Trump / FBI / Russians

Logic implies analysis & possible subsequent approval or disapproval of a situation or a person, et. al. Thank me anytime, sparkye.

I see your buoy Siggy is coming out of the New Hampshire woods, maybe he's finally got woke to how great America is again.

 

You should read more closely...

I was clearly asking you a question so you could give your stance and I wouldn't have to assume and put words in your mouth. The fact that you dodge the question and then accuse me of putting words in your mouth gives me my answer....

 

Great! Now you can go eat pizza & stop blithering.

 

Yet the Times also is confused if it believes its tax investigation will finally discredit Mr. Trump once and for all in the eyes of his supporters. The people whose class envy and resentment extends to a desire to despoil the rich at death are not Trump voters but the New York Times’s own upper-middle-class readership. The federal estate tax exemption has been lifted to today’s $11.2 million from $5 million precisely to accommodate these people’s desire to pass along their own justly earned, entirely deserved nest eggs. Meanwhile, anybody who has more to leave is obviously a greedy so-and-so.


This is not the place to debate the merits of an estate tax. Wikipedia has a rundown of ingenious pro-tax arguments by recognized academic experts such as the University of Michigan’s Joel Slemrod. But notice that today’s scourge of all things supply-side, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, was once a critic of inheritance taxes on grounds that they are antigrowth and tend to increase inequality.

 

So this is what Dianne Slimestein hath begotten & bequeathed us all.

 

This sums up the last 2 weeks....

 

Reminds me that I must stop my late night snacking and begin a 12 hour fast program.

 

you need to keep your eye on that fry cooker

 

Back to that well huh, all out of original thoughts I guess. SAD.

 

You have some serious skills Lance.

 

Another WIN for the American Team.

 

The tide seemed to turn, oddly enough, when a third woman emerged with even more extreme allegations. Michael Avenatti, a brash and media savvy California lawyer who has been careening from one Trump administration brush fire to another, produced a statement from a woman alleging that Judge Kavanaugh in high school attended parties where women were gang raped. The woman, Julie Swetnick, said she was herself gang raped at one such party, though not by the judge.

Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, at first rushed to the floor to insist that “Judge Kavanaugh should withdraw from consideration.”

Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a key swing Republican, was so troubled by the allegations that she brought a copy of Ms. Swetnick’s statement, highlighted and marked up, to a meeting of Republican committee chairmen. Senator John Cornyn of Texas went through it point by point with her to debunk it.

The Republican senators got into a lengthy conversation about Mr. Avenatti and how he could not be trusted and concluded that Ms. Swetnick’s claims did not add up. Why would she as a college student keep going back to repeated high school parties where young women were gang raped? No one came forward to corroborate the allegation and news reports surfaced about past lawsuits in which Ms. Swetnick’s truthfulness was questioned.

“This was a turning point,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and perhaps Judge Kavanaugh’s strongest supporter. “That allegation was so over the top, it created a moment that was scary, quite frankly. But that moment was quickly replaced by disgust.”

The involvement of Mr. Avenatti, who represents Stephanie Clifford, the former porn star known as Stormy Daniels, particularly galvanized Republicans, reinforcing the idea that the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh were a political setup. One Republican official called Mr. Avenatti’s involvement “manna from heaven.” From the other side, a Democratic official called it “massively unhelpful.”

If Mr. Flake was moved by the protesters, though, other Republicans were not. Some like Mr. McConnell and Mr. Graham got their backs up.

“The tactics that were used completely backfired,” said Mr. McConnell. “Harassing members at their homes, crowding the halls with people acting horribly, the effort to humiliate us really helped me unify my conference. So I want to thank these clowns for all the help they provided.”
NYT