I hope this doesn't end up being like all those times when we thought Cheney'd be indicted-

[Ken Burch]

-but he never actually was.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Yeah, that SOB still draws oxygen out of the ecosystem,

doesn't he?

[Ken Burch]

2. Him and "Dr. K".

I think death fears THEM.

[questionseverything]

3. that is what i fear too

that a couple guys will take the fall for all of them when the entire repub party seems to be in on it

like cheney/bush

like Ollie north and contras

Barbara Ledeen - Grassley staffer and wife of Mike Flynn's co-author - launched freelance probe into Hillary emails

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/13/michael-flynn-clinton-email-investigation-russia-dark-web?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[PdxSean]

4. Such will always be the result if we don't hold them accountable.

Cheney, for example, isn't in jail because we Democrats never even tried to hold him accountable.

[DBoon]

5. We need to hold them accountable now

or there won't be a next time

[Ken Burch]

8. Absolutely.

And I'd like to take this opportunity to salute your choice of posting name.

The Minutemen were political punk legends in the Eighties, and the loss of D.Boon, their lead vocalist, in a car crash was a major blow to the anti-Reagan resistance.

[Ken Burch]

6. True.

I remember that we were told, in the run-up to the 2006 elections, that a Democratic congress couldn't pass much of anything that mattered, but that we should be ok with that because Dems would chair the committees and investigate everything Bush and Cheney had done. We took Congress, but the investigations never seemed to happen, and then the president we elected said we had to leave it all in the past.

If they hadn't left it all in the past, if they had gone after Bush and Cheney, particularly after 2008, there is no way the Right would ever have been able to make a comeback.

[PdxSean]

7. Exactly.

And it would have served as a warning to them that they could expect to be held accountable for future conduct. Instead, they act with impunity.