Trump can give anyone clearance, at his discretion. Petraeus would however need permission from his probation officer to come to D.C., and his PO might balk at letting him take a job with an active criminal enterprise while still on probation. It’s like someone on parole for dealing cocaine asking their parole officer…

THE GASLIGHTING AND INNOCULATION HAS BEGUN. When I got home, I turned on my network news (NBC) to see how they would cover this story.

Yesterday, Mr. Smuttins and I were having our daily, incredulous what-the-hell-has-he-done-now session. In the middle of it, I just blurted out, “A lot of this is on the two-sided morality of evangelical Protestantism.” Mr. Smuttins rightly said, “Huh?”

Well if they can string together off topic, incoherent statements, then I will start proclaiming my loosely threaded conclusions that are at least based in some state of fact.

I’m not going to argue with the idiot you responded to but I just wanted to point out... if you were brought here as a CHILD you are not breaking the law. Your parents did. And there is NO current pathway to citizenship from there. There are NO extraordinary hoops to jump through it’s insane to argue we should send…

Oh, SHUT UP.

This is a good time to recall that Jason Chaffetz tried to bully Shaub into not criticizing the Trump administration, and then lied and said that Shaub was refusing to meet with him, when in fact Chaffetz had skipped their meeting: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jason-chaffetz-emails-meeting-with-shaub_us_587fe1d1…

I thought I saw that right now there are four republicans who are planning on voting against him? I think that’s enough to torpedo the nomination. Assuming Mcconnell can’t offer them enough earmarks to make it worth it to them to flip their vote...

But there are few better examples of someone who not only learned from his experience, but has spent years producing scholarly work on the subject.

When reached by the Post via email, Manigault responded with about the level of maturity and thoughtfulness one would expect from a White House official accused of threatening a reporter: “My comment: Fake news!”

Jason Chaffez was all primed to start more Senate investigations if Hillary had won...he said as much. But he takes a look around at the Trump administration and tells Wolf Blitzer that he can’t just go on some fishing expedition due to rumors. Really Jason? I would not be surprised if Chaffez and Gowdy decided to…

Bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is a “choice” that you can make after you have made the choice to “spend” a bunch of money and then have made multiple choices after that the lead to your inability to pay back the money. Yet we allow bankruptcy to allow people to move on with their lives after a series of choices that led them…

Some people value life more than you do it seems. In that we value not just the existence of a life but the quality of that life. What good is it for us if a child is born, unwanted, into a dire financial situation? Or physical? Or emotional?

Yes, this. I kind of understand people who think that a fetus is a human being, and therefore abortion is murder and should never be allowed, in any cases. I disagree, but I get that. If I honestly thought it was murder, I would be against it, too.

People who choose to abort are taking responsibility for the results of their behavior. Just not the way you want them to or how you would. How nice for you and your fiancee that your religious rationalizations allows you to “engage” outside of marriage and still judge other people’s moral failings! I’m glad you found…

Next jackass who tells me Hillary was a traitor because she might not have been perfect about her emails gets ripped a new one.

Oprah is the only one who could have slapped White Lady America out of their stupor and saved the election.

Google should use this as a marketing strategy, and display the number of times they could’ve be saved Trump from embarrassment. Ex, who is Frederick Douglass? What is the Start treaty? How to be a president?

actually I have been dressing up in my founding father outfit I had left over for halloween at protests, for two reasons. 1. it gets positive attention which is good. 2. it reclaims the idea that patriotism and history is only for conservatives.

I can maybe get on the “too old/need new blood” argument. But, no, we don’t need someone who can pull the center and right. We need someone who can get slightly higher turnout than Hillary got. That’s it.