Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) on Tuesday took aim at Attorney General Merrick Garland, critiquing the Justice Department’s handling of cases related to Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
This guy possesses enough stupid to compete with the Republicans for stupidest Rep honours.
Cnn: “DEMS IN DISARRAY!!”
Gallego continued: “And you have, again, an attorney general who is feckless…”
Me, I picture Merrick Garland as a 40 ton anvil, hanging by a increasingly fraying rope, right over the heads of the treasonous Trumpanzees.
Can’t say I disagree with his assessment of Merrick the Mild’s overt obsession with not wanting to appear “political” – just because certain GQP bloviators will go on Fox and frame prosecution of clear criminal activities among the coup plotters as biased.
I think by now Garland knows that bloviators are gonna bloviate.
There ya go.
The problem for Garland to me is this.
A scale of 1-10. 10 represents actions that look, though may not be partisan. Fox News already are projecting how one sided and unfair these are.
So Garland dials back to 7.
Then Fox News jumps on that, yelling that it is all a set up and obviously one sided. They will spend days or weeks pumping that message. The viewership and even the public at large become acclimated to the idea that 7 is really 10.
So Garland dials back to 5.
And guess what, in a short period of time, 5 is now the top of the scale.
So if he is fretting over appearances, he is still getting cut off at the knees in the outside world.
He can dial all the way to zero, come into the office, sit with his hands folded and never say a word. But simply breathing will become a partisan issue in no time.
He needs to do the job, forget appearances and do what is the right thing. I am not saying the right thing is going full bore and looking like something from the Inquisition. But he needs to play his game, the proper one and not theirs. He is never going to win the non-partisan label.
I understand the Representative’s frustration over the apparent slow pace of the investigation, but he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. AG Garland’s interests are 1) to investigate the facts and understand the law pertaining to the actions taken by Trump and his henchman between Nov. 3rd and Jan. 6th, and 2) putting together an airtight case for indictment, prosecution and conviction of said perpetrators.
I am hoping that the DoJ investigation is well along, but at this point I have no need to know. I also hope that politics plays no role in the decision to indict or prosecute, because, the overwhelming instinct of the DoJ is stay out of it. I may be hopelessly naive, but I think the good people of the FBI and the DoJ have had enough of Trump’s callous bullshit and are on this, and that we will see something soon enough.
Gallego is right. There is no sense of urgency with this DoJ (or with Americans in general). They act as if American democracy is not under siege and the insurrection was just another political picnic. By the time Milquetoast Merrick gets around to thinking about discussing whether he should consider maybe perhaps one day possibly charging the insurrectionists, American democracy will be done.
As my late father used to say:
This fellow is ‘speaking from the height of his ignorance’.
Hummm. Wait and see. They are working on an airtight case. Critics just don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes. Yada, yada, yada. Sound familiar? Anyone here remember a fella named Muller?
Garland needs to name a special counsel. It should have been done his first week in office, if nothing else but to convey the signifigance of the situation.
He’s done grave damage by his inaction.
From the article:
Many of those who pushed the Big Lie that inspired the riot have so far avoided accountability.
Actually, as far as I know, not one of “those who pushed the Big Lie” has been held accountable.
No, not really. The man seems to have a pretty good understanding of what’s going on here.
Sure…satisfy me…'cause I have all the answers to this puzzle.
And all the documents
And all the witnesses
And all the communications
And all the…
A special council would be good window dressing to assure a nonpartisan investigation, but it would also delay the process, possibly by years. Things will move faster as a normal DOJ investigation.
The window dressing would be superfluous anyway, because any indictment of Trump by Garland will still be slammed as being purely political anyway.
What is zero conspirators are charged with Sedition or Treason leading up to 2022, doesn’t that destroy the narrative of “insurrection”?
That generalization is so general that it’s meaningless. Try again.
Right. Based solely on the fact that we armchair strategists are not seeing everything we want at exactly when we want it, we should all give up.
His name was Mueller. If you’re going to wildly accuse him of failing to follow what you think he “needs to” have done, at least spell it right. Makes you marginally more credible.