CNN is on "bus watch". Senators all getting on buses to go to the White House.

[a kennedy]

Just saw Al Franken getting close to getting on it. How many buses does it take to get all 100 senators to the White House???

[kentuck]

1. What a carnival!

The Congress needs to debate on the floor if Trump has plans to take us to war. They don't need to get on a bus and go to the White House for a piece of chocolate cake...

[politicaljunkie41910]

23. I don't think it's about North Korea at all. I think it's a ruse to get the Senators there and make

them an offer on a Health Care Bill and offer up something to the Dems that they can't refuse. The deal would have to be big so that Drump would be certain that the Senators in both parties would take it. Then once the Senate Repugs and Dems agree to it they go back to the Capital and tell the House, this is the way we're going to do it. We've got the votes and tell the Tea Party folks to take a hike. Trump needs something Bigly for his first 100 days and the Repugs know that they've shown that they don't know how to govern with the way they blew up the health care issue. Trump needs a victory and he's willing to throw the Tea Party pukes under the bus and Ryan to come up with a win in his first 100 days. He knows if he doesn't, it will all be down hill from here. Also, I think that he's listening to Joe Scarborough because Joe's been saying stuff like this on his morning show the past couple of weeks.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. I think we are hours away from bombing NK so the criminals in WH can avoid

attention for their espionage crimes.

[maryellen99]

8. Think he'll use a nuke right away? Nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. If he does world war 3 is on for sure, he is capable of anything, he is very dumb.

[maryellen99]

15. Also isn't China bound by treaty to defend NK if attacked preemptively? Nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

16. Wait WHAT?

Elaborate please.

Links please.

[maryellen99]

18. Here you go-Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-North_Korean_Mutual_Aid_and_Cooperation_Friendship_Treaty

I'm sure 45 has no clue it even exists.

[snort]

28. Well you'd hope some of the Senators know this.

[maryellen99]

33. Let's hope but I doubt it nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

45. stupid assholes

[MFM008]

3. Yeah Senator Murphy

just pointed out the OPTICS of this whole thing.

[a kennedy]

4. a dog and pony show.......

good grief.

[itcfish]

5. Wouldn't it be easier for

One clown to go to the Senate?

[sarisataka]

12. It's an old tactic

Applies to more things than just Sports. Political leaders have often insisted on negotiations being held in their place as a means of intimidation.

[OldHippieChick]

6. Precisely what Tangerine

Toddler wants. Gawd why must we fall for it every time!?!

[burnbaby]

7. has this ever happened before?

In all my years I don't recall anything like this happening. I hope the cold cuts are cut thin

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Ted Cruz be like:

[Freethinker65]

11. The Senate should have demanded horse drawn carriages

[kentuck]

13. Reportedly, McConnell requested that all Senators go to White House grounds?

Why?

They could have been briefed in the basement of the Capitol.

So why would they pull such a stunt?

The Old Executive Office Bldg houses the NSC, is my understanding. Do they have some special "intelligence" that they want all the Senators to see? I would hope that most Senators would be very skeptical about what they see today.

[bettyellen]

27. It's a demonstration of DTs dominance - make them come to him....

Optics. That's all any of it is - optics for profits.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

29. Trump is bizarrely obsessed with dominance, as if he's a pack animal.

Hence the "chocolate cake" story about him and the Chinese President Xi.

He wanted it to appear as though Xi was eating cake like a little kid while he was doing big boy stuff like shooting off missiles.

And let's not forget his weirdly aggressive handshakes.

[bettyellen]

36. Because a certain amount of people will have a primal response to follow....

Just as many of us have a primal response of repulsion.

[Hekate]

44. Photo Op for the Mad King to show his Alpha Maleness. Remember calling in the black college leaders?

The one where KellyAnne scrunched up on the couch to take a group photo? By the time she did that, the group had figured out that Trump wasn't going to give the Historically Black Colleges diddly-squat, and it was nothing but a photo-op for his benefit.

[Doreen]

14. I just saw Warren get on the first bus.

I see most of the men headed for the second bus. Now, I wonder if they have a Repuke bus and a Democrat bus or if one is for the women?

[burnbaby]

19. lol

all I can picture is "Get smart" show when they pull the glass things down over their head.

[gordianot]

20. This is just a dramatic stunt.

An excuse to spend money when walking down stairs in the Capital would have been sufficient.

[Doreen]

24. This is going to be THE most expensive presidency in this counries history.

[gordianot]

26. I suspect we would be shocked at the cost.

Now I understand six figures 8, 9, 10 elude me.

[Doreen]

31. I do not know about "shocked" maybe "repulsed" would be a more fitting word.

By the end of six months I have a feeling 6 figures will no longer be the reality.

[alarimer]

17. Why are they going?

He is not their boss. They do not have to do his bidding. Has anyone announced they won't be attending?

[Yavin4]

21. It's a trap!!

[TexasTowelie]

22. Do the buses have safety belts?

I keep thinking of the sardine cans that they used to pile us into when I was in school.

[sarcasmo]

25. This is how action movies start.

Put all the Senators on buses then cue the bad guy.

[Tanuki]

30. If we see Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock,

there's some trouble ahead......

[NightWatcher]

32. Pop quiz hot shot...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

34. Can't help but think in Siclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here"....

...Buzz Windrip starts the ball rolling on his agenda by imprisoning all of Congress.

[chillfactor]

35. I finally had to turn the news off....

I am SO SICK of seeing the orange one's face today...I had to bail.

[MFM008]

37. If I was the senator

From my state I would tell him to PISS up a rope and shove KIM Jun whoever up his pooty poot.
I would not be a pawn in his game.

[woodsprite]

38. It's more important they be on bus watch when they're coming back.

If they get off the bus looking like Di Feinstein did at that one press briefing, we may be more screwed than originally anticipated.

[Ilsa]

39. I think it is because a WH room was converted to a SCIF.

They decided the WH SCIF would be more secure than creating one in one of the congressional office buildings, I guess.

[woodsprite]

41. It was my understanding that an auditiorium was 'upgraded' for this meeting

since there was no place in the WH that would hold a large group like that and be considered secure.

Maybe he wanted a chance to bug them himself.

[woodsprite]

40. Maybe Trump's going to "Reichstag" the Capital.

No - it's not sarcasm, and I'm not laughing.

**** OK, I just looked up Reichstag to make sure I spelled it correctly (on an windows PC - not using Siri) and Merriam-Webster came back with "What made you want to look up Reichstag? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible)." It had zero responses. Weird! I just tried "Dolt", it had 60 responses, many were political

[HoneyBadger]

42. Who gets the window?

Are all the buses equal in length?

Who sits in the back?

#busgate

[Hekate]

43. It certainly must make the Mad King feel all monarchy to order them to come to him