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    6/09/2017 6:14 am  #1

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    He's New To This.,,,,

    Paul Ryan Had The Worst Reaction Possible To The Comey Testimony

    WASHINGTON ― Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) shrugged off the bombshell testimony of former FBI director James Comey with a mix of claimed ignorance and overwhelming sympathy toward President Donald Trump’s neophyte political status.

    Ryan said it was important to have independence between the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the White House. But he defended Trump and acted as if the president’s apparent attempts to influence Comey and have him drop an investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn should be excused because the commander in chief is “new at this.”

    “He’s new to government,” Ryan said. “And so he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, FBI, and White Houses. He’s just new to this.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-comey-testimony_us_593970e2e4b0c5a35c9d1118

    We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
     

    6/09/2017 6:15 am  #2

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    "THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman

    Paul Ryan, Summer Soldier, and sunshine patriot.

    We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
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    6/09/2017 6:45 am  #3

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    Well, isn't that great.  Ryan expects us to give Trump a pass and cut him some slack because "he's new to government".  I wonder if he would apply the same attitude to a neurosurgeon who screwed up an operation on a family member because "he's new to medicine."

    I've said this over, and over, and over again .................. where do we find these guys?

     

    6/09/2017 7:56 am  #4

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    Unfortunately, Fred, there is no shortage of these characters.
    Yesterday several Republican Senators suggested that  Trump is innocent because,
    he didn’t try very hard to obstruct justice,
    or because he was bad at it.

    The Incompetence Defense

    During former FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic testimony before the Senate on Thursday, Republican senators settled on a pair of strange arguments for why President Trump hadn’t obstructed justice: He didn’t try very hard, or he was really bad at it.  
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    Texas Senator John Cornyn, the number two Republican in the Senate, suggested that firing Comey after not shutting down the Flynn investigation proved Trump wasn’t trying to shut it down. “As a general proposition, if you're trying to make an investigation go away, is firing an FBI director a good way to make that happen?” Cornyn asked Comey, who replied that “It doesn't make a lot of sense to me but I'm hopelessly biased given that I was the one fired.”

    Read more:
    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-incompetence-defense/529770/

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    6/09/2017 8:25 am  #5

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    Oh, Boy!  Now that's rich.  Let's see, we should excuse a criminal because they either didn't try very hard or were bad at it.

     

    6/09/2017 12:05 pm  #6

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    There were a LOT of men who were new to the role, yet SOMEHOW they found good people around them to advise them. Trump is NOT of that mindset. He will continue to blunder and tweet his way through his Presidency with likely similar results to what we have already seen. 

     

    "Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
     
     

    6/10/2017 6:32 am  #7

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    We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
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