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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGotta face facts, there will be no serious investigation of Russia unless we take back the House,
at least. Repuke heads of congressional "investigative" committees, looking at Rump/Russia connections, are stonewalling and delaying. Repukes have no honour or decency, and are quite happy to protect traitors, if that promotes their right wing agenda. Unless there are severe political consequences to their despicable behaviors, Rump will skate.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)is that these republicon fuckers committed treason, and apparently no one else but the republicon House and Senate has any authority or jurisdiction to do anything about it?????
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Our system is so screwed when traitors can take over their own investigations!
ck4829
(35,091 posts)They are now truly incentivized in keeping power for themselves for their own legal sake. We already saw how the 2016 election was compromised and tainted. How much further will they go in corrupting the voting process?
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)This started in 2000 and continued in 2004. Obama was a powerful enough politician to disrupt the cheating. We have to find another Obama before 2010!
VOX
(22,976 posts)And aren't even interested in pursuing the story; but, at the same time, they are hampering *any* pursuit of the story. That makes them ALL complicit.
Oh, but if a Democratic administration had done 1/16th of what 45's has done, there would have been multiple executions by now.
This double standard is so arbitrary and so one-sided, and it's been going on for decades, to the degree that now there are two wholly separate but physically conjoined (for now) universes. It feels configured to produce a sense of powerlessness.
Which is all the more reason to not give in to them.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)and I think we'll get one.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)because they rigged this shit, and we all fucking know it....they will continue to rig it.
They *HAVE* to...this is treason.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Or the house . Rs &friends will not play fair with our candidates
and Rs also know what is at stake in '18
To be honest my only hope is it is only 4 years but look as recrntly as bush II and how Kerry was attacked.
If nothing is done about foreign interventions now that will not stop in the future
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)And the Republicans can remain complicit at their own peril. Once the lid is off, they cannot slow walk any longer.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Think that's going to happen? Think we'll get some Dems with backbone? I haven't seen much evidence of widespread vertebral columns among the current crop of D pols.