Our Commander In Chief lurches on his colon.

So you're saying he slithers? *laughs*

It is a well-known fact around DC that the Trump diarrhea flows freely from stem to stern... verbal diarrhea right down to the biological variety. Trump won't even allow the White House cleaning staff to take his soiled sheets.

So to recap: Trump is full of it... so much so that the stench oozes out even at rest.

President Skroob: "Why didn't somebody tell me my ass was so big?" - Space Balls

*laughs*

One pod left and three of us, and I'm the president. Well, boys, it's a very lovely ship; I think you should go down with it. ~ President Skroob, Spaceballs

They are supporting Trump wholeheartedly up until the second that they no longer have to, then his ass is gonna be handed to him.

That's a heavy lift even for human vertebrates, Russ, so which of the spineless Trump single-brain-celled amoebas do you think is up to the heavy lifting of Trump's ass? ;)

Precious few.

What do these two have in common other than now being convicted felons? Collins was the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump's candidacy. Duncan Hunter was the second. That seems entirely fitting, at least to me, considering how many other of Trump's political buddies are now behind bars.

That's two more for our White House advent calendar of Trump Perps... sing it:

Oh, it's beginning to look a lot like prison
sentences from the Bench,
and the string that makes them all seem like the very same thing
is they're all Trump Stench. ;)

Now do Bernie Sanders... who has never been a member of the Democratic Party. I'm neither a fan nor a foe of Mike Bloomberg... rather indifferent actually, but while we're pissing on people with the "hubris" to run for the Democratic Party nomination who are "part-time" Democrats, let's at least say a word of acknowledgement to those who've never been a Democrat who are doing the exact same thing.

Mike Bloomberg was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts in 1942 and was indeed a registered Democrat until 2001... so we're talking multiple decades being a Democrat. Meanwhile, Bernard Sanders was born about 5 months earlier and has spent zero -- count them -- zero (0) days being a Democrat... so not even a part-time Democrat. Oh, the "hubris"... it burns. I could now post a slew of disparaging quotes Bernie has made about the Democratic Party over multiple decades for which he's spent zero days as a member and has made multiple disparaging remarks... maybe later... but for now, let's do Elizabeth Warren.

Elizabeth Warren was born in 1949, and it was not until 1996 when Elizabeth Warren was 47 years old and a brand spanking new law professor at Harvard that she changed her voter registration and lifelong political affiliation from that of Republican to Democrat. Yes, sir... Elizabeth Warren spent the majority of her life as a Republican, a very large chunk of it as a Texas law professor and ultra conservative and didn't change parties until she moved from a Red state to a Blue state.

Discuss. :)

Question: However did Vice President Biden "allow" his middle-aged-forty-something-year-old grown-ass man child who is a lawyer (who presumably makes his own employment decisions) to take a job offered by a company in the private sector?

Better Question: How would President Biden "stop" his 50-year-old grown-ass man child from making a decision to take a job in the private sector?

I'm not inferring or suggesting that the entire issue doesn't appear to have the stench of impropriety for multiple reasons; I'm just asking why we're blaming Joe Biden for the decisions of his grown-ass son.

If they're not drawing the Republicans out onto a limb to saw it off, this is all a very risky election ploy.

Napoleon is said to have said "An army marches on it's stomach."

Our Commander In Chief lurches on his colon.

President Skroob: "Why didn't somebody tell me my ass was so big?" - Space Balls

how do you know don isn't intimately familiar with ass-sol pie?

It's just amazing. Everything you said is wrong.

Pelosi’s decision to fast track the impeachment process only strengthens this belief.

I think the Republicans are fed up with Trump and know that he is compromised and dangerous. Maybe the party leaders in both houses have been given a report on the evidence from the counter-intelligence investigation that was being conducted on Trump? Dunno, but it is not a shock to learn that most cannot stand him and what he is doing to this country and the GOP. They also know that they cannot let on that they are turning on him; because like any cornered animal, Trump would become much more dangerous and would strike at anything in his line of sight.

This would explain why their defense of Trump’s Ukraine antics have been heavy on the theatrics, but have not actually defended Trump’s actions. It’s all been done to pacify the big baby and keep him thinking that the GOP has his back. Because if Trump thinks he is doomed, there is a lot of damage that he could do and our laws would not allow us to stop him from doing it.

But if the Republicans and the Democrats are working together to remove Trump, then it can only happen if the Senate votes to remove him from office. Because the way I read it, if the Senate votes to remove him from office, he is no longer the president the moment the Senate verdict is read... and Trump can immediately be arrested by the FBI.

Like I said, I only think this might be the case because of how horrible a job the Republicans have done at defending Trump. Yes, you can argue that it is because Trump’s actions are so bad that there is no way to defend them — which is true — but then you’d expect that even the GOP would realize that supporting him won’t end well for them. They are supporting Trump wholeheartedly up until the second that they no longer have to, then his ass is gonna be handed to him.

