Rep. Schiff would be a very effective attorney general in a Democratic administration; he is a former assistant US attorney in the Los Angeles district and - among other cases - put away a former FBI agent who was spying for the Soviets for espionage.

He'd also be a hell of an impeachment manager in the House.

I am not sure why no one is talking about a candidacy for Adam Schiff, I think he would be fantastic.

Imagine Schiff and Kamala Harris...I think that would be unbeatable.

A single state ticket would be unusual in the modern era.

Schiff is a formidable individual, but he's never been elected to any post outside of his legislative district; that's a long jump to the presidency and executive authority, and the bedrock lesson of Trump is don't elect an amatuer to the most powerful position in the country.

President.

President is extremely hard, and some don't think he has the outgoing personality like an Obama or Beto.

He's triangulating, trying to maximize the blame the Dems will have to bear for his Party's Leader's petulant stunt Shutdown.

... because he is being blackmailed. He is a MOTHERF***ING COWARD and will always put himself before country.

Can't we call each other and talk about it? Do republicans really back an idiot like tRump? Do republicans listen to him when he speaks? He sounds like a 3rd grader. Surely they can't honestly associate themselves with him. I can't help but laugh when I see tRump speaking before the cameras and seeing Pence and the rest of them standing silently behind him. The reason they don't speak is because it would make tRump seem 10 times as ignorant as he already is. I believe that is why no one speaks to him except to grovel before him. If anyone actually tries to have a logical conversation with him, tRump would be lost a be shown to have no clothes.

Anyway, I rambled. I hate this Twitter thing being our government negotiation tool. It's like throwing insults in study hall...

When it first came out I thought "what a useless medium except for narcistic celebrities". And how true that turned out to be!

(Oh, and bonus, now we have Soviet bots agreeing with Twitler and spreading disinformation and hate speech. I'm sure our uber-useful first lady will get right on that.)

Twitter is a reality. It is how Trump gets out his message. It is how a lot of young people get their news. Ignoring those facts does not make their reality go away.

Looks like a good way to keep the M$M (mostly tv) from leaving out essential information and framing it to favor their own business model.

Mr. Schiff is talking to citizens as well as Moscow Mitch.

policies?

I'd be interested in your thoughts on McConnell's loyalty to his wife's position vs. his and the Senate's positions.

Possibly Russian money he took, or something else the Russians found out when they hacked the republicans back in 2016, even though republicans don't want to admit they were hacked.

Mitch knows that if he stood up to trump everything trump has on him would be released, and that would be the end McConnell.

McTurtle is in it up to his eyeballs.

...and in this dysfunctional administration, that is VERY odd. And now my suspicious mind is wondering WTF is her connection to al this?

For example, if Russia has something on McTurtle/Rethugs, then they could have installed Mrs. Turtle to be the unassuming overlord, or pass messages to Dump (such as "go after Montenegro" and "push the line that Russia had to invade Afghanistan because of terrorism threats" etc.)

I'm not sure where she and her family stand in all that.

This is the most heartless, selfish and gop-first over country hack that I have ever seen. His verbal response to President Obama and his agenda, his stealing a SCOTUS seat from the President, and his ignoring the bills from the People’s House are right in line with a political tool. USA be damned! I’m putting party over country.

Maybe Senator Ried was like that as well, and I just didn’t pay attention.

tried to accomplish will put the country first over loyalty to a baboon who equally despises Obama.

You might want to rethink that.

Would you consider him a fool for delivering that message to McConnell in private?

What is your grand non-foolish strategy?

Just wonder how much money, McConnell has taken from Putin and the 'big' boys in the back room. He should be put, in the jail cell, next to trump

Subverting the Constitution with such impunity is a crime worthy of an execution that is memorable to any other traitors.

He is at the top the the list of traitors to our country. I pray he is caught in Mueller’s web because he is complicit in every dirty deed done against the United States.

California delegation in Congress are awesome. Anyone have an alphabetical list of members from California?

Pelosi, Feinstein, Harris are just as impressive.

But hopefully shaming him to death will finally get him to do what is right.

He's never shown the capacity for shame that I can recall. Maybe someone can show me to be wrong.

Given his stance on Merrick Garland, and the eventual result, what is McConnell holding out for this time? What fix is in that we can't yet see?