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So, it’s time to check in on Donald Trump’s Russia scandal, about which there are still so many things we don’t know! A big thing we DO know is that dickbag Trump-supporting congressman Darrell Issa, who is a dickbag, went on the Bill Maher teevee program Friday night and said there needs to be a special prosecutor appointed to investigate all of Trump’s Russian ties, because WAIT WHAT? Holy shit, a lot of Democrats haven’t even called for that yet! Darrell Issa LOVES to investigate things, but we are very surprised that Issa actually thinks we need a full investigation with a special prosecutor for HIS BOY TRUMP. He even said Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is so close to Trump they braid hair and talk about boys together, should recuse himself!

On top of that, Issa confirmed that Vladimir Putin is a giant murderous dick!

There’s blood in the water, y’all:

So what happened? Was Issa drunk? Did somebody tell him it was opposite day and he should go on the Bill Maher show and be SANE for a change? We dunno, but he said basically the same thing to Politico on Saturday:

“My view is: it’s extremely important that Congress point the guns at the same direction that they were pointed,” said Issa, who as the powerful House Oversight chair was a GOP pitbull who lead dozens of headline-making investigations on Obama administration matters ranging from the “Fast and Furious” gun sting to Benghazi and IRS’ oversight of grassroots conservative organizations.

Under the Trump White House, Republicans must continue to “demand what we were demanding: transparency, accountability,” Issa said in an interview with POLITICO. “We do need a government that is accountable to us.

“And this is the best time to show leadership…..we need to seize the opportunity and really push hard to have access so that no sacred cows are protected,” he said. “For credibility, we have to hold this president to the level of transparency that the last president took every effort to thwart.”

Huh! Is Darrell Issa growing a spine somehow? Meh, we doubt it. Politico points out that Issa only just barely won re-election, and his district has a growing Latino population, and the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Tyler Law, says Issa’s statements “have little meaning after spending the last year as President Trump’s biggest cheerleader.” Fair enough!

But it’s still very HUH! What shall we make of this? Well, we remember last week how Trump’s White House tried to get the FBI to do its bidding and plant stories in the media that said there was no “there” there on the Russia scandal. The FBI, unsurprisingly, told the Trumpers to fuck off. We have also now learned that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer also enlisted CIA Director Mike Pompeo, GOP Sen. Richard Burr (chair of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee) and GOP idiot Rep. Devin Nunes (chair of the House Intelligence Committee), to get on the phone with reporters and say that New York Times story about the Trump campaign being in “constant contact” with Russians was bullshit. Golly, the Trump regime is very worried about that story! Is it because it is very terrible fake news? Or is it because journalists are getting too close to the truth?

Here is Rep. Nunes, saying there is no evidence he’s seen that the Trump campaign was in contact with Russia. We don’t know how he is saying this with a straight face, but then again, Nunes is a total fucking dipshit, and also, some Republicans are known to be craven liars.

Nunes, if you’ll remember, is also the guy who was less concerned about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s contacts with the Russian ambassador than he was that Flynn’s conversations ended up getting intercepted. Unfair! (Nunes apparently does not understand that American intelligence agencies surveil the Russian embassy, so if a Republican is engaged in untoward activity there, their calls will get recorded! Shit happens, moron.)

Anyway, so that is where we are! Dickhead Darrell Issa is correct about a thing, even if he’s not doing it for any reason beyond he’s scared of losing his seat in Congress. Meanwhile, the Trump White House is obviously freaked out.

Hey, wonder if Trump has tweeted anything about this story lately?

That old rascal “Democrat” Darrell Issa. Damn him right to hell.

[Politico / Axios]

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  • msanthropesmr

    Isaa is an equal opportunity douchebag.

  • Jennaratrix

    LOL, he called Trump a cow.

    • (Major_Major_Major)ly_Pissed

      Technically, Donny is a steer.

      • Thaumaturgist

        Technically, Donny is a bum steer.

        FIFY.

  • DahBoner
  • msanthropesmr

    Burn it down like you did those car dealerships, Darryl.

  • Nounverb911

    “Maybe if we just let Issa burn something down he’ll get over this.”
    –DJT

  • Stulexington

    A Republicans calling the Republican held congress out for hypocracy? Has the world gone so mad it’s actually looping back around into sane territory?

    • TJ Barke

      Don’t hold your breath…

  • ManchuCandidate

    But the catch is the special prosecutor is Ken Starr (of Whitewater and Baylor Rape-ghazi fiascos.)

  • Msgr_MΩment

    Huh! Is Darrell Issa growing a spine somehow?

    Some say Issa’s spine grew three sizes that day.

    • GRINCH LIBELZ!!!

      • Msgr_MΩment

        Newt will never own a working spine.

        • SterWonk

          All the upfists for the avatar, and the ohm in your name.

