I'm Undoubtedly A Liberal, Which Means That

What's Insulting To The American People, The Senate, To This Whole Process Is That The Republicans, With All Other Nominees, Have Said Democrats Are Being Obstructionist For Wanting To See Documents, For Wanting To See A Paper Trail, For Wanting To Get Questions Answered In The Judiciary Committee Hearings, And Now All Of A Sudden, The Republicans Want Those Things For This.

The New [donald Trump] Administration May Not Want The Benefit Of [dan Fried] Expertise In Terms Of Figuring Out What Russia Is Up To With Us Right Now But I Do. I Mean, We Can All Benefit From It As A Country As We Figure Out What`s Going On Right Now With This Presidency And With Russia In Particular.

We Ought To Realize By Now (see Korea, See Vietnam, See Afghanistan, See Iraq, See Iran) That Deploying The Us Military, Or Dealing Billions Of Dollars A Year Of Arms To Our Ally Of The Moment That Can Serve As A Regional Rival To Our Enemy Of The Moment, Is Not Always The Best Way To Make Threats Go Away. Our Military And Weapons Prowess Is A Fantastic And Perfectly Weighted Hammer, But That Doesn't Make Every International Problem A Nail.

I Feel Like I Have More In Common With Conservative People Who Have Activist Causes In Their Hearts And Who Are Interested In Electoral Politics Than I Do With Somebody Who Doesn't Care, Doesn't Have Any Political Interests, Doesn't Know What Policy Is, And Doesn't Think Any Of It Matters To Them. If You Care, We're Actually Going To Have A Basis Of Conversation. We Might Supplementally Get Along Very Well, And That Might Be Complicated And Fun In A Way That Is More Constructive Than You'd Expect.

Part Of What The [british] Dossier Says Is This, Quote, "the Operation", Meaning The Effort To Influence Our Election, "that Has Been Conducted With The Full Knowledge And Support Of [donald] Trump And Senior Members Of His Campaign Team. In Return, In Return, The Trump Team Has Agreed To Sideline Russian Intervention In Ukraine As A Campaign Issue."