By Steve Rhodes
If you can’t brief Mike Pence adequately, you don’t deserve to have the job. After all, Pence may be president soon.
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So Mike Pence doesn’t like being lied to. Now he knows how the rest of America feels.
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From Politico last October:
“Those who’ve known Flynn for years wonder how a kid from an Irish-Catholic family of blue-collar Democrats who went on to be a dedicated, much-admired soldier ended up being a top national security adviser to a man widely viewed as a demagogue, friendly to Russia and widely seen as ignorant of foreign policy. They worry that in his political naivete and innate loyalty Flynn is being used – and will be branded as a radical himself. And some of them are concerned that Flynn, who believes he was pressed into early retirement for appearing to question the Obama administration’s public narrative that al-Qaeda was close to defeat, is being handed a national stage to play out his personal frustrations.”
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Roskam Wreckage
So how did Rep. Peter Roskam’s teleconference town hall go Monday night?
Worse than even I expected.
Some highlights from the plethora of tweets on the matter from NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern:
@MaryAnnAhernNBC @PeterRoskam Yep.5 minute tax speech followed by half a canned (non)response to ACA, & then disconnected. How “productive!”
— Elly (@ellysaysopa) February 14, 2017
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Thank U @MaryAnnAhernNBC for reporting on so-called @PeterRoskam phone town hall. I was cut off after 7 minutes.
— Juli Rowen (@Juli_Rowen) February 14, 2017
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I was on that call. Or trying to be. Listened to silence for FORTY minutes before giving up https://t.co/sLySjxzUkg
— Mairin W-B (@mwisnew) February 14, 2017
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@MaryAnnAhernNBC @PeterRoskam Received call at 7:50pm and went dead at 7:58pm….
— Nikki (@mailschu) February 14, 2017
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@MaryAnnAhernNBC however he is not answering questions and does not allow for dialogue.
— Nicole Majka (@nicole_majka) February 14, 2017
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@MaryAnnAhernNBC Am listening to dead air on Roskam’s town hall Audio went dead 10 minutes in, but I am still waiting.
— Suzanne Rahm (@RahmSuzanne) February 14, 2017
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@MaryAnnAhernNBC I stayed on for the entire town hall listening to dead air. Audio came back just in time for “the town hall has ended”.
— Suzanne Rahm (@RahmSuzanne) February 14, 2017
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Earlier @PeterRoskam staff said “it’s like a big conference call, everyone can listen we take one question at a time” #TeleTownHallDebacle
— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) February 14, 2017
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Hope it goes better than @PeterRoskam‘s did tonight: https://t.co/C7y08VDoXg
— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) February 14, 2017
Wednesday night I will be hosting a tele-town hall. I’ll call you so be sure to sign up here: https://t.co/mkEJrlzzTl pic.twitter.com/ZcXrbCxDbC
— US Rep Rodney Davis (@RodneyDavis) February 13, 2017
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@MaryAnnAhernNBC just called Roskam’s D.C. office; the staffer on the line said he did not know if phone town hall audio would be released
— Ethan Waterman (@thewaterman11) February 14, 2017
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Still no word from @PeterRoskam even after repeated attempts to ask why his Telephone Town Hall dropped so many calls
— Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) February 14, 2017
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The Week In Chicago Rock
Featuring: Priests, Pylon Reenactment Society, Noname, Ravyn Lenae, Rebecca F. and the Memes, Marduk, Coeur de Pirate, Whethans, Cloud Nothings, The Nth Power, Monk 9, Holly Bowling, October Bird of Death, and Jungle of Cities
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Cal City Candidates Called Upon
Immigration, policy accountability on tap at forum, upcoming elections.
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BeachBook
How White House Advisor Stephen Miller Went From Pestering Hispanic Students To Designing Trump’s Immigration Policy.
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TweetWood
A sampling.
This guy got to Flynnghazi before I could, and went much further with it than I was intending to. Bravo.
This #FlynnGhazi situation is simply #Flynnsane. We need a #Flyndependent #Flynnvestigation of General Flynn.
— Harvey King of Shade (@bodysculptorokc) February 13, 2017
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Neither does the way CPS distributes its resources in the same, unequal fashion.
#CPS bd prez Frank Clark: the state’s separate and unequal funding system does not provide students with funding they deserve.
— WBEZeducation (@WBEZeducation) February 14, 2017
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The Beachwood Tronc Line: Mar-a-Cago.
Posted on February 14, 2017