This entire part of our history is a sickening roller coaster in which you get brief moments of respite (FBI raids Cohen offices) from long spells of vomit inducing Rethuglican fueled insanity (subpoena everybody!).
Nothing short of the rule of law and the concept of America is under assault and these bastards are doing the Kremlinâs dirty work.
Nice to see Republicans interested in truth and justice.
Ahem, sorry, I just threw up in my mouth.
I share a country with 63 million plus âmorally bankruptâ individuals in AmeriKKKa!
Indeed they might as well say weâre with the Russians and Trump
They are trying to set up Rosenstien when he says itâs an ongoing investigation and no they canât
Then they will say this is grounds for termination.
As with all things in these times âFollow the Moneyâ
These unpatriotic actions would lead someone to insinuate that there was a lot of Russian cash floating around that they would rather not discuss.
To say I am disgusted would not even approach it
To say I am surprised , why heavens to Citizens United no.
Spam. Flagged. Bye-bye.
Well, subpeona the DOJ and FBI, and threaten them with contempt and jail for following the rules and sending inane text messages. But do not - do not - subpoena members of the Trump team who refuse to answer questions while asserting no existing privilege, and especially do not call witnesses or compel the production of documents that Democrats request.
Dismantling democracy and the institutions of government. Are they doing it for Trump, because they are compromised themselves or because itâs something theyâve wanted to do for a long time and now the time seems right. All of the above is an acceptable answer.
Note that in this drama, all the players are Republicans, ostensibly upset about the mistreatment of HRC, a democrat they have abused and slandered publicly for 30 years.
The only way I can stomach this treasonweaseling is by imagining that OSC is going to unleash a Force5 shitstorm of countermoves and indictments should red-congress make a move on them.
Elect a clown expect a circusâŚup and down the ballotâŚ
No plan, no strategy, no morals, ethics or honor
Comey allegedly typed up summaries of his meetings with Trump on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014). Curiously the script is in the font âCalibri Lightâ, a font option not available on that system, nor offered in later updates. Additionally, 18 minutes of critical discussion between the two has gone missing.
Jail!!
Yes, the massive layoffs in 2008, were in large part because businesses now had a very public excuse to do what theyâd wanted to do for some time.
You really have to be deep in a bubble to make such obviously laughable and implausible arguments. Or just dumb, I guess, or both.
I think a number of pundits have correctly identified the ploy here. The end goal is to hold Rosenstein in contempt of Congress in order to give Cockholster a reason to fire him, thus paving the way to installing a goon to either fire Mueller or, at least, throttle his investigation. In short, anything to protect the don (AKA mob boss).
Add to the specter the statement yesterday by the despicable Senate Majority Leader McTurtle that no bill protecting Mueller would ever reach the Senate floor and, voilĂ , the complete hijacking of our democracy is complete.
Makes you wonder a) what Putin has on McTurtle and/or b) what kind of massive grift the tag team of McTurtle and Chao have going on?
Desperation is a bigly motivator, too.
Turtle has famously stated the stalled nomination of Merrick Garland and subsequent installation of Neil Gorsuch on SCOTUS will go down as his most historic achievement. Once Rosenstein is fired and Muellerâs investigation is crippled heâll certainly have to rank this as his #2 achievement.
I was assuming that was snark, referring to dotardâs letter re: firing of Comey.
or I read it wrong.
As Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs team probes deeper into potential collusion between Trump officials and representatives of the Russian government, investigators are taking a closer look at political contributions made by U.S. citizens with close ties to Russia.
Buried in the campaign finance reports available to the public are some troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to President Donald Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. We have allowed our campaign finance laws to become a strategic threat to our country.
An example is Len Blavatnik, a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen and one of the largest donors to GOP political action committees in the 2015-16 election cycle. Blavatnikâs family emigrated to the U.S. in the late '70s from the U.S.S.R. and he returned to Russia when the Soviet Union began to collapse in the late '80s.
Data from the Federal Election Commission show that Blavatnikâs campaign contributions dating back to 2009-10 were fairly balanced across party lines and relatively modest for a billionaire. During that season he contributed $53,400. His contributions increased to $135,552 in 2011-12 and to $273,600 in 2013-14, still bipartisan.
In 2015-16, everything changed. Blavatnikâs political contributions soared and made a hard right turn as he pumped $6.35 million into GOP political action committees, with millions of dollars going to top Republican leaders including Sens. Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham.
Once again, we see that the unstated major premise of the Republican Party is that the American people are dumb. And often thatâs trueâviz. der Furor in the Oval. But the people are smartening up, and moves like this just accelerate the process.