This is the kind of bullshit that slides by because weâre focused on the far more outrageous stuff. If Dubya had done this weâd be screaming about it. So, so much to clean up when this is all over DAMN.
Itâs crystal clear why Republicans wonât impeach the traitor. SO every last one needs thrown out yeasterday. The pool has been crapped in beyond all chlorine and basically just needs drained and started over.
But ⌠paid speeches to Goldman Sachs.
This.
It is going to take us years after we get rid of the filthy corrupt beast to uncover all of this stuff. It will be like the post WWII years rooting out the murderers and thieves of the Third Reich by chasing paper trails and witnesses. I wouldnât put it past many of the officials of this (mal)administration to have destroyed documents to cover their tracks. Legal obligations for records keeping and FOIA are things the GOP view as âfor the other party.â We see this with (politically) redacted materials coming out of the DOJ all the time.
Best to tamp your enthusiasm a bit about justice being served:
Eisinger recently argued that Mueller learned from the Enron Task Force how to slowly build a case, let investigators do their job, and take the most aggressive line possible. But ultimately, heâll be working within a structure committed to protecting the powerful from prosecution.
If there isnât 100 percent certainty of a conviction, then discretionâsome would say spinelessnessâargues for settlement. Every prosecutor knows that, in the end, those who take the easier path will enjoy rewards, and those who challenge power wonât. Eric Holder got a corner office and a lucrative partnership. James Kidney, who pushed for aggressive prosecution at the SEC, got a small retirement party, where he said, in a speech that leaked, âFor the powerful, we are at most a toll booth on the bankster turnpike.â
And emails! Banksters were just a warm up for the emails, and enough on our side were so easily manipulated to buy into that shit, just like the slack jawed Trumpers on the right were easily sold on Trump. Wingers are idiots no matter what the party.
There will be no lasting attempts to uncover anything. All prosecutions will stop soon after Democrats return to powerâassuming that ever happens.
You might enjoy reading Max Bootâs article in the Washington Post this morning:
I also think a large part of the blame should fall on the middle of the road kinda conservative middle class that didnât vote because they didnât like either candidate (code for âwonât vote for that uppity womanâ)
Agreed. My ire is still on those that often vote, yet didnât.