Is There EVER Going To Be Another "Slow News Day"?

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Lord Jim
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Is There EVER Going To Be Another "Slow News Day"?

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Senate Republicans Deploy ‘Nuclear Option’ to Clear Path for Gorsuch

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans changed longstanding rules on Thursday to clear the way for the confirmation of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to serve on the Supreme Court, bypassing a precedent-breaking Democratic filibuster by allowing the nomination to go forward on a simple majority vote....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/p ... enate.html
Devin Nunes to Step Aside From House Investigation on Russia

WASHINGTON — Representative Devin Nunes, the embattled California Republican who is chairman of the Intelligence Committee, announced on Thursday he would step aside from leading his committee’s investigation into Russia’s efforts to disrupt last year’s presidential election....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/p ... ussia.html

Trump Signals Possible Military Response to Syria Gas Attack

The U.S. signaled it may take action in Syria one day after President Donald Trump said a poison-gas attack that killed scores of civilians and drew international condemnation went beyond a “red line” for him.

The Pentagon is actively developing military options for Syria, according to a U.S. official who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/arti ... gas-attack

Back in the innocent BT (Before Trump) era, any one of these stories alone would make this a yooge news day...

But nowadays, we just call it "Thursday"....
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Things are looking up for tomorrow, though.
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Using the news cycle to his benefit is Trumps one area of genius.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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He did promise us ratings, didn't he? :shrug
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Well, if tomorrow's news cycle is dominated by the United States finally taking military action against The War Criminal Assad, I will fully support it...

We should have taken action years ago, (As even then Sec. Of State Hillary Clinton wanted us to do) after The Uprising began, and before the Radical Islamists controlled a third of the country, and the Russians became directly involved...

But we are where we are...

If this Administration (regardless of the low opinion I have of Trump) is prepared to act to disable Assad's air force, and make it clear that he has to go, I'll lead the applause...
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Speaking of "slow news daze".....

A blast from the not so distant past.

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Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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