Sunday, May 21, 2017
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Robert Mueller can't investigate Comey's record either, because Comey's his "protégé"
Conflict of interest.
Reported here:
Comey regards his predecessor as a mentor, while Mueller considers Comey his protégé. When Comey was appointed to succeed Mueller as FBI Director, both men appeared together and were effusive in their praise of one another. Their relationship is not merely a casual one. It is precisely the kind of association which ethical rules are designed to guard against.
Friday, May 19, 2017
Oops, Robert Mueller's law firm represents both Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort
Conflict of interest!
If Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself, then Kushner and Manafort must be off limits to Mueller. Or, Mueller has to go.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Reported here:
Mueller's former law firm, WilmerHale, represents Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who met with a Russian bank executive in December, and the president's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is a subject of a federal investigation.
Hey WaPo: Thom Hartmann, Larry King, Jesse Ventura and Ed Schultz get $ from RT RIGHT NOW, are they Russian agents?!
You turds.
Here:
Flynn also received $45,000 to appear in 2015 with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a dinner for RT, a Kremlin-controlled media organization.
If you had a good mother and father, that's socialism
They did everything for you because you were of them and belonged to them.
No one else will ever care for you like that.
And that's as far as socialism goes, unless you're an Italian, capisce?
Robert Shiller blames housing bubbles on get rich quick flipper narratives, still completely misses the tax angle
Here, in The New York Times:
There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened. That is troubling, because that violent housing cycle helped to produce the Great Recession and financial crisis of 2007 to 2009. We need to understand it all if we are going to be able to avoid ordeals like that in the future.
Ordinary Americans were suddenly able to make a lot of money by flipping their homes because of the tax law changes of 1997. Capital that was previously locked-up in housing by the rules of the New Deal until 1997 was suddenly unleashed to slosh around in the economy when lawmakers gave homeowners the right to avoid most capital gains on the sale of their homes as long as they lived in them only two years. Until 1997, if you didn't buy a more expensive home after you sold yours, you were exposed to a tax hit, unless you took the option of a once in a lifetime exclusion on the gain. The old arrangement had insured, along with the 30-year mortgage, that housing capital built up over a long period of time, creating forced savings for the middle class which could be safely liquidated in retirement without adversely affecting the housing market.
The Republican and Democrat geniuses who ran our government in 1997 changed all that, and within ten years the dang thing blew up. Yeah, I'm talking about you, Bill Clinton, and you, Newt Gingrich.
Too bad Robert Shiller still doesn't get it.
It would probably be unwise to turn back the tax clock now that the damage has been done, but the reinflation of the housing bubble after the crisis wasn't inevitable. The Fed's unprecedented zero interest rate policy has been responsible for that.
When the next housing crash comes, we'll probably not understand it either.
Meanwhile, the median sales price of homes in the aggregate has never been higher, or more unaffordable, and remains the primary driver of wealth inequality in America.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Obstruction of justice is Hillary Clinton deleting over 30,000 emails after they were subpoenaed
Lock her up, with the guy who gave her a pass.
You know, if Trump picks Joe Lieberman for FBI, I'm done
If we wanted that version of The Swamp in 2000, we would have voted for Al Gore.
We certainly don't want it now.
Kevin McCarthy is the poster boy for stupid Republicanism, but I repeat myself
No wonder Democrats run California.
From the story here:
“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.
Previously while preparing to replace Speaker John Boehner McCarthy infamously said with a straight face that Republican success was evident from the House Benghazi investigation because it was proving to be politically detrimental to Hillary. The mug. He never knew what hit him.
When are they going to lock up these Americans who "receive money from Russia" like Mike Flynn?
They all work for "RT" just like Flynn did once: liberal radio man Thom Hartmann, liberal CNN interviewer Larry King, former Minnesota governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura, and liberal radio man Ed Schultz.
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Tom Fitton is right, Robert Mueller will never find fault with anything done by Comey's FBI
Mueller led the FBI under Bush II and Obama before his pal Comey was appointed.
Fitton heads Judicial Watch, interviewed right now on Laura Ingraham.
Laura Ingraham singles out Justin Amash as a turncoat
In the last hour.
Good on her, but he's never been on our side. He's on his own side.
The people who leaked are imputing obstruction of justice as the meaning of Comey's memo
That was the political purpose of drafting the memo in the first place and showing it to others.
But Comey will testify under oath that he never saw it that way.
Otherwise he'll be in trouble himself.
He's a Niebuhrian. The end justifies the means.
What this is about is the deep state not wanting improved relations with Russia EVER . . .
. . . and it and the Clinton wing trying to criminalize the policy change by Trump & Company.
From the story here:
[T]he two [Flynn and Kislyak] discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current U.S. officials said.
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