Democratic rep: Ethics investigation of Nunes likely.

[triron]

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[COLGATE4]

1. I hope they crucify that slimy little fuck.

[pandr32]

2. Good!

[TruckFump]

3. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease, nail that smarmy little fuck!!!! EOM

[Sherman A1]

4. Excellent

[Midnight Writer]

5. I hope Nunes gets Caster to represent him.

[NurseJackie]

8. LOL!

Perfect!

[lunatica]

27. LOL!

[usaf-vet]

32. My first quick reading of your post... I thought that might be a little harsh...

Here is how I read it "I hope Nunes gets Casterated..... to represent him"

We need a favor though ....

[safeinOhio]

6. Going to have to sell a lot of milk

to pay his lawyers.

[magicarpet]

34. Trade cow dung,... for legal fees,...

... it is excellent fertilizer.

Besides Nunes is full of bullshit,... so there are ample and bottomless supplies.

[getagrip_already]

7. this will take time, a lot of time.....

First, these are basically just rumors at this point.

Lev needs to make the statement himself, under oath. That will take time since he has a plea deal with the feds and they hold his leash.

The only way around that would be for the house to give him limited immunity, but at that point the gop has a hammer to hit him with.

But until he is under oath, or there is independent proof, the house can't do much. The dems won't prosecute rumors; we aren't the gop.

[Hortensis]

14. Taking this one guy out is not the goal, tho. Getting control

of government to save our nation from where the Republican leadership are taking it is.

This could just be noise. Or it could indicate that our leaders won't delay the trial in the senate for this. INSTEAD, they'd keep this story in the news to support the one woven at trial.

This wouldn't be the only one. That two more big stories broke under the Republicans' feet last night was no surprise. Their plots are collapsing. And there will be more: in a new media environment where at least the foreign affairs aspects of Republican corruption and betrayal have become the big-story context of the impeachment.

[SergeStorms]

37. There is that $63,000 taxpayer paid trip...

that Nunes and his aides took last December. One of Nunes aides posed as a Ukraine "expert" (although he knew absolutely nothing about the Ukraine) and was filling Trump's empty head with all sorts of bogus crap about the debunked Biden "investigation". There are records of that shit, and I hope Devon and his aides are sent packing back to the "farm".

[getagrip_already]

39. saw a report that lev has dumped a pile of docs, vids, and pics on intel......

So maybe he cut his deal and will testify soon. At least in private. That will be enough to get nunes fried.

[SergeStorms]

41. And a little more tightening....

on the rope that ties all these crooked bastards together. The American people must come to see that the republican party is thoroughly corrupt, immoral, and criminal.

[Pepsidog]

9. Better than a stick in the eye but rarely do these ethics investigations amount to anything.

[paleotn]

22. This is big enough for a formal committee investigation.

[Pepsidog]

24. Sure is.

[CCExile]

10. Republicans owe us about 14 years of investigations...

so hell yeah!

[2naSalit]

11. About time...nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. Put him out to pasture in MosCOW.

.............

[flamingdem]

17. Send the MosCOWards to Russia

[Traildogbob]

23. Lock him up

..........in a pasture...........with a thousand cows.............mooing ones. A few horny Bulls to.

[TryLogic]

13. I think there might be more than ethics to look into.

[milestogo]

15. You know there's gonna be an investigation into Adam Schiff.

Tit for Tat.

[getagrip_already]

16. by who?

The house won't do it. The senate has never investigated a sitting member of the house before.

The doj?

I think they will try to prosecute him in the media, but I don't think they want to subpoena him into the senate, even during impeachment.

That would lead to a war of the houses. Even the russian turtle doesn't want that.

[paleotn]

21. If DOJ wouldn't touch Joe or Hunter Biden

they sure as shit ain't gonna touch Schiff.

[getagrip_already]

26. true....

What the gop is hoping for here is twofold. First, to out the whistleblower.

Second, to try to link the house dems to the whistelblower in a way that could be twisted into a plot. You heard it during the hearings: schif met secretly with the whistleblower and other witnesses and molded their testimony.

It's bullshit of course, but that is their stock and trade right now.

But the doj has no grounds to even talk to him, let alone depose him.

[paleotn]

19. How?

They possess none of the levers of power in the House. Elections do have consequences.

[paleotn]

18. Good. Calls for a full investigation.

Hearings and everything. It's like the House continuing the impeachment of IQ45, without doing it directly. Adding fuel to the fire over in the Senate as they wrestle with the formal impeachment the House is close to voting on. And taking out Nunes in the process. Santa came early this year and he's been quite generous.

[triron]

29. When more comes out, who knows where this may go?

[ck4829]

20. K&R

[leanforward]

25. K & R

[SWBTATTReg]

28. Nunes has finally really screwed up. Accepting blatantly accepting a trip at taxpayer's expense ...

to find fake dirt on rump's opponents. And in cohort with a person (or persons) who has just been indicted themselves. Really makes you wonder about his constitutional duty to the Country eh? Maybe milking those cows has gone to his head?

[IcyPeas]

35. and airfare was $14,000 each

taxpayers expense and they have the gall to fly first class? (sounds like first class or business class to me)

[SWBTATTReg]

36. Yes, I know and they spend over $60,000 dollars on this crap. They should make Nunes pay...

every dime back, every bit of it. It was looking for campaign dirt on the Bidens, nothing more.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Second one in two years. First one was thwarted. . . . nt

[scarytomcat]

31. he is up to his neck in this Ukraine bribery stuff

he should just turn himself in and confess all
it's coming out
When those guys (fund raiser guys ) got busted at the airport it was all over.

[DanieRains]

33. Lock Him Up

[SergeStorms]

38. I like the way you think, DanieRains!

And welcome to Democratic Underground!

[Mr. Ected]

40. Nunes is simply the lowest hanging fruit, the dumbest of the dumb

If all the truth were known to us, a huge swath of the Republican contingent would be implicated in a mass conspiracy to line their pockets with Putin's prizes. Nunes, Jordan, Graham, Paul, et al. just happen to be the most obvious. This is carefully-orchestrated obstruction of justice at the highest levels of government, trickling down through the executive branch, the legislative branch, right on down to state level players. Trump is the easy target here, but he's just the head of the snake, a decoy even, consolidating our attention when in truth the totality of the ongoing crime would not permit an actual focus.

Honestly, I don't think any of them, none of them, is afraid of being caught. The stakes are high and they've had years now to mobilize the proper actors in the appropriate roles. They've got Putin on the ready to dump more disinformation on the American people, to confuse us, to divide us, and ultimately to ruin us.

I have great faith in Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi to do the best with what they've got. They're trying to bail the water out of the Titanic with a teaspoon, though. Frightening times to be an American.