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ancianita

(43,358 posts)
Tue Nov 19, 2019, 02:44 PM Nov 2019

Jim Himes (CN) NAILS the GOP's Traitor Politics.

First, Himes demolishes the use of "never Trumper," as he raises the president's witness namecalling/intimidation/tampering toward Jennifer Williams and Lt Col Vindman.

Most important, Jim Himes attacks the GOP's attacks on Vindman as "designs to question your loyalty."

Connecticut's Jim Himes:

It's the kind of thing you say when you defend the indefensible. It's the kind of thing you say when it's not enough to attack the media ... or the Democrats. It's what you stoop to when the indefensibility of your case requires that you attack a man who is wearing a Springfield rifle upon a field of blue above a purple heart ... "

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NoMoreRepugs

(12,228 posts)
3. To be a Rethuglican in Congress is it mandatory
Tue Nov 19, 2019, 02:59 PM
Nov 2019

that you were dropped from a significant height and landed on your head multiple times while growing up? The stoopid runs strong on that side of the aisle.

ancianita

(43,358 posts)
4. There are many this very thing has happened to who are waay smarter than Repubs. It's got
Tue Nov 19, 2019, 03:09 PM
Nov 2019

to literally be the money and power. Period.

Money and power try to override truth. So far, they've won 2.5 branches of our democratic branches of government.

But today, people are seeing how Truth has the lasting power over money.

Nitram

(28,066 posts)
5. I heard this. It was very impressive.
Tue Nov 19, 2019, 05:53 PM
Nov 2019

I am so pleased to hear Democrats telling it like it is in the face of Republican sliming campaigns.

ancianita

(43,358 posts)
6. Yet, right now, Nunes parrots Bolton to use against us, saying we're "dreaming up a drug deal."
Tue Nov 19, 2019, 05:57 PM
Nov 2019

CTyankee

(68,476 posts)
9. I've thought about that. He is my Senator along with Dick Blumenthal and if he werent' from CT
Tue Nov 19, 2019, 11:08 PM
Nov 2019

he sure would be someone I'd think of as a possible candidate. We think he's wonderful.

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