@Frederick: @sutieday: The director of the independent Office of Government Ethics, who has been the federal government’s most persistent critic of the Trump administration’s approach to ethics, announced Thursday that he is resigning nearly six months before his term is scheduled to end. Walter M. Shaub Jr. repeatedly challenged the Trump administration, publicly urging President Trump to fully divest from his business empire and chastising a senior Trump adviser for violating ethics rules. His outspokenness drew the ire of administration officials and earned him near-cult status among Trump’s opponents. Fans started a Facebook page in his honor, and his name has occasionally appeared on posters at anti-Trump protests. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-ethics-chief-who-clashed-with-white-house-nnounces-he-will-step-down/2017/07/06/4732c308-624c-11e7-a4f7-af34fc1d9d39_story.html Virtually nobody ever heard of Walter M. Shaub Jr. until AFTER he announced he was stepping down.  The moonbats detect a drop of blood in the water and they react like piranhas. I don't think there is even a drop of blood in the water.  He left 6 months early to pursue a career in the private sector.  I don't think anyone is blaming Trump for that.  From that WaPo artice, " In an interview, Shaub said he was not leaving under pressure, adding that no one in the White House or the administration pushed him to leave. "

@mhorndisk: No, it's not. This is the kind of post that shows you are not open  to debate.  But your original post implied hypocrisy on the part of those calling for civility on this board while not criticizing a play about a Roman Emperor who is betrayed to resemble Trumo. What does one have to do with the other? Even if there was rioting on the streets, we can treat each other with respect here.

@Frederick: @pppucci: Her husband, Sid Williams is an ex-NFL star. Sigh..here we go again… Her husband Sid Williams did play football.. 50 years ago.  he was hardly a star.. and back in those days, football players weren't paid squat, especially black ones.  He is most famous for speaking out in defense of Cassius Clay for being a draft dodger.  Interesting that Cassius never spoke out against the Vietnam War or OTHER people being drafted until AFTER he was drafted.  Muhammad Ali had no problem bashing in people's brains with his fists, but didn't want to get in any fight that he might get hurt. In his entire NFL career, Sid had 1 touchdown, 1 interception, 1 recovered fumble.  He played a total of 70 games.  I'm pretty sure that if my grandmother played football, she would have better statistics than that. Sid then went on to be a car salesman for 15 years.. then went on to be the ambassador to the Bahamas for 8 years.. and apparently has been sitting his ass on the couch for the past 19 years.    So again.. where did Maxine Waters get that $4.3 million? I willgrant you all that, but if you go to the celebrity net worth site, they list his at $600,00.  That of course, does not consider income, which would be private information.  Also Maxine listed the value of her home at 1.4 million on her financial disclosure form in 2016.  Not that it makes much difference.  I am not defending her views, which I think are too extreme, but I will defend her right to live where she wants, even in a [image: 1280px-Cracker_Barrel_Old_Country_Store_logo.svg.png]

@royalcrown89: President Obama is not being considered for another Nobel Peace Prize. It's something the alt-right has come up with to try to distract us from our current president's historical low approval, and it's sad. It is not only a distraction.  The only thing that unites such groups with a nihilistic view of the word is opposition to someone.  There is very little positive about their agenda.  It is all about keeping people out of our country and overturning the accomplishments of the last administration.  That's why they keep bringing up Hilary.

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@mhorndisk: Here's an idea. I will declare that the President was unpresidential in his tweet, if you admit that CNN lied, instead of conveniently ignoring that and pointing the finger at him. Admit they lied. I doubt you can do it. I doubt you can actually say CNN lied, when they did, and admitted it, and fired three reporters over it. Did I ever deny that CNN retracted a story that was poorly sourced, did not meet its own standards and fired the reporters.  Ok they lied.  How does that give the president the right to virtually punch them out?  They retracted the story, and fired the employees.  What do you want? A firing squad? And no matter what you think of me, I have never been resistant  to accepting known facts, or as Carl Bernstein puts it, "The best obtainable version of the truth." I don't need to accept that Obama is the devil's whore just because you believe it.  Even if you had something back that up with, that characterization is your opinion.  As far as I know, there is no National Devil's Whore Registry.

It's only going downhill TO YOU, because you don't like Trump. You can't stand to hear someone defend him.

@mhorndisk: "Activities IF the Clinton Foundation…" Already starting off with grammar errors, and yet you want to tell us about edits and why it's so important to you. Seriously? Start by setting an example. Go back and edit every single post you've made, because they're filled with grammatical errors. I suggested you edit your posts to add addenda, not to correct typos, spelling or grammatical errors.  Criticizing you for that would be petty.  Spamming a thread with replies to your own posts, often several times in a row is just poor netiquette.

@mhorndisk: Fred is right. The Paris agreement is dead now. I don't know if we should or shouldn't be happy about that..

@sutieday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCNqGzQKUsQ Yeah…. Senate Health Care Bill Includes Deep Cuts to Medicaid https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/us/politics/senate-health-care-bill.html That's politics..

YOU might have won, the USA lost, the World lost. Get over it

@mhorndisk: Who wants to be part of a new televised series? US? Why not? We are the game changers. Let's talk about it. We kicked all the asses of the liberals. Let's get together and make it a show. Like the View. Who's with me? PM. Instead of Barbara Walters as the host.. Ted Nugent.  And on the panel.. the late Sam Kinison.

Forget Obama and Trump. I'd do the Irony guy, though.

When you get on the Trump Train we go to your party! We love you! We don't like Hillary or Obummer though. BLAME IT ON THE NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIII IIIII ITE! DONT BLAME IT ON ME! DON"T BLAME IT ON ME!!!!!

They admitted it was a HOAX. You still promote it. It's ridiculous.

How I vote is private, but the fact that I voted is not.      I see no problem with the government seeing my voting record. My guess is that states refusing to cooperate are doing so because they are afraid it will show they are failures at preventing illegal voting. I won't be surprised that in San Francisco we have an all illegal alien School Board in a few years.