Our ancestors had the right priorities

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— Mental Floss (@mental_floss) June 2, 2018

These Republican senators voted to impeach Clinton

This is something to keep in mind if the Senate has to vote on a Trump impeachment. Certainly, Clinton lying about a blow job is less serious than the Trump/Russia obstruction.

Sitting GOP senators who voted to toss President Clinton from office for obstruction of justice:
BLUNT
BURR
CRAPO
ENZI
GRASSLEY
GRAHAM
HATCH
INHOFE
MCCAIN
MCCONNELL
MORAN
PORTMAN
ROBERTS
SHELBY
THUNE
WICKER
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SESSIONS also voted to remove Clinton for obstruction.

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 3, 2018

The estate tax scam

The estate tax cut is benefitting the extremely wealthy, just as predicted. Down the road, it will certainly benefit the Trump family. This was a poor decision and I hope the tax rate is restored in the future.

The estate tax cut buried in the tax cut gives a $4.4 million break to the 1,800 richest estate heirs in America, per @CenterOnBudget https://t.co/XBNX38El33

— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) June 3, 2018

10/23/18 Trump still lies about it

Trump, as usual, lies that he's eliminated the estate tax – the tax law merely raised the threshold – and misleadingly suggests the tax has a big impact on family farms and small businesses; they represented a tiny fraction of the estate tax-payers.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 23, 2018

One reason Democrats can’t get their message across

Sunday talk shows this week:

– 6 Republican men
– 3 shamelessly lying Trump cronies
– 0 Democrats
– 0 womenhttps://t.co/EpwZ5V46DY

— Miles Grant (@MilesGrant) June 2, 2018

Puerto Rico

The news about the much higher than previously reported death toll in Puerto Rico has gotten little media attention compared to Barr and Bee. This is wrong.

The green is Puerto Rico. The red is Roseanne. https://t.co/ItY0D8Mx5V pic.twitter.com/h3yvEol4ss

— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 2, 2018

The number of people who died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria is greater than:

* the number killed in 9/11 attacks
* the number killed by Hurricane Katrina
* the number of US troops killed in Iraq

Trump admin denied resources, lied about crisis. Alternative facts kill. https://t.co/nXtgQSuT9S

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) June 2, 2018

Trump thinks he’s above the law

Trump’s legal team doesn’t think he can be subpoenaed. Wrong. Clinton was subpoenaed and testified in the Paula Jones case.

The article states: “Mr. Trump’s lawyers fear that if he answers questions, either voluntarily or in front of a grand jury, he risks exposing himself to accusations of lying to investigators, a potential crime or impeachable offense.”

They’re right. He will lie. That’s what he does.

The letter from Trump’s lawyers to Mueller “contends that the president cannot illegally obstruct any aspect of the investigation into Russia’s election meddling because the Constitution empowers him to, “if he wished, terminate the inquiry, or even exercise his power to pardon.””

The President’s legal arguments would render whole sections of the Constitution moot, and allow a president to engage in any form of criminality and obstruct an investigation into his own wrongdoing. Nobody is above the law. Not this President. Not any president. https://t.co/DKpZizrpKl

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) June 2, 2018

Sekulow / Dowd claim that the president has the power to direct law enforcement agencies to initiate or end an investigation of any person for any reason. If Sekulow/Dowd are correct, it is fully lawful for POTUS to use federal criminal law to attack enemies and reward friends

— David Frum (@davidfrum) June 2, 2018

wow. Trump's lawyers are trying to stop Mueller from compelling Trump to answer questions, arguing in a confidential memo that Trump could not possibly have committed obstruction because he has unfettered authority over all federal investigations. https://t.co/lwnsxKi3wh

— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) June 2, 2018

And yet Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton each faced an article of impeachment based on obstruction of justice. https://t.co/I9P2Pzx7Lj

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 2, 2018

Why are Trump’s lawyers doing this if their client is innocent? Trump sure acts guilty.

Sad!

Trump dictated the letter lying about Trump, Jr.’s meeting with Russians

This article states: “In a confidential letter to special counsel Robert Mueller in January, President Donald Trump’s legal team acknowledged for the first time that Trump “dictated” the first misleading statement put out about his son’s controversial 2016 meeting with Russians at Trump Tower.”

Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow and Press Secretary Sarah Sanders have lied about this. I refuse to believe they didn’t know the truth.

In a letter to Mueller, Trump's lawyers said he "dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times" about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians. But here are FIVE TIMES @JaySekulow and @PressSec previously denied Trump's role in the misleading statement. pic.twitter.com/DINgjFdKvL

— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) June 2, 2018

Trump’s admission that he wrote his son’s highly misleading statement about the Trump Tower meeting begs the questions: What did Trump know about the Trump Tower meeting? Why was he so intensely interested in it? What did he say about what he was leaving out and why? https://t.co/dUOHDw97b0

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 2, 2018

That's demonstrably false. And why was Trump dictating a statement about a meeting he supposedly knew nothing about? https://t.co/o57q855W3i

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 2, 2018

Trump never accepts responsibility

….Paul Manafort came into the campaign very late and was with us for a short period of time (he represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole & many others over the years), but we should have been told that Comey and the boys were doing a number on him, and he wouldn’t have been hired!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2018

having said Obama should have stopped Russia from helping his campaign, Trump now says Justice Dept should have stopped him from hiring Manafort to run his campaign https://t.co/2ADg76MVn7

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 3, 2018

Look who’s talking about ethics

Jared Kushner’s father

Charlie Kushner went to prison for hiring a prostitute to sleep with his brother-in-law, filming the encounter in a roadside New Jersey motel and sending the tape to the family for blackmail. Because he was being investigated — and they were cooperating. https://t.co/Nr6MQFAgmQ

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 1, 2018

Jared Kushner’s father says ethics watchdogs are “jerks” who “can’t get a real job” and want to “assure that poor, not successful people go into government” https://t.co/c6PMCMQVkH

— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) June 1, 2018

Covers: Going Down the Road Feelin’ Bad

“Going Down the Road Feelin’ Bad” was first recorded in 1924 as “Lonesome Road Blues”.

This lists all of the recorded versions. I first heard it by the Grateful Dead in 1971 (in a medley with Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away”. According to this

“This song became a concert staple for the Grateful Dead, and Jerry Garcia related that he picked it up from Delaney Bramlett of Delaney and Bonnie during the Dead’s trans-Canada rock ‘n’ roll train trip in 1970, beautifully captured in the “Festival Express” movie.”

The article has links to many versions of the song.

Henry Whitter (1924)

Cliff Carlisle (1933)

Woody Guthrie (1940)

Delaney & Bonnie and Friends (1971)

The Grateful Dead (1971)