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Sen. Roy Blunt (r): really owning it

11 Friday Oct 2019

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An open public townhall would have been epic. But, that’s never going to happen.

Last night:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
It was great to be with @IvankaTrump, @SecAzar, @ACFHHS Assistant Secretary Johnson, & @GovParsonMO in #KCMO today to hear from parents about how supporting quality child care empowers hardworking families.
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7:17 PM · Oct 10, 2019

Some of the responses:

Ivanka only empowers her pockets. Remember she exploited women and kids in her sweat shops.

And where is the mystery funding? Never mind, we get that #GenocideBarbie needed some meaningless limelight.

So while you were in KC did you setup a Townhall for this week?

We all know the answer to that. No. Never. Not a chance in hell.

All you rich buttholes listening to hardworking people. That’s rich…

Previously:

Gov. Mike Parson (r) and Sen. Roy Blunt (r): owning it (October 10, 2019)

Gov. Mike Parson (r) and Sen. Roy Blunt (r): owning it

10 Thursday Oct 2019

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“A transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

Giuliani Associates Subpoenaed in House Impeachment Inquiry
Subpoenas Demand Documents Being Withheld by Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman
Washington, October 10, 2019

Washington, D.C. (Oct. 10, 2019)—Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent a letter conveying subpoenas to two business associates of Rudy Giuliani, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, for key documents by October 16, 2019 that they have refused to produce as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

“Your clients are private citizens who are not employees of the Executive Branch. They may not evade requests from Congress for documents and information necessary to conduct our inquiry. They are required by law to comply with the enclosed subpoenas. They are not exempted from this requirement merely because they happen to work with Mr. Giuliani, and they may not defy congressional subpoenas merely because President Trump has chosen the path of denial, defiance, and obstruction,” the Chairmen wrote.

The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding a White House meeting with the President of Ukraine and military assistance provided by Congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression, as well as any efforts to cover up these matters.

“In addition to providing the subpoenaed documents, the Committees also expect your clients to appear to testify about these matters at a later date,” the Chairmen wrote.

Parnas and Fruman are “clients of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani” who reportedly were “assisting Giuliani’s push to get Ukrainian officials to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son, as well as Giuliani’s claim that Democrats conspired with Ukrainians in the 2016 campaign.”

Throughout this period, Parnas and Fruman also reportedly “touted connections to Giuliani and Trump.” For example, they “boasted that they had worked with Mr. Giuliani to force the recall this spring of the American ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch.”

They reportedly “told people that Trump would replace the U.S. ambassador there months before she was actually recalled to Washington.” When Mr. Giuliani was asked about whether he was involved with this effort to recall the Ambassador to Ukraine, he responded, “I did play a role in that.”

In addition, press reports indicate that Parnas and Fruman were involved with efforts to press Ukrainian officials to change the management structure at a Ukrainian state-owned energy company, Naftogaz, to benefit individuals involved with Giuliani’s push to get Ukrainian officials to interfere in the 2020 election.

The proposal to install new board members at Naftogaz reportedly was championed by “two Soviet-born Florida real estate entrepreneurs, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, and an oil magnate from Boca Raton, Florida, named Harry Sargeant III.”

Refusal to Cooperate with Impeachment Inquiry

On September 30, 2019, the Committees sent letters to Parnas and Fruman requesting that they produce documents relating to the Committees’ inquiry by October 7, 2019, and appear for depositions on October 10, 2019, for Parnas and October 11, 2019, for Fruman.

On October 3, 2019, counsel for Parnas and Fruman sent a letter requesting additional time to respond and confirming that “Messrs. Parnas and Fruman assisted Mr. Giuliani in connection with his representation of President Trump.”

On October 8, 2019, counsel for Parnas and Fruman sent a second letter stating that they would not appear for the depositions.

On October 9, 2019, counsel for Parnas and Fruman sent an email informing Committee counsel that they “agree with and adopt the position of the White House Counsel” and attached a copy of a letter that the White House Counsel sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Committees stating that President Trump will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.

