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Obviously the real question here is where did the leak come from? I'm sure the media will get right on that because they hate leaks. ??
But for the most part, it's nice to see elected officials acting like adults. Senator Cruz excepted, of course. And the Trump administration, which apparently doesn't know WTF they are doing, but we all already knew that.
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Well, the question I didn't hear was "Do you have any information that the President has been compromised by Russia?" But we are very close already to "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" It's starting to be obvious that Trump was informed of serious problems about Flynn even before he took office. And the firing of Sally Yates, which I thought at the time was a rather straightforward case of political retribution for not supporting the President's religious discrimination policy -- now it looks like they may have gotten rid of her to cover up their own collusion with Russia.
I don't know how long this will go on. Right now the GOP establishment thinks they've got a man who will put a rubber stamp on anything as long as he gets credit for it. But until they get their own house in order, how are they going to use it? How much are they willing to risk for short-term victories? This is all going to come back to bite them in 2018, as people finally allow themselves to realize that their votes were mistaken. (None of this is to say that Hillary would have made a great president, just not an abjectly terrible one, wow is this bar low) They should take a President Pence now over a rubber stamp that will make hundreds of foreign policy mistakes.
Also to all of the liberals who say "Pence is worse": shut up. Mike Pence is a reasonably effective leader who has policies you don't like. Trump is a rogue agent who is a threat to the whole liberal democracy project, if not the entire biosphere. Yes, losing reproductive rights would suck, but if we lose democracy, we don't even get a choice about rights at all.
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