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@RVAwonk
Let's be clear about what Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are doing here. They're compromising an investigation and putting national security at risk to shield Trump and give their base a shiny object to distract them ahead of 2018 primaries & midterms.
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First Speaker
(4,858 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)triron
(22,011 posts)but it won't. Maybe in some eastern European countries but not here.
Too complacent and comfortable. But I have no one to blame.
byronius
(7,398 posts)And at some point they'll start claiming Trump was a Democrat.
And some of their useful idiots will believe it.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)They are attempting to lay down a justification for firing Mueller.
Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)dameatball
(7,399 posts)DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)barbtries
(28,810 posts)to protect a person. fuck the country.
My fear is Mueller comes back with the same conclusion right before the midterms...then what? we would look like asses and I could never attend another holiday dinner with my extended family (which upon thinking about that would make the holidays better probably my family's holiday).
dameatball
(7,399 posts)I don't want the albatross around the GOP's neck to have its wings clipped too soon
barbtries
(28,810 posts)i can't i guess. imo nothing less than our democracy is at risk.
yuiyoshida
(41,835 posts)anyone!
dameatball
(7,399 posts)We have too many Americans that still think they have to keep their guns to defend against tyranny when it would really help if they just got an education and got off their asses to vote.
AR-15, camo, ammo, red ball caps......$2,000
Vote......free if you have a car, $25 if you are black/brown and have cab fare because they closed your precinct
Hassler
(3,384 posts)rurallib
(62,433 posts)dalton99a
(81,565 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,249 posts)Trump tweets it like a bipartisan finding. It's not. It's totally partisan. Totally.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)Corn and Isakoff are on Rachael.
RussBLib
(9,030 posts)who only care about their party.
Hopefully when the Dems take over again, they will take ANY criticism from the GOP with a truckload of salt.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)T R E A S O N
C Moon
(12,219 posts)bluestarone
(17,012 posts)they will decide they can't wait, so they will make there move with Mueller!!! I hope Mueller's team are ready with State Charges!! I do have faith in Mueller BUT it's spooky times that's for sure!!!