Once again, hate speech laws prove that in practice they are just a handy way for those with power to further silence those without.

Yep.

Like I said, he’s no hero, but the undeniable truth is that with the deeply flawed James Comey, there is likely no Mueller investigation. If the Mueller investigation results in the toppling or even just the hamstringing of the Trump administration and even a modest sobering up of the Republican party, then the…

The problem isn’t that there are not people and groups that the FBI is accountable to it’s that those people and groups frequently are the ones who want the FBI to be corrupt in the first place.

If you want to “abolish” the FBI to replace it with a different federal agency with largely the same mandate that can oh-by-the-way make use of all the same facilities, the same employees and the same command structure, then by all means, go ahead.

Eh, whatever.  Presidents should ignore freshman Congressional reps from districts their party doesn’t contest.  That’s a pretty good rule.

If the criticism is accurate, it’s warranted. Anyone who has to rely on the perceived lack of qualification or standing of a party to give a criticism outs themselves as being intellectually dishonest.  That’s been how Sarsour and Mallory have attempted to frame every criticism of them, and in 2018 the person it’s…

I also know of people who don’t want me to step down, and so there’s both sides of that,

AHA!  That’s just what a Jew responsible for the weather would say!

Pelosi is a rep from the Bay Area that Trump talks frequently about.  

But the point is that it’s not about the legitimacy of the accusation it’s about the politics of answering it.  

Yeah, I only spent 6 months there during college, but I still got around enough to have a dim sense of the fact that DC is it’s own little world compared to the states it is located within.

I’d guess that in general more former Congressional reps find there way to working in a public policy/government liaison position at a private corporation than do on K street. Unless they were a several term rep or a key member of Republican leadership, their rolodex of people back in their home district is likely…

I mean, “people” more broadly, yes, but a freshman rep who’s on the total opposite end of the spectrum? Eh. If Barack Obama responded to even a tenth of the accusations that freshman tea party reps leveled at him in 2010, it would have been all he did for the first year after the 2010 elections.  

Is Nancy Pelosi a freshmen rep or the Speaker of the House?

There is no good argument against DC being a state; the founding fathers clearly did not envision Washington being a thriving city of 700,000 people, only 21 percent of whom are federal workers, nor would it make their continuing disenfranchisement acceptable if they had.

This is actually pretty Presidential of him, all things considered. A President shouldn’t be overly concerned with what a freshmen rep from a district his party never meaningfully contests thinks about him.

To the truly crazy hawks like Bolton, yes.  To the legions of conservatives who probably couldn’t find Iran or Iraq on a map, let alone make an even modestly informed guess as to how a direct conflict between Iran and America would play out ... I don’t think they have any clue.  

If Dabo really wanted to live out his religion, he would tell Trump to instead donate that money to assisting furloughed federal employees.

The funny thing is, the only truly good argument for looking past Saudi Arabia’s awfulness is a macro-geopolitical one.