You have to look a long, long way to find a more hypocritical and disingenuous Senator than Lindsey Graham [R-SC], aka Lindsey Poo.  Lindsey Poo blew it!  How?  Well, he has introduced a resolution condemning House Democrats for keeping the impeachment inquiry hearings secret.  Not only did he fail to mention that all the Republicans on the investigating committees may take part, but also, he buried his foot in his mouth even deeper than his nose is buried in Trump’s sphincter.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) held a news conference Thursday at which he announced a resolution condemning the House impeachment inquiry, as partisan rancor continued to escalate over the Ukraine scandal.

After two dramatic days of closed-door depositions, House investigators are hitting the pause button in honor of the late congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), the former House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman who will be lying in state in the Capitol for public viewing until 7 p.m..

But debate over the fairness of the inquiry is continuing unabated, with Trump praising House Republicans for storming a secure room where depositions are being held and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accusing GOP lawmakers of “covering up” for a president abusing his power.

Democrats, meanwhile, are looking to make the proceedings public by mid-November as they build a case about Trump pressing Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden while U.S. military aid to the country was being withheld…. [emphasis added]

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Here’s the rest of the story.  Those secretive rules, to which Lindsey Poo and the Republican Reich object so strenuously, did not come from Democrats.  Democrats are faithfully obeying the same same rules Republicans established in 2015. Those rules came from former Speaker John “Agent Orange” Boehner.  Perhaps Lindsey Poo should condemn him, instead.

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It’s that time of week again, and here are 4 great video clips from Sam’s show last night.  Enjoy!

Origin Story: Peter Schweizer and the Biden/Ukraine Conspiracy

How do Fascists like Schweizer make this vile shit up?!!?

Why Foster Care is Broken and How to Fix it

Those kids need some serious help. That’s why Republicans keep cutting funding for foster care.

Wow! Not All Ohio Voters Are White Guys In Diners!

Sadly, when Democratic candidates ignore voters, they lose them. Talk to them!

Too Much Pumpkin Spice

Sam, I regret to inform you that the Republican Party has confiscated your pumpkin. They are giving it to their Fuhrer, because he wants to grab it!

Great show!

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We had no doubt that Resident Donald Trump, aka Putin’s Puppet, is a quid pro quo kind of felon.  After everything else Trump has done for Putin, we watched him and Erdogan carve up the spoils of Syrian Kurdistan yesterday.  How much quo does Putin get, anyway?  But Trump wanted to be on the receiving end of the equation too, so he threatened Ukraine, making that nation’s survival contingent on manufacturing dirt on a Trump political rival.  Yesterday, Bill Taylor offered so much proof that quid pro quo is a smoking gun.

The top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, testified Tuesday that he had been told President Donald Trump would withhold military aid to the country until it publicly declared investigations would be launched that could help his reelection chances — including into former Vice President Joe Biden, according to a copy of Taylor’s opening statement obtained by CNN.

Taylor said he was told that “everything” Ukraine wanted — from a one-on-one meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to hundreds of millions in security aid — was dependent on publicly announcing an investigation that included Burisma, the company that hired Biden’s son Hunter, and Ukraine’s alleged involvement in the 2016 election.

Taylor’s explosive testimony is likely to add fuel to Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Trump and Ukraine, with Democratic lawmakers leaving the closed door session before three House committees declaring Taylor’s testimony was damning for the President. The testimony also undercuts White House assertions that there was no “quid pro quo” tying security assistance with the opening of an investigation, as Taylor says he was told repeatedly that the two were linked.

The opening statement from Taylor — 15 pages long — adds a detailed and meticulous accounting of the meetings Taylor had with senior US officials in which he says he learned how Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani were pushing Ukraine to open an investigation into the Bidens and the 2016 election…

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Of course, nobody can flesh out a story as well as Rachel Maddow does.

Diplomat Worried Trump Would Stiff Ukraine After Leveraging Favor

To read the full text of Bill Taylor’s opening statement, click here.

Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Barrf, Perry, and Giuliani are ALL clearly guilty!

As you can see, that gun isn’t just smoking. There’s a forest fire in that gun.

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The US has a northern neighbor, where fortunately, voters are considerably better informed than their willfully ignorant counterparts here in the US.  Yesterday Canadians went to the polls and reelected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.  Would be Crime Minister, Andrew Scheer, gained ground through disingenuous campaigning, but he did gain ground.

The Liberals are projected to win 157 seats, 13 short of a majority, and will find it harder to pass legislation in Mr Trudeau’s second term.

The opposition Conservatives are expected to win the popular vote but have not translated that into seats.

They are projected to take 121, up from the 95 they held before.

• The good news for Trudeau – and the bad
• Where it went wrong for the Conservatives
• Results and reaction as it happened

Although Monday night’s results saw a sharp decline in seats for the country’s left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), its leader, Jagmeet Singh, could become the kingmaker.

The NDP is projected to take 24 seats in the 338-seat parliament…

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Fortunately the progressive NDP had agreed to work with the Liberals.  Although Trudeau will have a minority government, the Liberals and NDP will have a functional majority.  As long as they work together, Scheer’s Tories will be powerless to block them.

Here’s a video report.

Trudeau’s Liberal Party wins Canada’s general election

Kudos to Canada!

Fortunately we have an expert here at the site to flesh out my report.  For starters, I’d like our resident Sasquatch to explain the ‘Speech from the Throne’ to us.

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