    • timpundit

      Which made it now visible to the microscope, but progress is progress.

    • SterWonk

      Penny: Oh, I always tear up when the Grinch’s heart grows three sizes.

      Sheldon: Tears seem appropriate. Enlargement of the heart muscle, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, is a serious disease which could lead to congestive heart failure.

      Leonard (singing Deck the Halls): Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la.

  • Michael R

    Forget Issa , here’s Isi
    (1975 , essential driving music )

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiMQ5r5y78g

  • Oblios_Cap

    Was Issa drunk?
    sure, why not?

    • SullivanSt

      Is he drinking buddies with Dana Rohrabacher? I mean, they represent neighboring districts…

  • Lizzietish81

    My guess? The CIA has a lot of dirt on him and is applying pressure

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Can’t imagine what kind of dirt you can find on this cockroach.

      • Nounverb911

        Arson, car theft, general assholery?

  • bookish

    http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/02/27/climate-change-and-the-wildfires-in-chile/

    For this, blame climate change. Heat-trapping carbon pollution is driving temperatures up across the globe, setting the conditions for severe heat, persistent dry spells and a high risk of fire. A recent study found that 25 percent of central Chile’s rainfall deficit could be attributed to human-caused climate change. Consistent with planetary warming, Chile is breaking heat records right and left. California is doing the same.

  • cats530

    Another investigation by Issacarthiefandarsonist? Well what do you know. Anyone remember the big “Friends of Angelo” investigation? Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide Mortgage infamy had a program for Congress critters with special loans and interest rates just for them. Old Darryl had a hard on to investigate all those Democratic Friends of Angelo (FOA). Turns out many more Republicans were FOAs too. Imagine that! The investigation was quickly dropped, not another word about it and the furious back-pedaling began.

  • Nounverb911

    I read on the internets that air pollution complaints are on the rise in his district after reports of Issa’s desperation catching fire.

    • lucidamente

      Trump wouldn’t have Russian hookers pee on him if he were on fire.

  • Unnamed_and_MaybeFake

    Thomas Becket had a similar change of heart over his monarch. Didn’t end well.

    • Msgr_MΩment

      Waiting for Goetterdaemmerung
      /wrongBecket,Iknow

      • Jeffery Campbell

        Wotan, is that you?

    • lucidamente

      Who will rid me of this troublesome car alarmer?

      • Oblios_Cap

        Issa is an alarmist.

    • goonemeritus

      Too soon!

  • Bitter Scribe

    I think Issa is basically just an attention whore. Remember, Joe McCarthy turned on his fellow Republicans after the 1952 elections gave them control of the government. (It helped bring him down.)

    • Nounverb911

      “There are 57 known communists in the State Department”.

  • o’look Skwerl!

    Once we are done with the emails, we will look into peehookers.
    -Turtle McGOP

    • hendenburg2

      Presumably they’ll launch an investigation to find things such as:

      “how much?” and “when is the soonest they can get here?”

  • Liberal Fascist Ron

    I don’t care what his motives are, as long as he continues to do the right thing.

    • (((fka_donnie_d)))

      Yes you do. If he’s doing it out of political expediency he’ll stop the second he can.

      • Liberal Fascist Ron

        Good point. But I’m pretty sure that once things actually start, the expedient thing for him will be to see it through to the very end.

        • (((fka_donnie_d)))

          Somewhere I can buy a crystal ball like yours?

          • Liberal Fascist Ron

            Six seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic may have somewhat warped my outlook.
            But I genuinely think that starting an investigation and then stopping it before it gets where it’s going would be political suicide. The obvious conclusion would be that something is being covered up.

          • (((fka_donnie_d)))

            Facts no in evidence – implies anybody would pay attention

    • CindyinEncinitas

      That’s very charitable of you.

      • Liberal Fascist Ron

        I just want the frakking investigation to start. Anywhere else in the world Donnie wouldn’t have made it to the election.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Darrell Issa LOVES to investigate things, but we are very surprised that Issa actually thinks we need a full investigation with a special prosecutor for HIS BOY TRUMP.

    Hmm…maybe Issa is aware that Swing Left has him on their list for 2018?

    • CindyinEncinitas

      He is at the TOP of EVERYBODY’S list as a Public Enemy and he will be ground to a pulp by his own past words and actions. You can put lipstick on that pig, but he will still have an unctuous smile and matches in his pockets.

  • memzilla Ω

    When you’ve lost Darrell Issa, you’ve lost… er, I dunno? A craven, car-burning, lying treacherous dicksnottle who would kick children under a bus if there were two votes to be gotten from it?

    • msanthropesmr

      Two? One I think.

  • Wild Cat

    He’s pandering. He nearly lost his seat and figured there are some Democratic-leaning suckers watching this TAWG’s show.

