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cannabineer
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she got Oz to do it.Hoebert shot the neighbors dog.
Dog killed after attacking Lauren Boebert's goats
Boebert's neighbor claimed authorities informed her that the congresswoman killed the animal in August.www.newsweek.com
cannabineer
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he just thought the proceeds to charity.
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McCarthy warns no ‘blank check’ to Ukraine in GOP majority
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that House Republicans will not write “a blank check” to Ukraine if they take control of the lower chamber next year, marking one of the clearest signs that aid to the war-torn country fighting off a Russian invasion will face a much tougher road in a GOP-led House.
“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine. They just won’t do it,” McCarthy, who hopes to become Speaker if Republicans win the majority in the midterms, told Punchbowl News in an interview published Tuesday.
“It’s not a free blank check. And then there’s the things [the Biden administration] is not doing domestically. Not doing the border and people begin to weigh that. Ukraine is important, but at the same time it can’t be the only thing they do and it can’t be a blank check,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy’s comments come as Russian strikes since Oct. 10 have knocked out power for a third of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Belarus has also announced that 9,000 Russian troops will deploy to the country’s border with Ukraine.
While Ukraine aid has received bipartisan support in Congress so far, a minority of House Republicans taking a noninterventionist “America First” stance have opposed aid to Ukraine, setting up a bumpier road for future aid if Republicans win the House in the midterm elections as most analysts forecast. In May, 11 Republican senators and 57 House Republicans voted against a $40 billion security supplemental for Ukraine.
McCarthy’s “blank check” comments echo some of those concerns coming from the right flank. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted last month that President Biden “needs to understand that we are the USA not the US-ATM.”
Many Republicans in the House support military aid for Ukraine but are skeptical about nonmilitary humanitarian aid.
The Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House, dinged a $12.2 billion Ukraine aid measure that was tacked on to a stopgap funding bill passed in September by saying that most of that money to Ukraine was for humanitarian aid. All but 10 House Republicans voted against that stopgap bill, mostly out of anger about being locked out of negotiations and a desire for government funding to run past the end of the year.
Republicans on the Hill have been frustrated at the Biden administration for not engaging enough with the GOP to justify their requests for the nonmilitary humanitarian aid requests. They have also been pushing oversight and transparency measures in new Ukraine funding measures.
Outside groups have also been influential among Republicans. Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, lobbied against the $40 billion May aid package — a notable shift from its historical foreign policy stance. The group is not necessarily opposed to all Ukraine aid.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has also called on the Biden administration to provide longer-range artillery to Ukraine.
thehill.com
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that House Republicans will not write “a blank check” to Ukraine if they take control of the lower chamber next year, marking one of the clearest signs that aid to the war-torn country fighting off a Russian invasion will face a much tougher road in a GOP-led House.
“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine. They just won’t do it,” McCarthy, who hopes to become Speaker if Republicans win the majority in the midterms, told Punchbowl News in an interview published Tuesday.
“It’s not a free blank check. And then there’s the things [the Biden administration] is not doing domestically. Not doing the border and people begin to weigh that. Ukraine is important, but at the same time it can’t be the only thing they do and it can’t be a blank check,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy’s comments come as Russian strikes since Oct. 10 have knocked out power for a third of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Belarus has also announced that 9,000 Russian troops will deploy to the country’s border with Ukraine.
While Ukraine aid has received bipartisan support in Congress so far, a minority of House Republicans taking a noninterventionist “America First” stance have opposed aid to Ukraine, setting up a bumpier road for future aid if Republicans win the House in the midterm elections as most analysts forecast. In May, 11 Republican senators and 57 House Republicans voted against a $40 billion security supplemental for Ukraine.
McCarthy’s “blank check” comments echo some of those concerns coming from the right flank. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted last month that President Biden “needs to understand that we are the USA not the US-ATM.”
Many Republicans in the House support military aid for Ukraine but are skeptical about nonmilitary humanitarian aid.
The Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House, dinged a $12.2 billion Ukraine aid measure that was tacked on to a stopgap funding bill passed in September by saying that most of that money to Ukraine was for humanitarian aid. All but 10 House Republicans voted against that stopgap bill, mostly out of anger about being locked out of negotiations and a desire for government funding to run past the end of the year.
Republicans on the Hill have been frustrated at the Biden administration for not engaging enough with the GOP to justify their requests for the nonmilitary humanitarian aid requests. They have also been pushing oversight and transparency measures in new Ukraine funding measures.
