Pierce: This Fight Will Be Long, Bloody, and Partisan

[babylonsister]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55585/gingrich-mueller-republicans/

This Fight Will Be Long, Bloody, and Partisan
The Republicans have come for Robert Mueller, and are determined to torpedo his investigation.
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By Charles P. Pierce
Jun 12, 2017

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The new attacks are hilariously ironic. At the time of his appointment, Mueller was praised by Republicans and Democrats as a perfect choice for the job, and conventional wisdom had it that Mueller's appointment was a godsend to the Republican Party, because Mueller's investigation removed the matter from the polarized national legislature and gave the GOP a way to distance themselves from a renegade president. And this was only three weeks ago.

What changed, of course, were the stakes. James Comey testified last week. Mueller started putting together what is by all accounts a lethal team of professional prosecutors. It became clear that he considered his mandate to include a great deal beyond Michael Flynn and what the president* whispered to Comey out of earshot from everyone else. It became clear that Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III appeared to be up to his knees in something unseemly. Meanwhile, the president* couldn't keep his trap shut and couldn't stop screwing up on the big stage. As the situation grew darker, the Republicans decided to hunker themselves down with the president* in the hopes of passing the retrograde policies of their dreams. There already are calls for Mueller and Comey to be investigated. It took them six years to get around to demanding that the same be done to Lawrence Walsh.

This is going to be a long, bloody, and (yes) partisan political fight, and god bless it for that. There are serious constitutional and democratic principles involved here that touch upon what we think we are as a nation. A fight over those things should be long and bloody and partisan. Don't let the voices of "moderation" and "civility" convince you otherwise. There is no gentle, easy way out of the predator-laden swamp into which we voted ourselves last November. Business is no longer usual.

[Raster]

1. To the barricades...

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[MFM008]

4. Or the streets

.......

[stephensolomita]

2. Right On The Money

From this point forward, all Democratic politicians, when they refer to the Republican Party, should put the word Radical before the word Republican. The Radical Republicans. The Radical Republican agenda. (and, yes, I’ve capitalized the word “radical&quot . If Dems use this word every time they refer to the GOP, the way Republicans currently use Death Spiral when referring to the future of the ACA, perhaps voters will finally wake up.
Myself, I’ve given up on reaching the white, working-class voters who pulled the lever for Trump. I want to entice well-educated, suburban Republicans into the Democratic fold and I believe we can best do that by claiming that Dems are the true conservatives. Plus, as luck will have it, we’ll be telling the truth. We wish to conserve, not only Social Security and Medicare, but the 40-hour work week, time-and-a-half for overtime, workmen’s comp, unemployment insurance, a safe workplace and a clean environment like the one I enjoy in the heart of the largest city in the United States. These are benefits we take for granted, benefits that Radical Republicans want to take away.
It’s called branding, as you undoubtedly know. And as you undoubtedly also know, branding doesn’t work unless all concerned act in concert. Republicans are really good at this. Dems pretty much suck, but the stakes are higher than they've ever been.

[erronis]

9. Like the use of the "*" after president. Wish there was another symbol to represent "His Dishonesty"

[workinclasszero]

3. That POS Putin cockholster

Sean Handjob was just spewing on his hate radio program that the Congress MUST fire the special prosecutor!

These punk traitors are demanding a constitutional crisis!

[Initech]

14. They don't care.

And their lack of caring is going to bite them in the ass hard.

[workinclasszero]

16. We are living under a lawless dictatorship

No one can stop Dump and the republicans from wiping their fat 1%er asses with the constitution!

No one!!!!

This party of traitors has shown the world the possible fatal flaw of US democracy.

[Initech]

17. What you said!

[Initech]

5. The republicans are the most miserable people on earth.

[Tatiana]

6. Spot on. This is a war and we better be prepared to use every tool in the arsenal to win the fight.

This is no time for civility.

[bluestarone]

7. don't know where this is headed but

you can bet Russia is watching closely and will take full advantage of the republican mess we are in!! we could be attacked so easily and the whole country will lose i'm afraid!!!!! (end of times?) who knows?

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. ...but a fight it must be. A very relevant fight. Hope our side is up for it.

[enid602]

19. Brazil

Look to Brazil as a parallel. Longandbloody indeed!

[johnnyrocket]

10. Bottom line: Republicans stand for criminality.

[kentuck]

11. The rule of law means nothing...

Of course, they will go after Mueller.

[Hekate]

12. A toast to Chaz Pierce

[padfun]

13. A Virtual civil war

and maybe not that virtual afterall.

[NastyRiffraff]

15. Righteous!

This is an emergency; our democracy is at stake. Let's get out the torches and pitchforks.

[Oden]

18. Democracy?

I agree this is it. We are either Trumpistan or democracy.