  • Carpe Vagenda

    Or perhaps Issa knows that there’s no risk of that happening and he just wants to fuck with Jason Chaffetz for taking his spot.

    • Wild Cat

      If you fuck with Jason Chaffetz, you have to marry him.

      • hendenburg2

        Kinda like Avril Lavigne marrying Sum-41, there’s no way it works out well for anyone involved

        • Wild Cat

          Yes, but if Issa leaves Syrian Christianity for Mormonism, he may inherit a planet that lives up to his current lifestyle.

      • Carpe Vagenda

        If Darryl Issa actually were having sex with Jason Chaffetz, which one would be down the slippery slope(™) to bestiality?

        • SullivanSt

          They’d both be pretty much already there.

          • Carpe Vagenda

            Well, there’s a paradox for you.

        • Jeffery Campbell

          Let me just say this: eww.

          • Liberal Fascist Ron

            ‘Let me just say this: eww ewe.’

            FIFY

          • Jeffery Campbell

            Oh, please. Bestiality would be a step up for these two!

          • Liberal Fascist Ron

            Certainly screwing above their species.

        • BearDeLaOursistance

          This thread needz moar Schock value. Not a typo.

      • cats530

        Ugh! Hideous thought. I bet he does it with his socks on.

        • Wild Cat

          Hey, if it was good enough for 1920s porn actors, it’s good enough for these two.

        • Yr. Gma

          He’s Mormon, so…

    • cats530

      I’m all for fucking over Jason Chaffetz!

      • Yr. Gma

        The word “over” is very important in that sentence.

    • Unnamed_and_MaybeFake

      BrokeEthics Mountain, the sequel.

  • Villago Delenda Est

    Darrell fears for his political life. He came very close to being “former Congressman Darrell Issa” last November.

    • CindyinEncinitas

      Doug Applegate declared his candidacy as soon as the recount was over and Darrell knows that with 2 years to organize better (there just weren’t enough people last time to get out the vote in Orange County), he is toast.

      • Ian

        I plan on volunteering for Doug’s campaign. I live in Judy Chu’s district. But my sister is in Issa’s.

    • Jeffery Campbell

      Are there sweeter words in the English Language? “Former Congressman Darrell Issa.” I think not.

      • Liberal Fascist Ron

        ‘Convicted felon Donald Trump’?

        • Jeffery Campbell

          Yes, better. For. The. Win.

        • redblack

          also, too, “disgraced ex-senator mitch mcconnell,” since we’re fantasizing… i also want cupcakes and a pony.

  • Creepoman

    All right Orange County folks, repeat after me: watch how the slippery fucker votes, not what he says his mouth hole.

    • Yr. Gma

      Mostly San Diego County, but the northern part.

  • chicken thief

    This news is so fake I had to fire Flynn! Sad!

    ~ The Donald

    • Barnaby_Rudge

      The Donald didn’t fire Flynn; Flynn resigned. The Donald fired the person who warned him about Flynn, Attorney General Sally Yates.

      • SullivanSt

        Trump has claimed credit for asking Flynn to resign. AKA firing him.

        Pretty much in the same breathe as saying how utterly unfair the press was to him and what a wonderful man he is.

        Because we all want to be seen as the person that fires someone for the “lies” told about them not anything they actually did, right?

        • Proud Liberal

          Yep. He said I fired him for lying to the VP.

  • alwayspunkindrublic

    I thought Dickbag Darrell was the guitar player in Pantera who got killed by a crazed fan? Oh, right, that was DIMEbag Darrell.

  • Bill D. Burger

    In his reelection bid he won by less than 2% points and in that is a lot of his willingness to appoint an independent investigator.
    But…whatever gets it done. It should be done….yesterday!

    http://orig02.deviantart.net/d63b/f/2013/088/b/5/this_does_not_compute_gif_by_cliopadra13kaassis-d5zn5su.gif

  • Good_Gawd_Yall

    He probably got commitments from the other reptiles on the committee that they wouldn’t allow an investigation. He can pretend to care while shoring up his falling numbers in the knowledge that nothing will happen. And since that’s the kind of slimy backstabbing bullshit Dolt 45 understands, no harm that he’ll be seen as an enemy of the Reich.

  • goonemeritus

    The enemy of my enemy may in this case still be my enemy.

  • CindyinEncinitas

    If Darrell Issa wasn’t adaptive, he wouldn’t be anything.

    • cats530

      Slyly opportunistic, like a spider waiting in the wings.

      • TheFamilyThalamus

        Totally opportunistic. He will use his ( imagined) righteousness in his campaign for his next office position.

    • SullivanSt

      Nah, he’d still be an arsonist.

      • Jeffery Campbell

        All the up votes!!!!!

