a confirmation of the person Obama nominated for the Supreme Court.
He knew then if he waited, trump would win and then appoint an extreme right winger.

I never realized why McTurtle refused even a hearing for Merrick Garland. Now I see why--it was all because a traitor is running the Senate.

I knew the fix was in. They were very sure a republican would win the presidency.

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The Russians financed a coup, and one of our political parties was their partner.

Ah well - nothing here

is ADDISON. Where did Mitch come from, I wonder. Maybe we should stop calling him Mitch, and use ADDY instead?

we will have some major fireworks in DC. Lawyer up to all the culprits who committed these illegal acts.

than the turtle.

too. Oh while we are at it, Devin Traitor Nunes. Chaffetz has already seen the handwriting on the wall, he is getting out while the gettin' is good.

Spend more time with his family, and describes how his daughters had left for college

They were up to their noses, and most of us knew it.
What kind of noble official acted like MM and Ryan in DTs election.

I would like to see them all in prison for life, including Sessions and Pence.

Then Pence, Sessions and all the rest of them - I pretty much hate them all, but those are my top three.

about the election.
Gonna be a big boom when those surface.
Mueller still in process of gathering and sorting thru all the IC info. on a global scale.
Isn't gonna happen as fast as we would like, but it is widespread investigation.
Also, NY State AG, in going after RICO charges on Trump and his Russian money-laundering pals, always focuses on destroying the operation , not just making arrests.
Fines and penalties are usually about 3 times the amount laundered.

If this comes through, I think I will start believing in god again!

whole shit would be over in one fell swoop if revealed, and I'm a fervent follower of DU. I just don't see how something like this remains secret. Now I've seen the threads about Ryan and McConnell taking Russian money in illegal PACs but that seems more preposterous than the threads coming from the "Louise" woman who drops tidbits on alleged Grand Jury indictments frequently and gets slammed every time she is mentioned as running a con on DU'ers.

He wields more actual influence. He has already caused a lot of damage to the country, more than Trump has the imagination or time to do, aside from actually pushing the nuclear button---God help us!

up to his gross, buggy, bifurcated, double-glazed empty eyeballs. Mitch McConnell needs to be outfitted in a stiff orange jumpsuit, sprayed in the face with de-lousing spray, and shunted into the general population of Pelican Bay prison.

being able to control national messaging from 1000 radio stations that the left continues to ignore

"obama deep state is colluding with hillary suggesting trump is stealing the election but there's no evidence!" etc

Bobby 3-Sticks ain't no amateur. When the hammer comes down on this, the evidence will be AIRTIGHT, and the entire GOP leadership will go down with their Dear Leader. Ryan, McConnell, Sessions, Bannon, PREBIUS, probably some House members that Ryan funneled laundered Russian money to via pacs...EVERYONE.

When this hammer drops, it's gonna crack a lot of skullz. Can't fucking wait.

as far as collusion, the trump team studied talk radio in lead up to campaign according to sam nunberg (gabriel sherman - new york magazine 4/3/16)— did trump figure that out or did the russians explain most of their trolling on his behalf was going to piggyback talk radio? how long have the russians been feeding the talk radio gods through breitbart, etc.

trump is the talk radio president and he is putin’s president — limbaugh has been denouncing the collusion as absurd, he’s up to his eyeballs making excuses for trump. is trump or the russians paying him?

about the Russian money. Some was "laundered" through the RNC. Addison "Mitch" knew a lot more than he will ever admit. Crooked as HELL.

So guess whos gonna get to ship all that steel for the private contractors hired to repair all the bridges for the trillion dollar infrastructure bill Trumpy said he would pass.

Conflict of interest to these people means a russian mob bank made an accounting error somewhere, and somebody didn't get paid what they were promised.

Both McConnell and Ryan knew

God only knows how wide and deep this corruption goes. Ryan is in a
CYA mood right now.

How did McConnell know if he waited until after the election he would have
somebody else to vote for for SCOTUS?


https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028671176 (NY Times Article)

Paul Ryan & Republican Establishment Used Hacked Info From Russia Against Democrats:

Let's not forget that a super PAC tied to Paul Ryan used material provided by Russia's hacking of the DNC and DCCC.

It was known that Russia had stolen material from the DNC and DCCC and a Paul Ryan Super PAC and as well as other Republican groups used it.

It wasn't just Hillary Clinton being attacked. It wasn't just Trump benefiting. There's potentially more collusion than just that between Trump's team and Russia.

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It was a coup and we had and still have treason.

But I remember back a year ago, in the weeks leading up to the Republican convention.

Trump had pretty much sewn up the nomination, all they had to do was nominate him as their candidate. And yet for those few weeks Ryan was not wanting Trump, he was even putting out negative press releases about him. Ryan said he'd look at anybody other than Trump for the GOP candidate.

Why was that? McConnell was balls-in for Trump and somehow he got Ryan to go for him too. How did he do that? It's always bothered me and made me wonder how they got him. Eventually Ryan did decide on Trump but he's always been sort of lukewarm.