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levparnas @levparnas
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8:57 AM · Jun 14, 2019

This evening, in Kansas City:

Ivanka Trump @IvankaTrump
We are striving to ensure all hard-working Americans have access to high-quality, affordable childcare.
Thank you @GovParsonMO @RoyBlunt⁩ and @SecAzar for joining us in this fight!
[….]

Governor Mike Parson (r) [2019 file photo].

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

They own it.

Previously:

Impeachment: Consciousness of Guilt (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) (September 24, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): gaslighting (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) – “Tell your people to obey the law.” (September 25, 2019)

Impeachment: the smell of fear (September 25, 2019)

Impeachment: It became self aware at 6:24 a.m., September 26, 2019… (September 26, 2019)

Impeachment: NPR/PBS NewsHour Marist Poll – September 25, 2019 (September 26, 2019)

Flop sweat (September 27, 2019)

Impeachment: this morning’s “Executive Time” (September 28, 2019)

Impeachment: unhinged (September 29, 2019)

Hillary Clinton (D) is living rent free inside of Donald Trump’s (r) head (September 29, 2019)

Going 0-2 (September 30, 2019)

Impeachment: almost too stupid to remember to breathe (October 1, 2019)

Hillary Clinton (D) is having fun these days (October 1, 2019)

Impeachment: in a panic (October 2, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): clap louder (October 3, 2019)

Impeachment: why we can’t have nice things (October 4, 2019)

Impeachment: “…and getting caught in Ukraine…” (October 5, 2019)

Sen. Roy Blunt (r): see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing (October 6, 2019)

Impeachment: Putin’s Puppet (October 7, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): well, that was a turkey (October 7, 2019)

Impeachment: Not very bright, is he? (October 9, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): Benghazi! (October 9, 2019)

Campaign Finance: “Do you like subpoena coladas and getting caught in Ukraine?” (October 10, 2019)

Sen. Roy Blunt (r): see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing

06 Sunday Oct 2019

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Coward. And hack.

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

This morning:

Transcript: Senator Roy Blunt on “Face the Nation,” October 6, 2019

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MARGARET BRENNAN: Are you comfortable with what the president has said here in this call for foreign governments Ukraine and China to investigate his political opponent?

SEN. BLUNT: Well I- I doubt if the China comment was serious to tell you the truth. The president–

MARGARET BRENNAN: You don’t take the president–

SEN. BLUNT: The president–

MARGARET BRENNAN: -at his word?

SEN. BLUNT: No the president loves to go out on the- on the White House driveway. I haven’t talked to him about this. I don’t know what the president was thinking. But I do know he loves to bait the press and he does that almost every day to see what you’ll talk about and maybe what he was hoping was–

MARGARET BRENNAN: So you don’t believe–

SEN. BLUNT: –somebody in the press will say–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –the president, but is that appropriate to ask for a foreign government to interfere in the election?

SEN. BLUNT: I- I don’t imagine that’s what he was doing certainly —

MARGARET BRENNAN: –but is it appropriate?
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Speaking of bad jokes.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Previously:

Impeachment: Consciousness of Guilt (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) (September 24, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): gaslighting (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) – “Tell your people to obey the law.” (September 25, 2019)

Impeachment: the smell of fear (September 25, 2019)

Impeachment: It became self aware at 6:24 a.m., September 26, 2019… (September 26, 2019)

Impeachment: NPR/PBS NewsHour Marist Poll – September 25, 2019 (September 26, 2019)

Flop sweat (September 27, 2019)

Impeachment: this morning’s “Executive Time” (September 28, 2019)

Impeachment: unhinged (September 29, 2019)

Hillary Clinton (D) is living rent free inside of Donald Trump’s (r) head (September 29, 2019)

Going 0-2 (September 30, 2019)

Impeachment: almost too stupid to remember to breathe (October 1, 2019)

Hillary Clinton (D) is having fun these days (October 1, 2019)

Impeachment: in a panic (October 2, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): clap louder (October 3, 2019)

Impeachment: why we can’t have nice things (October 4, 2019)

Impeachment: “…and getting caught in Ukraine…” (October 5, 2019)

Sen. Roy Blunt (r): what being a whore for the NRA gets the rest of us

20 Friday Sep 2019

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Yesterday, in Missouri, from the mother of an elementary school student:

My 3rd-grade son just said this.

