The first step in righting wrongdoing by a sitting president is a congressional investigation. If enough comes out of an investigation to believe the president is no longer fit for office, a committe of the House of Representatives drawing articles of impeachment, then bringing the articles to a vote by the full house. If the president is impeached by the house, the next step is a trial by the Senate - again, a vote.

As such, the process is entirely political.

Guess who controls the House and Senate? The Republicans, Trump's own party.

So unless Trump does something so mind-boggling egregious, something so bad that 'the base' pulls it's collective head out of the sand and starts demanding action from their congress critters to the point where those Worthy Gentlefolk start to fear for their next reelection bid... Or unless Trump does something to seriously p*ss off the Donor Class to the point where it collectively closes it's checkbook, sparking the same fear among the congress critters for their reelection campaigns...

As things stand today... Ain't nevva gonna happen.

The press conference is simply a way to try to bring attention to the issue, hoping maybe to reach those heads firmly stuck in the sand. An end run, so to speak, 'cause our craven congress critters aren't listening.

#politicaltheater(of the absurd)


ETA:

One reason that there isn't all that much energy (yet) behind an impeachment movement is the consequences of 'success'. Impeachment/trial/removal of Trump gives us Pence. Out of the frying pan into the fire.

No, of course not.

But my argument still stands. Palestainans need smarter leaders and need to come away from the all or nothing mentality.

Get them started on a small subset of the territory. Let them rule it themselves. Let them show the world how succesful they are and what a wonderful place it becomes. The rest will follow.

Instead they are stuck in a rut of demanding things they know full well that Israel won't give them.

That seems more than a touch condescending.

Indeed, one of Trumps master strokes was choosing Pence.

Tom

The Palestinians don't have much, the odd 5 star hotel or so

The al-Mashtal is Gaza's first five-star hotel, providing vital jobs and training to the area. ... The al-Mashtal is Gaza's first and only five-star hotel, an ambitious project in a place where there are no tourists and around 70% of the population lives below the poverty line.

Seems a quality business plan!

well it's since been joined by the Blue Beach Resort Gaza, so there was obviously a gap in the market.

Looks nice, 160 rooms and a private beach!

The 5 Best 5 Star Hotels in Gaza City of 2017 (with Prices) here

Trump is not an idiot. While his opposition plays to a politics of hurt feelings, he's delivering practical and measurable results. Retirement plans are up in double digit percentages since he took office, along with a bunch of other improvements not reported in the press. Come election time, real world results are hard to turn down in exchange for perceptions of hurt feelings.

Amogles is spot on. The Palestinians need true leadership that is concerned about lasting peace and prosperity for Palestinians, namely how they can benefit from the values Israel produces. At the moment, their politics are about their own power, at the cost of sacrificing Palestinian lives.

Tuesday will be the Alabama Senate vote day where Trump and the GOP (mostly) are supporting an alleged child molester.
President Trump is "on trial" in Roy Moore's campaign for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, the Republican candidate's top political strategist, Dean Young, said Sunday.

Democrat Doug Jones has a 50 percent to 40 percent lead over Republican Roy Moore in a new Fox News poll released this morning.

Whereas two polls - the first by the Trafalgar Group and the second by Gravis - show Moore leading by as much as 5 points.

Alabama is a bright red state where Trump won by 28 points.

I believe Moore will win because too few GOP voters will be able to bring themselves to vote Dem, not enough GOP females will abstain from the vote to support their children and not enough people of colour are motivated to turn out for the Dems.

Happy to be proved wrong

So are we saying because somewhere has some nice hotels in some bits of it, everything is fine and dandy for the inhabitants? Pyongyang has a 6 star hotel!
Hell, Leeds even has a Waitrose!

Economic growth due to tax reform alone won't cover full cost of GOP plan, US Treasury says.

Treasury assumes that corporate tax changes would spur half the economic expansion, while the other half would mostly come from yet-to-be determined proposals for overhauling the welfare system and improving infrastructure.

Source

So in the end the poor will have to pay for the tax cuts?

Apologies, I should have realised you were taking the mick I didn't follow your link.

Booking.com lists 1 ***** in Gaza - 94chf a night, sounds a bargain

You're implying they can do something about it, I think that's not true. And as long as Israel has the US's uncritical backing that won't change, least of all after Trump's announcement.

International law says Israel has no say in East Jerusalem. Anything to the contrary is illegal, just like the settlements in the westbank. Neither Israel nor the US care about legality though, there are plenty of precedents. Saying on that base the current state is the Palestineans fault is quite cynical.

Trump's announcement made sure there will not be a 2-state solution. As a result there will probably be ever more Intifadas, looks like the third just started.

At least there's some good news for space exploration: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ck-to-the-moon

However, time will tell if a bunch of words can be put into action.

Well there goes Trump tax cuts; the last estimate of costs for such space exploration was $500 per taxpayer

Meanwhile
Hard for him to prove he never knew or met them especially since several incidents were in Mar-a-Lago..

In a letter, 56 US lawmakers who are members of the Democratic Women's Working Group (DWWG) ask Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) to open an investigation into the matter after more than a dozen women have "publicly accused the President of sexual misconduct."

It gets better. After she asked him to resign over his sexual misconduct, Trump tweeted about Senator Gillibrand saying she was in his office "begging" for his contributions and "would have done anything" for them. Presidential.

It never ceases to surprise me the misconception that space research costs too much.

Maybe this can give a better perspective:

http://www.penny4nasa.org/

All in all the payback from space research is far greater then the investment. The Apollo program in the 60s put the world technology wise more the 20 years ahead of its time.

According to the link you posted, in the peak years of the moon missions NASA took around 5% of the Federal Budget.
Assuming Federal Budget in 2018 is similar to 2017 @ $3.6 Trillion then Trump's plan could cost $180 Billion per year versus as an example the cost of tax reform @ $150 Billion

I did not write space research costs too much, simply that space research costs a lot and Trump must find the funding; it will not drop out of the sky on its own