Reminds me of Jeff Sessions during his hearings when he also unprompted brings up Russians....


Sure, Mikey....we believe you...

they're christians...ya right.

My first thought. King Shitmuffin will not be pleased.

As VP, it was always a stretch to believe that Bush Sr. was out of the loop on Iran Contra.

Especially since he was the ex-head of the CIA.

In my book, that either made him a liar or incompetent. Either one should have disqualified him from the Presidency.

or indictments quashed to keep him from being pulled into Iran-Contra.

"Protest" in the sense of that line means "vow." Hamlet was saying that the woman in the play that was supposed to represent the queen was making too many vows to too many men in an effort to take a jab at mom.

Much like "wherefore art thou Romeo" doesn't mean "where" are you but "why" are you (named) Romeo.

I fully realize most people don't know that or use it that way, but there's your free Elizabethan literature lesson for the day.

I wanted to marry Mary Tyler Moore growing up.

The Shakespeare/Bizet mashup..

Love it. Oh, Mary Anne.

And welcome to DU.

English teacher. I try not to be that pretentious guy, but this is one of a handful that drive me nuts.

"I took the road less traveled by" is another one. I laughed a lot when they tackled that misuse in the first episode of Orange is the New Black.

..."wherefore," but not the "protest too much." I always love learning about proper meaning and usage. I think I may have been an English teacher myself in a previous life.

Sloppy writing and careless word use drive me nuts.

My current classes I teach don't give me the opportunity to teach Shakespeare, but I love those plays.

is a lunatic.

tough spot

He knows trump never does anything without getting something in return

says "I didn't put my finger in the cake frosting!" before mom even knows it was done.

Yeah Mikey, we believe you...oh, wait, no one believes you.

just try to convince Mueller when he gets around to you.

Me thinks his sphincter is rather tight during this interview.

They weren't using it in reference to Pence, but to some random guy who was walking by in a park.

Here's a link to a youtube video (sorry, I don't know how to embed):

Uptighty Whitey!

I've said it before: I think the main, deep-down visceral reason that trump picked Mike Pence was because he's the whitest-looking white guy anybody's ever seen, outside any member of the albino community, that is. NOBODY looks as much like a slice of conventional garden-variety white bread as Mike Pence does.

like many American children demand. The maggot still loves his wonder bread with the crusts cut off, I'm sure. Lol.

There is also the part when the maggot was ready to fly out to meet Chris Christy to choose him for VP but his plane developed engine problems that kept him on the ground - to meet Pence.

..."Not that I recall". They do iz cuz if it comes up to prove they did something, they can say, "but I testified that I couldn't recall", so I wasn't untruthful.. I DESPISE Pence.

and hide in the closet, shaking.

"Mother, Mother those people are picking on me!"

that made me snicker. ha ha

Where have I heard that sentiment before? Maybe Kellyanne "Dirty Hands" Conway?

This seems to be a mantra they repeat on TV in the hope that those watching will believe it and start focusing on something else. Doesn't seem to be working, though.

Richard Nixon uttered those same words, or something very close to them.

That's normally the case anyway but in the Russia thing - they are barely aware it's going on.

Fox News hardly covers it (to portray the viewer as a victim) and talk radio mocks it.

A FB friend posted some nonsense about Ashley Judd this morning which I quickly found to be made up. When posting the link I commented "Thank you Russian bots for this disinformation". He responded "Oh you libs and the Russians. You all are still on that?"

They have no idea.

I think they are going to feel like we did in November. "It came out of nowhere! How could this happen?!" Well, that's karma.

In the video, he did not sound like he usually does. A little shake in the voice.

He's lying.

Is this the same Mike Pence, who when asked about whether he thought there might have been Russian and campaign collusion, said with self-righteous certainty,

"Of course, not."

That Mike Pence???

The walls are beginning to close in. Cory L has called out Manafort and Roger Stone, said if they colluded with the Russians they should go to jail. I suspect a circular firing squad is in the making.

... angle so Benedict Donald and the Kremlin KKKlan can't come on say "we didn't mean to commit treason" or some shit like that.

They ... KNEW ... what they were doing was fucked up to some degree and then tried to obstruct the investigation into it.

Pence's statements are going to be used against him and his "I didn't know shit" excuse isn't going to work either.

And Republicans never lie, so we have absolutely no reason to doubt your word, right?

and at no time did I know I had to file income tax returns for moonlighting

Someone check the airport log sheets. There are way too many meetings on the tarmac between tRump's plane and those of Russian oligarchs.

Then he lied about not knowing or the timing. The guy is up to his eyeballs in treasonous corruption. He may be worried about prison sentencing once Mueller is done with tRump's sentencing.

Link to tweet

I've never seen a reporter interviewing Pence press him on this letter. Of course, Pence will not get anywhere near Rachel, LOL.

he is lying, and televangelists whenever they are trying to separate people from their social security checks?. They are from the same despicable mold.

Very specific and hard to define.

Pence is SO guilty.

All that matters is what Bobby Three Sticks thinks.

And something tells me he's been thinking a LOT about you lately, Mikey.

I love it.

He is in it up to his neck.

Pence is white evangelical pond scum--lying, unethical, and creepy, but more than happy to sit in judgment on other people's sexuality.

I think there is something about lying in the 10 commandments, Mr. Pence.
Also the bible you are so fond of quoting.

Pence apparently can't even remember Paul Manafort's name. Referred to him as "somebody" on Fox & Friends.
https://thinkprogress.org/on-fox-news-pence-argues-surveillance-of-trumps-campaign-manager-vindicates-trump-hes-wrong-manafort-20ac8c9aef5b/

What a terrible burden he must carry knowing what is best for everybody else in the world - he's just that kind of guy. It's no reflection on him that tRump and everyone else around him turned out to be such treasonous assholes, right?

a lying defense against an accusation that his interlocutor has not even made.

Pre-emptively and without prompting declaring their innocence, which later turns out to be a lie. My younger sister used to out us that way when we were *very little* kids.

partly because i think trump is already exposed but it's just a matter of shitty republicans and disproportionate representation that gives his supporters more say.

People who hitched their wagon on the tRump bandwagon are starting to realize that all the shenanigans done last year are snowballing on them. With Mueller's help, of course. Pence is in a thorny position. He had to distance himself from key players to try to avoid the stench they carry. But then if he goes too far, it looks like he is a world class doofus. So rock meet hard place. This is what you get when you play footsie with snakes. I can't wait to see him (and others) squirm like a worm on a hot griddle. Must see TV, indeed!

Hide, too................

WTF?

I don't believe him at all, but I think he's trying to distance himself from just the pre-inauguration collusion. I can't imagine why.

The entire upper echelon of GOP power needs to be taken down or we will be down this road again.