Is there a more despicable person in Congress than Rep. Devin Nunes?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Yes.
Mitch McConell
Ted Cruz
Paul Ryan
And Mark Meadows, Jim Ryan and Charles Grassley.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
Nunes v. Cruz in a Steel Cage Death Match.
I can haz pay-per-view, plz?
Mitch McConnell, hands down, but there’s stiff competition.
More concerning is, after sitting in that room and hearing all that and whatever else that hasn’t been released yet, some of these people actually opened their check books and gave this unimpressive, inarticulate fucker more money.
What else is on the tape? Well, I hope he told them…yeah the donald is a fool and we know how to control him.
In fact, Nunes was there to help fundraise for McMorris-Rogers. He flew nearly a thousand miles to support one of the tip-top members of House leadership with his magical silver tongue.
Jim Jordan is right up there. The oleaginous Cruz is a contender. (The idiots, e.g. Gohmert, I almost feel sorry for.) But Nunes probably does get the palm.
Actively seeking to discredit vitims of sexual abuse because it might make him look bad might make Jim Jordan even more despicable than Devin Nunes. It’s so hard to choose.
This is simply boilerplate DC Swamp politics, Booman. If that was say Chuckie Schumer in the catbird seat and talking tactics to a strategic end…say getting a Supreme Court Justice installed, stopping an investigation of a Democratic president and winning a mid-term election…the RatPublicans would be pitching a bitch on Fox instead of the Dems doing it on MSNBC..
And they’d be right, too. Just as you are. That’s how the game is played.
So it goes…
Business As Usual!!
Swamp business.
Later…
AG
Whenever I red a totally wrong comment, I forget to skip ahead right away and see who wrote it.
I’ve got to start doing that…
Sorry – “red” should be “read.”
IKR.
Both sides! Both sides!
Walk away! Disengage! Resistance is futile!
Do none of you remember the panicked machinations…RatPublican and DemocRatic…through the months where Bill Clinton was hemming and hawing his way through a concerted…but doomed for failure only because the Dems held a majority in the Senate…effort to impeach him?
The original #Me Too action, really.
It was just a leettle bit early…
And yes, janicket.
Resistance is not futile. You simply need to resist all of the crooked hustlers, without regard for party affiliation.
Until that happens…on both sides of the imaginary political “aisle”…nothing whatsever is going to change, and this country is going to sink beneath the waves of criminality that lap up against the DC swamp on a daily basis.
WTFU!!!
AG
Understanding that both sides are guilty of crimes against the state does not necessarily mean that we need to”
Ah, more of the same self-congratulatory, useless wanking.
Nazis are bad, but was the US any better? Do none of you remember the genocide of Native Americans or of kidnapped, brutalized Africans?
Yes! Both sides. We simply need to resist all of the crooked hustlers, without caring if they’re Allies or Axis!
Until that happens on both sides, nothing is going to change. Stop Hitler! But also stop FDR!
Have a nice 1940!
You actually think that FDR…after all of the marvelous things that he accomplished for this country in general…was a crooked hustler?
He may have been a hustler…being a hustler goes with the job description “politician”…but he was that truly rare creature, a moral hustler.
Kinda like Fiorello la Guardia, only born wealthier, better connected and Anglo in at that time a totally Anglo-dominated country.
Yes.
We do need to resist all of the crooked hustlers without caring if they’re supposed allies or enemies.
Why?
Because otherwise we simply lurch from leftiness hustler to rightiness hustler, getting ripped off every time.
You know…like the last 50+ years or so of U.S. history? (Minus Jimmy Carter, who simply wasn’t a very good hustler, “moral” or otherwise.)
Step away from the media, with your brains in the air.
That “Both sides do it” snark meme is a media-dispersed creation of the DemRat hustlers to protect themselves from equal scrutiny!!!
WTFU.
AG
I think FDR was racist, sexist, antisemitic. (Also, the best president ever.) I think he led a country with a deeply problematic past–and a deeply problematic present.