Outside groups have also been influential among Republicans. Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, lobbied against the $40 billion May aid package — a notable shift from its historical foreign policy stance. The group is not necessarily opposed to all Ukraine aid.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has also called on the Biden administration to provide longer-range artillery to Ukraine.
McCarthy warns no ‘blank check’ to Ukraine in GOP majority
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that House Republicans will not write “a blank check” to Ukraine if they take control of the lower chamber next year, marking one of the cleares…
thehill.com
cannabineer
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… as if there were one. The obvious answer (which features the not insignificant benefit of giving MosCarthy the finger) is to tax the oligarchs.McCarthy warns no ‘blank check’ to Ukraine in GOP majority
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that House Republicans will not write “a blank check” to Ukraine if they take control of the lower chamber next year, marking one of the clearest signs that aid to the war-torn country fighting off a Russian invasion will face a much tougher road in a GOP-led House.
“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine. They just won’t do it,” McCarthy, who hopes to become Speaker if Republicans win the majority in the midterms, told Punchbowl News in an interview published Tuesday.
“It’s not a free blank check. And then there’s the things [the Biden administration] is not doing domestically. Not doing the border and people begin to weigh that. Ukraine is important, but at the same time it can’t be the only thing they do and it can’t be a blank check,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy’s comments come as Russian strikes since Oct. 10 have knocked out power for a third of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Belarus has also announced that 9,000 Russian troops will deploy to the country’s border with Ukraine.
While Ukraine aid has received bipartisan support in Congress so far, a minority of House Republicans taking a noninterventionist “America First” stance have opposed aid to Ukraine, setting up a bumpier road for future aid if Republicans win the House in the midterm elections as most analysts forecast. In May, 11 Republican senators and 57 House Republicans voted against a $40 billion security supplemental for Ukraine.
McCarthy’s “blank check” comments echo some of those concerns coming from the right flank. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted last month that President Biden “needs to understand that we are the USA not the US-ATM.”
Many Republicans in the House support military aid for Ukraine but are skeptical about nonmilitary humanitarian aid.
The Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House, dinged a $12.2 billion Ukraine aid measure that was tacked on to a stopgap funding bill passed in September by saying that most of that money to Ukraine was for humanitarian aid. All but 10 House Republicans voted against that stopgap bill, mostly out of anger about being locked out of negotiations and a desire for government funding to run past the end of the year.
Republicans on the Hill have been frustrated at the Biden administration for not engaging enough with the GOP to justify their requests for the nonmilitary humanitarian aid requests. They have also been pushing oversight and transparency measures in new Ukraine funding measures.
Outside groups have also been influential among Republicans. Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, lobbied against the $40 billion May aid package — a notable shift from its historical foreign policy stance. The group is not necessarily opposed to all Ukraine aid.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has also called on the Biden administration to provide longer-range artillery to Ukraine.
McCarthy warns no ‘blank check’ to Ukraine in GOP majority
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that House Republicans will not write “a blank check” to Ukraine if they take control of the lower chamber next year, marking one of the cleares…
hanimmal
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aka: I will have zero ability to get all the radicalized idiots in the Republican Party to row the boat regardless of the direction we need to go.McCarthy warns no ‘blank check’ to Ukraine in GOP majority
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that House Republicans will not write “a blank check” to Ukraine if they take control of the lower chamber next year, marking one of the clearest signs that aid to the war-torn country fighting off a Russian invasion will face a much tougher road in a GOP-led House.
“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine. They just won’t do it,” McCarthy, who hopes to become Speaker if Republicans win the majority in the midterms, told Punchbowl News in an interview published Tuesday.
“It’s not a free blank check. And then there’s the things [the Biden administration] is not doing domestically. Not doing the border and people begin to weigh that. Ukraine is important, but at the same time it can’t be the only thing they do and it can’t be a blank check,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy’s comments come as Russian strikes since Oct. 10 have knocked out power for a third of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Belarus has also announced that 9,000 Russian troops will deploy to the country’s border with Ukraine.
While Ukraine aid has received bipartisan support in Congress so far, a minority of House Republicans taking a noninterventionist “America First” stance have opposed aid to Ukraine, setting up a bumpier road for future aid if Republicans win the House in the midterm elections as most analysts forecast. In May, 11 Republican senators and 57 House Republicans voted against a $40 billion security supplemental for Ukraine.
McCarthy’s “blank check” comments echo some of those concerns coming from the right flank. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted last month that President Biden “needs to understand that we are the USA not the US-ATM.”
