Discussion: McConnell Doesn't Want A Select Panel Investigating Russian Hacking

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He can try to keep a lid on this. But the reason conspiracy-theory enthusiasts are such silly people is that conspiracies are relatively rare because they tend to unravel. Anybody paying attention could tick off four or five institutions with no allegiance to or particular fondness for Trump that have a reason to be probing into this. The intelligence community comes to mind. Ambitious high-level journalists. Democratic senators. Criminal prosecutors. Foreign intelligence services. Trump and the GOP may have a marriage of convenience going on but that doesn’t make them invulnerable.

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Senate Democrats plus there might be a couple of Republicans ought to play hardball and block his wife’s confirmation for Transportation Secretary until there is a select committee. Some PAC ought to run ads with his turtle faced mug morphing into Putin’s

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Yes. That’s a huge story.

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If there were more Lindsey Grahams in the GOP Senate caucus Mitch McConnell would have been removed from a leadership position by now. Unfortunately, it’s stuffed to the gills with Cotton, Cruz, Lee, & co.

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Aren’t most Intelligence Committee hearings held behind closed doors? Isn’t this where the turtle wants them held?

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Bless his ratfking little heart. We might LEARN something. Nope, not happening.

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And a select committee could have the power to appoint a special prosecutor, as others have pointed out here. The subpoenas go out, the weak links crack, and poof, no more conspiracy.

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Mitch McConnell: Senate handmaiden to a fascist takeover of the United States. There really isn’t much more to be said about the man, except that he is an absolute traitor to the United States of America. I rank him up there with Aaron Burr.

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Well, we would have to wait until January 20th to impeach him. He can’t be impeached until he’s actually in office. Who knows what will happen between now and then?

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Mitch already has the top secret information:

Trump and Paul Manafort collaborated with the Russians to hack the DNC’s server’s and to bug their headquarters. The FBI report is being kept under wraps and won’t ever be released to the public if the Republicans keep control of the congress.

In the 2020 election…Trump wins with 98% of the popular vote matching his boss Vladimir’s victory 2 years ago.

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Both McCain and Graham will quietly and obediently follow what McConnell wants. Until the Dems take back the Senate there will be no serious investigation. Trump will never be impeached or even investigated as long as Republicans control the House. Republicans ALWAYS put party and ideology before country.

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Even better: they should start making the case and messaging that McConnell should fully and completely recuse himself from her confirmation process.

I am also wondering if that case involves relying on nepotism laws to argue he would be running afoul of them by participating.

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Thoughts?

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That select committee would face pressure to be out in the open.

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Select Committee, subpoenas, Special Prosecutor, witnesses (many of whom take the 5th or make deals to testify), documents, emails, tapes, the investigation leads to many other areas of Trump and Republican shenanigans and illegalities, indictments, trials, impeachment, jail time. Sounds familiar. McConnell will do all he can to keep a lid on this.

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“What did he know, and when did he know it?”

Sorry, traitor, but you don’t get to call yourself a “patriot” if you cover up Russian attacks on the US.

#QuislingMitch

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Illness. An act of God. Who knows?

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Everyone here has all the pieces. McConnell is complicit–whether as an accessory before, during or after the fact to be determined, but complicit, and he knows it. And his entire strategy, all of his pieties, his pleas for the regular order and liberal application of Bipartisan Happy Face and “America, Fuck Yeah!” stickers are directed toward one, single objective: the prevention, at all costs, of the appointment of a special prosecutor. And his strategy is readily apparent.

  1. Deny the problem. If that fails (and it has),
  2. Steer into the intelligence committees because he sits on the Senate panel and everything that happens is secret. And, if that fails,
  3. Acquiesce to, and encourage, the creation of a Bipartisan Happy Face Blue Ribbon Totally Nonpartisan Special Expert Commission that will hear the most damning evidence in secret and then split along partisan lines with minority and majority reports that will create an acceptable squid-ink cloud of contradictory narratives to cloud the mind of the public and the MSM.

He does not want a select committee. Select committees have a way of bringing out information in a way that compel the appointment of a special prosecutor.

But, if all else fails, he can always count on the essential lawlessness of Trump, fully aware the Jefferson Beauregard Sessions will never appoint or designate one on his own initiative and Trump will block it no matter what anyone says about him, and Tweet vitriol at everyone who demands it.

Because, yeah, he knows what kind of stuff the Russians have if they have RNC and Senate Republican emails and he knows–though we don’t–the extent of his complicity.

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I wonder if this will actually be in the dictionary by the end of 2017.

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yes, it was hotlinked in the original article, and that formatting didn’t transfer. But that’s how these stupid changes start.

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