Good grief.
Good grief. Totally just trying to avoid watching ads, flipped channels, and got caught watching some GOP rep from NY** on CNN who actually said:
1) She hasn't read the whole indictment
2) The indictment proves there was no collusion with the Trump campaign
3) It's terrible that the Democrats can't work with the GOP to oppose the terrible influence of the Russians
4) The Russian efforts had no effect on the elections
5) They should look into collusion with the Democrats, since Fusion GPS blah blah blah
6) It's a Democratic plot to smear Donald Trump
I mean, I'm all for sticking to talking points but for crying out loud.
The interviewer could not get her to make a clean statement that it doesn't matter what your politics are, having a foreign government deliberately and successfully interfere in our governance is bad. Successful meaning they caused chaos and wasted resources and other problems, not whether one person or another won. The Representative kept going back and forth between it's bad and they didn't have any effect. Plus, she insisted that this was a smear campaign against Trump by the Democrats.
This particularly boggles me, as even she admitted that the Russians were bad and did some bad stuff. Nevertheless, insisting it be investigated was, I guess, a baseless Democratic plot to smear Donald Trump. So, really, the Democrats by implication are the ones messing up our governance. How do you even talk with people who believe this garbage?
** I looked her up. They found the one Republican female Congressperson in the entire state of New York to put on TV for this. She's from New Hartford and her district includes Utica, Binghamton, and Oneida. Iow, she's personally from an area that's Central NY bordering on North Country and her district stretches to the Southern Tier. Generally, it has a poor economy due to decades of industry loss, limited jobs, lots of agriculture/rural (but I'm pretty sure that's not making anybody rich, either).
It's a physically beautiful area, btw. Stunningly gorgeous in much of it. They also have a regional variation on the famous black and white cookies called a half moon. It's traditionally a chocolate cookie with half chocolate and half vanilla icing, but there are variations. The way her district is drawn, it also includes part of Herkimer County, known for the quartz crystals called Herkimer Diamonds.
Hope you enjoyed your tour of random regions of New York State. ;)
1) She hasn't read the whole indictment
2) The indictment proves there was no collusion with the Trump campaign
3) It's terrible that the Democrats can't work with the GOP to oppose the terrible influence of the Russians
4) The Russian efforts had no effect on the elections
5) They should look into collusion with the Democrats, since Fusion GPS blah blah blah
6) It's a Democratic plot to smear Donald Trump
I mean, I'm all for sticking to talking points but for crying out loud.
The interviewer could not get her to make a clean statement that it doesn't matter what your politics are, having a foreign government deliberately and successfully interfere in our governance is bad. Successful meaning they caused chaos and wasted resources and other problems, not whether one person or another won. The Representative kept going back and forth between it's bad and they didn't have any effect. Plus, she insisted that this was a smear campaign against Trump by the Democrats.
This particularly boggles me, as even she admitted that the Russians were bad and did some bad stuff. Nevertheless, insisting it be investigated was, I guess, a baseless Democratic plot to smear Donald Trump. So, really, the Democrats by implication are the ones messing up our governance. How do you even talk with people who believe this garbage?
** I looked her up. They found the one Republican female Congressperson in the entire state of New York to put on TV for this. She's from New Hartford and her district includes Utica, Binghamton, and Oneida. Iow, she's personally from an area that's Central NY bordering on North Country and her district stretches to the Southern Tier. Generally, it has a poor economy due to decades of industry loss, limited jobs, lots of agriculture/rural (but I'm pretty sure that's not making anybody rich, either).
It's a physically beautiful area, btw. Stunningly gorgeous in much of it. They also have a regional variation on the famous black and white cookies called a half moon. It's traditionally a chocolate cookie with half chocolate and half vanilla icing, but there are variations. The way her district is drawn, it also includes part of Herkimer County, known for the quartz crystals called Herkimer Diamonds.
Hope you enjoyed your tour of random regions of New York State. ;)
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