The thing is, I can acknowledge that two things being imperfect doesn’t mean they’re identical.
‘Both sides do it’ snark is helpful shorthand when speaking with sophomoric cynics–High School Randians–and with media ‘moderates,’ both of whom absolutely cannot admit that the world is more complex than ‘both sides bad, me good.’ That might mean that they have to support an actually-existing group, instead of the perfect one that only lives in their mind.
You’re smarter than that.
I was with you right up until your last sentence.
. . . “You’re smarter than that.”)
AG is most definitely not “…smarter than that.” Arthur is a Ron Paul evangelist who carries 100% of Daddy Paul’s policy and social beliefs with all their sexist, racist, oligarchic, Dominonist, bullying, awful consequences.
He’s animated by the idea of those with whom he disagrees being beaten in the streets and in their homes. He’s taken those sordid fantasies of his and smeared them on the pages of this blog. I’m not being metaphorical. Arthur has written these exact things here.
Nunes is Rep, Rep are Nunes. No distinction.
o/t Martin do you check your page views very often. A friend was just noting that her blog is getting the most hits these days from Russia.
YEAH!!!
are YOU on the take from the Russians, Booman????
Enquiring minds want to know …
I don’t know how accurate this information is, but SimilarWeb data shows the huge majority of traffic coming to BoomanTribune.com is from the US.
Thanks. Friend’s blog is a climate change blog, she got over 90% Russian views which was kind of disconcerting.
I see little content that would interest readers from Hungary!
I wonder if official Russian channels will show originating from Russia, or some other country?
I looked at SimilarWeb (had not heard of it before this post) for data on DailyKos.com. Interestingly after US and Canada, Mali features as the third largest country of origin!
Mali?
This reminds me that coming from India, I have always been somewhat skeptical of any news item as being the unvarnished “truth”. But I find that most of the US population had this naive belief that what they read or hear on mainstream media was so. Now that is being replaced by deep skepticism of anything that is heard or read!
Following Oui’s and Frank Schnittger’s comments on European issues?
Pardon my ignorance, but I have genuinely no clue what you are referring to.
Please educate me, and also I would like to know based on this, why there is traffic from Hungary on Booman!
Thanks in advance.
The referenced users have long commented on EU affairs. Just look up their posts. The EU and brexit are certainly of interest to a citizen of Hungary.
Numero Uno: Yertle the Turtle
Numero Duo: The Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver
Numero Tres: Cage match between Cruz, Nunes, and a host of other skeevy contenders.
Darrell’s still there isn’t he?
This is a contest I don’t want to waste my beautiful mind on.
I’d have to say McConnell at this point, having done more damage, although Nunes is close second.
. . . McConnell wins “most despicable”.
Nunes is spectacularly corrupt and dishonest, but pretty ineffectual, mainly a self-embarrassment.
Whoever is keeping DN on the job.
Who might that be? (Rhetorical q)
No.
This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
Although the competition is stiff.
It depends on the definition of the word “is”.
“Is” as in has been, has done, overall effectiveness and a world class rope-a-dope skillset, McConnell wins, hands down and head in shell.
I think you missed the reference.
No.
This has been another episode of Simple Answers to Simple Questions.
McConnell hands down. But Nunes is a contender.
Little Marco is a shamelessly ambitious slimeball of a pretentious Christian, who wants to make us pray, so Little Marco is on the short list.
Nunes is consistently sleazy on a level that few can match, but–On a given day, oh hell yes.
Trump has nothing to fear.
A fire extinguisher can only be used once. Then it is empty and can’t be used any more.
We used our fire extinguisher on Nixon — and were instantly overcome with irrational regret, hence the pardon.
When Nixon was seen to escape the consequences of his actions, accountability became unattainable for all future time.
The nation flinched from holding Reagan accountable, even though we had him dead to rights.
There was never even any serious consideration of holding G. W. Bush accountable. If there had been, it would have been neutralized by another massive flinch.
And so it will be with Trump. We cannot face the thought of doing what has to be done. That bone is broken.