Lindsey Graham Video Sequence Makes The Original Pharisees Look Honorable, Even Laudable
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/12/colbert-presents-lindsay-graham-video.html
"Senate Republicans Say They Won’t Hold a Fair Impeachment Trial," Seth Meyers' A Closer Look
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/12/senate-republicans-say-they-wont-hold.htmlHow We Know GOP Politicians Are Evil Liars Who Would Sell Their Country, Mother And Soul In A Heartbeat
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/12/how-we-know-gop-politicians-are-evil.html
Aided And Abetted By The GOP, American Conservatives Have Become Satanically Mendacious
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/12/aided-and-abetted-by-republican-party.html
The House Judiciary Committee has approved the impeachment of President Trump, but Congressional Republicans correctly note that one difference between this impeachment process and previous ones is the lack of even a wisp of bipartisanship this time around.
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Yet the fundamental difference between this impeachment and previous ones is more complicated. It’s not the difference between, say, Richard Nixon’s abuse of power and Donald Trump’s: Their offenses were similar, involving the abuse of government power to injure the political opponents. Rather, the fundamental difference is the way the Republican Party — empowered by Fox News — has smothered Trump in its embrace and seems uninterested in a good-faith investigation. And that’s the topic of my column today.
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It was a Republican, Senator Howard Baker, who in 1973 asked the famous question: “What did the president know and when did he know it?” No one asks that question today because we agree on the answer: Trump knew everything all along. We have his rough phone transcript and it shows that Trump was directing the extortion of Ukraine from the Oval Office. So read the column and leave your thoughts in the comments.
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Incidentally, it’s not quite as clear as people think that President Bill Clinton committed perjury in the Monica Lewinsky affair. Clinton clearly misled the grand jury and in any normal use of the word, he lied about the affair. But he is a quite brilliant lawyer who had clearly read the case law involving perjury, and he managed to navigate very delicately in ways that arguably avoided the technical offense of perjury. Reading the law review article on this subject reminded me how I once loved the law (while studying law, I was in some danger of becoming a law professor; then I went to Egypt and escaped into journalism).
It's Not That The Assholes Are Uninterested In Truth.
They Are Hostile To Truth.
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/06/its-not-that-assholes-are-uninterested.html "The Hardest Truth: People Want To Be Lied To"
"Trumpistas Don't Just Lie.
They Are Hostile To Truth"
Trump Tells The Truth: "I Lie."
 Compendium Of Pax Posts Concerning Trump's Habitual Lying If Mueller Had Been Given Sodium Pentathol, Here's What He Would've Told UsVIDEO: Trump Tells More Lies Than Any U.S. Politician. Why Do Patriots And Xtians Believe A Liar?Reprise: How Trump "Takes Credit" That's Not His... And The Dimwits Buy ItPeople Want To Be Lied To: The Convergent Horror Of Faithful Falsehood And Aggressive IgnoranceTrump Could Begin Every Speech With The Words "Everything I'm About To Tell You Is A Lie" And...Republicans Generally - And Trump Specifically - Are Eager To Lie And Cheat If It Expands Their Power
False Witness
Comparing American Politicians' Lie Rates (From Mormon Press)
How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell HUGE Lies
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