About effing time!
What about McGahn, too??
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Didnāt the committee already vote to hold Barr in contempt?
Looking forward to this vote, I believe, tomorrow.
āThe House Oversight Committee announced on Monday evening that it will vote to hold Attorney General Bill Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt on Wednesdayā¦ā
Pop Quizā¦
In response, the Veruca Salt Brigade will:
- Complain the contempt citation is not sternly-worded enough.
- Claim the contempt vote they demanded ā and now have ā is useless.
- Find several new ways to work the phrase āDemocratic Establishment Shillā into their TPM posts.
- Affix motorized wheels to the goalposts.
- All of the above.
Remember to show your work.
Barr was barely able to avoid one contempt vote today only to walk into another. Geeā¦almost like thereās a strategy or something.
This strategy of making Barr repeatedly back down has the added benefit of demonstrating his weakness to Trump. How long before we hear, āI was never a big fanā¦ā?
No last minute deal that delivers nothing but saved faces all around?
Yes, but this is the full House -I think.
ETA: The oversight committee gave them one more chance. This is not the full House.
You forgot that Nancy Pelosi is incompetent and Chuck Schumer is clueless..
They donāt care on this one because the fix is already in. Thomas isnāt going to give a fuck at this point that they are literally and explicitly trying to fuck minority voters. Heās got his and thatās all that matters, so pull up the ladder, boys!
Thereās gonna be a lot of contempting.
Gee-Oh-Pee-ers will demand that the DOJ cannot do anything on Wednesdays .
I would say āsmall,ā but okay.
I donāt trust where this idea came from that Barr is some kind of deep-thought, intellectual lawyer who just loves his country so much. I donāt believe it.
Itās terrible to distrust the Attorney General. But itās wise.
And I didnāt see the phrase āslow walkā anywhere in that, either.
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A slowly escalating set of actions that show the clear contempt the administration has to the rule of law? Seems like a pretty good strategy to use if you want to lay a foundation of corruption and legal actions, building up support for more intensive investigations.
Yup, this. Absolutely this. AKA the āwell, about time! / not enough! / what took so long? / sure, but what aboutā¦?ā anti-Dem while playing Dem attack playbook.
@irasdadās 5 - all of the above, works too. 