Walter Schaub: What You Are Doing Right Now Is Something You Will Remember Forever....

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[Grasswire2]

1. And the last one in his list.

"I watched the republic die."

[democrank]

2. A giant-ass K & R

“ I criticized those sounding the alarm for being hyperbolic.”

[leftstreet]

3. But we're holding "Whole New Stage Of Investigation" hearings!

DURec

[calimary]

15. Don't forget the hearings that seek to figure out what to ask

about whether we can discuss possible investigations of questions that might require us to hold more hearings with empty chairs where the witnesses are supposed to be but how to do handwringing and then maybe we need another set of hearings to examine whether we can ask about what questions are allowed to be submitted and on which knee we should probably consider asking that we can be permitted to use to genuflect and... oh yeah, I forgot - we’ll need a few more hearings that maybe we’ll schedule a hearing to ask whether we can hold a hearing in a few weeks...

[Maraya1969]

18. That's it.

[calimary]

22. Should then be followed by one of those good ol' "sternly-worded letters."

I strongly suspect that trump turns to one of those every time the closest bathroom is out of toilet paper.

[Maraya1969]

24. At this point who could blame him? He gets away with whatthefuckever he wants.

I am so disgusted with my party right now.

[calimary]

25. You and me both.

I think we should start complaining about how WE, the Democratic base, are being IGNORED. The one thing I envy about the other side is - MAN are they mindful of their base. They’re practically on their knees to their base. Our Dems? They put us on Ignore. They turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to our wishes.

The Blue Dog Congressman I have now is too busy worrying about what his CON friends want, and running after unruly independents than to pay attention to the voters who worked our fingers to the bone for two straight years to flip the House so our Democrats could start getting OUR priorities done. And it’s INFURIATING!

When do they start bowing to the DEMOCRATIC base? When do they start realizing that they need to cater to US - so WE won’t get fed up and start questioning what the hell we worked so hard for, and maybe staying home next Election Day? They need to stop taking us for granted.

If I get one more appeal in the mail for donations from Nancy Pelosi, I’m going to send back an otherwise empty envelope with only a note that says “NOT ANOTHER NICKEL UNLESS YOU IMPEACH!!!”

[tblue37]

4. K&R for visibility. nt

[MBS]

5. Walter Shaub is one of the real heroes in this sordid period in our history. n/t

[Leghorn21]

9. +++, and from the get-go, M, Mr. Shaub was SPEAKING OUT

WALTER (“There’s no ‘c’”, he pointed out, so long ago) SHAUB

RESPECT

[MBS]

10. YES!! n/t

[appalachiablue]

23. Walter SHAUB, attny. Va.; Head, US Office of Govt Ethics For Obama

(Wiki). Walter Michael Shaub Jr. (born February 20, 1971) is an American attorney specializing in government ethics who, from January 9, 2013 to July 19, 2017, was the director of the United States Office of Government Ethics. As of July 19, 2017, he joined the Washington D.C.-based election law organization the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) as Senior Director, Ethics. At CLC he has focused on protecting what he calls the erosion of democratic norms that the country has witnessed in his time.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Shaub

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Nailed it.

[They_Live]

7. The president

solicited another attack on America.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. "I'm the Republican who decided POWER is paramount to democracy."

[Beartracks]

14. Oh, sure, there was just ONE Republican who made that choice.

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[Dem2theMax]

11. Kicking for more visibility.

[gibraltar72]

12. History will remember.

[trof]

13. One can hope.

[Mersky]

16. I am the concerned* citizen who found her white board and markers this weekend.

I’m, eh, exhausted and retooling. It’s time to focus. There’s voters to register. The kids in the streets this past weekend are fighting for our future, and they needn’t do it alone.


*By concerned, I mean, pissed-off, re-reactivated, more aware than ever, and unwilling to submit to the pResident and gang’s efforts to demoralize at least a nation’s worth of good-hearted people.

[orangecrush]

17. KICK

[Mr.Bill]

19. And what is Walter Shaub doing?

I mean besides writing tweets. I don't even know who he is.

[NewJeffCT]

20. Shaub

was director of the Government Office of Ethics for 5 years under Obama

[Mr.Bill]

21. I know that now that I googled him,

But what is he doing about the current situation with Trump? Okay, so he's speaking out. But so are all of us.

I'll admit I'm not doing as much as I did to stop the Vietnam war, but I'm not young anymore. I'm a little too old to throw tear gas canisters back at the police. One thing I am doing is keeping my grandchildren and other young people I come in contact with current on what the facts are and their context in recent history. It's amazing how oblivious many of them are to what's going on.

And half of them you have to almost have to physically drag to the polling place to get them to vote. The first time I voted was in '72 and I thought it was the greatest day of my life. I couldn't wait to vote. I still feel that way.