  • Lance Thrustwell

    It wasn’t a great Real Time overall (the panel was really unpeppy, except for the occasional zinger from Fran Lebowitz), but Bill, I think, partly redeemed himself for the whole soft-on-Milo-then-take-credit-for-his-downfall debacle. He was very clear and pretty tough with Issa.

    Lord knows Bill has his flaws, but in the spirit of Big-Tent Democratic party unity that we so desperately need right now, I think it’s important to remember that he (and other flawed liberals) is still on the right side.

    • theblackdog

      Islamophobes are on the right side? Maybe the right side of the political spectrum.

      • Lance Thrustwell

        I am really in the minority here about this! I wouldn’t mind getting into a discussion about “Islamophobia”, btw, if you’re interested. Although then again, I wouldn’t want to glom up this thread with a big ol’ OT marathon…

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    “And this is the best time to show leadership…..we need to seize the opportunity and really push hard to have access so that no sacred cows are protected,” he said. “For credibility, we have to hold this president to the level of transparency that the last president took every effort to thwart.”

    Oh, you thought Obama was opaque? You’ve seen nothing yet, Darryl!

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5f5781eba9d5092901aa0d6ec5730acacc7cb9a887ac4b0ad28c6b95b7131048.jpg

    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      Yeah, that didn’t slide past me either. Issa, you may be doing the right-ish thing for once in your life, but we heard you slam the only president in decades whose 8-year term included NOT ONE scandal or prosecution or resignation due to circumstances that wouldn’t bear scrutiny.

    • SullivanSt

      Well, when dirtbag Darryl was demanding documents detailing deliberative process on obvious fishing expeditions, the Obama administration was like ‘nah mang, deliberative process is privileged ain’t gonna give you that’. Which there’s ample precedent to support.

  • Crank Tango

    OK greaseball, you can do this one thing, but you’re still out on your ass in 2018.

  • cats530

    Will Issa get Dowdy Gowdy in on the action too? As assistant dickbag holder.

    • Jeffery Campbell

      Oh, Gowdy’s holding dicks alright, and bags. Just not dickbags.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Oh, the Politico link just gets better:

    At a luncheon address to hundreds at the statewide GOP convention at the Hyatt Regency Saturday, Issa delivered a conciliatory message to the GOP grassroots, telling them that the best hope for GOP gains in California is to reach out to Democrats and independents, and listen to their concerns.

    “Let’s forget the past of Barack Hussein Obama..let’s open a new book,’’ he told them. “We do believe in free speech…we do believe that the other side should be heard…that’s the Republican Party I belong to, it’s the one I believe in.”

    Yeah–that’s why your side is running away from constituents and refusing to hold town halls…

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/33b2a512674280d7a56134cdb21db229f39136d2f4a505cbbc4047af27f1eb7f.jpg

    • Jamoche

      “Let’s forget the 8 years we refused to listen and try to convince them that this time will be different.”

      • Nockular cavity

        “Let’s not bicker and argue about who spent years pointlessly investigating and harassing who.”

    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      Way to reach out to Dems, Issa – call their beloved president by the name you use to try to diminish him. Why don’t you call him the n-word and see if that helps you with black voters?

  • canes_pugnaces

    There is no evidence? Every morning since January 20th I’ve woken up in the wrong universe.

  • OrG

    So far, he’s done as much as walnuts McCain.Show me.

  • Mavenmaven

    As the old ad used to say: Just Do It.

  • schmannity

    I guess you need a special prosecutor since Congress was unable to get to the truth about Hillary’s Benghazi murder and mayhem.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Me-ow!

    Issa’s GOP successor as chair on the Oversight committee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, has appeared to suggest Issa was a showboat. “Darrell Issa didn’t do many reports,” Chaffetz told Roll Call. “[He] did big press releases..this is not the Jason Chaffetz show.”

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00baf9a6316d1b8e167ac1295fc33b197b8856811b39b7f05ef4023b9874ecf8.jpg

    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      Oh, puh-leeze. Jason ChaffedShitz thinks the entire world was constructed as a stage for the Jason ChaffedShitz show.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    On Feb. 15, when the two-column lead of the Times print edition, which Trump reads carefully, declared: “Trump Aides Had Contact With Russian Intelligence: U.S. Officials Tell of a Flurry of Phone Calls Intercepted Before the Election.” An FBI official had volunteered privately to the White House that the story was “B.S.” (but used the full word). When the FBI didn’t immediately agree to tell that to the press, the White House tried to find other officials who would convey that idea to inquiring reporters.

    Maybe the FBI official meant that the story was bullshit because the truth is even worse than what was reported? I’d bet the rent money on that being the case.

    • Anna Rompage

      It’s kind of like the time is was calling references on a future employee…

      One of the folks said “you’d be lucky to have him work for you”

      I took that as a positive, hired him, and then realized this person spent most of the day fucking off…

      I then took his old employer’s words as meaning this kid has no motivation and a serious lack of work ethic..