Many Republicans in the House support military aid for Ukraine but are skeptical about nonmilitary humanitarian aid.
The Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House, dinged a $12.2 billion Ukraine aid measure that was tacked on to a stopgap funding bill passed in September by saying that most of that money to Ukraine was for humanitarian aid. All but 10 House Republicans voted against that stopgap bill, mostly out of anger about being locked out of negotiations and a desire for government funding to run past the end of the year.
Republicans on the Hill have been frustrated at the Biden administration for not engaging enough with the GOP to justify their requests for the nonmilitary humanitarian aid requests. They have also been pushing oversight and transparency measures in new Ukraine funding measures.
Outside groups have also been influential among Republicans. Heritage Action, the advocacy arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, lobbied against the $40 billion May aid package — a notable shift from its historical foreign policy stance. The group is not necessarily opposed to all Ukraine aid.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has also called on the Biden administration to provide longer-range artillery to Ukraine.
McCarthy warns no ‘blank check’ to Ukraine in GOP majority
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that House Republicans will not write “a blank check” to Ukraine if they take control of the lower chamber next year, marking one of the cleares…
Get ready for 2 years of paralyzed government if the Republicans are able to brainwash enough voters to once again help them shut down the incoming Democratic president after their first term, same as it has been for the last 50 years. We will finally be up to 8 years of Democratic control in DC, all of which were spent fixing a Republican economic disaster and getting a handful of extremely needed things done before shit stagnates.
compassionateExotic
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cannabineer
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“shore up” my maiden aunt Sodomella.
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Primary Steele dossier source acquitted in loss for special counsel
Igor Danchenko, the primary source behind the Steele dossier, was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI in a case brought by special counsel John Durham.
The case is the second such loss for the specially appointed prosecutor charged with investigating the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe into allegations that former President Trump and his allies colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
Over the course of the three-year investigation, Durham has lost two cases brought to trial. He was appointed to the role by former Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to review the FBI’s investigation.
Danchenko was facing four counts of lying to the FBI after a judge dropped a fifth charge Friday.
The jury brought back a not guilty verdict for each charge facing the think tank analyst.
Danchenko, a Russian national, was the primary researcher for the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who put together the 35-page dossier that alleged potential coordination between the former president and Russia as the country sought to influence the U.S. election.
Steele’s dossier, however, has since been largely discredited and was found to be funded by Democrats during the 2016 presidential election cycle.
The dossier itself was not the basis for the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. However, special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia.
Danchenko was indicted last year, and his trial began last Tuesday. The government had alleged that Danchenko misled the FBI in 2017 when it asked about his sources, including his contact with a Belarusian American businessman.
Trump had promoted Durham’s investigation, saying at one point he would uncover “the crime of the century.” But so far the investigation has yielded just one guilty plea from a low-level FBI lawyer who was given probation.
Durham, who previously served as the U.S. attorney in Connecticut during the Trump administration, personally argued much of the case before the jurors.
“While we are disappointed in the outcome, we respect the jury’s decision and thank them for their service,” Durham said in a statement to multiple outlets.
thehill.com
Winning.
Igor Danchenko, the primary source behind the Steele dossier, was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI in a case brought by special counsel John Durham.
The case is the second such loss for the specially appointed prosecutor charged with investigating the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe into allegations that former President Trump and his allies colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
Over the course of the three-year investigation, Durham has lost two cases brought to trial. He was appointed to the role by former Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to review the FBI’s investigation.
Danchenko was facing four counts of lying to the FBI after a judge dropped a fifth charge Friday.
The jury brought back a not guilty verdict for each charge facing the think tank analyst.
Danchenko, a Russian national, was the primary researcher for the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who put together the 35-page dossier that alleged potential coordination between the former president and Russia as the country sought to influence the U.S. election.
Steele’s dossier, however, has since been largely discredited and was found to be funded by Democrats during the 2016 presidential election cycle.
The dossier itself was not the basis for the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. However, special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia.
Danchenko was indicted last year, and his trial began last Tuesday. The government had alleged that Danchenko misled the FBI in 2017 when it asked about his sources, including his contact with a Belarusian American businessman.
Trump had promoted Durham’s investigation, saying at one point he would uncover “the crime of the century.” But so far the investigation has yielded just one guilty plea from a low-level FBI lawyer who was given probation.
Durham, who previously served as the U.S. attorney in Connecticut during the Trump administration, personally argued much of the case before the jurors.