“If an intruder ever comes to my school, and if I don’t have any place to hide, I will just give up. I will let him kill me.”

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Blunt’s budget bill omits $50 million for gun violence study favored by Democrats
By Bryan Lowry
September 18, 2019 02:29 PM, Updated September 19, 2019 11:35 AM

Senate Republicans are pursuing a federal health budget that omits funding for gun violence research, a proposal that Sen. Roy Blunt warns is too “controversial.”

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Do you wonder why?

Which lawmakers got the most NRA money?
By Soo Rin Kim Feb 20, 2018, 8:51 PM ET
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Sen. Roy Blunt: $4.5 million
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., has long been one of the biggest beneficiaries of NRA money. Not only has the group donated $56,500 to Blunt’s campaign committee over the years, the group has also spent $1.4 million bankrolling ads supporting him. The NRA also spent $2.5 million in 2016 opposing Democrat Jason Kander’s bid against the Missouri Republican.
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Too soon? Too controversial?

Just excuses.

Sen. Roy Blunt (r): we’re just here for the ratio

31 Wednesday Jul 2019

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“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

This evening, from Senator Roy Blunt (r), linking to a *checks notes* press release:

Senator Roy Blunt @RoyBlunt
Democrats’ attempt to advance their partisan agenda under the guise of election security is about press releases, not policy
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5:03 PM · Jul 31, 2019

Some of the comments:

Making sure our elections aren’t hacked is partisan?!??!! Thanks Russian Roy. You need to defend your leader Moscow Mitch.

There are only so many lies people will buy, you folks have exceeded the limit of lies for centuries…

Justify leaving us vulnerable in whatever manner helps you sleep at night, Senator. That’s your conscience you have to deal with.

When Trump’s ship began to sink [after the chant], all the Republicans on board were offered life boats but only a handful accepted, the rest wanted to say on board, with their Supreme Leader.

Your ship is sinking GOP and you’re so pathetic that you don’t even know it.

Let them sink. The sharks will eat well at least.

Nope. Not gonna happen. Professional courtesy.

Look Roy, we get it. Y’all can’t win if the election is fair. But face it dude, you’ve woke the beast and we’re coming for your jobs.

you sound like @realDonaldTrump , not meant as a compliment.

When did you decide to join Moscow Mitch in treason?

Waiting for you and #MoscowMich to tell me what is partisan about election security.

What is partisan about election security? PLEASE TELL ME!

You’d be as extinct as the dinosaurs if we had fair and secure elections. Your game is self preservation, not governance.

Yeah, protecting democracy seems so “elitist.” Way to own the libs by allowing our country to be hijacked by foreign governments.

You’ve been spending too much time with #MoscowMitch and not enough time with the people. We want secure elections.

This Missourian wants safe & secure elections & if you aren’t part of the solution you are the problem. For once, put country over party.

Should we start calling you #RussiaRoy now? You and #MoscowMitch seem a lot more interested in running interference for Putin than in protecting our elections.

I call BS! You are protecting Trump and #MoscowMitchMcTraitor
How is protecting election security partisan? Unless you’re afraid of a clean election in which Trump loses?

How is an agenda that helps everyone (except the very, very rich) partisan?

Cool.

Nice *checks notes* PRESS RELEASE

Yeah, he missed the irony on that one.

This….. is a press release

Ok, so now you have a problem with election security like your evil overlord #MoscowMitch. Weren’t you recently working on election security but now it’s not good. You working with the Russians too? You bout to get a nickname too.

