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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWonkette: UH OH, BILL BARR GOT #JOKES
Barr approached Pelosi, shook her hand and said loud enough to be overheard, "Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?"
Who knew he was into that kind of thing? Oh well, even attorneys general who do cover-ups for criminal presidents gotta get their rocks off, and who are we to judge!
That's a reference to Barr's refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas related to special counsel Robert Mueller's report. Yes, Associated Press, we got it.
A smiling Pelosi let Barr know the House Sergeant at Arms was present at the ceremony, should any arrest be necessary, according to a person who witnessed the exchange and described it on the condition of anonymity.
DAMN.
We think Pelosi won that round, don't you think?
In case you were wondering, there is not an actual jail cell in the Congress, assuming Nancy Pelosi and Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff decide in the next couple weeks that it's time to go ahead and LOCK HER UP a few of these motherfuckers, just to make a point. (They can start with former White House counsel Don McGahn, if, as we're suspecting, he waits until next Tuesday, when he's supposed to testify, and then tells Congress to pound sand.)
They can, however, get the sergeant at arms to take somebody into custody -- OR MAYBE THE GRAND MARSHAL OF THE SUPREME COURT PROBABLY MAYBE! -- and as USA Today explains, they got rooms down there in the basement of the Capitol where they could LOCK HER UP. Wonkette would also suggest they should just hand the accused over to Maxine Waters, who would probably be GLAD to lock them the fuck up at her house, at least until she gets sick of listening to the imprisoned Trump idiots whining.
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Wonkette: UH OH, BILL BARR GOT #JOKES (Original Post)
ehrnst
May 2019
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)1. I expect Smug Thug Barr
to catch a midnight flight to Moscow (Russia, not Idaho) where he'll have a permanent place performing on the Russky Comedy Circuit!
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)2. The way I heard it on MSNBC....
was that after Ms. Pelosi told Barr about the Sgt. of Arms etc. Barr walked away smiling and laughing, almost daring her to try it. It doesn't sound like Ms. Pelosi "won" anything to me. We have a totally lawless president with a sycophantic, equally lawless AG kissing Trump's ass at every turn. This country is fucked.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)3. "This country is fucked" because Bill Barr made a stupid, nervous joke
and Pelosi didn't get rattled?