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Mr Khan said he believes the threat of terror attacks are “part and parcel of living in a big city”. He added: “That means having a police force that is in touch with communities, ....[and] exchanging ideas and best practice."

But now he’s President, and he needs support beyond the Breitbart cheering section that will excuse anything.

However, I'm sure that the voices on the right here (hello georgeob) will continue to insist that there's nothing abnormal about Der Trumper.

After a conversation with President Donald Trump that Tillerson described as “about the world,” the President offered him the position.

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Perfect in all respects, except that the opposition party didn't find him acceptable.

How would they know he was "unacceptable" — they didn't even give him a hearing!

There was a lot of coverage when he was nominated by Obama of prior GOP members (Hatch, Inhofe, etc etc) and conservative outlets like NRO and even Red State referring to Garland in highly laudatory terms. This is easily established with a google search. George has rewired his brain for this occasion.

as they argued, USSC appointments by lame duck presidents in an election year are rare.

in view of the forthcoming election and the prospect of a possible Republican President and larger republican majority in the Senate (both of which occurred), Garland was not an acceptable choice for them.

CNN reported on private remarks made by Senator Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican up for reelection. He said that there will be no lame-duck confirmation, and then added, “And if Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can do to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court.”

That aligns him with Senator Ted Cruz, who last week told Dave Weigel, “There is certainly long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices. I would note, just recently, that Justice Breyer observed that the vacancy is not impacting the ability of the court to do its job. That’s a debate that we are going to have.”

All that is coming from the editorial side of the WSJ which is where the serious conservatives live, sip brandy and move through their days like solemn 17th century court dancers. ......
As I've argued before, the further Trump's popularity sinks, the more inclined the power sources around the modern GOP universe will want him gone. Precisely because of the damage he could do to movement conservative goals. Whether this is the first real movement in that direction isn't clear. Yet.

However, I'm sure that the voices on the right here (hello georgeob) will continue to insist that there's nothing abnormal about Der Trumper.

I'm not sure what you have in mind with the term "abnormal"

In mid-August, a month after Trump officially became the Republican nominee, Manafort resigned following reports that he helped a pro-Russian party in Ukraine secretly route payments to two prominent D.C. lobbying firms.

But the revelations surrounding Trump's former campaign chair aren't nearly over. The Associated Press reported this morning:

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President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests.

Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse.

Manafort pitched the plans to Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006, according to interviews with several people familiar with payments to Manafort and business records obtained by the AP. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.

In a memo at the time, Manafort wrote that his work "can greatly benefit the Putin Government" and "can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government."

...If this plan were being pursued by a John Boehner or a Paul Ryan, one might chalk it up to terrible vote-counting or wild optimism. But McConnell isn’t a hopeless optimist. He’s the smartest political tactician of the modern era. The default assumption on any McConnell plan should be that it rationally pursues a coherent goal. In this case, McConnell has almost certainly sized up his caucus and grasped that Trumpcare stands no chance of resuscitation. A long bleed-out on health care will make Trump and his party even less popular, and chew up precious months during which the Republicans could instead be making use of their full control of government. The plan being pursued by McConnell is that of a man who wants to cut his losses fast.

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I'm not sure what you have in mind with the term "abnormal"

Approval at 37% and declining at two months in.
WSJ editorial you read above, at two months in.
Constant obvious lies from Trump and team, every day so far but one.
An administration anything but finely tuned (or the above would not be so)
A POTUS with almost no grasp of international affairs, US history, political traditions or political theory, the constitution and who has a record of a confidence man who has defrauded countless businesses and individuals.
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Sheesh. You navy types apparently will be delighted to go down with the ship.

Some things will never change, but what can you really expect for a rape apologist.