure.

2 Options In the Republican Party Under Trump: All In or Out

We have got to, as a nation, break this stranglehold this President and his Republican Party has on us--on our elections and election system, what with their gerrymandering and voter ID laws and more.

Exactly How Bad Does This President Have To Get For Republicans?

I ask you, in all seriousness and sincerity, just exactly how bad does this one Republican Party President Donald J Trump have to get before people in his political party wake up? What's it going to take?

• He asked the head of a foreign nation to investigate a private American citizen who, oh, by the way, just happened to be the son of his foremost political rival in the current election campaign for his very job
• People on his staff who were on the phone call that day realized and accepted that he, this President, was offering a "quid pro quo" of the hundreds of millions of dollars our Congress has already formally set aside for that country to fight against our mutual enemy, Russia. I prefer to see it for what it really was. That is, blackmail or extortion.
• In spite of insisting, again, repeatedly, on his deep innocence, this President refused subpoenas from our own Congress---you know, that other branch of our government?--and had all the members of his administration do the same. Does that seem like something an extremely innocent man would have to do? Is that not contempt of Congress? 
• He, this President, has been, for 3 years, and still is today shattering the Emoluments Clause of our Constitution by accepting money--and large amounts--from foreign nations while serving as President by not having divested himself of his hotels here in the nation and across the world. Plenty of us out here think the man leading the nation shouldn't be taking not just money but large amounts of money from foreign nations. Imagine that. Our Founding Fathers warned us of it, rightly, of course.

So, what's it going to take?

Yes, some Republicans have thankfully, finally come out against Mr. Trump and are actively working against him (see last link below). But it's no way enough.

I think the DC Reporter has the current situation correct.

Senators Have A Choice: Convict Trump Or Crown Him

Letting the President Get Away with Contempt of Congress Will Make the Legislative Branch as Irrelevant as the Roman Senate

Meanwhile, much to this President's likely delight, Russian Premier Vladimir Putin called out his support for Mr. Trump.

Vladimir Putin Backs Trump, Calling Impeachment Charges 'Completely Made Up'

Can you imagine the outpouring of outrage and vitriol there would have been if the previous President Obama had public support from Vladimir Putin?

So what will it be, ladies and gentlemen?

We're not just in a Constitutional crisis but at least a few, if not more.

What's it going to take with and for these people, these Republicans, these Trump supporters?

Just exactly how bad does he and our situation have to get?

I hope we don't find out and I hope we don't have to.

Links:

Trump vs. the Constitution: A Guide

Trump and the Constitution: A year in review

Donald Trump has violated US Constitution

Donald Trump Has Broken the Constitution

Trump has violated his oath to the Constitution

Can Trump Really Get Away with Murder?

We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated 

Why "I Can't Support Trump"

One Mr. Jim Sathe, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, says it so well.(click on picture for easier viewing).

And then there's the extortion attempt he made with Ukraine.

And the utter smashing of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

Etc.

Oh, Happy Day! Hope For and In America

   

We Missourians got a pretty huge, very unexpected "two-fer Tuesday" yesterday.

A racist got fired from her own TV show and an extramarital sex blackmailing Missouri Governor had to resign from his job, all on the same day.

All in all, a great, if unexpected day.  Enough to give a person hope for us.

Next up? The Orange Man? And his entire administration?

Hey. We can hope.

Have a great day, y'all.

Think happy thoughts.

Very happy thoughts.

Link:

Roseanne Barr tweet backfires, Eric Greitens resigns

How About Those Republican Leaders, eh?

Gov. Eric Greitens of Missouri Indicted 

on Invasion of Privacy Charge

What the Republicans keep doing to their own country and people.

And it's gotten long since tiresome.

How long do you want to put up with this, America?

 

How long?

 

 

 Fortunately, the American people aren't completely daft and there is some good news: 

 

Poll Indicates GOP Has Been Deeply Damaged By Shutdown Fight

 

 

 

Quote of the day--still on the debt ceiling mess

"What Republicans have just gotten away with calls our whole system of government into question. After all, how can American democracy work if whichever party is most prepared to be ruthless, to threaten the nation’s economic security, gets to dictate policy?" --Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist, writer and columnist for The New York Times. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/opinion/the-president-surrenders-on-debt-ceiling.html?_r=2

Thanks for the blackmail, Mr. Netanyahu

I love the way Israel blackmailed us this week to give them warplanes, so they wouldn't build more homes in the Gaza.

Nice.

Good friend.

I'm so glad we give this good friend so many millions of dollars.

My thought was, instead of having them blackmail us to stop the additional settlements, we play hard ball and tell them--meaning it--that if they began the additional settlements, we'd withdraw all financial support until they a) cancelled them and b) sat down to earnestly discuss a true, long-lasting, meaningful peace with the Palestinians.  Meantime, tell the Palestinians the same thing--they have to sit down and earnestly work out a peace deal or 1) no financial support of any kind (if, in fact, we give them any) and 2) they must no longer officially call for the elimination of Israel.

But no one asks me.

Enjoy your weekend, everyone.

Link:  http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/14