In my opinion until many major players are not put behind bars the constitution is dead and so is the "Constitutional Republic"!

OTOH, one might argue that Trump and GOP leaders are playing out enough rope to hang a lot of Dems, especially the ones obviously embedded by 0bama at FBI/CIA/NSA.

I admit it's hard to look at how this has unfolded and just explain it all away as "Trump is just playing 8-dimensional chess and will soon make the most awesome move to humiliate and defeat his opponents".

I guess we have been let down so many times by the GOP we just assume it will happen again?

I don't especially trust the GOP Congress to resolve this farce. Nunes and Grassley and Johnson are trying but just don't seem to have the heft, mostly because so much of it has been handed over willy-nilly to Mueller. They were very foolish not to limit the scope of his investigation sharply.

But Trump has been fighting this steadily and I think he might get it done. I have more confidence that Trump can bring an end to it than that Congress can. Unfortunately, it might makes Trump's re-election prospects pretty distant if he does so. This is why he hasn't done it already.

Unfortunately, it might makes Trump's re-election prospects pretty distant if he does so. This is why he hasn't done it already.

It might.

Then again, remember this: the American people (myself included) did NOT WANT Bill Clinton impeached for lying about a blowjob. They heard all of the partisan legalistic prattle by the Republicans, but they DID NOT WANT Clinton impeached.

The Republicans did it anyway, and for the first time in one hundred and ninety years, the incumbent President, an impeached lame-duck to boot, gained very heavily in the mid-term elections.

The American people were ignored by the Republicans, and they punished the Republicans in the very next election.

The bitterness went on, too. Newt Gingrich and other Congressmen who had led the charge against Clinton on the basis of his sex scandal, were placed under the scrutiny of the press and the people on an ongoing, ever-after bases, and each major player was himself brought low by his own sex scandal. Hastert, Craig, Gingrich - one after another was called out on his own sexual sins, and defeated politically by a public that neither forgave nor forgot their witch hunt, and their hypocrisy.

The Mueller investigation is now strengthening Trump politically, just as the Clinton impeachment strengthened the Democrats. And just as the Republicans were such stubborn goddamned morons they NEVER admitted that they shot themselves in both feet and utterly destroyed their own leaders - and lost a lot of power - by doing it, the Democrats and the Trump haters are just as stubborn, just as bone stupid, and just as absolutely doomed by proceeding.

We can SEE it developing. The witch hunt, the insanity of the partisans. The people elected this man, and the losers - which doesn't just mean Clinton and the Democrats, but also Romney, Graham and the Bushes can go piss up a rope.

Instead they are doubling and tripling down in self-righteous high dudgeon, and they will lose catastrophically in the next election on account of it.

And then comes the revenge.

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The Mueller investigation is now strengthening Trump politically, just as the Clinton impeachment strengthened the Democrats.

I'm not sure it will work for Trump like it did for Xlinton. For one thing, the libmedia was as totally in the tank for Xlinton as they are rabid against Trump.

OTOH, I can't say you're wrong either since the Trump election showed the polls aren't worth crap, at least when it comes to Trump's ratings.

I notice we no longer hear the solemn pronouncements from libmedia figures every election to tell us that is impossible for the polls to be wrong in predicting the outcome of a presidential election. Another complete fabrication that the media peddled about their own polls' infallibility. Trump has really punctured that little balloon by the annoying pundits and pollsters who behave like high priests predicting a lunar eclipse. "It is so, it will be so, because we say so." And then Trump wins the election and makes them all look like total fools.

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Dick Clark is the mastermind. Why not? Besides decomposing, he hasn't had much else to do since American Bandstand went off the air.

I'm not sure it will work for Trump like it did for Xlinton.

I am. I feel it in the air. I taste it in the water. The people who elected Trump are glad they did. Other people have warmed to him, and all the right shitheads have lined up against him.

America is a whole lot more like Roseanne Barr than it is like Anderson Cooper.

Trump's party will advance, not retreat, in the mid-terms, but the people who don't like to have people like me telling them what's what will not learn, and will still double down and fight. But their fighting will be like the resistance of the Wehrmacht, or the Japanese. Sure, they're tough and unpleasant, but all their sustained miserable fighting really does is burn up their resources and leave them with less and less. When the odious classes paint targets on themselves and say they're gonna fight to the death, that's great, because it means we get to kill them.

I am. I feel it in the air. I taste it in the water. The people who elected Trump are glad they did. Other people have warmed to him, and all the right shitheads have lined up against him.

Alas, the voters are probably more fickle than you think.

But maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

But maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.

I won't be a bit surprised. I was right about Trump the last cycle, and I was not surprised on Election Night. I think I'm right this time too, for the same reasons.

The people like him, and the people really actively dislike his enemies.

