Washington D.C. is a Mess

Pray for America, it is a divided nation, it is a mess………

HIGHLIGHTS

GOP fears Trump will take the Republican Party down with him

Republicans in Congress fear President Trump could torpedo their majorities if he doesn’t save his White House from constant crisis and pivot to the issues voters elected him to deal with.

McCain: Trump scandals have reached ‘Watergate size and scale’

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Tuesday evening said allegations against President Trump’s administration have reached a ‘Watergate size and scale.’

Senators get tough reality check on Obamacare repeal

Early bipartisan talks on healthcare reform in the Senate face enormous hurdles trying to get over wide partisan divisions on Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion and taxes.

Senate Intelligence Chairman Burr skeptical Comey memo is real

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr late Tuesday cast doubt on the veracity of a reported memo in which former FBI Director James Comey said President Trump requested he drop the FBI’s investigation into former national security adviser Mike Flynn.

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Jeff Flake: ‘Congress needs to see the Comey memo’

Senator Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., tweeted on Tuesday night saying Congress must see the memo that former FBI Director James Comey allegedly wrote after meeting with the president about the Mike Flynn investigation.

Democrats slam ‘anemic’ GOP response to Trump scandal

Democrats on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees criticized Republicans for doing too little, too late in response to a series of political crises that put the Trump administration on its heels over the last week.

Sanders: ‘Trump doesn’t fully understand what being president is about’

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., said in a debate with Ohio Gov. John Kasich on CNN Tuesday night that it was clear after President Trump shared classified information with Russian officials earlier this week that he doesn’t know how to serve as president.

Editorial: Trump’s dangerous blundering

Both President Trump’s casual disclosures of classified information to Russian officials and his reported request that the FBI lay off its investigation of Gen. Mike Flynn, were serious misdeeds. The president seems not to recognize this.

Trump, media both losing battle for public’s trust

The he-said, she-said dynamic between the White House and the media is likely doing nothing to burnish the public’s view of either side at a time when institutions
are increasingly less trusted by Americans.

Carney: The incontinent president springs a leak

Incontinence is the inability to hold in that which one ought to hold in. It is the tendency to spill forth, thoughtlessly, accidentally, what and when one doesn’t intend.

Freshman Republican Ted Budd gets bank support for fight with retailers

Republican Rep. Ted Budd of North Carolina will get an assist from the banking industry as he becomes a surprise center of controversy in a major lobbying warbetween the financial services industry and the retail, restaurant, and grocery store industries.

That report about Seth Rich, the slain DNC staffer, is a hunk of hokum

That new report alleging collusion between WikiLeaks and Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered near his home in Washington, D.C., last year, isn’t what you think it is. And the source of the report’s biggest claim has recanted most of his story.

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