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Quite cute

Now they're using the same tactics in Congress.

Congressional investigations unfortunately are usually overtly political investigations, where it is to one side’s advantage to drag things out...This is politics.

Former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus is rejoining his former law firm and signing with the Washington Speakers Bureau, he told POLITICO Tuesday...He says he sees his role as helping clients understand how to make progress with Trump, on Capitol Hill and in government agencies

Senate Republicans voted on Tuesday to strike down a sweeping new rule that would have allowed millions of Americans to band together in class-action lawsuits against financial institutions.

The overturning of the rule, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-to-50 tie, will further loosen regulation of Wall Street as the Trump administration and Republicans move to roll back Obama-era policies enacted in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis.

Laura Ingraham Is Ready to Rev Up Fox News
Fox News is handing its 10 p.m. slot to a sharp-tongued friend of President Trump and Steve Bannon.

The blue-slip rule does not have the force of law; it’s simply a custom that has been honored over time. Notably, when Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat, was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, during the Obama Administration, he followed the blue-slip rule in states where there were Republican senators. If these senators did not return their blue slips—and many did not, especially in Texas and other Southern states—Leahy buried the President’s nominees. In truth, the blue slip is a rather dubious tradition, one that has historically given senators a little-deserved veto power over a President’s choice. But, because Senate Republicans exercised this power over Obama’s nominees, it’s only fair—indeed, it’s obligatory—that Senate Democrats have equal say when it comes to Trump’s.

The current showdown began in September, when Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat, refused to return a blue slip for Trump’s nomination of David Stras, a Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court, to serve on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Rather than honor the blue-slip tradition, McConnell said that he would ignore it and deprive Senate Democrats of the veto power that Republicans enjoyed during the Obama years. As McConnell told The Weekly Standard, the Republican majority in the Senate will treat blue slips “as simply notification of how you’re going to vote, not as an opportunity to blackball.”

Of course I vote for unprincipled politicians. There is no other choice.
So who are the principled politicians?

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Of course I vote for unprincipled politicians. There is no other choice.
So who are the principled politicians?

Why would I bother discussing that with you if you've axiomatically ruled out the possibility that such a person might exist?

I don't know and yet you have.

Lincoln and Reagan were cads. Obama is a cad. Mike Pence is a cad. The Bush clan is a family of cads. Trump and Clinton are cads. Rick Perry is a cad (though he now does very well with the eye chart).

Cad? That's your term. To me, they are those who will always decide in favor of their political interests over the common good...Lincoln too.

And what of the people who don't run for office but run or work in the campaigns of these unprincipled individuals (often becoming multi-millionaires in the process like Matalin and Carville? Rove? All of them?

What do I care about them? They are not in power and are probably dupes.

What of the people working in media who cover politics and politicians? Unprincipled too? How could the entire staff of the National Review who cheer for and try to get you to vote for unprincipled people be themselves other than unprincipled?

To the extent they argue for a political outcome over all else, they are unprincipled.

How could you, voting for unprincipled people, be other than unprincipled?

Really? I suppose I shouldn't vote at all. I vote for the best chance of good and the least chance of harm and so remain principled. You connect, heart and soul, with the unprincipled.

Your political philosophy, at least as you state it, is inchoate and incoherent.

Not surprisingly, it is to you. You glory in the ideological bullshit that enables unprincipled politicians. You are so shallow my big toe would stand dry in your waters.