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Heading into last year’s election, Republicans knew that this problem — the tea party predicament, the Freedom Caucus conundrum, the Boehner bog — had to be dealt with. The GOP needed a large and capable leader who could either unite the whole party (at least temporarily) with a bold, unifying conservative vision, or peel off some centrist Democratic support with innovative policy. They needed an above-average president.

What they got is unimaginably distant from any of these goals. They got a leader who is empty — devoid of even moderately detailed preferences and incapable of using policy details in the course of political persuasion.

...Republicans got a leader who is impatient and easily distracted — by cable news on the Russian scandal or by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s TV ratings. The content and consequences of his tweets are bad enough; worse is the disordered personality traits they reveal — vindictiveness, shallowness and lack of discipline.

...Republicans got an administration that is incompetent. The White House policy process has been erratic and disorganized.

...Republicans got an administration that is morally small.

...This is a pretty bad combination: empty, easily distracted, vindictive, shallow, impatient, incompetent and morally small. This is not the profile of a governing party.

And this is why they are dangerous to EU. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain down the road. IF EU falls apart NATO bulshit won't keep them at bay forever. They might as well make a preemptive nuke strike in Germany and France with the promise they won't attack the US. A self-centred economically weakened America might very well take the deal. It might seem a sci-fi movie now but give it some time. The more fracked up the overpopulated planet becomes the more likely this scenario will be. EU cannot afford to time travel while the world gets more shity every day.

At this rate, at breathtaking speed. I'm old enough to remember Watergate. The Watergate scandals would have a spurt of news stories about a court decision, then lie fallow for several months, then another spate of news stories about another development, then it would go away again, and so on for nearly two years.

Trumpgate is like Watergate on meth. Every day it's another revelation, then another, then another. Trump is so corrupt, and the people in his campaign so intertwined with Russian treachery, that the hard part is keeping up with the revelations. Pretty soon even the Republicans are going to realize that Trump is a criminal with little to no loyalty to the United States at all.

Flynn may be many things, but he's certainly no G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy had a pair of balls.

Is Trump thinking about quitting?

Now that Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser is offering to testify in Trump’s Russia scandal in exchange for immunity, it significantly narrows the path for Trump managing to survive the scandal himself. Flynn is essentially admitting he’s guilty just by asking for immunity, and such a deal will only be granted if Flynn can take down a bigger fish; that fish would be Trump. So it doesn’t come as a total shock to see a credible report tonight that Donald Trump is considering resigning.

Go ahead, give the guy the click. He mentioned 'big fish' and baited the hook for you.

Here's the excerpt from Jared Kushner's shop, which occasionally forgets to run some kinda big deal past its publisher.

Donald Trump is reportedly considering resigning the presidency after reports that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has offered to testify about allegations that the Trump campaign worked with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

I think Trump already arrived at his political death pool.
He lost on his two major orders; 1) repeal ACA, and 2) ban all Muslims.

We can strt a trump "political death pool"

I don't think they should make that deal. Team Trump's demise is just a formality at this point, even without this jailhouse snitch.

Hell is too good for this creep and con. A firestorm at Trump Tower would be justice.

Scalia probably died of a terminal case of cognitive dissonance. Hard to believe any healthy person could have such a severe disconnect between fantasy and reality without it's having physiological manifestations.

Trump sees moral equivalency between the United States and a Russian regime that murders dissenting politicians in broad daylight, brutalizes its opponents, hacks into the American election, and traffics in the whopping lie. He is so beholden to, or seduced by, Vladimir Putin’s Russia that he will not murmur criticism. Enough said. This is a moral abdication of such proportions that America’s alliances are left without ideological foundation. They must then wither.

At night in the ghostly White House, when Ivanka and Jared have gone home, and Trump’s consiglieri have retired to their Russian salads, the gold-robed president — crazed as Lear on the cliffs “fantastically dressed with wildflowers” — wanders from room to room staring at TV screens, cursing in frustration when he cannot find the remote, hurling abuse at the “enemies of the people” who fail to genuflect daily before his genius, adjusting his hair, making random calls to aides to ensure they have scheduled his next play dates with truckers and coal miners.

It might almost be funny. Almost. But the day will come when the Dow plunges and what the former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is said to have feared most in politics — “events, dear boy, events” — occurs, perhaps in ghastly terrorist form, and an incoherent administration will be confronted by its first crisis. All that can be said for now is that, in such a moment, illiberalism and xenophobia in the hands of a would-be autocrat will make for a dangerous brew.

For once, the FBI is just doing its job... I guess they woke up to the fact that they created a monster.
When you guys hang Trump for treason, will you move to Russia?

Has it occurred to anyone here that the FBI report could clear Trump of all wrongdoing?

But I also expect that the investigators will find no wrongdoing on the part of Trump himself.

I think the Left's current hysteria about "Trump's imminent doom" is really pretty goofy.

Typical cheese-eater tactic in the face of indisputable facts: attack the source and pretend THAT changes the facts.