he’ll be challenging Cheney numbers soon
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While I don’t disagree, I think it’s going to be hard to run from the sabotaging of Clinton just to take down the “sitting president.” He could have taken down the “Billionaire” Reality Star with just as much acclaim, AND saved the US from a Trump Presidency at the same time.
I don’t understand Comey’s game at all. Unless it’s just to be able to say that he personally influenced the election, and the result of putting Pence into the Presidency???
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Totally agree.
I still don’t know enough about Comey to know what his true motivation may be but as you said, the result is going to work for Mr. Comey, so he’s going to give it everything.
I took perhaps a bit more than I should from some things I caught in his demeanor in the House hearing. Number one, he doesn’t suffer fools gladly and he made that clear when that fool, Trey Gowdy, spoke. He was very civil to Schiff - I think he respects his intellect. I don’t think he cares at all for Nunes.
Since he’s the one sitting on all the evidence, I just am interested in his reactions, subtle to a fault though they are.
And I don’t think Comey is politically ideological at all - what he is is a G Man, through and through.
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no, no, never, never, uh, uh, uh
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The body language was subtle but apparent. I also came off with the feeling that Comey is just going through the numbers and he knows exactly how this is going to turn out. And it will not be good for those trying to deflect from the real issues.
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If it is okay for Trump to hold Napolitano, a 9/11 conspiracy nut, up as
a quotable source, why can’t I do the same with a highly respected
former Mi6 agent?
Whose specialty was Russia and who ran the Russian desk, I might add.
On that note - I wish TPM would not fall into the corporate media trap of calling the dossier “unsubstantiated” - some of them may be unverified, but some of the others have checked out. This is a High Broderism at its worst.
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I have to agree.
His facial expressions were also subtle but apparent.
He knows where he’s going.
What “guys” are you referring to? And what “leaders”? If you mean Grassley, he is a leader in the senate.
O Jesus!
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!
Chuck Grassley and Republicans are more interested in the leakers than that a Foreign Power interfered in the American elections. Even Dick Cheney said that this was an act of war. Republicans are so afraid of what else is going to be exposed about Trump and the GOP and how they had their dirty little fingers all over this. The RNC is said to have contracted with a Russian company know to have ties to Putin to find dirt on Hillary Clinton. This is why a independent select committee and special prosecutor is required to get to the truth of the matter.
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…a fishing expedition to find out who knew what before it became known unknowingly…and to see how close it comes to his saggy behind.
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I really think this is the key to most of what the GOP has been up to - running scared with their hair on fire, trying to keep anyone from seeing the flames.
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As bad as the Trump-Putin scandal is going to be - and don’t get me wrong, I think it is going to be really bad - there aren’t any dead Americans from it yet. And there’s a pretty high bar to reach on that metric when you consider Nixon’s interference with peace talks in Vietnam, and how many Americans died from the subsequent prolongation of that war.
Then there’s the Reagan Campaign’s interference in getting hostages back from Iran, which very likely led to the hostage being kept by Iran for months longer than they would have otherwise.
So I would place both of those scandals as being worse than the GOP’s Russian Connection in terms of damage to human lives, at least so far.
Treasonous collusion with America’s enemies, to influence our elections, is a Republican tradition at this point - extending back to Nixon and Reagan.
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Senile useless Trump follower Grassley seeks to divert the investigation away from treason? Yep. It’s party above country for this fool.
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Yes. And I would point out that Christopher Steele doesn’t make his living by being wrong.
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I wonder what the magic number is, the one where Republicans start brazenly running away from PP. I’m thinking under 30% gets them there.
Only if the number gets low for Republican supporters. For Senators and gubernatorial candidates the general polling numbers are critical, but GOPers in the House likely don’t give a shit about general polling numbers that include Democrats unless they happen to live in a true swing district where the R advantage is not significant.
Those were very, very bad both in the effect on innocent lives and morally, of course. But I think in overall ability to shock the conscience and its sweeping effects on world affairs, this will be seen by history as much worse. Trump has almost certainly been laundering Russian mob money and government corruption money for years. He accepted the help of, coordinated with, and did the bidding of a hostile foreign nation in order to be installed at the highest level of political power on the globe. Putin has been systematically murdering people who knew about this. An entire political party and huge swathe of the nation went along with it. Our knowledge of the extent of the coverup and that extent itself grows daily. A competent, committed public servant was edged out of the competition and a lurid huckster put in place at the top of the world’s only superpower, where he’s consistently done the hostile nation’s bidding, destabilizing global alliances and threatening the entire world order in ways that haven’t played out yet. There’s nothing in history that compares to it.
Yet.
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You mean like the people who were jailed for a conspiracy to torture thousands of prisoners? Or the people who were jailed for a conspiracy to defraud millions of homeowners?
I mean like the people who went to jail for offenses related to Watergate. Sometimes powerful people evade justice. Sometimes they don’t.
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