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Nat'l Catholic Reporter: Republican Attacks on the FBI are Desicable
And so is everything else they're doing . . .
https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/republican-attacks-fbi-are-despicable
It is difficult to prioritize all the bad things today's Republican Party are doing. Some of these things are very obvious to everyone. The Congressional Republicans are about to enact the most regressive tax reform in the nation's history. They came within one vote of repealing the Affordable Care Act and kicking more than 20 million people off of the health insurance rolls. Look for them to go after entitlement spending next year. The Trump administration has been to the State Department what Kathy Bates was to James Caan in the movie "Misery" — the nation's diplomats have been restricted or hobbled into uselessness. Wednesday, Judge Roy Moore refused to respect the will of the voters and declined to concede the election he had just lost.
Some bad things garner less press coverage but set back efforts to fight poverty around the world. Also on Dec. 13, the House Financial Services Committee voted to repeal Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank law, the section that required U.S. oil and mining corporations to report how much they give to foreign governments. I wrote about this issue earlier this year. "It's a sad day when basic anti-poverty and transparency initiatives are repealed," said Jubilee USA executive director Eric LeCompte after the vote.
But nothing is so despicable and so dangerous as the recent spate of attacks on Independent Counsel Robert Mueller and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "I think the public trust in this whole thing is gone," said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), one of the founders of the ultra-right wing Freedom Caucus, at a hearing on Wednesday.
Sean Hannity, who is the nightly voice of Trumpism at Fox News, has repeatedly led his show the past week by hurling insults and insinuations at Mueller and his team of investigators. His eyes look like they are going to explode, his anger is so intense. To say that Hannity is despicable is redundant, but this is a new low even for him.
Some bad things garner less press coverage but set back efforts to fight poverty around the world. Also on Dec. 13, the House Financial Services Committee voted to repeal Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank law, the section that required U.S. oil and mining corporations to report how much they give to foreign governments. I wrote about this issue earlier this year. "It's a sad day when basic anti-poverty and transparency initiatives are repealed," said Jubilee USA executive director Eric LeCompte after the vote.
But nothing is so despicable and so dangerous as the recent spate of attacks on Independent Counsel Robert Mueller and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "I think the public trust in this whole thing is gone," said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), one of the founders of the ultra-right wing Freedom Caucus, at a hearing on Wednesday.
Sean Hannity, who is the nightly voice of Trumpism at Fox News, has repeatedly led his show the past week by hurling insults and insinuations at Mueller and his team of investigators. His eyes look like they are going to explode, his anger is so intense. To say that Hannity is despicable is redundant, but this is a new low even for him.
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