Heat or $$'s?
I think the Democratic line is solidifying around “poor wimpy Comey, just couldn’t take the pressure of his job and cracked.” The fact that he’s been unable (or unwilling, but we need not go there) to rein in the anti-Clinton crazies at the FBI is another sign of his weakness.
I think that from a propaganda viewpoint this is much better than painting Comey as an evildoer, because if he’s an evildoer he’s strong and active. If he failed under pressure, he’s just another weak guy who’s been trying to project an illusion of strength.
Sounds like it is time for a woman director of the FBI. Men are just too weak and cannot take the pressures of politics. Just look at all the men who are so scared of a woman president, that they are planning her impeachment even before she takes office.
Nancy Pelosi: Comey ‘Couldn’t Take The Heat’ From Republicans
Ooooh! That’s cold!
How about we start with a Democrat for once? For this spot and for SecDef. No more cross-aisle appointments to cabinet posts.
Elections have consequences.
I think the $$ is coming from Putin.
That burn has to hurt.
*edit I feel ashamed of myself now. God hates puns.
Excellent points.
Toles nailed it again:
In the immortal words of my hometown President, Harry Truman, “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
If Truman was President, Comey would have been told to pack his things and leave two hours after he sent the bullshit letter.
I think she’s right to put it right back on the Republicans. That does far more good than trying to go after Comey directly. Just put it on the GOP because that’s who is guilty anyway - if Comey is responsible for the leaking and trying to effect the outcome of the election he’s doing it as a Republican, so it’s all the same really.
It’s the goddamn GOP!! They are wrecking the government utterly.
“I know it privately, because of being hacked by the Russians, and he says, ‘Well, it’s too close to the election to talk about that,’ and yet it’s not too close to the election to talk about the emails that he says may not be significant,” Pelosi said.
IOKIYAAMFR! (It’s OK if you are an m f’ing republican)
Like x 1000!
You know about snowballs… (at least I do, having grown up in West Germany)…
- Start with Josh Earnest’s masterful presser
- Continue with POTUS “Innuendo” interview (which has been on HuffPo most of the day)
- ____________________________________???
In the meantime, Congress (Reid, Pelosi) do their thing
As far as timing goes, I’d much rather be pushing back right now because the blowback will be remembered better than the bullshit I think.
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Nancy…words are great arent they?..but there best with paired with ACTION. The longer the public is held captive by this the longer the false narrative gets to play out on the trail where there is NO penalty for fabricated BS.
She could have tried calling a spade a spade. This wasn’t an error in judgement or a mistake. It was a partisan act consistent with the FBI’s long history of scuttling Democrats and Left leaning organizations. It’s not new at all.
It was a deliberate act by Comey. He knew the down side, being accused of partisanship and breaking with tradition. But the upside weighed more. Getting Trump into the Oval Office and keeping the Senate in the hands of the GOP. So he did it. Josh Marshall likes to talk about razors. The original one, Occam’s explains this mess nicely. There’s no confusion if you accept this as deliberate. There’s no ‘why Clinton and not Trump’ if you accept this as an effort to help Trump. If you take it like it is Mr. Occam puts it nicely in its place.
“I think that we have to just get through this election, and just see what the casualties are along the way."
Leader Pelosi continued:
“Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to write the initials ‘J.C.’ on this toe-tag.”