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INDEPENDENT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR (Original Post) gopiscrap Mar 2017 OP
Good luck. LOL Lib Mar 2017 #1
I wish, but MontanaMama Mar 2017 #5
The House is possible NewJeffCT Mar 2017 #8
INDEPENDENT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #2
Here you, Wellstone ruled Mar 2017 #3
Independent investigation. It covers more than only crimes. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2017 #4
Frum suggested NOT prosecutor... take too long, too narrowly focused on criminality KittyWampus Mar 2017 #6
ok I can buy that gopiscrap Mar 2017 #7
good idea NewJeffCT Mar 2017 #11
I heard him on that, and he also made the excellent point that moonscape Mar 2017 #12
Yes... I saw that program radical noodle Mar 2017 #16
As long as there is a Republican Majority in both Houses INdemo Mar 2017 #9
If I lived near DC, I'd stand outside Congress and yell the same thing. Every. Damned. Day. ancianita Mar 2017 #10
kick for visibility triron Mar 2017 #13
If tRump is successfully impeached we get President Pence. SylviaD Mar 2017 #14
if wishes were fishes... Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #15

LOL Lib

(1,462 posts)
1. Good luck.
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:02 PM
Mar 2017

I feel like the coup is complete. There will be no investigation, no special prosecutor. We have been screwed with the lights on. Only hope is democratic takeover in 2018.

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)
5. I wish, but
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:24 PM
Mar 2017

there will be no democratic takeover in 2018 while the Russians are still infiltrating our email and election systems. Now that they have 45, Pence, Bannon, Ryan and McConnell holding key positions - and throughout Congress and soon the SCOTUS. Everything is in place for the continued gutting of all checks and balances until there is no possibility for successful resistance. We're completely screwed without drastic intervention by the IC and/or the military.

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
8. The House is possible
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 07:16 PM
Mar 2017

Right now, though, the Senate would take a major wave for Democrats to take it over - Democrats have to defend 25 seats and Republicans only 8. It would be a victory if Democrats held even in the Senate with those odds.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Here you,
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:09 PM
Mar 2017

but it is not going to happen anytime soon. Remember,it took 900 days to get Nixon on Watergate.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
6. Frum suggested NOT prosecutor... take too long, too narrowly focused on criminality
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 06:27 PM
Mar 2017

and wouldn't be as public. He seemed especially concerned on getting it done quickly to get rid of any moles.

Needs independent investigator/commission.

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
12. I heard him on that, and he also made the excellent point that
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 07:53 PM
Mar 2017

a prosecutor would likely find there was no illegality, and then the issue would be closed. The goal at this point is not to determine legality, but yes to get any moles out of the WH.

radical noodle

(8,013 posts)
16. Yes... I saw that program
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 08:53 PM
Mar 2017

I hadn't thought about it, but he's right. And Frum wasn't fooled by last night's speech like so many in the media seem to be. He's always said we need to follow the money.

An independent commission of intelligence professionals who know how to investigate such things could get them out much more quickly.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
9. As long as there is a Republican Majority in both Houses
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 07:24 PM
Mar 2017

it ain't gonna happen,becasue there are enough spineless corporate Mafia sponsored Democrats that they will just allow them to have their way....never mind about the obstruction of justice...If Richard Nixon would have had this kind of a Majority when he was President he would have served out both terms.

I honestly believe there are Senators and Congressman that fear a revolt if Trump would be charged with treason or whatever and claim by these low IQ deplorables that it is all a set up.

So we are screwed

It was terrible that Trump used the Navy Seals Widow as a prop when lying about the intelligence gained...If Obama would have done something like this the Republicans would have tried to Impeach him.

So with this Republicans Majority...,they own us and they will make up their own rules as they go and get away with it..

SylviaD

(721 posts)
14. If tRump is successfully impeached we get President Pence.
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 08:38 PM
Mar 2017

Better to just let them both be booted out in 2020.

tbh tRump might be the only thing holding back some of Pence's crazy.

Kimchijeon

(1,606 posts)
15. if wishes were fishes...
Wed Mar 1, 2017, 08:46 PM
Mar 2017

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is what i'd wish for

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