Ryan looked like he was having a bleach enema the whole time he was talking.
“Chaffetz’s letter to the FBI requests Comey memos not just for the first few months of the Trump administration but dating all the way back to the beginning of the Obama presidency in 2009.”
He’ll look for any morsel he can find to distract from Trump and refocus the investigation on Obama and HRC. For two seconds I thought maybe Chaffetz was finally going to do the right thing – but no. He’s an irredeemably dishonest GOP hack. Hope his foot gets gangrene.
Faith and begorrah, the Irish undertaker’s talking and isn’t it music to our ears.
I’ve had it. Congressional Republicans will do anything and everything to deflect this on to Obama and Clinton all the while letting Trump decimate our Republic for his and their own profit. Fuck them all! Traitors!!
When I saw Trump laughing with the Russians, including the spy Kislyak, in the Oval Office I was deeply offended.
And then I wondered why the Russians would release that photo if they saw any more usefulness left in Trump. The photo certainly seemed to leave him twisting in the wind, as they continued to spin the rest of us with the other claw.
It seems to me there are only three reasons why the Russians would have their photographer release that photo in the current geopolitical context:
1.Trump and his Russians colluders believe that their control over the U.S. is now so well in hand that they can be brazen about it. They believe the rest of us cannot reverse a surging incoming tide.
2.The Russians were letting Trump know that he himself is a helpless puppet of theirs, making him squirm, forcing him to do more of their bidding or face disclosure and destruction of his identity solely based on dominance and personal wealth.
3.Trump is/has always been a little toy for them and a useful tool to disrupt our democracy, deepening mistrust and paranoia among us, that has now become toy and tool no longer needed
All of this should frighten and mobilize us against a truly existential threat.
What we need to look for here is to see how all of this benefits Jason Chaffetz. He’s the second most self-centered man in Washington.
Those tax cuts are suddenly looking like a pipe dream
How much you want to bet they will insist on reviewing each memo - in the order they were produced? With no dedicated staff, of course.
The GOP will slow-roll this as long as they can. And you know that Pence etc. must all be rolling in the muck too, or they would be insisting that Trump resign and take his family and friends with him.
All of the above, but #2 isn’t about letting Trump know he’s a helpless puppet - they could care less what goes on in his head - it’s letting the rest of the world know that he is.
The Republicans are simply unable to focus on the issues at hand. Why would they need Comey “memos” back to the start of the Obama Administration, even before Comey was the FBI Director? They are on a fishing expedition and this should not be tolerated.
Stick tot the topic of Little Donnie Trump and the misbehavior of his minions as well as Little Donnie himself.
If you have time latter, and are still in office you can go fishing all you want you contemptible slugs.
Womack is an Arkansas (AR) rep, not an Alaskan (AK) one.
That would be Womack of AR and not AK. We have Don Young already. That’s enough crazy for one state to have to live with let alone throwing another whacker from Arkansas at us.
You may be right about Chaffetz’s intentions, but I’ve got enough faith in Obama that there won’t be anything in the Obama-era memos that will come close to what is in the Trump-era memos.
Of course they want a fishing expedition… but they should worry about getting what they wished for. Remember the Alberto Gonzales affair.
I also have faith in Obama’s integrity but that never stopped the GOP from trying to smear him.
There wasn’t anything significant about Benghazi, Fast and Furious or the damned emails either but look at how much mileage the treasonous GOPers got out of those non-scandal “scandals”.
“There are signs that Republicans aren’t being totally earnest in their freshly-minted crusade for more information.”
Ya think??
“You can run but you can’t hide”. It’s astonishing how Repugs are so spineless. 2018 will show them the way…out.