Republicans, Your Moment of Judgment Is Coming Fast

[DonViejo]

Nobody expects anything more of them. But the time is approaching when their entire reputation, and their party’s, will be settled for all of history.

Michael Tomasky
11.12.18 4:49 AM ET

Congress is back in session this week, which means that Republicans will again find themselves in the company of journalists, who will ask them their opinion of Matthew Whitaker’s suitability to act as the attorney general of the United States. Keep an ear peeled for what they say.

Actually, we know what they’ll say. Nothing. Maybe Jeff Flake and Bob Corker will tsk-tsk. Personally, I’ll be overjoyed to see those two gone. Watching their weak little protests (OK, except for that one Flake floor speech) has been far more annoying than just having another straight-up authoritarian in there like Marsha Blackburn. Now we just need to get Ben Sasse to stop all that quotidian moralizing about Trump on Twitter (or actually follow through on it with actions), and we’ll be getting somewhere.

Did you notice what Chris Christie said on ABC on Sunday morning about Whitaker? He said: “I think he's really there to land the Mueller investigation, to get it done… What the president's attempting to do here is to have someone who's already been involved, to get the Mueller investigation to its completion.”

Someone who’s what?! In what sense has Whitaker been “involved” in the Mueller investigation, aside from publicly trashing it on CNN? Whitaker has worked at the Justice Department since September 2017 as Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff, but he would have had no reason whatsoever to be involved in the Mueller probe. His boss, Sessions, recused himself. If Whitaker was in any way involved, doesn’t that mean that Sessions violated his recusal in some way?

In normal, pre-Trump America, this would have been the kind of matter Congress would have been interested in. Also Whitaker’s shady past, promoting a scam patent company that a federal judge shut down, and his statement that states could nullify federal laws (since after all he’s now the man whose job it is to enforce federal laws!), and his attempt when he was a U.S. Attorney to destroy an openly gay state senator in Iowa (a judge tossed the case citing prosecutorial misconduct), and his, ah, non-mainstream views on Marbury v. Madison, and who knows what else. Oh, and the nature of the conversations he had with Trump or other administration officials as the job was offered.

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[RKP5637]

1. The country is turning. Millions and millions are finally realizing the republican regime is NOT

their friend. Trump, has revealed what republicans are made of. Frankly, the party should rename itself the Sociopath Party.

[GWC58]

2. As far as I'm concerned it's the

ReTrumpliKKKLan Party! 👿😈👺☠️