Time to really drain the swamp

informed public and an alert media.

So in quasi-fascist America, not anytime soon.

It must be nice to live in a country with an informed public and an alert media.

Over sexual assault allegations.

Oh, Canada...help us!! Like in HELP us!

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The U.S. system is Federal and adversarial as laid out in the Constitution. The parliamentary systems have the ability to vote no confidence and bring down a government. The U.S. Constitution does not provide for this, but does require frequent congressional elections. Parliamentary elections are not at fixed intervals and can be called when public opinion is more favorable to the party in power.

Although the Canadians, British and French have their scandals, there is a greater sensitivity the public opinion. This more related to their political cultures, which derive from the structure of their governments. There is thus no real need to invoke fascist comparisons.

I agree it's important. Hope that it will be investigated, prosecuted, rectified or stopped from occurring again has long ago vanished for me. The Republican desire for power crushes everything.

targets. This will be part of the evidence in a RICO charge against the GOP leadership, and it's one of the reasons that Mueller's investigation is so deep and wide. There's the GOP/RICO, there's the Russian mafia, there's the whole money laundering network, there's Trumpy's real estate crimes... there's enough to prosecute over 270 people. When it's reported that this is the biggest criminal investigation in all of US history, there's no joking around.

But I'm almost afraid to think it possible. The entire leadership of the Russian-sucking GOP part of the investigation and vulnerable to indictment? Ryan and McConnell -- along with their troglodytic underlings -- found guilty of raketeering and sentenced to prison? That would be as good as Steve Martin's famously wished-for 31 day orgasm. I only hope it's more likely.

Ryan, McConnell, and the RNC took the info and ran with it.

This was not your typical oppositional research. This was handed to them and they either knew the why and how and what will you owe for using this, or they did not bother to ask. I am pretty sure they knew it was not from God.

Ryan - "We have to keep this in the family."

GOP is kissing trump's orange ass because they fear him throwing them under the bus when Mueller comes knocking.

It is obvious. GOP and trump colluded with Russian-Putin Organized Crime Syndicate to win in 2016 and probably before.

NRA is part of the syndicate. So are a lot of uber-Rich GOP donors. Mercers for example.

think the orange one will not throw them under the bus when things get dicey...well then he is STOOOOPID! Anyone paying attention knows orangeman looks out only for himself.

Ryan and Mitchell ought to throw Cheeto under the bus as well. As a matter of fact they should all do it.
We're gonna witness the self-destruction of the Republican Party, real soon!

That comment about keeping it in the family was made after the observation that trump and that CA congressman were getting Putin backing. Seems to me this coulda/shoulda been used in response to the secret society bullshit.

condemn! Imagine the fucking media response.

Look no further why the double standard?

This will never be silenced nor suppressed. There simply is too much out there. Otherwise, why is Mueller taking so long? I imagine perhaps a lot to digest?

These people are scum of the earth. Amoral, greedy scum with the gall to lecture about morality. The whole damned party is rotten to the core. Even those from that party who are not guilty of these vile acts are guilty of sitting idly by while the crimes go on and get covered up. Sickening.

If the Dems were doing it, the republicans would make it a mantra.

just pointing out what the republicans would do if shoe was on other foot.

Also mystery to me why Obama administration remained mum about Russia-Trump collusion
evidence (which our intelligence had thanks to Europeans). Maybe they just thought Hillary
would win--bad mistake.

stuff?

When has any consideration for facts stopped them from anything?

Still think more might have been done. Not saying what because I don't know.

Obama asked McConnell to sign a joint statement and he refused. Without McConnell's signature Obama felt it would be viewed as Obama attempting to throw the election for Clinton.

However it's sometimes hard to give our party the tough love it needs to get the job done.

and everybody thinks it's just partisan bickering

(From the OP)

"We have allowed our campaign finance laws to become a strategic threat to our country."

So, Putin proxies/Russian oligarchs like Len Blavatnik broke no laws in 2015-2016 when he
"pumped $6.35 million into GOP political action committees, with millions of dollars going to top Republican leaders"

How the hell are the Democrats going to retake control of Congress if this is allowed to continue?
And if the GOP continues to control Congress after the 2018 elections, how the hell is Drumpf ever going to be impeached?

(This is extremely depressing)

The cabal of greed and evil need to be removed from office.

Please don't insult the Mustelidae family by comparing Ryan to them.

This can't be allowed to continue. Thank God the DNC hired a high-end security specialist.

as the statute of limitations does not begin counting down until he is no longer involved in the conspiracy.

Me: Words fail -- literally.

It's not just Trump - and I've been saying this for a long time. The whole party banded together to embrace Russia and take down Hillary. And it's not going to take a Mueller to figure that out.

McConartist knew, Lyin rAyn knew. They ALL knew. The entire GOP is complicit. Lock. Them. All. Up.

If all the bullshit over the last couple of years regarding intellectual property have taught us anything, it's that the legal view is that information is a possession.

So Ms. Pelosi "asked him to stop". Why didn't she just report that Mr. Ryan was committing a crime? If I can have my phone bricked because I changed the hardware myself, why did Mr. Ryan's crime result in a mildly worded letter?

He ignored it. How did he know? Good buddy Priebus (also Wisconsin) probably told him before he (allegedly) told Mueller. Walker, Ryan and Priebus are long-time teammates to destroy Wisconsin and then on to the nation.

They are tight - according to some of my very few connected Repug friends who have been active at high levels for many years. These friends ( Romney types) are so plugged in that their kids are in on the big business deals (ex. FoxConn) in my formerly great state.

Ryan just may be the worst of the lot. If it can be proved that he knew for a fact back in June that Dump tried to obstruct by firing Mueller, then he is a part of it.

I always knew Ryan was bad, but the last few years have revealed he is nasty to his very sanctimonious core. Plus now he has power he never had before.

Working here to see him derailed, but his money runs wide and deep.

I'm so fed up with the hourly barrage of treason, corruption, and criminal behavior by these traitors with zero consequences.