What you have is somebody who is so demented that they are either wittingly or unwittingly participating in a coup d’état.
Jim Himes
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Jim Himes is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as economic growth, healthcare, and national security during his tenure in Congress. Himes has been an advocate for democratic norms and transparency in government, often emphasizing the importance of the intelligence community in national discussions.
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by number of sourcesWhat worries me most about that is not that Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are being kicked out of the Senate.
What is devastating is that a United States senator, and maybe more than one United States senator, would effectively tee up a coup d’état, right?
There is zero proof that using mail-in ballots has led to a corruption of an election.
The president was setting the context. He was setting the basis for him to turn around at midnight on Election Day and say, ‘I warned you. I warned you back in July that the Chinese were doing X, Y, Z, and the Venezuelans were doing X, Y…
Our elections are safe and secure. This has been litigated, especially the 2020 election.
Our elections are not corrupt. They are fair and free, and that is sort of an undebatable fact based on the evidence that is out there.
I try to be nuanced and subtle, but there’s no other word than to say that the president lied to the American public — bald-faced, 180-degrees wrong, easily disprovable lies.
It is very likely that his party is going to lose the majority in the House of Representatives, and it’s probably a 50-50 proposition about where the Senate goes.
In this polarized and angry Congress, we are actually getting something done.
Bill Pulte doesn’t get one day with this authority, because we know he’ll abuse it.
Very sadly, I think we’re going to test this untested question about whether the program can run on a judicial certification alone.
I’ve known and respected Jay Clayton for decades. His intelligence, temperament and deep commitment to public service will make him a terrific DNI. Had this nomination been made a week ago, lots of pain might have been avoided.
It's a huge lost opportunity because the Senate bill had actually stronger safeguards than the House bill did.
The right thing to do is for the White House to say tonight that Bill Pulte will not be DNI, and we pass 702 probably with more Democrats and a stronger bipartisan vote.
In the basket of awful appointments he has made, this is probably the worst and most dangerous.
You just could not have come up with worse timing for what is probably the worst appointment into the intelligence community that I've ever seen.