Ryan had to have known all the shit about Trump that we're just finding out now.

What's the deal with these guys? How did Ryan get his arm twisted? McConnell we know about - Putin's just outright blackmailing him and using him. But Ryan is a mystery, what do they have on him, and how did they buy him?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Round up any survivors and ship 'em off to re-education/labor camps. Permanently!

. . . .

Can he get indicted? If so by whom, state or federal? Can he be pardoned?

The amount of crap these POS have gotten away with is mind boggling. Sometimes I think this crap is so vast it will be impossible to take down.

Forget about the actual evidence against them.

Still, we have to try and maybe the average Merican will wise up after their healthcare is gone.

Addison "Mitch" McConnell has made himself a multi millionaire in this "job" He is too greedy to quit.

And still nothing changes.

finally was prosecuted and jailed for his sexual abuse - rape - of underage boys and he is now a broken old man in stir. The same was true of gangster Al Capone who died of syphilis in federal prison on tax evasion/fraud. It shouldn't, but it continually amazes me that people like McConnell and Trump seemingly get by forever with criminal acts, but it does eventually catch up with them. There will be a great day of reckoning for them and others of their ilk - serial criminals all - and I don't mean in The Great Bye and Bye either. The tRump clan are no better than the Madoff mob. And McConnell is no better than Snowden or Assange. Perhaps, someday Yertle can join those two on their Men Without a Country world tour soon.

might enjoy being locked up with those tough men. Many of them have more integrity than he ever had. The millions of $$$ he has made by screwing this country will mean nothing behind bars.

These assholes get away with it more often than naught. Now underage sexual crimes is another matter because it involves victims who will mature and (not always) become braver about telling their story.
If it is another criminal act involving money, witnesses and cohorts can be bought off. Haliburton made billions off of no-bid self-awarded contracts, where many of the rebuilding projects were not even completed.

His revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative? All they do is have a fall guy cop to the crime and then pardon him a few months later, Scooter Libby.

What is more important is to not let history be re-written. Even if these traitors die in a gold gilded bed with everything they ever wanted materially, they will, they must, be regarded historically along with Benedict Arnold.

...to come with a bi-partisan announcement and press conference about the Russian interference, but McConnell said no. Then Obama (playing Mr Fairness/Nice guy) didn't do unilateral dissemination for fear that he would be tagged with trying to turn the election in Hillary's favor. What a mess. For one time, I wish Obama has put his sense of being fair to the side and came out strong with this info last summer.

But I don't think anyone gave Trump a snowball's chance in hell of taking the election. I'm sure Obama knew what depths McConnell would go to, and decided it wasn't worth it since Hillary could pursue it after she was elected.

After 8 years of unprecedented obstruction, RW media craven hatred, and the fact that the M$M refused to do their jobs when they did no fact-checking during the entire election cycle, he was stuck between the rock and hard place. If he had aggressively intervened, then the media shutdown against the Democrats' assertions would have been solidified due to them declaring it, using the simpleton terms, "partisanship" and "sour grapes". And given that Democrats neither own nor control any major media outlets, then the info gathered would have been summarily dismissed and buried. Because. "Partisan". Plus it would have taken years to get to where we are right now regarding investigations - especially when you have the leaders of both chambers of Congress out to block with their cutthroat moves and having the committees stall.

What has happened is that the election process proceeded and the intelligence-gathering continued. And what he DID do was make sure as much evidence as could be gathered was distributed and preserved away from being completely purged, and that has been dribbled out to bring the subject front and center. And the additional piece is that there are now 3 different topics of investigation - the Russian "meddling" in the election, the "money laundering and potential espionage", and most recently, the "obstruction of justice". So we may get a three-some out of it - assuming Mueller is allowed to continue.

particularly since that "net" now includes a number of current Department/Agency heads.

Released everything except classified info to the public & WELL documented in archives. Here's one example of public disclosure, there are scores more.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/11/press-briefing-press-secretary-josh-earnest-1112017

do we go for justice from such a powerful cabal? They are certainly not going to investigate themselves. Maybe 2018 will answer.

Would that not make him a Traitor?

Him, Ryan and the rest of their soulless crew.

When Scalia died he knew the fix was in, and that he could obstruct and rig the courts. Fuck this fucking asshole, he belongs behind bars.

It's probably the worst decision he ever made. The election was totally hacked for partisan purposes and now they have the apparatus in place, no election will ever be safe again until and unless the Repugs hang for their treachery. If Drumpf remains president and Ryan and the Turtle keep their positions, I think Dems will find we never win anything again, as all elections will be totally hacked and all media will just support them by saying Dems are losers and no one likes them and all polls are just wrong. We need to take our country back from Russia and traitorous Repugs.

This makes NO SENSE! Sure - everyone KNEW Hillary would win. But then they stole it. And the Senate, and the Supreme Court! And our COUNTRY!

And NOBODY DID ANYTHING.

So, maybe we'll have months, years of investigations...and maybe...a few lower level folks will go to jail. But seriously, do we still believe in Santa Claus?

substantial power again.

