Biden is in trouble...

...because the GOP members in the senate have a spine as it turns out.



Oh and Nancy Pelosi is getting hit with an ethics probe too:

Is Hong Kong setting itself up for an invasion?

The one part of China that remembers democracy could be in really big trouble.

A footnote to the McCabe resignation story

Andrew McCabe resigned today - a mere few weeks before his expected departure date.  Earlier today I surmised that it was because he's in trouble.  Back in December of last year it was revealed much of his testimony was inconsistent with other testimony.  That's troubling because Andrew McCabe's wife got a significant political donation from the Clinton Foundation via Terry McAuliffe.

Follow the trail of breadcrumbs (or connect the dots if you prefer).

(1) A key figure into the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email scandal and the supposed Trump-Russia collusion scandal was tied to the Clinton campaign at the hip pocketbook (read the full details there).  The got a significant campaign donation, from the Clinton's albeit in such a way as to launder the money's source. What's worse they clearly tried to cover up any connection to each other.

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(2) Hillary Clinton gets in zero actual trouble for gross negligence, incompetence or worse, in terms of national security while she was head of the National Security Administration (the NSA).  

(3) Andrew McCabe offers worthless testimony (and worse, probably ensured that relevant evidence did not come to light) and McCabe's wife gets a generous campaign donation.  That's the very definition of pay-for-play and not only is it unethical, I'm no legal expert but that has to be illegal.

Via Fox News:

Congressional investigators tell Fox News that Tuesday’s seven-hour interrogation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe contained numerous conflicts with the testimony of previous witnesses, prompting the Republican majority staff of the House Intelligence Committee to decide to issue fresh subpoenas next week on Justice Department and FBI personnel.

There is a lot of circumstantial evidence that favors were exchanged, criminally.  And today, unexpectedly, Andrew McCabe is stepping down mere weeks ahead of schedule, and the day before president Trump was being urged to read the memo as part of the State of the Union address.

UPDATE: It appears I'm not alone in my thinking.  Gateway Pundit discusses the connections.

UPDATE:  I hadn't considered this Angle via HotAir;

Follow the timeline. Trump and Sessions have been leaning on Chris Wray to dump McCabe for awhile now, with Wray allegedly resisting to the point where he threatened to quit if they didn’t back off. Then, yesterday, he finally reads the Nunes memo. Now, 24 hours later, with the House set to vote on whether to release the memo, McCabe suddenly decides it’s time to end his career with the Bureau even though allegedly he had enough vacation time amassed to have done that weeks ago.

That’s a lot of coincidences. Too many, maybe...

Must be a juicy memo.

More Obama excuses from others

Gloria Borger at Time, sums up the president's problems being positioned as everybody's fault but his:

As the story of the Obamacare website fiacso unfolds, senior administration aides tell me that the president is “mad, frustrated and angry.”

Mad that his signature legislative achievement is stuck at the gate, frustrated that he’s running out of time to fix it, and angry that he’s got a second term agenda now going nowhere. He’s so furious, in fact, that he stepped out of character to vent to an assembled group of top aides. “If I had known [about the website problems] ,” the steaming president reportedly said, according to the New York Times, “We could have delayed the website.”

All of which begs the real question: how could he not have known?

Indeed. To put a finer point on it, Borger continues:

It’s a real head-scratcher. Most powerful man in the free world. Most important issue. Most politically explosive, particularly coming on the heels of the government shutdown. Consider the context: Republicans had just tried to defund Obamacare, and they lost in a heap of public humiliation. So the rollout of Obamacare had to be really impressive, because the Republicans had to be proven wrong.

The takeaway from Santorum's second wind

It's early, but if the results hold up as they look so far, there are some takeaways from the results.

(1)  Mitt Romney is in trouble.  In the non-binding Missouri race, Rick Santorum currently leads Romney 55% to 25%.  In Minnesota Santorum leads Ron Paul 43% to 27%.  Mitt Romney has 17% and only leads Newt Gingrich's 12%.  In Colorado, Rick Santorum leads Newt Gingrich 50% to 21%, Romney trails in third with 19%. That represents three majorities of Not Romney in one night.

(2) In the bigger picture there is room for two Not Romney candidates.  Gingrich is still well positioned in the south if he plays his cards right.  Santorum clearly is well positioned elsewhere to compete with Romney.  If the two play the game intelligently, they can split the states they compete with Romney.  Alternately if either Gingrich or Santorum bow out, the remaining candidate can compete with Romney.  Either way, Mitt Romney is in trouble.

(3) Santorum may be surging.  But it is too early to claim that, just as it was to early to claim victory for Romney after Florida or Nevada.  The race is more likely a lot more fluid than pundits have realized.

(4) Mitt Romney is not doomed now.  But he is in trouble. He doesn't have this race sewn up.  Other contenders can compete.  Clearly Santorum has a claim to be the not Romney.  Gingrich can also now claim his southern states strategy is more viable than people thought last week.  And with a  lengthy lull coming after tonight (with the exception of Maine), there is time for all the candidates to reformulate their plans.

(5) Ron Paul can't win, but his share of the votes in some states can be significant.  He cannot be ignored, not forever.  What remains to be seen is how he is included or excluded from the party.