#RublesRoy?

Blunt is a Moscow Mitch lackey. He has always been a follower. Blunt is bad for Missouri and bad for the nation.

RussianRoy to the defense of #MoscowMitch</blockquot

The Kremlin thanks you for your service Comrade Blunt… #ElectionIntegrity #ElectionSecurity

Why do you hate this country?

There’s more.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

H.J. Res. 46: nope, it’s still not an emergency

15 Friday Mar 2019

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Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Yesterday, in the United States Senate:

Question: On the Joint Resolution (H.J. Res. 46 )
Vote Number: 49
Vote Date: March 14, 2019, 02:24 PM

Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Joint Resolution Passed

Vote Counts:
YEAs 59
NAYs 41

Missouri:
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Hawley (R-MO), Nay

Heh.

Donald Trump (r) finally goes one step too far for Roy Blunt (r).

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

Josh Hawley (r), constitutional scholar and strict constructionist hopeless sycophant and puppet, is more than good with Donald Trump’s (r) historically expansive view of presidential power.

Josh Hawley [2016 file photo].

H.J.Res.46 — 116th Congress (2019-2020)

AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday,
the third day of January, two thousand and nineteen

Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on February 15, 2019.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, pursuant to section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622), the national emergency declared by the finding of the President on February 15, 2019, in Proclamation 9844 (84 Fed. Reg. 4949) is hereby terminated.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.

Mike Pence (r) has to sign the document? How awesome is that?

Previously:

H.J.Res.46: it’s not an emergency (February 26, 2019)

Two of a kind

24 Thursday Jan 2019

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Josh Hawley (r) [2016 file photo].

Roy Blunt (r) [2016 file photo].

The vote today in the U.S. Senate on the republican poison pill bill (cloture), negotiated among republicans, which would appropriate money for Donald Trump’s (r) wall in exchange for temporary immigration policy changes (on DACA and Temporary Protective Status, hence the “poison pill”) and temporarily punting the partial government shutdown:

Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion Invoke Cloture on the Shelby Amdt. No. 5)
Vote Number: 9
Vote Date: January 24, 2019, 02:42 PM

Required For Majority: 3/5
Vote Result: Cloture Motion Rejected

Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 5 to H.R. 268 (Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019)
Statement of Purpose: Of a perfecting nature.
Vote Counts:
YEAs 50
NAYs 47
Not Voting 3

Missouri: Blunt (R-MO), Yea Hawley (R-MO), Yea

Joe Manchin of West Virginia was the only Democrat to vote for this bill (cloture). Two republicans voted against it (Cotton of Arkansas and Lee of Utah). Two republicans didn’t vote (Paul of Kentucky and Risch of Idaho). 60 votes were needed for cloture, to advance the bill.

Is anyone surprised?

The “clean” version of the bill, which the previous republican controlled Senate approved before the Trump shutdown was also brought up for a vote. It, too, failed get the 60 votes for cloture, to advance the bill:

Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Schumer Amdt. No. 6 )
Vote Number: 10
Vote Date: January 24, 2019, 03:18 PM

Required For Majority: 3/5
Vote Result: Cloture Motion Rejected

Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 6 to H.R. 268 (Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2019)
Statement of Purpose: Of a perfecting nature.
Vote Counts:
YEAs 52
NAYs 44
Not Voting 4

Missouri: Blunt (R-MO), Nay Hawley (R-MO), Nay

Two of a kind. Is anyone surprised?

Six republicans voted for the bill (Alexander of Tennessee – retiring in 2020, Collins of Maine – seeking reelection in 2020, Gardner of Colorado – seeking reelection in 2020, Isakson of Georgia, Murkowski of Alaska, Romney of Utah). No Democrats voted against the bill. Three republicans did not vote (Burr of North Carolina, Paul of Kentucky, Risch of Idaho).

The #TrumpShutdown continues.