    • FlownΩver

      “An FBI official”?!?!?

      Somebody once said “They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name. Let their name be put out there.” What lying douchebag do you suppose that could have been?

      • Doug Langley

        Okay, okay. It was Deep Throat.

    • Historicat

      “which Trump reads carefully”

      Haha – no.

  • Proud Liberal

    He suddenly found his spine since he is in trouble in his own district and most likely won’t be reelected.

    • cats530

      Good riddance to bad rubbish, if he’s not re-elected. Is it because his base is croaking or because people are finally wising up?

      • Proud Liberal

        I’m looking to the Georgia special election in April. If Republicans lose that seat, it’s a good indicator of how next year is going to go for them.

      • Antonin Dvorak

        Kind of both. His district is becoming a lot younger and a lot more diverse. Also, more dems are seeing his seat as attainable.

  • Michael Smith

    Spicer is going to have to track Issa down and give him the secret talk.

    • Jeffery Campbell

      And take away his flip phone.

  • Vagenda of Rebel Scum

    Does this rodent sense a sinking ship? People are saying. The best people. The smartest people.

  • Ms.MLG on Maui

    They’re all terribel.

  • bookish

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/us/sanctuary-city-trump-immigration-detainers.html?_r=0

    President Trump’s sweeping new immigration policies — which include efforts to shine a harsh national spotlight on cities that released undocumented immigrants who went on to be accused of serious crimes — are sharply increasing the legal and political risks confronting local law enforcement officials.

    As Mr. Trump ratchets up the pressure on so-called sanctuary cities through what some advocates are denouncing as a “name-and-shame” campaign to force them to work more closely with federal immigration authorities, police and sheriff’s departments are being caught in a crossfire.

    • Proud Liberal

      But state’s rights?

  • Bottom line is that Darrell Issa does what is best for Darrell Issa. He feels that this is the best thing for him, politically. But it’s fun to watch Republican infighting!

    • Pilotshark

      not to mention a very close unconformable call the last elections. could be feeling the heat of knowing he is loosen his power back home.

  • Resistance Fighter Callyson

    Top White House officials tell us they’re authentically confident that the Russia smoke won’t lead to fire, and are even happy to have their opponents distracted by the issue. “For over six months, we have heard about these alleged contacts with Russia,” the official said. “And yet, … with all the leaks have have come out, there’s no ‘there’ there.”

    They figure they have their tracks covered? Better make sure you don’t piss off Putin…

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d672fd027b27106523dbd2222ecd21fa423eceeedbb943b050b416d23af39010.jpg

    • WotsAllThisThen

      Of course, saying there’s no there there always satisfied Republicans in the past, right?

    • Carpe Vagenda

      So that was an unnamed source speaking off the record? Clearly fake news.

    • Jamoche

      Go watch Olbermann, idiots – the small leaks are warning shots. Releasing the big stuff to the public would burn all the people who dug it up.

  • ImPEECH!

    Issa: “WE HAVE TO SAVE OUR PARTY’S DIGNITY IN ORDER TO DESTROY IT!” Wait, what?

    • Ms.MLG on Maui

      That dignity ship sailed loooong ago. They gave up the last whiff losing their minds over a President with darker skin than their own.

  • Truly Madly Derply

    Okay, off-topic but I really can’t remain silent ANY LONGER. Since bloody WHEN has the past tense of the verb “lead,” which in my yout’ was spelled “led” been replaced with “lead”? Triggered (haha, see, that is funny because the word “triggered” evokes “guns” and “bullets” which are “lead” which is a NOUN, the spelling of which is tense and other syntactic shenanigans-agnostic), at last, by this: “. . . was a GOP pitbull who lead dozens of headline-making investigations on Obama. . . ” But dude, I see it everywhere, including publications that should know better. Alrighty roo. I feel better now.

    • BigBoppa ~ Résistent

      I blame Led Zeppelin.

      • FlownΩver

        Communication Breakdown, eh?

        I’m with you, TMD – better a grammar Nazi than the real ones occupying the West Wing.

        • Liberal Fascist Ron

          Good Times, Bad Times
          Going to California
          When the Levee Breaks…           okay, that one is more predictive than anything.

        • BearDeLaOursistance

          Immigrant Song?

    • Sandy Beaches

      I get a little confused because the past tense of “read” is not “red.” I demand consistency, people! Is that too much to ask?

      • Truly Madly Derply

        That’s what makes the American language so hard for, um, Americans to master.

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      Sounds like a typo? I still spell it “led.”

      • Truly Madly Derply

        That makes you a 1 percenter.

    • Yr. Gma

      Well, since we’re over here in the weeds anyway…what triggers me is “alright,” a non-word currently substituting all over the place for “all right,” two words that mean something.

