House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said Monday that he is expanding an investigation into Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ personal email use.
Sadly, it has been proven that use of a personal email address/server is not an issue unless you are a Democrat… the precedent has already been encoded into law.
It doesn’t do any good to drive these people from office, Trump will just appoint someone who is as bad or worse. They need to get indicted and sent to jail but that won’t happen until we have a Dem POTUS. Obama messed up by not going after the war criminals and financial grifters from the Bush Junior administration. The Dems can’t make that mistake again or we will get another repeat of the Trump administration
But I’d also add this: This administration provides such a target-rich environment for a Dem-controlled House that, relatively speaking (and not to trivialize), I’d say they have bigger fish to fry than this.
The Tweets write themselves. I’m not saying that this doesn’t need to be done, but you can imagine the “Whatabouting” and “They should investigate…instead” that we are about to endure.
Its getting quite sad to watch. Cummings has threatened, negotiated, even issued actual subpoenas, and gotten nothing as a result. KAC blowing him off is the most recent example.
Its like he is going to each member of the administration, just hoping he will find one who will at least go through the proper dance steps with him. And of course, none of them will. DeVos won’t be any different.
Oh, and bear in mind, Cummings still HASN’T issued a subpoena, and is still “negotiating” regarding getting anyone from the administration to appear before his committee with regards to how security clearances are given out.
I understand the theory of “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s” because it will all eventually end up in Court. But I think Dems screwed the pooch on this stuff early on by not slamming down hard on the first refused subpoena. Like, stop everything else, nothing moves and nothing gets talked about but getting this person in front of Congress…either dragged there in irons, or meekly on their own accord. Because once that precedent got set, the Administration has just run with it, and will continue to do so.