Arrest that man!
In case we still haven’t had enough farcical distraction yet, here’s another installment:
More than a year after Republican leaders promised to investigate Russian interference in the presidential election, two influential Republicans on Friday made the first known congressional criminal referral in connection with the meddling — against one of the people who sought to expose it.
Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a senior committee member, told the Justice Department they had reason to believe that a former British spy, Christopher Steele, lied to federal authorities about his contacts with reporters regarding information in the dossier, and they urged the department to investigate. The committee is running one of three congressional investigations into Russian election meddling, and its inquiry has come to focus, in part, on Mr. Steele’s explosive dossier that purported to detail Russia’s interference and the Trump campaign’s complicity.
That’s the ticket! Never mind the Russian role in the election, never mind Trump and Gang’s collusion, go after a guy who pointed it out! Public spirit at its finest.
The decision by Mr. Grassley and Mr. Graham to single out the former intelligence officer behind the dossier — and not anyone who may have taken part in the Russian interference — infuriated Democrats and raised the stakes in the growing partisan battle over the investigations into Mr. Trump, his campaign team and Russia.
Oh no, I’m sure their motives are far above any kind of partisan bias.
That’s well in line with Grassley’s history. When he investigated the obscene wealth of some of the megachurch pastors, and discovered all sorts of nasty corrupt things, his response was to propose to change the rules to protect the pastors, rather than enforce the rules to protect the people from the pastors.
These people (R) have no conscience, no integrity, no compassion, and no decency.
Anyone else remember when Graham at least was in the “make grumbling noises about Trump while still voting for 99% of his agenda” camp? Ever since their golf outing a few months back, he’s all but rolled over and let Trump scratch his belly.
This knee-jerk reaction of wanting to use the criminal justice system to go after one’s political enemies on the flimsiest of pretexts is really dangerous.
The Party of Evil has thoroughly outted themselves at least… and yes they’re all evil seeing as evil is something that is established by your acts (including voting).
So when I hear the tired old cry of “they’re not bad people they’re just stupid/misguided/whatever I’m going to call foul on it from now on.