Nancy Pelosi: Attorney General William Barr 'going off the rails'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that Attorney General William Barr is "going off the rails," while referencing Barr's recent testimony on Capitol Hill.

"Let me just say how very, very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer of our country is going off the rails, yesterday and today," Pelosi said during a news conference at a House Democratic retreat in Virginia.

"He is the attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump," she added.

Since special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation ended, Democrats have been knocking Barr for not committing to releasing the full, unredacted special counsel report to Congress.

On Wednesday, Democrats also strongly criticized the attorney general over a comment he had made during testimony on the Hill, in which he said, "I think spying did occur," in reference to the Trump 2016 presidential campaign.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pelosi-attorney-general-william-barr-going-off-the-rails/ar-BBVOIeD?li=BBnb7Kz

[dawg day]

1. IF I were Mrs. Barr, I'd start watching for hypodermic needles.

(Martha Mitchell... when her AG husband John went total-loyalty to Nixon. Nixon's goons and a pet doctor held her down and shot her full of tranquilizers. Everyone thought she was a crazy hysteric... and it turned out all to be true.)

[spanone]

2. Mr. Barr will go down in history as another trump Fixer.

[sharedvalues]

3. Thank you Nancy.

[LibDemAlways]

4. His letterhead should read

"William Barr, Consigliere to Donald J. Trump." He serves one master.

[bdamomma]

5. doesn't hide it either

all trump speak was being spewed today by Barr, from build a wall, to spying. I'm glad some of us here have a brain to trudge through this BS.

[JoeOtterbein]

6. Is 'going off the rails" impeachable? n/t

[KPN]

9. Yes!

[Ahpook]

7. Sorry DU..

More talk of how things should be with no action. We have been steamrolled for ages and I am fucking sick of it.

My wife and I started paying attention to the political nuisance in our country as the courts stole the election from Gore seemingly overnight. When faced with that kind of opposition, it should change your life forever.

I have heard nothing but what we should do for ages as the pigs rip us apart.

I don't trust anyone in our gov't!

[DirtEdonE]

8. I agree

Time for talk is way past over. This shit is as serious as a heart attack. It's time for action. One way or the other, we've got to get this carbuncle of an administration lanced before the infection spreads any further.

[Ahpook]

10. Trump should never have been considered

That slug being in the position he is just shows how sick our country really is.

We had that dip Bush with Cheney pulling the strings. Who can forget Palin coming within a hair of VP? She should be lucky to manage a Burger King.


This is fucking crazy

[DirtEdonE]

14. The wife always said they can never allow him to take office

Because once he gets in it's too late.

I hate it when she's right.

[KPN]

11. I understand how you would feel that way. I'm edging closer to that as time passes ...

My three 30-something kids have been telling me what you just said for at least 4 or 5 years. When I was their age, we were right and my parents were wrong -- they switched to Reagan from lifelong Democratic voters in 1980.

Why wouldn't I be reluctant to discount my kids' views? Sadly, too many here just don't view things from the same vantage -- or whatever you want to call it.

I'm giving Nancy one more chance though at this point. She is effective as a leader. I'm just not 100% sure where she will ultimately lead us. I believe her hearts in the right place. I don't doubt that one bit.

[JudyM]

12. Right there with you, Ahpook.

That was a clear shot across the bow of our Democracy and we did nothing. One of the main reasons I love the in-your-face challenges to the status quo by Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez. We desperately need a Wall of our own - to block clear encroachments on fair governing.

[DirtEdonE]

15. It's like a tug of war where we keep getting pulled across the line

Further and further because we don't pull back hard enough to keep the country in the middle.

I was in my doctor's office the other day. He's been my doctor for several years now. He's had the same receptionist and nurse the entire time but this time he had a new hire at the reception desk.

Had my usual exam and the usual questions. Afterward, we usually talk about everything and anything that comes up. He is, like the majority of doctors I've know, a repubican but we always have relatively fair political discussions when we have them. We haven't spoken much about politics lately and I've ascribed this to his possible embarrassment over trump.

When I was leaving I went up to the reception desk to schedule my next appointment. There was a magazine right there on the shelf by the desk where everyone could see it with a nice photo of AOC on the cover. But someone had drawn an X across her face and scribbled in a mustache.

I said, "Why did someone scribble over a photo of this lovely young woman?" My doctor was in the hallway leading to the exam rooms where he could still hear me. He said, "Stop joking around."

The waiting room was full of patients. I said, "I'm not joking. I love AOC. Back in the 60s, she would have been a moderate Democrat but you guys have pulled the country so far right, she looks like a radical now. YOU'RE the radicals."

Silence ensued.

I'm thinking about finding a new doctor. This guy is really good but he's a stone cold trumpie. It turned out HE was the one who drew the X and the new receptionist told me he told her to draw the mustache. While she chuckled.

Like I said, I knew he was a repubican but I thought he was embarrassed about trump. LOL I should have known.

[JudyM]

16. Some doctors hyper-extend the bounds of their egos, overgeneralizing the bounds of the respect they

think they’re due. Others are humble, recognizing the extent of what they don’t know, and recognizing the spirit of service from which they should rightly be operating.

Yesterday my senior mother’s dermatologist was visibly stunned when she felt the softness of my mom’s lower leg, which had been stiff and bright red with lipodermatosclerosis the month before. She exclaimed “it’s soft!” and lingered, puzzled, examining it even though she was in a major hurry to see the next patient. She’d told us with conviction that this condition does not improve, it can only be controlled, by leg elevation and support stockings. Mom and I smiled at each other as we told the doc that Mom was rubbing cannabis salve on it twice a day, which I’d suggested since it helps inflammation and the situation was so painful to her. The doc asked me a few questions about it and took pictures, remarking she’d never seen anything like it before. I also handed her a couple studies I dug up suggesting that ultrasound can also significantly heal the condition, that was new to her as well and she quickly agreed to write a prescription for PT to do that. It’s refreshing to work with a doctor who isn’t locked into their status ego and is humble enough to learn from their patients. Big kudos to her, but how sorry a state the social aspect of most of our medical system is in.

[DirtEdonE]

17. I use a topical cannabis oil and it is a miracle

It's a full spectrum oil derived from the pure cannabis flower, not that hemp derived CBD oil. It works relieving pain where NOTHING else has worked for years. And NO MORE OPIOIDS! I haven't taken an opioid pain reliever since I've been on the NJMMP.

Funny thing about my doctor - he's my pot doctor.

I don't understand how an educated man with his apparent open mind on some subjects could be brainwashed into being a trumpie. It baffles me. I'm going to bring this up and bring it to a head next visit. I can find another doctor if need be. I'm very disappointed in him. He's about ten years younger than I am and I thought our conversations were having a positive effect but I should have know.

[spanone]

13. Sorry Nancy, He IS donald trump's attorney. He proved that the last two day.

[DirtEdonE]

18. +1 - ghouliani himself couldn't do any better. lol nt

[ehrnst]

19. I think what Nancy says in public is the tip of the iceberg

of what's going on with Congressional Dems.