      • Lascauxcaveman

        Well, that’s just being curmudgeonly. Through general use, non-words eventually become words. Forty years ago, “email” would have been a typo.

        • Yr. Gma

          Yep, that’s me, curmudgeonly.

      • Truly Madly Derply

        Yep, also too.

    • Doug Langley

      Good point. You should take the lede on this.

      • Truly Madly Derply

        Maybe you’re right; I could write one but I’m not really a word-wright. Hengh?

  • Nounverb911

    In other criticisms today, W took on trump. Laura Ingrown gets all whiney.

    https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/836237360333402113

    • Antonin Dvorak

      That should tell you something Laura!

    • Martini Ambassador

      Psst, Laura, don’t you have something you need to be taking care of right now? http://www.mediaite.com/online/laura-ingrahams-lifezette-sued-by-ap-after-site-bounces-check-for-unpaid-fees-and-revenue/

      • FlownΩver

        Shorter Ingram: “Look! Over there!”

    • Ms.MLG on Maui

      That would probably be because Obama was competent and not steering the country off the cliff on the speeding bus to crazytown….

    • JoeChristmas

      I wonder why Laura?

    • AnnieGetYerFun

      Well, in Bush’s defense, he needed to take a nap.

      • Nockular cavity

        Plus, so much brush to clear.

    • Yr. Gma

      Go fuck yourself, you Ann Coulter wannabe.

  • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

    it’s the kinda day for this – some kitties are playing and there’s a shot of the new momma and her new kittens sleepin’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPv9yKC76hE&feature=youtu.be

  • Swampay

    Can someone please explain how this “opposite day” thing works? Do I have to wear my pants on my head? I do not want to wear my pants on my head.

  • JoeChristmas

    Tax cuts for the 0.6%!

  • TX Dept. of Space Tacos

    oh ffs, trump’s latest twit – I think a few million people would disagree wiht him here:

    https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/836261209540288513

    • Anna Rompage

      12 white guys, and one black dude….

      • Liberal Fascist Ron

        … who looks rather… uncomfortable.

      • chicken thief

        I was thinking the same thing – Trump, swivelling head from side to side, “Where’s my black guy? Where is he?”

    • Carpe Vagenda

      Wait, so now your Obamacare is great, but we’re going to take it away?

      • Anna Rompage

        Pretty much, and instead of the govt spending a few billion to bridge the gap between people’s heathcare needs and insurance losses, Trump has proposed moving $54 billion from the general budget and use it to increase military spending…

      • Jamoche

        No, no, we’re going to make it so you have to pay the prices those guys set or else, instead of leveling things out so there’s no “or else”.

    • Sister the Resister

      I get angry every time I see him sitting at that desk, disgracing it with his very presence. It’s a prop to him, not a symbol of the long history of the oval office. I want some woo-woo shaman type to come in and sage the thing when he’s out of there, or do whatever ritual will wipe the slime from the Resolute Desk.

    • Markuserektus
  • Anna Rompage

    Nope, no connections to Russia at all..

    The Ukrainian lawmaker who met with President Donald Trump’s
    personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the businessman Felix Sater
    in New York last month to discuss a controversial peace plan for
    Ukraine “got confirmation” from Sater that his plan was delivered
    to the White House, he told Business Insider.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/andrey-artemenko-ukraine-russia-michael-cohen-flynn-plan-2017-2

  • Nyumbu

    I am still very confused about a thing–that it’s fake news, ALL-CAPS LIES, which is being leaked. How can it be leaked if there isn’t anything to leak? Someone fetch my smelling salts; I must lie down and fan myself some more.

    • Anna Rompage

      As Trump tried to explain it the other day through BS Spice, the leaks are real, but the news about them is fake…

    • Good_Gawd_Yall

      I’ve tried to parse that myself, and it just doesn’t happen. The best I can do is an analogy. You steal a cookie, and I tell mom about it. Then when mom calls you on it, your defense is not that you didn’t steal a cookie but that there was no cookie to be stolen, and the person who deserves punishment is me for making up a lie about it. The whole “intent” is simply overlooked, as not relevant, just like there’s no crime in breaking into a vault if the vault is empty. This only works if mom is stupid, though.

  • Sandy Beaches

    I’ve been trying to come up with a workable theory here and the best I can come up with is that Issa somehow knows there is a “there” there and believes this shit is going to hit the fan and he’s trying to not get any on himself.

    • Yr. Gma

      That’s a good a theory as I’ve heard. I really can’t wrap my head around this.

    • shivaskeeper

      Trying to get out from under.

    • puredog

      Yeah, that was my guess, and that he’s trying to get out in front of the curve.

    • expipiplus1

      That’s a good explanation. An alternate: Issa and pals have a particular investigator in mind and the fix is already in.

