Maybe if the GOP Senators and Representatives had not slow walked every step of their investigations a special counselor might not have been needed. I think Merkeley should have raised that issue.
The Democrats’ best ally in all of this is… wait for it… Donald Trump. If he were smart enough to keep his mouth shut, and keep his fingers off the Twitter, a lot of this would be moved off the front burner, as the investigation gradually grinds on in the background. But no, that’s not what’s going to happen. Every tidbit that leaks out will provoke more self-incriminating statements from Trump, and more juvenile temper tantrums.
Because the Senate serves our interests so well…
Between a renewed media investigating and angry Trump tweeting there will be plenty of transparency…but, you’re Senators and fancy lawyers so I’m sure you’all can think of something to get some camera time.
It will all be transparent to the Russians.
A special counsel was needed, imo, and I’m glad we have one.
It’s much more important that it be done thoroughly and with integrity than quickly. Having said that, if something of an earth-shattering nature comes to light that requires, say impeachment, I hope Mueller will share that sooner than later.
I’m gonna miss those leaks…it’s been a very interesting and dizzying dozen days or so.
This is where the GOP will stymie any meaningful Senate or Congressional investigations. By saying it is an ongoing investigation and out of our hands, the special prosecutor has it.
This is what I was talking about the other day when I said I don’t know why the GOP are fighting the special prosecutor, because it will effectively take the matter out of the public domain and behind the FBI walls, and I don’t think Mueller will be a leak-factory the way Ken Starr was.
Seems the GOP tripped over their own dicks into what I was talking about, and now will likely see how useful it is to get the focus back on destroying Medicaid, and healthcare, while handing out massive tax-giveaways to the mega wealthy.
That would work only if Trump cooperated. Trump wont shut up, and the Rs are going to be faced with daily questions.
But at the end of the day we need full transparency and accounting of what went down. If it only stays within what is “criminal” we may never know fully what went on. As the obvious extreme example others have pointed out in recent days, Trump could have handed the nuclear codes to Russia, and it would not be criminal in a strict legal fashion.
This is what David Frum was talking about yesterday (I think it was yesterday, the whirlwind has been crazy).
So appoint a special commission to act concurrently and stop whining, you fucking twits.
That being said, I don’t think the attempt to claim that Mueller absolves congress of conducting investigations will work. The political will is behind full investigation and people want it all to be made public. They can play their games all they want, but I think they’ll find that it’s too politically damaging to now try to scuttle the House and Senate investigations.
“It probably frustrated my Democratic colleagues, but they got what they asked for,” Johnson quipped with a smile.
Well, yes. But the public would be better served with a more expedient scale of discovery. But apparently Johnson is more interested in this tit for tat game we play with politics. A statesmen would not do such a thing.
Agree. We also need an independent commission with oversight by an equal number of Republicans and Democrats to fully investigate and release to the public everything that is found during the FBI investigation.
The Trump administration is actively dismantling Democracy, only a full vetting of all the findings will help to repair what Trump and the GOP have willfully broken.
We do need full transparency, and I think we’ll get it. According to Lindsay Graham, this is going to be treated as a criminal investigation, and from what we already know, crimes have been committed.
Does anyone think Flynn, Manafort, Page haven’t engaged in criminal wrongdoing? I’ve already seen enough on those counts.
I do wonder where the counterterrorism aspect of this investigation fits in. Is Mueller doing that too?
Besides, Trump can’t keep his big mouth shut very long.
I’m grateful for the good job our free press is doing.
When sunshine is darkness, GOP trolls.
“It probably frustrated my Democratic colleagues, but they got what they asked for,” Johnson quipped with a smile.
Keep smiling for now, Senator. You won’t be when this all plays out.
@mantan @antisachetdethe
In their dreams the GOP figures their worries are over or lessened. Today Mnuchin entertained the Congress with a laundry list of “reforms” bigger than were put through after the Financial crisis. Literally nobody I have seen the past week thinks more than maybe 10% of this will happen(repatriation at a tax discount will go through, but that mostly benefits a few dozen companies). As reflected in the performance of materials companies, the public works stuff(read Jobs)is apparenty dead until next year.*
On the investigation, even if–a big if–there aren’t leaks from the Feds all kinds of other action in state courts, etc. will keep the seemingly endless corruption in front of the public day and night. The cloud and shadow cable news crowd will be responsibly speculating 24/7. And Mueller knows there has to be some progress while evidence is still fully intact. So there will be a push to start indicting small fry to work up the ladder. And once there’s a single indictment, everybody will be making lists of who’s next. As the popularity numbers drop, and the election gets closer. Meanwhile nobody in the WH or Congress has much skill at drafting legislation, and the Freedom Caucus won’t spend money.
- The Job hungry Trump voters will HATE this.
Not so bad.