The White House’s “rough transcript” showed us, with their use of ellipses immediately after CrowdStrike is mentioned, that the administration wanted to prevent us from knowing what had been discussed. Roughly ten minutes of their conversation is missing from this portion of the transcript...which is a long stretch of time given how bad this conversation was given on what we do know about it!

It is hard to believe that if Trump’s attorneys were OK with releasing such damning evidence as the Biden portion of the conversation was, that the portion that they have kept secret would not be that much worse in what it contained! They removed it from the transcript and then put it into the top-Secret server for a reason... they clearly felt it would end his presidency if it got out.

Trump was seeking to clear Russia of interfering with the 2016 election — using the power of his office to benefit a foreign country — which is a clear violation of his oath of office and proof that he has been compromised!

Pelosi is following Catholic tenets when she says she does not hate. Killing someone would violate the Catholic teaching of “Thou shalt not kill.” Your examples contradict each other.

And in what world is the House passing bills that will never become law getting things done?

I doubt that any bill gets passed and is made into law “as is”. In fact, I want you to find me any piece of pertinent legislation that passes both houses of Congress without any changes being made to it and is signed into law! Are you really saying that unless the action delivers the immediate results you are seeking, it is a waste of time?

That sounds strange coming from someone asking people to write in their own name on their ballots which will magically encourage candidates to run as a small money candidate by the next election! Remember, if it doesn’t get the final results you desire with your first attempt, you think it is a total waste of time!

Many self-identified Christians have been Trump's most tenacious cheerleaders. This line is critically-important in making them finally realize they are defending the indefensible (and not only impeachment, but Stormy Daniels, the Trump charity, etc):
'If ever there was a time for Democrats to show they're on the moral high road, the impeachment of Donald Trump is it. Republicans know they're taking the low road in defending him, so Democrats should point it out, every chance they get. Pelosi just showed them all exactly how to do so.'

Beau was diagnosed with brain cancer in August '13.

Hunter, at age 44, joined the board of Burisma in April '14. By that time, Beau had had surgery, and was undergoing chemo, and there was no certain diagnosis.

Throughout that time, Joe had a day job to do regardless of how distracted he might have been over his sick son.

It's not plausible that Joe did anything to grease the slide of Hunter onto that board, and is plausible that he was too distracted by his other son and his job to intervene with Hunter's 60 grand a month boondoggle.

Regarding Lev, that Russian-mobbed up thug, lordy, I hope there are tapes.

Schiff already has more witnesses lined up and I'm sure Lev Parnas is on his list, especially as Parnas appears to have revelations concerning Devin Nunes who has been suspect since early 2017. That Schiff mentions Nunes in his Ukraine report means he's intent on following that up. Parnas is an essential part of that so he will get a hearing.

Moreover, the real smoking guns of the impeachment will be those found in Trump's financial records. Two of the House's many lawsuits that have been making their way through the court system, have finally landed in the lap of SCOTUS. A third case filed by the Manhattan DA, also deals with Trump's financial records and that too has arrived at SCOTUS. All three cases will be considered at their December 13 conference.

With access to Trump's financials so close, why on earth would Pelosi just toss that away in favor of a quick impeachment before Christmas? Of course she wouldn't. The very idea is nonsense. She's just giving HJC the green light to start work on their role.

The first step for HJC is preparation and it's obvious that they intend taking this slowly. It can hardly be called rushing when they begin with a hearing on the Constitutional and legal issues of impeachment. They didn't have to do this. They could have skipped it and gone straight to drafting the first article. But no, that's not what they're doing.

The next step is to liaise with each of the five other committees involved in the impeachment inquiry phase. Next week they will be talking to HPSCI re Schiff's Ukraine report. Then they'll wait for reports from the other four committees before holding evidence hearings with them too. That should take them up to the Christmas break.

Meanwhile SCOTUS will hold their conference on Dec 13 and decide whether to accept the writs of cert regarding the two Mazars cases and whether they'll further stay the Deutsche Bank and Capital One case until Trump has a chance to apply for cert in that case as well. This is turbo speed for SCOTUS so I think it a fair indication that they intend to fast track all three cases.

Maybe Senator Kerry will show him the way … I'll be waiting ...

I just don't understand his angry reaction toward voters and the press. Well, I suppose I can understand the latter, but, still … ?

He could have used it as a teaching moment about, well, about a whole lot - how Trump has handled foreign policy and treated state department officials, how and why the US is assisting Ukraine both in its fight against Russia and in helping a fledgling democracy break out from a yolk of REAL corruption, what his role was in all of that, and what he knew about his son's work for Burisma and what he thought about the perception of it, who the Prosecutors General involved in this are, etc.

What we need from Biden is a relatively recent history lesson and he should make one of his stops in Iowa all about that and invite all of the media for a Q&A afterward.

This was easily the week for Biden to get a well-deserved MDDPTW award, even if he had to share it with Bloomberg.