McConnell is a danger to this country. It’s high time for Republicans, and more than just McCain and Graham, to publicly challenge McConnell and to not just ask, but initiate through whatever means necessary, immediate and multiple investigations into the Russian hacking. When multiple intelligence agencies say it’s happened, when we have public evidence that it’s happened (wikileaks) and when it involves the fundamental nature of our Democracy, it’s not something to be taken lightly. It’s deadly serious and if McConnell won’t put up, someone needs to shut him up.
“I think we ought to approach all of these issues on the assumption that the Russians do not wish us well.”
It’s a measure of where we are that I find myself surprised to see the Republican Senate leader still willing to express a small degree of wariness about the Russian government.
Trump says:
“Can you imagine if the election results were the opposite and WE tried to play the Russia/CIA card. It would be called conspiracy theory!”
Is “we” the republican party? If so, when did Graham and McCain become Democrats? (and wouldn’t that be nice)
Well that’s it then.
Now you know for sure the Russians and Wikileaks have some really incriminating shit on McConnell and the Republicans.
Play dumb or we release it blackmail
Nothing to see here …move along
Democracy , It was a nice experiment while it lasted
Mitch is afraid it would tie up the hearing room when it’s needed for more Benghazi hearings.
“McConnell: No Need For Special Committee To Probe Russian Hacking.”
It appears to me as if top Republicans fear what a Special Committee would uncover.
The Senate should form a Special Committee. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.
No need - - good to know!
BTW can we just grant McConnell and Trump a joint Nobel Peace Prize without having to go through all of that wearying Scandinavian hoopla??
So McConnell is trying to block efforts to find out whether a foreign power tampered with the election in order to put its preferred candidate in the White House? How is McConnell not endangering national security? How is he not endangering national security knowingly? Isn’t here a word for this, it starts with “t”……
CNN is framing this as a rebuke to Trump, because McConnell has no problem with existing committees investigating. Better than nothing, I say. Indeed, we may find evidence of Russians interfering in the Republican primaries.
Or he doesn’t want to endanger his wife’s new position with the Trump administration. It would be nice to see some democrats, perhaps Reid since he is retiring, take on the role of attack dog and just flat out accuse him of suppressing information related to foreign interference in the election when Obama brought it to him before the election in a quid pro quo for his wife’s new position. Just to make him deal with the optics of the accusation.
I think that the only reason Yertle is willing to give even some lip service to Russian interference is most like coming from Western democracies in Europe who are sh*tting green nickles about Rump’s alliance with Russia. For them, it’s imperative to keep Putin on notice. They would be directly impacted by Russia run amok.
McConnell and other Republicans will create a means by which to simply vanish all evidence of what the Russians have been doing (yes, it’s all no doubt continuing in this country and throughout the world).
it is hard not to notice the similarity between Watergate and the Russian hacking. The Watergate plumbers broke into the DNCC headquarters, and now we have the friggin Russian government operatives hacking in to DNCC emails and also into Podesta’s email. There were lots of coverups and unfortunately, Nixon did get re-elected after Watergate happened. Will it take years to unwind the connections between team trump and the Russian hackers? It was pretty obvious that Trump’s campaign messaging worked in tandem with the Wikileaks revelations. And Breitbart and RT.com we’re in sync with the distorted news and fake news. I would suspect that the ads run by trump on social media also used distorted messages relating to the hacked emails to sway voters against Clinton. The real unknown is what agreements were made between trump and/or his friends/advisors and the Russians.
McConnell: No Need For Special Committee To Probe Russian Hacking
The most important thing here is that Trump rejected the CIA findings just because he didn’t like them. With no evidence to the contrary. So, he has now demonstrated that he intends to govern without benefit of facts. That’s not surprising, given his campaign, but people could hope that his administration would be more responsible. Not gonna happen. And THAT should be the focus of media attention.
Oh, I still think they’re going to release it anyway. Putin’s end game is Russian power and dominance. I’m not sure he really gives a shit about enriching Russian business interests as much as he cares about weakening the US. At some point, he’s going to turn on Republicans because it will be in his best interest, in Russia’s best interest, to do so.
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Yes! Great idea – keep Mitch angry and on the defensive. Mitch is definitely trying to downplay any role he had in suppressing this information during the election season. Mitch is the one was who was playing partisan politics with the integrity of our election system and the safety of the USA. He needs to be exposed.
and MSNBC is, right now, portraying McConnell’s comment as heroic, i.e. as evidence of him working for the common good. Their statements are completely ignoring the fact that McConnell won’t support a bipartisan, investigative committee.