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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Train carrying members of Congress ‐ including House Speaker Paul Ryan ‐ hits a truck
2018-02-01
A dreadful thing. There really are no words to express the sadness over one death mixed with gratitude that there were not more hurt or killed.

GOP doctor-lawmakers rush to aid of injured after deadly train wreck
Admirable. It makes one wonder how many Democratic Congresscritters have such useful skills...
And courtesy of charger:
Bill Kristol's Original Tweet On the Train Crash
Since deleted, but preserved for posterity.

Slimy little shit, ain't he?


Posted by:Bright Pebbles

#18  Chappaqua Sanitation Inc?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2018-02-01 21:57  

#17  Traditionally there have been two choices for Prez. Ones that want to rule you (regulations) and the ones don't. This time we needed a really boorish one that doesn't want to rule you because DC became all about ruling you.
Posted by: Bill Cleretle2363   2018-02-01 20:12  

#16  Mr. Wife voted for George W. in the 2000 election, when I voted for Al Gore. He and I often come to different political conclusions from the same information — he being in general more conservative fiscally and more liberal socially than I. What matters is that he has a good and loving heart, and takes his responsibilities seriously.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-02-01 17:59  

#15  Never underestimate the power of ego investment and the need to see oneself as having been right all along about Trump, and thus ever so much smarter than the lumpen.

And then there those who seem to think that "true conservatism" is an aesthetic rather than an ideology or philosopy.
Posted by: charger   2018-02-01 17:32  

#14  Personally I think the #NeverTrump crowd are liberals who found they could make a career out pretending to be Conservative Lite. But like all liberals they have become unhinged in the era of Trump.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-02-01 17:23  

#13  Another reluctant Trump voter here.

I made my mistake voting for Carter because I believed him, especially on zero based budgeting.

Only time since that I didn't vote for the 'pub was in 1992 when I voted for the Libetarian instead of GHWB.

Trump is boorish to be sure but what has he done that isn't spot on?
Posted by: AlanC   2018-02-01 12:24  

#12  My sympathies, TW. I'm sure many have said it better than I ever could, but my issue with the NeverTrumpers is that they thought (and still think!) that the country would be better off with Hillary (spit) and her myrmidons holding power. Whatever Trump's failings might be, they pale in comparison to her serial felonies, overt power lust, and total contempt for us Deplorables. We all know that any politically unconnected person who did half of what she's done would be permanently enjoying life in the Crossbar Hotel.

Where would we be if HRC had won? We'd have a Supreme Court tearing up the Constitution, continuing economic stagnation (with higher, not lower, taxes), and millions of illegal aliens pouring across the border.
Posted by: PBMcL   2018-02-01 11:33  

#11  #8 T.W. We all have histories of traveling down wrong paths. Sometimes we act on partial or faulty info.

Carter got elected as a response by the voters to Watergate. George W. followed the Clintons. He was the lesser of two evils (in 2000, it was Gore and in 2004, that dufuss JFnKerry). Sometimes the choices aren't good. In 2016, Trump is probably a bit of everything Mr. Wife says and yet he was by far the best choice over Hidabeast. IMHO, Obama, the Clintons and the Dems took this country to the brink of destruction. Most of us have family members like Mr. Wife whom we live with and love. Perhaps Mr. Wife will see things your way in the future--keep trying.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-02-01 11:05  

#10  like all those who eventually came round on Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.

As someone who, I'll admit it, voted for carter and was a democrat. I agree! Took me awhile to recognize that Reagan (or RayGuns as I used to refer to him as a democrat) was great president - perhaps one of the greatest. I think Trump will go down in history likewise.
Hindsight is, occasionally, 20/20
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-02-01 10:17  

#9   It may have something to do with the fact that despite loathing George W. Bush, too, he voted for Mr. Bush twice as the lesser evil. But he came to believe Mr. Bush did an unacceptably poor job — not that the other guys would have done any better.

Me thinks Mr. Wife is not alone.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-01 09:59  

#8  Mr. Wife, who generally has a relentlessly analytical mind, loathes Donald Trump, and always has. The public persona of brash self-promotion, serial wives and girlfriends, the casino business that must have led him to a modus vivendi with mobsters, that apparently everything is transactional... Mr. Wife sees correctly that such a man would be destructive as he worked his way up in a corporate environment. He considers everything the president says a lie, and at this point is not interested in looking deeper into stories of how he acts when the cameras are off. Perhaps by 2020 the facts on the ground will keep my husband from voting for the Democrat for the second time in his life, but I have given up trying to discuss it with him. It may have something to do with the fact that despite loathing George W. Bush, too, he voted for Mr. Bush twice as the lesser evil. But he came to believe Mr. Bush did an unacceptably poor job — not that the other guys would have done any better.

They will only be persuaded when they can look back from a distance, assuming President Trump continues to deliver, like all those who eventually came round on Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. Fortunately, the ratio among the voters favours Mr. Trump and his supporters.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-02-01 09:54  

#7  Circumstances aside, the only man actually working for a living was killed.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-01 09:39  

#6  this sounds like the truck was at fault here
Posted by: lord garth   2018-02-01 09:17  

#5  Train - 1, Truck - 0

Don't play soccer on the railroad tracks boys and girls.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-02-01 09:10  

#4  If someone could explain to me what the hell is wrong with all these Never Trumpers, that would be great. For the life of me, I can’t understand what their problem is....

The fear of Roe vs Wade being overeturned.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-01 09:02  

#3  If someone could explain to me what the hell is wrong with all these Never Trumpers, that would be great. For the life of me, I can’t understand what their problem is, and I have good friends who were and remain steadfastly Never Trump. It seems to boil down to Trump being “unfit” for office but I think that’s only true if you believe what the MSM wants you to believe. Which I don’t, obviously, and believe that only a fool would do so.
Posted by: Eltoroverde   2018-02-01 09:01  

#2  You can call them "tweets" or you can call them "brain droppings"
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-02-01 08:16  

#1  Kristol should be called out for what he is at every opportunity: a charlatan and a poseur. That goes for the rest of the NeverTrumpers as well.
Posted by: PBMcL   2018-02-01 01:53  

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