Sick burn by Speaker Pelosi

[scheming daemons]

"This is not a wall between Mexico and the United States that the President is creating here. It is a wall between reality and his constituents."

-- Nancy Pelosi, 1/3/19

[TSheehan]

1. With all due respect Speaker Pelosi, I argue that the rotten orange in chief doesn't need that wall.

[Dulcinea]

21. No one does.

Dolt 45 wants the wall so much because it's the only monument he'll ever get.

[Cha]

2. Sick burn of reality!

[Ilsa]

3. Brilliant! K&R. NT

[dalton99a]

4. Awesome.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. is Mexico paying for that wall, too?

Just wondering. He vows to hold the government hostage until it breaks his promise over the concrete wall.

Is crybaby Donald still scared of Ann Coulter?

[watoos]

7. I am

Don’t want a spell put on me.

[onit2day]

32. Holding a bankruptcy gun 2 the heads of over 800k hostages to extort his wall

This is not a man who cares about anything except getting his way.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. I would love to be a fly on the wall when Trump realizes the jig's up.

He's not just going face the music -- he's going to be confronted by an entire symphonic orchestra!

When do the House Dems pass a bill protecting Robert Mueller?

[Mr.Bill]

9. He won't realize it until the cell door slams behind him

and he finds a cockroach on the dinner tray they bring to his cell.

[erronis]

10. And that's all he gets to eat. Tough Love Diet Plan!

[Fritz Walter]

12. Flies on the wall can get hit by shrapnel

And when Individual 1 realizes it, he’s going to go to pieces like a fragmentation grenade.

It will be a mess to clean up after, but you’re right: it’d be a joy to watch.

[ancianita]

19. Title VI of the Ethics In Government Act of 1978 (post-Saturday Night Massacre)already protects him.

Jill Wine Banks, one of the Watergate prosecutors, has pointed this out on MSNBC many times.

[lagomorph777]

25. Title VI of The Act expired on June 30, 1999.

It has been permanently replaced with Title 28 (CFR), Chapter VI, Part 600.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/part-600

The rest is a bit too deep for this non-lawyer to follow. Can anybody clarify? I do know the new Special Counsel is weaker than the old style.

[ancianita]

29. Thanks. I thought Wine Banks described that law. But she says there IS one in place.

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"I do know the new Special Counsel is weaker than the old style. "

And what do you mean by that.

This Special Counsel is structurally stronger and stands on more solid legal ground, and better handled than any old style you've heard of. Even the old Watergate prosecutors say this Special Counsel is so impeccable that no one can touch it legally.

I don't get what your problem is. Because there is no possibility that this Special Counsel is getting ousted.


Rest assured of that.

[lagomorph777]

30. You made me do some research.

This report to Congress goes into a lot more detail, but one excerpt may illuminate what I mean.

Special Counsels, Independent Counsels, and Special Prosecutors: Legal Authority and Limitations on Independent Executive Investigations

The DOJ’s general administrative hiring authority (28 C.F.R. Part 600) authorizes the Attorney General to appoint special counsels. Special counsels exercise more independence than regular DOJ officials and employees, but because the Attorney General generally appoints, supervises, and may remove special counsels, they are considered to be less independent than independent counsels were.

[ancianita]

35. Key to removal, according to Wine Banks, is "just cause." She says there is none. Any removal

without just cause -- not probable cause -- is either an illegal abuse of power or obstruction of justice, at this point.

Reports to Congress are interpretations of law, not the law itself.

[NewJeffCT]

22. let's just hope he doesn't do something really crazy

as the walls are closing in - like nuking Iran or Venezuela or giving his daddy Putin the nuclear launch codes.

[2naSalit]

8. K&R

[pangaia]

11. Whoa !!!

[wiggs]

13. Great meme that could have staying power if oft repeated by dems. nt

[JudyM]

17. +1.

[Raven]

14. This is the first move toward isolating Trumps 35% and it's brilliant. n/t

[EffieBlack]

15. Dayum, gurrrl

[Scurrilous]

16. K&R

[H2O Man]

18. Recommended.

I'm really impressed with her -- and I had confidence she would be strong. Yet, I'm happily surprised by how she is "politely" nailing Trump.

My cousin asked me tonight if I could think of anyone better qualified and situated than Nancy to be our presidential candidate in 2020? I believe that more people will be asking themselves and others that in the weeks and months to come.

[BigOleDummy]

20. Indeed!

Warren/Pelosi …….. the ticket of my dreams

[geardaddy]

23. Zing!

[jcgoldie]

24. Niiice!

Well said Nancy.

[BlueJac]

26. K&R 100 times

[BlancheSplanchnik]

27. 👏🏾. 👏🏾. 👏🏾.

[ChiTownDenny]

28. Truer words were never spoken! n/t

[panader0]

31. That is a damn fine put down......ouch!

[ehrnst]

33. Underestimate her at your own risk. (nt)

[Phentex]

34. He will not know what the word constituents means...

I guarantee it.