I give Gowdy some credit here, even though I can’t stand him. He is retiring so he can get the recent Federal Judge vacancy in the district that he is from, very convenient appointment if he gets it. But it’s Trump that needs to nominate him for the that position first, so I give him credit for not kissing Trump’s ass in this particular instance.
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What we are seeing now is who wants to position themselves to run for President in 2020. They know Trump will go down and they want to be able to appear to have been on the right side of the law.
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Hmm what did Trey see.
This is getting interesting.
Also see a firm division growing, they are starting to isolate the memo to an undefined specific end. Which will likely dissipate in a breeze shortly.
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(Do double jeopardy rules apply to Impeachment?) I mean, if the Republicans had any brains, at all, they’d want to go through the motions of an impeachment while they still control the house, at least. If they stonewall until the next Congress is seated, they are unlikely, (I hope), to still have control. And while November may not make much of a difference in the Senate, the hearings in the House could get sooooo ucking fugly that the Senate, even without an overwhelming Democratic majority, would have little choice but to remove the Orange Urine-Stain. So, do it now, do it quick, or let the Democrats do it the way they will want.
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Ok, going to repost something from another thread:
Optimistic speculation here that Trey Gowdy, who has been saying that the memo (which he co-wrote) does nothing to discredit the Mueller investigation, has suddenly come to his senses. No, he hasn’t. On the contrary. He’s laying the ground for the firing of Rosenstein. The narrative will play out like this:
- Nunes memo discredits Rosenstein, not Mueller. We love Mueller!
- Rosenstein is fired because of memo–but this has nothing to do with Mueller and isn’t obstruction of Mueller. We love Mueller!
- Rosenstein is replaced with a GOP hack (very possibly Gowdy himself)–who loves Mueller!
- GOP hack blocks Mueller–whom he loves, so it can’t possibly be obstruction!
Folks, the leopard really doesn’t change his spots. There is not one fact to support the interpretation that Gowdy has had a road-to-Damascus moment. There is not one example of a moderate congressional Republican going down this path, let alone this arch-enemy of all things reasonable and liberal.
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Excluding some interest fo Gowdy’s down the road, this really is compelling. Not that he made the case for the Mueller investigation. Almost sensing he sat down, looked at it, reported a few off items but in reality realize he was aiding and abetting a crime. Thinking about the conversation with Tena and others a day back or so about that entanglement.
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Someone must have turned the lights on the roaches are scattering
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Trump refers to himself in the third person. Always a dangerous sign.
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It’s faux reasonableness. He wants to be the next AG or maybe FBI Director, I think, so it would look good to be “independent” of Trump. Doesn’t seem that his words are inconsistent with the plan to wrap-up-and-bury the Mueller probe, then hold very public show-trials on Benghazi!!! “corruption at the highest levels of the FBI under Obama’s reign of terror”.
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He’s just setting himself up as good cop herehe can express some deep concerns about the FBI down the road and be taken seriously.
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Agreed. It’s transparent.
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This is why people keep referring to this as stupid watergate
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Trey Gowdy suddenly growing a spine now that he is not running again for Congress is proof positive that term limits are a necessity. And that man desperately needs a hair consult.
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Donny 2 Scoops and his whole crime family are going down. Junior, you’re first.
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I can’t add much but I could bridge what we both said by saying that without the threat of a flipped House and even Senate, we wouldn’t see much public bet-hedging like this. Otherwise it’d be just as you say, they’ll say let Mueller do his work but they aren’t going to actively protect him or defy the administration all that seriously. I assume about four-fifths of the GOP reps know this will end badly, and they’ll have to show a record of being at least, as they always say, troubled and concerned. They’ll need some answers to give when people start yelling at them at the town halls. That’s why you hear this verbiage about Mueller and so forth. They’ll see how the election goes and gauge their own voters’ moods before they do anything more concrete about Trump, but they’ll have to be pushed toward it with ax handles and pitchforks first.
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I read somewhere that, after implying he was interested in the federal judgeship, Gowdy walked it back (can’t find the reference right now). That makes Gowdy’s situation even more interesting . . . if he doesn’t need Trump to nominate him, will he continue to speak out against this administration? Me, I think Gowdy knows the dirt is coming, is trying to distance himself, and hopes to emerge as a reasonable GOP (He lost that title after his 500th Benghazi investigation.)
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“And I was pretty integrally involved in the drafting of it,” he added
No, Congressman, nothing about the drafting process was even slightly related to integrity.
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And Zippy the Pinhead stand in and BENGHAZI! cheerleader has read the intelligence on Trump and his minions and has metaphorically laid his cards down and said fold .
I had better get out of here 'afore the shitstorm hits .
I’ll find me a nice quiet job working for the cat protection society rather than hang around for the bloodbath
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Yes, but no longer having to run for re-election has a “freeing” effect upon Republicans, and it shows.
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