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12 minutes ago, NM11046 said:

You obviously didn't read them all - on one he signs off “Hugs”.  
 

Seriously.  

 

10 minutes ago, teachercd said:

No they didn't, did they?

 

My god...am I the only one that is floored by this?

 

"Okay guys, here's the plan. We're gonna go *ahem* take care of the old lady. Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge. And then we're gonna meet up at Viktor's for some nice borscht. I don't know about you guys, but this kind of *ahem* work makes me so hungry. XOXO."

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1 hour ago, teachercd said:

Hahaha!

 

Honesty, seeing that lol shocks me, like, I could maybe see it if it is a grown up texting their kid or something...but two adults?  

 

People use it all the time at work in IMs. Who cares...

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Regarding the GAO report - the contrast in responses couldn't be more polar  opposite 

The Dems in Red   the GOP in green.  

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/16/white-house-violated-the-law-by-freezing-ukraine-aid-gao-says-099682

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The report undercuts an oft-stated defense of Trump’s decision to hold the aid back: that it was a lawful exercise of the president’s authority.

“I have never seen such a damning report in my life,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee. “I mean, this is a nonpartisan thing. I read it twice. ... To have something saying this is such a total disrespect of the law. It’s unprecedented.”

Leahy said the conclusion “screams” for the need to force impeachment testimony from White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also said it “reinforces, again, the need for documents and eye witnesses in the Senate. You see this more and more and more in all of this — this tangled web to deceive that the administration is engaged in.”

But Republicans were unmoved by the findings, either claiming that they haven’t read GAO’s analysis or that it doesn’t mean much for the Senate impeachment trial.

“I wouldn’t think that a GAO opinion, per se, would change anything,” said Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.). “But we’ll listen to it, we’ll look at it and we’ll evaluate it.“

“I don’t think they should be deciding who broke the law,” he added.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said the report “identifies OMB, not the president. And it identifies policy reasons, not political reasons. I think we’re going to hear some more about it, but I don’t think that changes anything.“

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the House Labor-HHS-Education spending panel, conceded that OMB’s action might deserve some scrutiny. But it doesn’t hurt the president, he said.

 

 

 

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