“While we are disappointed in the outcome, we respect the jury’s decision and thank them for their service,” Durham said in a statement to multiple outlets.
Primary Steele dossier source acquitted in loss for special counsel
Igor Danchenko, the primary source behind the Steele dossier, was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI in a case brought by special counsel John Durham. The case is the second such loss for the …
thehill.com
Winning.
injinji
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But, but, but. . . . . . he was going to send them all to jail.Primary Steele dossier source acquitted in loss for special counsel
Igor Danchenko, the primary source behind the Steele dossier, was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI in a case brought by special counsel John Durham.
The case is the second such loss for the specially appointed prosecutor charged with investigating the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe into allegations that former President Trump and his allies colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
Over the course of the three-year investigation, Durham has lost two cases brought to trial. He was appointed to the role by former Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to review the FBI’s investigation.
Danchenko was facing four counts of lying to the FBI after a judge dropped a fifth charge Friday.
The jury brought back a not guilty verdict for each charge facing the think tank analyst.
Danchenko, a Russian national, was the primary researcher for the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who put together the 35-page dossier that alleged potential coordination between the former president and Russia as the country sought to influence the U.S. election.
Steele’s dossier, however, has since been largely discredited and was found to be funded by Democrats during the 2016 presidential election cycle.
The dossier itself was not the basis for the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. However, special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia.
Danchenko was indicted last year, and his trial began last Tuesday. The government had alleged that Danchenko misled the FBI in 2017 when it asked about his sources, including his contact with a Belarusian American businessman.
Trump had promoted Durham’s investigation, saying at one point he would uncover “the crime of the century.” But so far the investigation has yielded just one guilty plea from a low-level FBI lawyer who was given probation.
Durham, who previously served as the U.S. attorney in Connecticut during the Trump administration, personally argued much of the case before the jurors.
“While we are disappointed in the outcome, we respect the jury’s decision and thank them for their service,” Durham said in a statement to multiple outlets.
Primary Steele dossier source acquitted in loss for special counsel
Igor Danchenko, the primary source behind the Steele dossier, was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI in a case brought by special counsel John Durham. The case is the second such loss for the …
Winning.
compassionateExotic
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
let’s not forget “shoring up” Social Security by decreasing disbursements! Buncha systematic liars.
Bagginski
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Here’re a couple videos from Beau, talking about the current economic situation, the parties - and therefore, the midterms.
here’s today’s expounding on the above, and on a video he did in ‘19; the second video is where he talks about in the first one:
I put these here, because it’s in some ways a critique of GOP ‘leadership’…
here’s today’s expounding on the above, and on a video he did in ‘19; the second video is where he talks about in the first one:
I put these here, because it’s in some ways a critique of GOP ‘leadership’…
Bagginski
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If the surviving GOP ‘leadership’ takes control of any part of congress, we’ll see a shit-show like hasn’t been seen here since Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane on the floor of the senate: ALL THEY WANT - as in ‘everything’, not ‘only’ - is to get firm enough control to carve us into a place where “aristocrats” are the only citizens & cast all votes. The end.
Why would all these “patriots” sign on to such a scheme? For *citizenship* in the new order, and all the millions they’ve ‘earned’ so far, plus the final payment. The base, OTOH, cease having any use at all once they’re there; it not like the “conservatives” running it give a shit what their base wants - once they’ve driven the government off the cliff, their voters are 100% disposable, *needing* to be commoditized & shown their place (for many, that place will be the military - and, of course, “law enforcement”)…as rootless, voiceless labor, however specialized or well-trained or ‘independent’.
In short, Plato’s Republic, stripped of the fandom of history: an ordered society, with all control (and options) at the top, and only obedience at the bottom. The fantasy that lit up the “bright bulbs” of the John Birch Society back in the sixties, when all the talk was about godless communism, not recapturing all the slaves that escaped via the Emancipation Declaration….
Budzbuddha
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I guess they could have scraped his “ depends “
topcat
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He'll give a sample of hydraulic fluid, or Diet Koch.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I’m pretty sure they already have Putin’s DNA
compassionateExotic
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Offmymeds
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Strozsk makes a good point:Well we are starting to get some answers about the Stormy Daniels affair and how Trump weaseled out of it and why Bill Barr is out there trying to rehabilitate his reputation. Bill Barr might end up indicted or sued, he has some difficult questions to answer that the senate judiciary committee will be asking.
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