Roy Blunt defends the indefensible, a.k.a. Brett Kavanaugh

09 Tuesday Oct 2018

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Missouri’s junior senator, Republican Roy Blunt, has finally deigned to give us, via the GOP House organ, Fox News, his version of their Kavanaugh talking points:

The key comments here are his claims that “unfair” and “unrealistic” Democrats sat on Dr.  Blasey-Ford’s story  until late in the process and then declared Kavanaugh “guilty until proven innocent.” Since Fox’s Maria Bartiromo didn’t seem to want to push back on these assertions, I would like to offer the following  observations:

— Although evidence indicates that Senator Dianne Feinstein’s account of the reasons for the late timing is accurate, the entire question amounts to little more than a red herring. The real issue is whether credible claims of serious wrong-doing should be ignored and not be fully investigated because they didn’t emerge earlier during more general routine vetting; innocent until proven guilty presupposes that a fair and transparent effort to secure proof will take place.

— One might also note that whether or not Kavanaugh is, as Senator Blunt asserts, one of the “most vetted candidate in the history of confirmations” is not a real answer to credible claims by his Democratic colleagues that the very curtailed and limited investigation into this specific allegation was inadequate.

Sen. Blunt is to be commended for not picking  up on the shameless GOP whine about how Blasey-Ford’s credible accusations endanger those poor, quivering, white males who might be falsely accused of sexual assault. Yes, false accusations of rape are made – in, it is estimated, only 2 – 10% of cases. It follows that that 90%+ rape allegations are verified. And, of course, the way to verify the truth of any allegation of sexual assault is a full and unbiased investigation of the sort that the GOP-controlled senate and the White House did not allow to take place in the Kavanaugh case. Wonder why, anyone?

Finally, Blunt, riding high on the results of a Marist poll from last week, that found GOP enthusiasm for voting heightened after the Kavanaugh hearings, predicts that if Democrats continue to raise issues about the legitimacy of Kavanaugh’s appointment, the “strategy” will backfire. In other words, the GOP wants to put down a potential on-going firestorm before it blows their narrative out of the water – and they’re counting on past Democratic spinelessness in the face of conservative attacks to do the job.

However, today a CNN poll which, unlike the Marist poll, was taken after the confirmation of Kavanaugh, should give Senator Blunt pause when it comes to trying to scare Democrats out of demonstrating their anger about a stolen Supreme Court appointment: in response to a question about voting enthusiasm, 62% of Democrats say they are “extremely or very enthusiastic to vote, up seven points since September.” In contrast, 52% of Republicans reported enthusiasm about voting in November, a result that is only 2% higher than in September.

Maybe Senator Blunt ought to help his senate leadership cronies retool some of that nasty, Trumpian Kavanaugh spin they’re spewing. It’s possible that even a few Republicans are embarrassed to belong to a party that elevates misogynistic,  biased, lying, judicial hacks to positions of power and prominence.

*Edited slightly for clarity (6:20 pm, 10/9/2018)

 

republican Investigation: a play in one act

04 Thursday Oct 2018

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Witness: “This happened.

republicans: “Where’s your corroboration?”

Witness: “Here, here, here, here…”

republicans: “We’re not going to ask them.”

Witness: “?”

Republicans: “See, there’s no corroboration.”

Old Media: “Both sides…”

The GOP plan for universal access to affordable health care: if you ever get sick, just die already

11 Tuesday Sep 2018

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As it’s always been.

This evening:

Micheal Mahoney @KCMikeMahoney
Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt on GOP Senate pre-existing conditions bill, “That bill is not going anywhere. I am not supportive of it.” #RoyBlunt #MOSEN #JoshHawley #ClaireMcCaskill #kmbc
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5:35 PM – 11 Sep 2018 from Kansas City, MO

Somebody forgot to tell Josh Hawley (r).

A comment:

@Meirabb Meira Bernstein
.@HawleyMO, call your office. #mosen
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5:53 PM – 11 Sep 2018

Meira Bernstein wins the Internets today.