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With Democrats aggressively pushing ahead with their impeachment inquiry, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) convened a conference call on Monday afternoon where he urged members of his leadership team and GOP committee leaders to get on the same messaging page, according to multiple lawmakers and aides.
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Part of the challenge for Republicans is that Democrats are moving forward quickly with their impeachment probe, even working over the two-week recess. And new damning details about Trumps communications with foreign leaders kept popping up over the weekend, forcing Republicans to play whack-a-mole and complicating their messaging strategy just ahead of the Sunday news shows where a number of GOP lawmakers and White House officials struggled to defend the president.
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Better talking points wont save Trump and Republicans
Maybe talking points are effective in a standard, right-versus-left political debate. But the reason Republicans are failing in their messaging and they will continue to fail is that this isnt a standard right-versus-left argument.
This is about a president of the United States who sought to use taxpayer dollars to extort a foreign power into giving him information about a political opponent. Its really that simple. - PoiticusUSA
Oh sorry un-American rethugs, are our presentations of the facts quickly into the news cycle not allowing for your lies to catch up?
Maybe you should get on our side, the right side of the law, the Constitution and history. Your party's going down this time!
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Are they going to find out how many of them can fit into a Volkswagen Bug?
Not only are their tactics deflection and fallacies, this time they have to drag them out and overuse them and...oh my, why isn't it working? Law maybe? Facts, perhaps? Patriotism?
Nitram
(22,822 posts)Trump poses two the US and democracy. Get some perspective, please. Everything is not funny. Unless you are in middle school.
Nitram
(22,822 posts)Vdizzle
(383 posts)Im just messing with you. Just poking fun.
kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)Nitram
(22,822 posts)I'm just expressing my reaction. Try understanding.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)I take no pleasure in seeing grown men, who know better and profess to be Christians, despoil themselves with lies, hypocracy, and corruption for a vile and degenerate Trump. I find it sad and loathsome. Yet here we are. All of us dragged down and humiliated as the world watches this farce unfold.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)I am sorry that you that kind of reaction to my comment.
I don't know if your assumptions about my remarks are correct though. The humor was obviously ridicule. I have spent much time investigating the process and not just the contents. Maybe you have noticed the tactics I mentioned. It helps to have a certain about of detachment to do that. I would hope that exposing that would be beneficial and I consider it important.
I think sarcasm and ridicule are in order considering the factitious and ridiculous tactics the Republicans are using and that does give me a sense of relief. I don't equate humor with condoning their actions, however.
I don't know how that equates with not recognizing the threat that we face or what prompts you to imply I am behaving like an adolescent and ad hominum is unproductive really. I don't know how that would contribute to the conversation, either.
Well, thanks for your opinion. We all have our point of view. Take it easy. We will make it through this together.
Be Well!
Nitram
(22,822 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Thanks! I have done that too. We all do it at times. These are tough times and the pressure builds up and leaks out.
When you notice it, that's helpful. You know, mindfulness. Then, you move on.
You are not alone. It is getting to anyone who cares at all about our country. You would have to be in a coma not to be affected.
Take Care. Relax more if you can and have some fun. Love your people more!
Appreciated!
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Its like the roof in a decrepit house has finally given out, and they can get enough pans to catch all the drips.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)dansolo
(5,376 posts)They constantly get away with this because they are never questionec whenever they spout their talking points. They weren't expecting their rediculous defences and diversions to be challenged.
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)Cha
(297,321 posts)Who'd a thunk it?!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)The dope that Lyin' Ryan booted out.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)point that out
"that's what limbaugh says" should be a regular universal retort to any of these republican shits. it needs to be rubbed in their faces all day. any obstruction and objection should be blamed on limbaugh but generally dems have no clue what a limbaugh is.
spanone
(135,844 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)transpired through the republican party and NRA is going to come to light. Always follow the money.
subana
(586 posts)especially when republicans are involved!
Blue Owl
(50,425 posts)bdamomma
(63,875 posts)is trying to save his ass too What is he up to??? I want something to come up about him, he has been thick into the Russian scandal.
McConnell is another tool who I don't trust.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)I have no doubt in my mind Mitch hates Trump. He's trying to figure out if there is a way to preserver their Senate Majority through this.
The difficulty is Trump isn't Nixon. Nixon didn't have 25% of the electorate that would watch him murder a child and say it is good. How do you get through this without losing that 25% is what Mitch is trying to figure out.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)Pompeo has already launched a probe into Hillary's emails.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/30/1889037/-As-Trump-fumes-Pompeo-s-State-Department-is-re-launching-probe-into-Hillary-Clinton-s-emails
tanyev
(42,568 posts)Very few media are getting that right.
LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)He was not looking for an investigation to uncover facts. He was looking for fake evidence. Thats right, he wanted them to lie.
TryLogic
(1,723 posts)Which one of those corrupt jerks would we want on our side? A whole bunch of them need to be in jail.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Sewa
(1,256 posts)for the talking points theyve been using?
Jedi Guy
(3,193 posts)The best case scenario is that the GOP turns on Trump and sacrifices him by convicting him in the Senate. It'll fracture the Republican Party, but that's for the best. The real crazies, Trump's True Believers, will break away and form their own party, which will be politically impotent and irrelevant. Perhaps we may experience a miracle and see a conservative party that, while opposition, is at least loyal and reasonable opposition.
That scenario is wildly hopeful and optimistic, I know. I like to think that most people, including most conservatives, are fundamentally decent at heart. If those types of conservatives can successfully purge the Trumpsters from their midst, it may happen, and America would be the better for it.
eleny
(46,166 posts)TlalocW
(15,384 posts)When people who care about how government works take the time to understand how government works and are put in charge of an investigation. Republicans for the longest time used investigations to harass people, especially the Clintons. I sometimes wonder if they even cared that she made them look foolish because they at least had a narrative that they could give to their stupider constituents - they're murderers who have routinely sold out the country when they're not running a kid sex trafficking ring from the non-existent basement of a pizza place. This of course is just to distract us from letting Mexicans stream across the border to build all the FEMA re-education camps where members of the Taliban will turn us all Muslim, gay, and... VEGAN!!!
Democrats know Trump is destroying America, and they are coming for him hard and fast, and republicans, used to being able to at least somewhat control the narrative are getting steamrolled.
And it's a beautiful thing.
On edit: Insert NRA boilerplate about taking our guns into my conspiracy theory.
TlalocW
Talitha
(6,593 posts)Good description!
Toorich
(391 posts).... ( I paraphrase ) " reality is what we say it is. As soon as you think you have figured it out, we change it again. "
Seems this time true reality, in all it's glory, has caught up to the bastards. Karma's a bitch. You never know when
it will spin right around and bite you on the ass.
ZZenith
(4,124 posts)Were an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while youre studying that reality judiciously, as you will well act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and thats how things will sort out. Were historys actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.