What CAN we do about it?

Who do we hound? What can we do to have her back? How do we turn the tables and bully THEM? How do we head off their efforts to make her life even more miserable than they tried to make President Obama's?

How do we force them to face consequences? How do we head this off? How do WE obstruct THEM?

Let's think about this, guys. Please! I don't know how to start this, but somebody has to. This HAS TO end.

that way we take over the Chairs of the committees and that shuts down the frivolous money-wasting investigations. The House is probably still a bit out of reach by maybe 6 seats (we need 31 to get to 218 and a consensus is that we may get 25). The Senate wasn't as rancorous with the investigations but taking that back will at least start the process of redirecting at least that wing and the country back to "governing" versus mindless kabuki theater.

these surrogates have Hillary's back and they will fight for HER...make no mistake...

Trump had a horrible week after his horrible weeks, each week worse than before, everything compounding out of control, certain to lose big time and drag Congress down.

THEY HAD TO DO SOMETHING to get the focus off Trump's negatives. Trump is where we need to focus:

because their inevitable retort ends up being - "But Billllllllllllllll..." (despite the fact that WJC did nothing of the sort of ilk that Trump has done and WJC is not on the ballot, HRC is). But there is a need to get him on his finances and notably the fraud that was Trump University.

In an interview with The Washington Post this week, he announced plans to launch years of investigations in the event Clinton is elected president, telling the paper in an

interview, “Even before we get to Day One, we’ve got two years’ worth of material already lined up. She has four years of history at the State Department, and it ain’t

good.”


https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/28/media-freak-out-fbi-letter-disregard-facts-and-run-gops-false-description-clinton-email-review/214184

otherwise I predict more House Democratic "sit-ins" for the next 2 years.

The one thing that might be interesting to see is how Ryan fares as he is on the hot seat with his caucus.

It won't get out of the House of Reps if we have the Senate in Democratic hands. At least we can hold him off that way. Not sure there's a way to defeat him out of his seat yet, though - which would be the most satisfying. Remember how good it felt to see that smug Eric Cantor get the heave-ho? Unfortunately, somebody even worse replace him.

I do take comfort that this is what President Obama has already decided will be his post-Presidency priority: Flipping enough states - state legislatures and governor's mansions - from red to blue. That takes us to victory over gerrymandering that will mean many of these "secure" House seats will no longer be locked in, because they'll be more fairly redrawn after the next census. That is, if we dare hope to make that much of a change by 2020. We HAVE to make some big changes by 2020. Including the midterms in 2018. Midterm elections are always where Democrats don't bother. THAT has to change.

We have the numbers. Any time our side turns out, IF they turn out, we win. But they HAVE TO turn out. EVERY DOGGONE TIME.

and agree about taking back our states. Here in PA, our first step was to at least get a Democratic governor in during the 2014 election and he would be up for re-election in 2018, which if he won (as his 2nd term), would put him in place during the 2020 census.

And agree we have got to get people into the habit of voting EVERY YEAR. There is usually some election (local/state/federal) every year in every state and folks have to start taking responsibility for that which actually has the most immediate impact on their lives - and that often happens during off-year elections.

2020 isn't a midterm. If we have good GOTV then - and we should, especially if Hillary wins this election - we should be able to gain statehouse majorities in enough large states to take Congress back for ten years.

Why in tarnation did Obama appoint him?

this happened because back when he was acting for Ashcroft when Ashcroft was hospitalized, he refused to sign off on Darth Cheney's torture policies (John Yoo's crap), which sent Gonzo and Card to Ashcroft's hospital bed to try to do an end run (that failed). Along with the rest of his experience, the expectation was that he would still get confirmed by the Senate (GOP) during a period when too many people who he put up for confirmation were being blocked.

Even a Bush official is filing a complaint

as a 30+ year fed.

I doubt that any "investigation" of this would be done out in the press however. There are processes that would be going on behind the scenes (e.g., OIG) to make the determination.