Another Solid and Sane Candidate Running for President in 2020: Democrat Eric Swalwell

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You've got to love how reasonable U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell is.

Most Americans would vote for these ideas.

"...a ban on assault weapons..." is a no-brainer in this day and age.

It's a great and necessary policy today, already supported by a majority of Americans.

But he adds, "...a ban on assault weapons was not a step toward broader gun bans. You know, keep your pistols, keep your long rifles, keep your shotguns."

Yep. That is very reasonable.

The buy back plan he mentions for the assault weapons provides incentive too.

He adds that he supports giving "Medicare for all," but doesn't want to see private insurance abolished.

Again, very reasonable. The American people can get behind these ideas.

“I support a bill that would give Medicare to all," Swalwell said on CNN's "State of the Union. "The part of the bill that I would strike would be to give a public option, the Medicare portion, but allow people to keep plans they like."

He's provided good leadership in his committee roles in the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Committee on the Judiciary as well.

Keep bringing it Mr. Swalwell!

William Barr

Well, he’s showing his colors. Any hope that he was less than a partisan hack have evaporated.

As the March 22, 2019 post below stated, “The world and history now fixes its gaze on him”

What a doozy. He’ll go down as another Sarah Huckabee Sanders: a morally vacuous henchman. A lying apologist and enabler of “President Trump.”

First, there was his brutally dismissive “summary”of the Mueller report that has let Trump trot around unscathed for weeks in a media bath of “total” exoneration, where there was not that. Then Barr backtracks and says his was not a summary? What is in the report?

Now he’s refusing to share the unredacted report with Congress. (Really? Why? WHY?)

And he throws out the word “spying” for the authorized investigatory process the DOJ and FBI were tasked to pursue. Spying he said! Complete click-bait and inappropriate, unnecessary sensationalism without context. He is creating and perpetuating bad cover stories for Trump. There is your Sarah Huckabee right there.

As Eric Holder said, “When there is a predicate, a legitimate basis, it’s called “investigating” not “spying”.  I am confident that the people at DOJ/FBI conducted themselves in an appropriate way. No evidence to suggest otherwise.”

So thus far Barr is digging himself in as another entrenched flunky, rowing Trump’s misdeeds across the river Charon where daylight and the public cannot see them. (And why? WHY?)

You had better be representing reality and the interest of the American people Mr. Barr. The truth comes out.

“The end of oil and fossil fuels is coming faster than we realize, but it still may be too late”

Here Fantastic synopsis in April, 2019.

And While Trump and the GOP Denigrate Wind Energy and Cling to Fossil Fuels - Chroncling the End Times on Tangier Island

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"And so the people of Tangier are being named as some of the first potential climate-change refugees in America."

Muller's Report Summary Through the Eyes of a Biased Trump Appointee vs. The Report

So, there is still lots going on. William Barr's "summary" or 4-page public offering about the Mueller Report leaves many questions. Firstly, that a reportedly near-400 page report can be distilled into 4 pages. And secondly, what's really in the report, as opposed to a partisan Republican appointee's (Barr's) summation?

The House intends to subpoena the report Wednesday.

There is the sense of a cover-up. We can only know what the truth is by seeing the full report.

Trump has claimed 'total exoneration' - yet even Barr's meager partial quotation in his own summary below shows that the report does not exonerate Trump of obstruction. See below: "The Special Counsel states that “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”

How can the American people enjoy being lied to so bluntly? It's like we can't read.


As for Barr's offering that there is no [apparently criminal-level] evidence of the Trump Campaign's collusion with Russia "in its election interference activities", see below. People already know better. There were tons - ok literally dozens - of lied-about interactions between Trump's Campaign and Russians. (And why Russia?? Why not Brazil, or Japan, or North Korea or Iran? Russia, Russia, Russia. And they certainly had the intent, from Jr. to Stone to Donald himself (Russia, if you are listening...). So what else is in there?

And even the fragmented and very narrow phrase Barr offers "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or colluded with the Russian Government in its election interference activities" is worded such that there may be plenty of 'collusion' (or more accurately criminal intent and conspiracy, etc.) evidenced in the report - just not in that specific window. But we haven't seen the report yet. So we don't know. And it seems dubious and certainly early for Trump and the Administration to be gloating and taking such big victory laps.

There is a lot more to learn.

There are also still lots of other investigations into Trump and those in his campaign and inner circle.

There are still lots of shoes to drop. Stay tuned.

Ok, Go Time: Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General

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The integrity of our country is at stake

Again, the world is holding its collective breath over this. None of us know how much of the full Mueller Report we will get to see. And how soon we will get to see the condensed report. And it is no doubt vastly in the public interest that we see all but the most confidential parts of it.

Newly installed and controversial Attorney General William Barr today gets to see the report. And soon will share its basic findings with Congress, and reportedly the public right after that.

The world and history now fixes its gaze on him:

Jamie Dimon says we've split the US economy, leaving the poor behind - CNBC

When the CEO of a bank like J.P. Morgan Chase says something like this, well, you know. It's REALLY BAD. Here

The #GOP Tax Scam has redistributed more wealth to the top. And the Trump Administration plans to hack away at Social Security and Medicare, the very programs that actually are crucial for low and middle income Americans.

We have to do better. We HAVE TO DO BETTER than this.

"I don't want to be a tone deaf CEO; while the company is doing fine, it is absolutely obvious that a big chunk of [people] have been left behind," Dimon said. "Forty percent of Americans make less than $15 an hour. Forty percent of Americans can't afford a $400 bill, whether it's medical or fixing their car. Fifteen percent of Americans make minimum wages, 70,000 die from opioids" annually.

#incomeinequality #GOP #TaxScam #injustice

Will Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Report Really be Finished Soon?

Much of the world is holding its collective breath over this. None of us know what it will mean. Or how much of this report we will get to see. And how soon we will get to see.

But very soon, it is being reported that newly installed and controversial Attorney General William Barr will get to see the report. And share its findings with Congress.

The world and history now fixes its gaze on him: 

Opinion - The New York Times

The Mueller Report Is Coming. Here’s What to Expect.

A concise report will probably act as a “road map” to investigation for the Democratic House — and to further criminal investigation by other prosecutors. 

By Neal K. Katyal   Here

Democrats to Protect Nation from Faux National Emergency

A needless power and vanity grab by the President (the "wall!" that the Pentagon and pretty much everyone says is not needed) is being resisted by many. The full Congress denied it in the budget process. Now Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have to block the President's actions. Thank you Hon. Speaker Pelosi. Hope the reasonable Republicans that have pledged to resist the contrived "emergency" continue to resist it.

Pelosi urges members to back resolution terminating national emergency