  • Good_Gawd_Yall

    Here’s a tip from me, free, to you reptile congresscritters, supporters of Dolt 45, and of course Twitler himself: If you want people to think a story is meaningless, don’t try to coerce people to stop talking about it. That’s the kind of thing that makes the rest of us even more certain that there’s a real story there. You would think this advice is so obvious it shouldn’t even be necessary, but here we are.

    • Sister the Resister

      Shhhhhhhhhh! don’t tell them that!

      • Good_Gawd_Yall

        Oh, they don’t read. Or can’t. So, no worries!

    • Ms.MLG on Maui

      I used to think the warnings on certain products-don’t use this hair dryer in the shower, don’t eat this rat poison, remove this windshield cover before driving-were silly, but here we are! That creature currently occupying the White HOUSE should have come with a warning, apparently.

      • CindyinEncinitas

        I am partial to the warning labels on NFL helmets. I can’t see what they say, but the fact that there is a warning label just sends my imagination into overdrive. “Place helmet on head so that you can see when it’s on.” “This helmet is not intended to protect your head from an oncoming car, bus, train, or large bovine.”

        • Ms.MLG on Maui

          Do NOT use on groin, leaving head unprotected.

      • Historicat

        That creature did come with a warning but too many Real Americans didn’t listen.

        • Ms.MLG on Maui

          He is a walking warning.

  • Paperless Tiger

    How about a whole battery of loose cannons firing at will? The people have spoken.

    • chicken thief

      If I was Will I’d change my name. Jes sayin…

  • anon_the_great

    Strange World, isn’t it?

  • Tyler Law, says Issa’s statements “have little meaning after spending the last year as President Drumpf’s biggest cheerleader.”

    Little? That is being generous. It pains me to see this mad rush to credit a craven asshole for doing…nothing and wishing for something he knows has zero chances of coming about; and what he is going to do NOTHING more about.

    Fuck Issa! Fuck Issa in the eye with a needle dick!

  • Me not sure

    I always thought that the phrase “the worm turns” was just a figure of speech. Who knew?

  • AJ Milne

    For what it’s worth, my view of this:

    1) I wouldn’t be wildly surprised if there were inappropriate contacts. Thing is: the normal thing I’d think would argue most strongly against this would be the Russians’ own caution. Getting involved too intimately with these not-entirely-competent potential puppets would obviously strike them as risky, and never mind they _do_ seem to be in a bit of a ‘try anything’ mood of late.

    But then again: I generally suspect they didn’t think much of Trump’s chances, either. Any more than did any number of people, Trump himself included (putting the lie, by the way, into his ‘the media didn’t think we could win’ line… No one really thought it was likely, Donnie, you included. You really just did kinda squeak through on a series of flukes, looks like…)

    … so they may have got careless. Figured, oh like there’s going to be much examination of this anyway; it’s just a noise operation; degrade people’s respect in their institutions, nothing much more. (And see also: one of the most critical targets of these operations remains the Russian people themselves. Talk them out of seeking a more genuinely democratic nation at home just by saying yeah, that’s the mess democracy looks like; still want it?)

    2) _Regardless_ of whether there was such active collusion (which, sure, I don’t have to tell anyone here matters just because, yeah, laws), it _remains_, I think, a critical story how disinformation is so prevalent in–and possibly so significant to–politics in general, elections in particular. Whatever the nature of Team Trump’s involvement in the Russian operation, even if the contacts _were_ all entirely legal get-to-know-the-possible-next-guy stuff, it is a critical problem for democracy that people are so misinformed, so inundated with misinformation, that the net is so awash with this stuff. And Trump’s deeply cynical and dishonest use of the phrase ‘fake news’ to denote probably relatively responsible media critical of his administration has, I think, to be called out, ridiculed. The fake news was the stuff got him elected, mostly, the noise, the nonsensical conspiracy theories about pizza parlours and Clinton Cash and Soros running the world, and so on. And even the whole of the grey-market media landscape that gave you death panels, and so on. That Trump’s now trying to own the phrase, make every thought of fake news’ turn to his self-serving attacks on critical press is no help to anyone…

    And even _without_ that, there’d still be a problem. The story, further, isn’t just that there were disinformation campaigns; it’s that they’re so pervasive, that they so corrode and confuse public understanding. It’s very hard to run a democracy with a poorly informed public. Until that’s improved, Trump, even if relatively quickly solved (crosses fingers), won’t be the last such disaster.

    (Postscript: on the nature of that collusion, honestly, I probably shouldn’t speculate too far beyond above; it could still be a lot of things, but one of several things that continues to pique my interest here is the administration’s own ongoing reaction to coverage. They really do seem a bit jumpy, just reading across the poker table, here.)

  • Donna Schoenkopf

    Double HUH! Well said, Evan.

