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Originally Posted by crockett
Its nice He's finally breaking his quiet and calling these guys out as the traitors they are.
Former FBI Director James Comey is back, and he has some harsh words for all Republicans.
After a six-hour, closed-door interview with two House committees on Monday, Comey emerged to slam lawmakers as obsessed with "Hillary Clinton's emails and the Steele dossier." What they should be focused on, Comey said, is how President Trump is "attacking the FBI and attacking the rule of law in this country."
Comey, who used to be a Republican, particularly called out GOP legislators for not facing their "fear of Fox News, fear of their base, fear of mean tweets." And in what seemed to be a direct hit on Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and other departing Republicans, Comey questioned why lawmakers would "slink away into retirement" rather than "stand up for the values of this country."
https://theweek.com/speedreads/81327...ws-mean-tweets |
Comey is no 'big' hero in my book.
He himself caved to pressure of the GOP to give more credentials to the email investigation. While
I don't fault him for the investigation which was warranted, it played out twice where it should have went away or at least not in the spotlight during the elections. He knew better.
Now he did bring many valid issues to the plate and I think it has obvious answers.
1st it should be said and known that most of these politicians have something they hide in their closet. Everyone knows that you can't use US intel services to investigate your opponent but there is nothing stopping that intel from foreign sources from having a play.
It could very well be this played out through the NRA or plenty of other non-profits, but it seems logical it has been done in a micro-managed style that is hard to see on the surface.
Let's face it most of these folks have a dirty past. Many of them may have truly good intent in the end but this is about control. Who can control you with that info.
You might think you fix the current problem by going after the current players, but unless you change the rules of the game, it will continue and resurface again. Perhaps next time with fewer mistakes in getting caught.
The politicians will have their hands full for the next 6 years cleaning up this mess and most likely all will be forgotten about how we came to this and nothing will be done with meaningful substance.
On the bright side, the majority of those new to the House were not in the political system long to be corrupted by the system. But that also brings a bit less skillful thinking that may be easily be out-flanked when it comes to the rules of order.
So, it will be the next election in 2020 that will set the plank/tone going forward and I prey that fixing these core issues to prevent it from happening again is a major part of it.
But you rarely get what you fail to demand. It's up to the people to clean house.
Don't forget about the core issues that got us here in this ugly place.