Oh, for God’s sake, the whole pack of Republicans in the Senate work for Putin already. What this kabuki Burr is pulling is all about I cannot fathom. It’s not like their affiliation with Russia is a big secret. Moscow Mitch is the leader, but they’re all on Putin’s payroll one way or another.
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Actually, he’s re-enacting The Rape of the Sabine Women.
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You’re right, Hunter Biden would make a terrible president.
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That’s true also, but I was responding to the use of the nebulous weasel word “wrong” in the article.
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Really Burr? You’re going to try and be sane in a party that has clearly aligned itself with the Crazies?
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Fair point, I think, mostly.
But would Biden “throw his son under the bus” like that?
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But you responded with an article about Hunter Biden’s soft corruption in joining the Burisma board which doesn’t exactly prove your point, no?
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While conspiring with the White House to undermine the Mueller investigation.
Burr is Devin Nunes with a better sense of P.R.
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My “point” was a question. Are unethical practices “wrong”? Or just illegal practices?
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“Wrong” is such a harsh word.
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Tough crowd!
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr (R-NC) was reportedly nervous that his fellow Republicans’ investigations into Joe Biden could end up giving Russia exactly what it wants.
You mean that isn’t the goal of the treason party?
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True. It makes me wince whenever I see it. It’s even in the Atlantic piece!
Biden was one of the most vocal champions of anticorruption efforts in the Obama administration. So when this same Biden takes his son with him to China aboard Air Force Two, and within days Hunter joins the board of an investment advisory firm with stakes in China, it does not matter what father and son discussed. Joe Biden has enabled this brand of practice, made it bipartisan orthodoxy. And the ethical standard in these cases—people’s basic understanding of right and wrong—becomes whatever federal law allows . Which is a lot.
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I mean, it still doesn’t really elucidate where exactly it was that Joe Biden did something unethical. Hunter Biden, maybe, and even that is somewhat questionable. And if you want to find examples of Joe Biden being unethical, it doesn’t take long to dig some up (the plagiarism stuff springs immediately to mind). But the Ukraine stuff I think you can fairly safely say “There’s no evidence Biden has done anything wrong.”
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Collins Code Yellow!
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That would be a stretch for me. I would have to accept the premise that Joe Biden had no idea his son would be joining Burisma at just such an opportune time, while considering the long history of Hunter’s lucrative deals in the shadow of his father’s politics.
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They’re all venal cowards. But they’re certainly not all stupid. Very few of them ever really supported Trump. They’re hostages of their own fear and lust for power. It’s amply documented from before the beginning that most of them knew what Trump was and were afraid of the consequences. Now the stock markets are in free-fall, there’s a pandemic interrupting international supply chains, and the country is led by a mentally ill person who has zero interest in objective reality except as it affects the way he is perceived. If letting people die made him more popular, he would happily do it. That’s not what’s happening, though. Far from it. You think they don’t understand they have a problem?
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Fair enough
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It’s only a short walk from Hunter Biden to Mitch McConnel’s campaign war chest, with all those rubles sloshing around inside. We really don’t want that journey to begin, do we, Sen. Burr?
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