  • shivaskeeper

    Issa is a craven partisan hack. I don’t think he’s stupid though. He can see how toxic DJT is to the entire Republican brand. The longer they let him sit in the WH the more of them are going to get burnt when he implodes. Issa is just laying the groundwork to be able to say he wanted to do something about it, but his hands were tied

    • CindyinEncinitas

      But he can’t get the stank off now. There are so many pictures and if the intelligence community wants to, they can take him out in a New York minute.

      • shivaskeeper

        Probably could, but also probably won’t.

  • Marceline

    I really hope we can put Issa out in the street in 2018.

    • CindyinEncinitas

      Dude, he won by about 1,300 votes in a district that has over 310,000 people. Talk about a squeaker.

      • bobbert

        Sort of like the prez election in WI, MI, PA.

    • Lulu’s Mom

      I’m happy to say I voted for the other guy Applegate.

  • OrdinaryJoe

    SD went for Hillary. Issa barely got re-elected. He know this is a good gig he has as a Congresscrit and at least you don’t go home at night smelling like smoke and that you spilled a gasoline can on yourself. So natch it doesn’t take a bright flame to know he needs to be all for an investigation that he knows will never happen. Helps make him fire proof, so to speak.

    • puredog

      “…that he knows will never happen.” I would like for him to be wrong about this.

  • Panika MCD

    1) just because everybody poops, doesn’t mean we need to investigate recordings of Flynn and the Russian Embassy doing boom booms together. sorry, dangling modifier duty on the “shit happens.”

    2) if they’re using the leaks he alleges are illegal, wouldn’t that be reporting on them? I mean, the press isn’t going to disclose their sources, but I guess he hasn’t gotten to that part of every journalists poops protects their sources. and he does understand that the news is tired of fact checking his bullshit distractions–they’re going to journalism now, thank you!

    3) we need botox transparency. that’s the only way I can imagine these guys saying any of this crap with a straight face. we should not only be able to find out if they’ve had botox on the tax-payers’ dime, but they should disclose whether they’ve had botox at all so that we understand whether they’re trying to lie to us or have accidentally gotten some of the stuff in their brain pan.

  • cheetojeebus

    Did Nunes mention that he really should keep his yob shut since he is sorta tainted having been an executive member of Trump’s transition committee which would have put him in perhaps daily contact with Flynn? All that aside, geeze what a turd smoking assbunny eh?

    • artem1s

      know-nothing ALEC stenographer. he is outliving his usefulness now that they are on the verge of murdering the New Deal

  • Mr. Blobfish

    Mask the big election defeat. Sure, Donnie. No one knows you won.

    • WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot

      Let’s not say the W word in connection with the Russian Puppet. He limped in on a technicality.

  • artem1s

    Issa was the dipshit who convened a panel on women’s health care and stacked it with Catholic priests and refused to let women speak on their own behalf. Remember Sandra Fluke? Dem congress critters had to hold their own show so some actual vagina havers could speak about having vaginas.

    That being said, Issa was picked to be the hatchet man to take down Gray Davis too. So maybe #PresidentBannon or #PresidentInWaitingPence is making their move? The GOP is gonna ride this train until the wheels fall off and then declare themselves shocked! shocked I say, that Putin diddling was going on in the WH.

  • geoffalnutt

    Re Issa: I wouldn’t trust anything the criminal says. Nothing. Ever. Oh, well.

    • Stephanie Rakowski

      True. I wish I could find that list from his constitutes detailing all the votes he said he cast one way but really did the exact opposite hoping no one would catch it

  • Maree Martin

    “Nunes is a total fucking dipshit, and also, some Republicans are known to be craven liars.” That is slander by omission right there! ALL Republicans are known to be craven liars.

    • Mr. Fusion

      Well, almost all Republicans. My mother is a Republican and the only time she ever lied to me was when she tried to tell me I was adopted.

      • C4TWOMAN

        Nice Alt Gadsden Flag. My favourite Alt Gadsden is “Please Send Snacks”.

  • Mr. Fusion

    Minor correction.

    (Nunes apparently does not understand that American intelligence agencies surveil the Russian embassy, so if a Republican is engaged in untoward activity there, their calls will get recorded! Shit happens, moron.)

    The correct spelling should be “moran”.

  • Résistance Land Shark Ω

    Issa wants to run the investigative commission so he can run into the ground to protect Donnie Dumbass? #Alt-Theory

  • Lulu’s Mom

    I think he had a few sips of whatever was in that mug on the side table. Also too he is no longer on the Oversight committee.

  • bobbert

    Issa should be very worried about his next election. He’s probably spewing this fluff because he expects th House to reject the idea, and then he can campaign on the idea that he “called for” a special investigator.

    When he calls for it on the House floor, I will pay attention.

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