There were James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo, two whites who were killed in the Civil Rights Struggles of the 1960s.
They didn’t lose interest.
All we have to do is just let Trump continue to be his piggish self and let that make remembering to think about the Full Mueller Report which can have a hand in putting that bastard away.
Didn’t used to be that Rethugs listened to NPR. Times have changed as I used to listen all the time and now not very much.
You know I am not sure that this administration gives a fuck about the public and the only way we will get it is via a leak or Congress or the courts.
Here is part of report here on TPM that I think is restricted to Prime members.
“In a scrum with a reporters on Wednesday, Nadler played coy when a reporter asked him whether he starts writing up the subpoena as soon as the Barr blows the April 2 deadline, but other Democratic members of the Judiciary committee have told me that a subpoena is on the table.”
Get on the phone with your representatives, people!
You just gave me a vision of a drunken Barr barricaded in his office at the DoJ, guzzling whiskey, cursing under his breath, and shouting, “Get me the White House!” to the people who aren’t there.
While Donnie’s laying in a pile of McDonald’s cheeseburger wrappers and watching Hannity tell him everything’s going to be OK.
Thank you.
If Barr doesn’t give the HJC the full unredacted report on Apr. 2nd, then a subpeona should follow. If Barr ignorss a lawful subpeona on this matter, then BARR should be impeached for Obstruction of Justice. Its that simple.
The GOP and the WH want to “rope-a-dope” this thing until the cows come home. The House needs to break out the baseball bats.
I think only the Senate can impeach presidential appointees.
Republican pols have overplayed their hand. Now their own constituents believe the full report will exonerate orange Julius. It won’t.
In the recent NPR/PBS/Marist poll, three-quarters of Americans said the report should be made public, including 54 percent of Republicans, an overwhelming 90 percent of Democrats, and three-quarters of independents. NPR found that just 18 percent of respondents felt that Barr’s summary of the investigation was sufficient.
Clearly, 18 percent of these respondents have shit for brains, and that includes the 40% of Republicans who most definitely have shit for brains. /snark
The one thing I dislike about these polls is that they don’t explicitly ask the question regarding release of the full report with adequate redactions for security/intelligence issues. I do not want an unredacted report released. That would be irresponsible. The question is who do you allow to make the redactions? I don’t trust political appointees for this task. I believe Mueller should provide the redactions throughout his report and his supporting documentation.
Hello! Let me know when these pricks care about what Americans think…if they did ,McConnell wouldn’t be obstructing,Ryan would have taken up legislation that benefitted the electorate,the supreme court would not be packed with Conservatives,people would not be living like animals ,incarcerated at the border,Trump would not be lying incessantly knowing there would be consequences.
Hypothetical…what if Muellar does a Trump…eschews laws and protocols and hands over the report to Congress,plays legal rope a dope for years knowing the contents are going to sink the Don and the rest of his sordid Cabal…I’m musing…daydreaming…but it would be sweet
Reports are written to be read. Most times nobody bother. This time everyone is curious. Stonewalling will just make people want to read it even more. “Why were the Russian sanctions lifted by the GOP at the 2016 Republican convention?” will become the meme that all GOP incumbents will have to face with Independent voters. Republicans can’t afford this much scrutiny. The NRA is almost bankrupt because of their involvement with the Russians.
On the other hand, a poll of Bill Barr and members of the Trump cabinet showed that 100% of them said “fuck you, we’ll do what we want!”
I don’t get much love for my take…but I think the Mueller Report is not going to save us. I think we do EVERYTHING that TPM readers are suggesting to reveal it. I think it is VERY important. But we have lost 2 years waiting on it, and they have (possibly) the means to hide or destroy it…and take another 2 years of our time and effort. So we need to proceed on all other fronts with alacrity. Putting more and more hope and eggs in that basket is a losing proposition. Time to go full speed ahead on everything else we have, The Mueller Report is finite and completed and most probably does not contain that which we need or hoped.
How did we lose two years? In that time period we took the House of Representatives. We have hardly been sitting on our hands awaiting the report. Don’t mistake this board for Congress or the party.
Every single Dem and Committee said they were waiting on it. It was the only investigation going and no others were started. Yes it spun things off which I have high hopes for. Other investigations were pending and waiting and pussyfooting because of it. I have high hopes for those, and like the fact that Mueller is over so those others can proceed now. I don’t know what you mean about mistaking this board for congress.
I meant everyone here was waiting for the report with baited breath but that doesn’t translate to Congress or the party.
I don’t think we lost anything.
While I can see how the establishment media is buying the nonsense that this matter is over and whether honestly or not Barr basically ended it, what I don’t get is how many on the left have reached this conclusion (admittedly one that I’d initially bought into myself but have since changed my mind about), because it’s simply not true. It seems to be the prevailing conclusion over at DailyKos (where I normally post but have temporarily been barred from because I said something mean about Obama having to do with how he in turn covered for all those banksters because they were huge donors, criticizing Obama still being verboten there I’ve learned).
Sure, if Barr succeeds in keeping most of the report secret, not just from the public but from Dems, releasing only those parts that support his summary “conclusions” and withholding any parts that make Trump look a lot worse than his summary did, then game over, they won.
But one, there’s a very good chance, in fact excellent chance, that it will eventually be released, to congressional Dems nearly if not actually in full, and to the public in redacted form for all the obvious and sensible reasons. And when that happens, there’s a very good chance that it will turn things around and make impeachment a lot more likely. Unless Mueller fixed it for Trump, which I doubt, his report is very likely to be devastating for him politically, and for the GOP. Perhaps not enough to support removal in the senate, but certainly impeachment in the house.
And if despite Dems’ pressure Barr succeeds in withholding much of the report, it’ll look like and of course be a coverup, and that’s not going to play well politically, either.
Either way, released or not, the Mueller report is going to hurt Trump and the GOP politically, the only question being how much, and whether it leads to impeachment and then removal. Way too soon to know any of that.
Blacks and other POC facing blatantly overt racism and segregation undoubtedly could have existed in a more oppressed state of affairs had they just shrugged their shoulders and said to themselves, “Nahh… Too much trouble…not interested.”
Getting this Full Mueller Report is just that important, because of the information that Trump and Barr are trying to hide in the face of all established protocols. Without this Report we will have descended into a state of Trump and his henchmen being Above the Law.
Maybe people have to live in a totalitarian country to get an idea of what I am talking about. Short of that experience, maybe some people will not see the importance of what is at hand.