House Announces Impeachment Inquiry against the President.

[Redhat]

Someone who is willing to at least acknowledge our greatest existential threat - entitlement spending.

Leading the Republican Party even further away from fiscal discipline in the name of economic growth is profoundly damaging. It’s not like this was unexpected - Trump said that he was not worried about our entitlements as a candidate and proposed policies that were certain to to exacerbate the problem. We no longer have a major party that can speak with any authority or intellectual consistency on the issue.

Finally, all the people who call AOC an idiot for her Green New Deal after voting for a guy who claimed that his healthcare plan would “cover everyone” need to take a long, hard look in the mirror.

So who, out of the current candidates would that be? Who, on either side, has done it in the past?

[Redhat]

Doesn't have to get much air time to matter to me. The debt is serious, impeaching Trump, not so much. I don't think Trump will be reelected as an economic slump is starting.

How about a debt ceiling for starters. Trump suspended the debt ceiling for two years in August.

When Trump took office the debt was 19 trillion. It's now 22 trillion.

Trump promised to eliminate the debt when he took office. He's now voting with democrats (not the GOP) to raise the debt.

That could be why the GOP had serious doubts about Trump in 2016. Dances with democrats and ruskies.

Ok, so who out of the current candidates is going to push through what you recommend?

BTW, how did the last guy do with the dept?

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Bush, Obama and Trump - all increased the debt after the Clinton years (which were looking good at the debt).

No one is going to cut anything that affects their voters.

[Redhat]

Bush, Obama and Trump - all increased the debt after the Clinton years (which were looking good at the debt).

No one is going to cut anything that affects their voters.

And how did Clinton do it?

Can any President do it alone?

[Glenn E. Meyer]

I didn't say Clinton did it. I said the Clinton years. He was dragged into it. Point, both parties have to want it. Now, none of them do (what they say is just BS).

[blues]

I didn't say Clinton did it. I said the Clinton years. He was dragged into it. Point, both parties have to want it. Now, none of them do (what they say is just BS).

Can you guys just leave my pension alone until my untimely demise?

I hate to ask, but I never asked for anything before...

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Me too! Note, those who want to stop the Socialist Wave, standing shoulder to shoulder with Wayne holding your AR during the Revolution, Wayne isn't going to send you your Social Security and Medicare - ain't paying for anything more.

Have the Revolution maybe 25 years from now. I'll be shooting at that big Range in the sky or being shot at in the big range in the Inferno below. Or I might just be fertilizer.

[Redhat]

I didn't say Clinton did it. I said the Clinton years. He was dragged into it. Point, both parties have to want it. Now, none of them do (what they say is just BS).

Exactly...

I'd go a bit further and say the American people have to demand it before Congress will do anything. Now, after Blues pension, who's goodies do we take first?

[FNFAN]

Why? Trump has consistently said "I was joking" for excusing stuff he said.

While appearing at a Congressional inquiry? While making opening remarks in an inquiry that, if people were really dull enough, could remove a duly elected President? Does it give you any heartburn that they revised the Whistle-blower referral form September 24, 2019, at 4:25 p.m. tailoring it to allow hearsay. Before that, "the previous form stated under the bolded heading “FIRST-HAND INFORMATION REQUIRED.” “This includes information received from another person, such as when an employee informs you that he/she witnessed some type of wrongdoing.” Link

Perhaps it doesn't appear to you that this a clumsily orchestrated attempt to keep the negative publicity focused on President Trump. I get that people think Trump is a bombastic tool, but after 13 movie appearances as "himself", 18 tv appearances as "himself" and 15 seasons of 'The Apprentice', did we not know this?

My disappointment in him is more recent, with the Trump version of "quantitative easing." Not that he's had a lot of time to run the country between the attempted coup and this new display of Democratic despondence.

[Borderland]

Ok, so who out of the current candidates is going to push through what you recommend?

BTW, how did the last guy do with the dept?

I don't think I have a good handle on that yet. You may but I don't.

The "last guy" wasn't on the 2016 ballot. I didn't vote for him anyway. I voted for Romney in 2012.

I know what I see. None of it is good. Congress is really the problem but Trump has become an enabler.

GOP is trying to block anyone from challenging Trump in the party. We'll see how that works out for them.