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You need a new song and dance George. The baffloney is now thread bare.

Roy Moore denies misconduct allegations in new interview: 'I did not date underaged women'

“These allegations are completely false. I did not date underaged women. I did not molest anyone. And so these allegations are false,” Moore said during the interview with The Voice of Alabama Politics, a television news show affiliated with the website The Alabama Political Reporter.

“I said I did not know any of the women who have charged me with sexual allegation of molestation. And I did not know any of the women,” Moore added. “When I saw these pictures on the advertisements of my opponent, I did not recognize any of those people. I did not know them.

In the Hannity interview, Moore acknowledged that he remembered two of the women, Debbie Wesson Gibson and Gloria Thacker Deason, who both spoke to The Washington Post for the newspaper’s first story. Gibson told the Post that she was 17 years old when Moore asked her out, while Deason said she went out with Moore when she was 18.

The age of consent in Alabama is 16.

It remains to be seen whether Haley’s association with Trump will prove to be career-making or career-killing. If things continue to go badly, the mainstream Republicans who abet him may pay a reputational price. For now, though, she has managed to keep up the double game, serving without appearing to be servile. “Nikki is carving out a very unique space,” says Katie Packer Beeson, a GOP consultant who fought Trump during the primaries. “She’s somebody who the Bush-McCain-Romney Republicans really like, and she’s seen as a sort of sane, common-sense part of this administration. Down the road, when Trump is no longer running, she is going to be very formidable.”

The very least a decent, sane human being can do is acknowledge these facts.
Maybe this can help the Hillary cult understand one of the primary reasons Donald Trump is president.

Their candidate is historically one of the most openly and unrepentantly corrupt, unaccountable people in American public life.

She and her husband enjoy the assistance, a la Weinstein, of a thoroughly corrupt web of journalists, wealthy oligarchs, and other power brokers that cover for them.

The right people in the right places in FBI, CIA, DOJ kept Clintons and cronies above the law.

Sam Fleming in Washington
September 21, 2017

The Federal Reserve will throw its crisis-era stimulus programme into reverse from next month and stick with plans for further rate rises in a mark of confidence that stagnant inflation is set to bounce back.

The US central bank, chaired by Janet Yellen, held interest rates on Wednesday but said it would consider a further rate rise this year. It starts paring back its multitrillion-dollar balance sheet in October. While acknowledging the damage inflicted by recent hurricanes, most policymakers stuck with forecasts for another rate rise in 2017, most likely in December, as well as three further increases in 2018.

The dollar index, which measures the US currency against a basket of its peers, swung from a loss to be up 0.7 per cent after the statement and Ms Yellen’s press conference. The yield on the 10-year Treasury also climbed, from about 2.24 per cent immediately preceding the announcement to 2.27 per cent soon afterwards, while the policy-sensitive two-year yield jumped from 1.38 per cent to 1.43 per cent.

Some interesting reading here, Lash and co.

What if the next Lethal President is not as good and as honorable as you? What if he is actually cruel or bloodthirsty?

Stay tuned and see.

Moore bumps Jones from top spot in Alabama Senate poll 12/10/17 07:45 AM EST

Embattled Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is now leading his Democratic rival, Doug Jones, by 4 points, according to a new survey.

In a similar poll released earlier this month, Jones had a 4 point lead over Moore.

According to the Real Clear Politics average of polls in the Alabama Senate race, Moore has a 3.8 point lead over Jones.

Our new poll shows Roy Moore now ahead 51-44. Moore leads among those who recently decided, 61-22. And the word late deciders most often use in describing how they make their decision? It’s not “allegations” or “teenage” — it’s “Democrat.” https://t.co/XAFNKtQjAZ

— Change Research (@ChangePolls) December 8, 2017

It was my guess that the reason for the RNC, McConnell and others' about-face on their pretended indignation had to do with the realization that Moore was going to win regardless, and they didn't actually have a desire to follow through with what would ultimately amount to infighting within the party

I did enjoy Finn's long but thoughtful and incisive post a couple of pages back.

It's like when you taking the L here in Chicago, it's common to start chatting up someone sitting next to you, but if he starts picking **** out his ass and wiping it on my jacket, I'm going to quickly step away.