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Old 02-02-2018, 02:57 PM
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Enough already. Rubin is about as "conservative" as you are.
Anyone who's read Ms. Rubin's columns would be laughing their ass off at such an assertion. Only a dyed in the wool far, far right loon and Trumpist thinks as you do Mike.
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Old 02-02-2018, 02:58 PM
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Utter nonsense.
You wish it was. Its likely the same reason the content of Nunes memo wasn't leaked.
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Old 02-02-2018, 03:02 PM
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And now the real witch hunt may begin or heads may roll.

U.S. Attorney General to Refer Republican Memo to Justice Department

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In a statement, Sessions said he had received inquiries from Congress raising concerns "about the department’s performance" and that he would forward those issues to "the appropriate DOJ components."
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news...ice-department
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Old 02-02-2018, 03:09 PM
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Dow plunges 600 points -- worst week in 2 years
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"There looks like a breakdown of the institutions in our country," said Ian Winer, head of equities at Wedbush Securities. "No matter what side you're on, that's not good."
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/02/inve...dow/index.html
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Old 02-02-2018, 03:15 PM
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Anyone who's read Ms. Rubin's columns would be laughing their ass off at such an assertion. Only a dyed in the wool far, far right loon and Trumpist thinks as you do Mike.
Really? Conservatism is a set of principles. Rubin has her finger in the air most of the time, and her positions change with the wind, and/or her own personal mission (in this case, she's an ardent "never-Trumper").

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Then: Her "position" on Jerusalem as Israel's capital when Romney was a candidate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.f37cf6e44d0b

Of course, Jerusalem is the capital. It was declared so in 1948. The Knesset is there. The disposition of its borders is a matter for final status negotiation, but only an uninformed or virulently insensitive administration would be unable to distinguish the two.


Now: Her "position" on Jerusalem as Israel's capital in the Trump era: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.f6d98627a0c9

Critical of Trump because the announcement was nothing more than "removing an irritant to Israel". Well, Jenny, either the capital of Israel is Jerusalem or its not. What does it matter whether or not it's Trump's position that Jerusalem is the capital? The answer is, or course, is that it doesn't, unless you're principally driven to be a "never Trumper".

There are other examples where's she's backtracked on previously advocated positions in service to her "never-Trump" ideology. Frankly I don't care if she's a never-Trumper, but her willingness to subordinate her brand of "conservatism" to her "never Trump obsession leads to me to seriously doubt her conservative principles.
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Old 02-02-2018, 03:17 PM
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Dow plunges 600 points -- worst week in 2 years


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Yes, because if you can weaponize the Justice Dept and the FBI to attack your political adversaries, then no one is safe.
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Yes, because if you can weaponize the Justice Dept and the FBI to attack your political adversaries, then no one is safe.
You would have been an obedient “Good German”. Sad!
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Dow plunges 600 points -- worst week in 2 years


http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/02/inve...dow/index.html
Might be the start of the long overdue correction.
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I think it should be instructive that it hasn't been leaked yet. Seems to me that if there was exculpatory info in Schiff's memo, it would have beaten the Nunes memo into the press.
This lame memo hardly needs to be rebutted.
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Really? Conservatism is a set of principles...
And your Dear Leader has principles? Who knew?
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