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One does not break one's oath to protect the Constitution just because a rule allows it, one does so because the oath no longer means anything to oneself. If the oath mattered to McConnell the minimum he would've done is simply ignore what it "enabled". If he were serious about his oath he...

Sorry, but that's just not true. Deteriorating trend to be sure, but to suggest what McConnell did is incremental is like saying pulling a gun and popping a shot off at one's partner is an incremental change in an abusive marriage. It doesn't matter if the shot was lethal, the point is that...

We've already seen the rabid, scorched-earth practices on parliamentary procedure that the GOP under McConnell went to in order to secure a nomination to the USSC. The end result was (along with the preferred justice) a total abdication and possible destruction of any pretense that Congress...

The quote I responded to presumed some form of loyalty. The only expressed loyalty by all that were referred to in the quote is to the constitution of the United States. Any other loyalty cannot be rightfully assumed, not if the United States of America is still a nation under the rule of law...

That's not disloyalty, though. Insubordination at most, and if one remains true to their oath - i.e. ignores unconstitutional/illegal orders as one should - then it's not even that. Did Ken Starr ever have to answer to charges of disloyalty? Pretty sure he did not.

Mueller and everyone in each of those agencies all swore their loyalty to the Constitution. In what way are they being disloyal to it? Also "multivalent game"? For a guy who more than two years ago had never impressed anyone with his intellect and acumen outside of grifting suckers it's...

Let's see if we can avoid criticizing the messenger and address the message, shall we?

This really needs to be answered. Also, as a point of order since we're talking about the president explicitly siding with an enemy over the American intelligence and law enforcement community we're really not talking about the US or NATO anymore, versus or otherwise.

Yeah, about that;

Interesting discussion, and in general I agree with most of it. In particular I thought Brad's observation that was particularly illuminating. Infanteer's concern whether a Trump-like phenomenon (authoritarian or otherwise) can happen in Canada probably hinges on that dynamic. The issue as I...

Yes, conservatives could have a longer list of principles then independents and left-leaners. They could also have a shorter list. We don't have anything but opinions to support either position. What we do have is a presumably rigorous poll/polls and analysis indicating the relative value of...

Details of Major Hess-Von Kruedener's last moments Canada's PM and Conservative Party leader at the time, Stephen Harper, responded The DND's inquiry can be found here. Oddly it "was published [but] was subsequently removed from government websites for “security reasons.”" (Obtaining an...

Again, according to who? What "accuser" data or survey or study are you referencing that suggests this novelty? Because I'm failing to see where in the article I provide this is suggested. I'm missing it (or if you have data of your own) please point it out. I suppose it comes down to whether...

My first link to start this thread shows a "long-standing partisan gap over views of compromise [that] has disappeared", so when I say "long since" I merely refer to the this "long-standing" difference. Your point about some guy recently discovering there is a bigger white-conscious...

Whatever his contributions to conservative politics can someone explain how Stephen Harper himself retains any respect among enlisted members? The guy white-washed the murder of one of our own, PPCLI Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener at the hands of the IDF (read the first link for the gory...

It would seem I've been warned probably about the use of "crypto-fascist" when referring to Trump. In the spirit of forum rules and at the risk of taking the thread on a tangent I submit for consideration Harvard political scientist Robert Paxton's definition of fascism from his book The Anatomy...

My intention with referencing this article and the studies cited within is to present data that describes conservative voter motivation. This description is used to support the contention that compromise in the conservative electorate has long since died, assuming it ever existed in the first...

You're somehow drawing the wrong conclusion from this article as no such assertions are made. The studies pertaining to relative compensation for the general population and desegregated healthcare for Southern whites in particular demonstrate that voters regularly do not vote in their interests...

Through June 2018, the Special Counsel has publicly initiated criminal proceedings against 20 people—five U.S. nationals, 14 Russian nationals, and one Dutch national—and three Russian organizations. He has secured 6 guilty plea-deals. That's a lot of something.

Thanks.