Their sneering contempt is visible every day, and it makes people support Trump more.

Their sneering contempt is visible every day, and it makes people support Trump more.

Do you see actual people who feel this way? I don't but this was Trump country to start with so we don't have a lot of "switchers".

I conceded it is entirely possible that Trump's somewhat limited successes could have moved people on the east coast more than in the rest of the country because Trump has that NYC thing going for him. He is part of the culture there for decades in a way that doesn't exactly carry across the rest of the country.

It will be interesting to see how GOP congressmen do in the midterms in those east coast strongholds. Trump should try to make the midterms a referendum on what he and the GOP have already done (tax cuts, deregulation, energy policy, foreign policy). I think it would be wise since the Dems will be trying to make the midterms a referendum on Trump himself.

I think it would be wise since the Dems will be trying to make the midterms a referendum on Trump himself.

It IS a referendum on Trump himself, the People know that, and We, the People, LIKE Trump. He is one of us. He is offended by exactly the same shit that offends us. That's why he won Michigan, and Wisconsin - the upper Midwest, where the smart people who are working class are.

We see the political establishment of both parties trying to take him out. And we're not going to let it happen.

We didn't elect him to just be a bull in a china shop, we elected a silverback gorilla to the china shop.

He's doing great. People have jobs - Black men know it. Wages are up. There's work. And all the people we hate, hate him, and he punches them back.

Roseanne got it right.

I conceded it is entirely possible that Trump's somewhat limited successes could have moved people on the east coast more than in the rest of the country

He moved Michigan, and Wisconsin, and Ohio, and Indiana. THAT'S where the election was won, and THAT's where he's going to keep gaining ground.

You think Michiganders regret electing Trump, because he gets a bunch of assholes like McCain, the Bushes and weak-chinned Graham's panties in a wad? NO! We HATE those people. We LIKE Trump. He talks to us, and sounds like us.

Now, the Republican Party has played a dangerous game for their OWN survival, because THEY are the chief reason that Trump has been blocked from getting his stuff done - the stuff WE want.

He's going to drag them across the line in November anyway, and then end the whole probe rigamarole, and force the Republicans into line. And they'll fall in line too.

He's putting pro-lifers and reasonable people on the courts. He'll put more and more. We'll have peace with North Korea, and Trumps legacy will be a Supreme Court that overturns Roe v Wade.

But will they actually turn out in the midterms to vote against the highly motivated Dem mobs? That's what it will take.

Usually a president's supporters desert his cause at the first midterm and it usually means a loss of control of the House or a thin margin of control.

The midterms will determine how much Trump can do in the next few years.

We'll have peace with North Korea, and Trumps legacy will be a Supreme Court that overturns Roe v Wade.

If Kennedy does retire, expect Roberts to be the new swing vote. He might not go along with changes in Roe. It would be so annoying to finally get rid of Kennedy and then have Roberts declare himself the new Kennedy but it seems a little likely to me.

He's putting pro-lifers and reasonable people on the courts. He'll put more and more. We'll have peace with North Korea, and Trumps legacy will be a Supreme Court that overturns Roe v Wade. ---- Vicomte13

TC ---- Usually a president's supporters desert his cause at the first midterm and it usually means a loss of control of the House or a thin margin of control. ----- The midterms will determine how much Trump can do in the next few years.

TC, --- I think we're all gonna be surprised by the mid-terms. The Trump supporters are gonna reject the progressives, and I intend to bet on it, if my bookie can get me odds, or even, -- even money..

As Vic said, I can see/smell it coming.

Vic is wrong though, on Roe, and on pro-lifers, who are not reasonable people. - -- Example, - I see no problem with outlawing late term abortion as murder. Let the trials begin.

And forget a Trump re-election if they do...

He's putting pro-lifers and reasonable people on the courts. He'll put more and more.

I noticed this bit from Hewitt in WaPo and, recalling our mention of the courts, I thought I'd quote it:

25% of all appeals courts judges replaced, in just two years? Damn. It has to be driving Schumer and Durbin insane to watch this happen.

I wanted Clinton Impeached. All real Americans wanted him impeached for lying under oath. You ignore the law like you ignore scripture.

No the Republicans weren't punished for impeaching Clinton dummy. Bush won the next two Presidential elections.

I didn't bother to read anymore as you already made to many errors in the first couple of paragraphs.

America is a whole lot more like Roseanne Barr than it is like Anderson Cooper.

That is funny and has some truth in it.

Vic is wrong though, on Roe, and on pro-lifers, who are not reasonable people.

People who support abortion should be put on trial and shot or locked up. Murderers all of them.

You speak for lizard whisperers.

I say what I see.

Have a good day Vic.

You're ok Vic. I just hole you to a higher standard you being a believer and all.

Have a good day Vic.

Thank you, you too.