"it is easy to say that Obama should have issued a warning about Russian election meddling without the Republicans on board, but his concern that the Russia issue would turn into a partisan one that could destroy the integrity of the election was legitimate. "
BS on this. He was the president. He should have sounded the alarm. Loud and clear. I am glad he kept documents, but that could easily have been interpreted as covering his ass.
I have to wonder if they threatened him. His job was to inform the people of credible threats, not worry about how we might react. Who knows-maybe we would have had more people vote. Hiding the truth should not have been his choice to make. Like we are little children unable to deal with reality.

I agree!

Barack Obama was the President...He should have sounded the alarm....Loud and clear!

House, Senate, and White house, I suspect nothing will be done to him, unless it become a criminal matter then the Department of Justice must step in and do what must be done. The FBI maybe.

Libel to be a couple baggers on each jury who would never convict a Repuglican. That's my fear.

Many hurdles to overcome but nevertheless - we persist!

people out...both attorneys have to decide whether or not a jurist is suitable. If you have two corrupt attorneys than there is nothing that can be done. 書がない!

Republicans held Obama and the Democrats hostage on this issue. The GOP had two ways to play this: if Obama said nothing, they would say nothing. If Obama drew attention to the Russian attack, the Russiablicans would have destroyed him (and Hillary) in the press. It was a no win situation.

The cheaters cheated and got away with it. They may still.

tarred and feathered.

There is nothing illegal in expressing an opinion even if you are doing it disingenuously to help your party.

To know about the threat and advise that nothing be done might have some weight if Democrats had done something but the fact that Democrats took his advice and did nothing, while knowing the threat existed, indicates that his opinion was the opinion of the government in general so it wouldn't be any more illegal than Democrats not acting on the threat.

yes, it is. And fully warranted, IMO. Because...how's that silence workin' out for us, huh?

The "integrity of the election" was, is, and apparently will remain an ACT OF WAR, at the very least.

WAR AND TREASON**, at the most.

**By Trump and his collaborateurs.

along with Russiagate.

Understandable that President Obama didn't want to appear to 'interfere' in election, but a bit too cautious, imo.

Home to fast horses, superior bourbon, and treasonous Republican senators! Maybe they should change the honorific title they hand out from "Kentucky Colonel" to "Kentucky полковник".

His perspective would be invaluable, plus it would give major shit-fits to Trump, Putin, McConnell, Ryan, and everyone else who could be in on this election tampering.

It's like there's something being held over our Democratic heads that we don't know about

So the FBI does a thorough and non-partisan fact finding job, what then? We get another
Iran-Contra style report and decide to move on because the fallout would be too disruptive
to our national polity

Where science and data and truth and facts are suspect as #FakeNews, no one can agree
on anything and even morality goes out the window

I'm thinking the post-War era, from 1945, was an inordinately strong one for laws, the State,
progress. Things were definite. Yet throughout our history there have been periods when
groups in power grabbed all they could and suppressed what they didn't like. We sent the
Tories packing in 1787 and seized their lands, the British marginalized French Canada and
took sides in Scottish Nova Scotia, we've all read of the Trail of Tears, Robber Barons, racism,
ageism, sexism, the Populist 1896 movement, the Red Scare, McCarthy, Civil Rights of the 60s
and early environmentalism.

The squeeze is being put on us. Our laws and safeguards were not strong enough, they relied
on leadership power and strength and public awareness, all of which failed to some extent. Maybe
it's just the way history rolls along.

plain and simple.

i'm not letting obama or the repugs off the hook.

Republican party used stolen files and participated in a Coup. They're criminals.

fight as dirty as he can, to do so.

Daily Kos also covered this WaPo article today, and the Kos' last paragraph sums it all up well:

"The answer to why Barack Obama didn't speak out more strongly and (earlier) about Russian interference for Trump, is because Republicans blazed the trail Trump is still following:
They refused to cooperate, placing party above country."

Barack Obama apparently "placed country above party"...and the result is that we now have a Republican Congress, a Republican Supreme Court, and a lying, child-raping Republican maniac in the Oval Office......(Goodbye "checks & balances&quot ....May God help us all!

Fat narco bastard.

that McConnell and the GOP leadership were "all-in" with Russian collusion. He had to know the deck was stacked to their greatest advantage when he decided to "roll the dice" to obstruct the Garland appt. The WAPO article just lays it out in black and white.

protect Trump because he thought Trump was in bed with the Russians but maybe to protect Mitch and other higher up Repugnants in Congress and the RNC because they were the ones in bed with the Russians and an investigation might have uncovered it.

Right now, us Dems are the only ones who even care about this. Most Repubs don't believe it or even care.

It's decisions like this that leaves me scratching my head. Why? Why play ball with these ass holes ?

They blow up our health care, cause large numbers of us to be ill and die, and destroy our economy. Thanks for nothing, Comrade McConnell.

and the republicans went along w/it.

Look the other way. Nothing to see here.