If the President seeks to interfere in the impartial administration of justice, the Congress must stop him.
Yes, you must …
Well we are getting a lot of statements. Somebody needs to remind the Senate and the House of all the statements made that protection was not needed.
To which Trump responds eloquently… “duh!”
Unfortunately, the statement of Mr. Schiff qualifies as a true fact, but also as a Bulletin from the Department of the Obvious…
How soon before Coach Whitaker starts re-floating this one?
If Toadglans Spankee fires Mueller, he’ll probably feel pretty good for a few weeks. Hell, he’ll probably even invite his current on-site supervisors, Anatoly Antonov, Cui Tiankai and His Royal Highness Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz into the Oval Office.
“I faced great pressure from Mueller," he’ll tell them. "That’s taken off,”. Then, just before asking “Do you like KFC? I like KFC. Would you like some KFC?” he’ll show 'em a stack of his most recent President’s Daily Briefs, just to demonstrate how cool he really is, that he’s Precedent and they’re not.
“Would you like to see some more while were waiting for the KFC?”
“Da. Shì. Nem fielaan.” they’ll answer in quick succession. “Raja’. Qǐng. Da, da, da.”
But then after a few short weeks of orange bliss he’ll discover himself on the TeeBee with no means to control the narrative.
The Codger Crew here remembers how the nation was riveted to the Watergate hearings. How every night the networks — all three of them (ABC, CBS, NBC) — led with a synopsis of testimony about that day’s revelations, all of them damning; towards the end gavel-to-gavel coverage of the proceedings were broadcast live coast-to-coast.
Considering the breadth of crimes that have been committed, the now-existence of CSPAN, a zillion networks and smartphones, Democratic control every committee in the House of Representatives, I think Señor Spankme will soon find Nixon got off easy.
I know what happens
I read the book
I believe I just got the goodbye look
(I believe I just got the good-bye look)
I believe I just got the good-bye
(I believe I just got the goodbye) look.
Won’t you pour me a Cuban breeze, Gretchen Diet Coke, 'vanka?
(With apologies to Donald Fagan!)
So how much are we paying for this guy ?
There’s always this:
we’ll put his fucking tax returns on TV. For starters.
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956Well, Mr Schiff. get with the program and protect Mueller. By God I hope there are indictments in the offing. And to me, as a non lawyer, firing Sessions like this, the obvious reasons must be he did it with corrupt intent. It stinks of obstruction with corrupt intent. But then I am biased… I have known about trump for a very long time and he has disgusted me for decades before he got into politics. This is as much obstruction as was the firing of Comey.
Today trump said his returns are too complicated for us to understand. He was very very condescending about it saying his company was too big and complicated for us poor ordinary folk to understand. He didn’t add that we were mere mortals and not worthy to share in his greatness biut the intent was clearly there for all to grasp. It was as insulting a comment as I have ever heard a president utter.
And then there was the aide who tried to wrestle Jim Acosta’s cnn microphone from him as he tried to ask questions and do his job… And the female reporter trump told to “sit down and shut up”.
I just watched an interview that Ari had with the man who wrote the rules for
the DOJ and the Special Counsel procedures —
If a temporary AG ever refuses a Special Counsel request …
The Congress must first be notified —
He has no control over his returns at this point. The House can subpoena the returns from the IRS and I’m very sure they can find someone to explain them to us.
And??
Yea they’re notified. So? For the next two months it will be business the GOP way. And afterward it will still be the GOP way (according to trump) since trump will used Mitch and the Senate to try to cudgel his way to power
EDIT
It was rich watching trump accuse a black reporter of racism for asking him an inconvenient question that contained no over the top effusive praise for his greatness.
2nd edit that’s somewhat OT
There is a restaurant here in Tucson called “Caravan” and they serve pretty good Middle Eastern food. I just thought the irony deserved a wider audience.
Of course they can. And dumb them down for “uneducated” folk like me. Oh, I admit not understanding the minutiae of tax law but I am more highly educated than trump is. So there is that. And we do hire an accountant to do our taxes so that we have them all legally correct.
Yup.
The potential contained in the idea of public hearings is kind of exciting. Bring it all out in the open.
So - worst case - Matthew Whitaker - the day after Christmas (well before the Democrats take over the House) via a band of fierce (thuggish) operatives from the office of the AG - issues order to Mueller to cease the investigation - and immediately - assemble any and all related documents for “safe-keeping” (translation - high speed shred & incinerate) … and further instructs Mueller and his staff that any divulging of any related information will be treated as a criminal act.
Get to stopping already.