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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican Investigator Trey Gowdy Stops Pretending, Admits 'This Is Politics' - By Jonathan Chait
October 23, 2017
9:18 am
Trey Gowdy has been running point for the House Republican investigation into the Russia scandal, at times going so far as to act like Jared Kushners personal defense lawyer. Gowdys response to the New York Times about the Russia probe is a world-weary pose of realism. Congressional investigations unfortunately are usually overtly political investigations, where it is to one sides advantage to drag things out, says Gowdy. The notion that one side is playing the part of defense attorney and that the other side is just these white-hat defenders of the truth is laughable
This is politics.
That explanation might not sound outrageous on its face. It is certainly true, after all, that both parties in Congress tend to follow their partisan self-interest in conducting (or impeding) investigations. But we have crossed a new threshold when the leader of such an investigation no longer even pretends otherwise.
When Gowdy was running his endless hearings into Benghazi a 2012 guerrilla attack that conservative conspiracy theorists had endlessly attempted to use as evidence of an imagined treasonous plot by the Obama administration he piously insisted the proceedings were designed solely to discover the truth. As I have said countless times before, this is not about politics, said Gowdy last year, in one of many such comments. This is not even about any one individual or a single investigation.
Because Gowdys objective was to make Benghazi appear to be a legitimate investigation, rather than a naked effort to rough up the Democrats leading presidential contender, it was important for him to maintain the façade of objectivity. But his goal on the Russia scandal is the opposite. He means to make the proceedings a joke. The more nakedly partisan it all appears, the better. Thats why Gowdy was insisting this is not about politics when a Democrat was president, and now admits, This is politics. The sheen of Congressional legitimacy is just one more governing norm Republicans have cast aside in the Trump era.
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)spanone
(135,858 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)And by acting like a small-minded, partisan a-hole, and thereby failing to protect and defend America from the ACTS OF WAR* being perpetrated on America by the evil empire* russia, its money mobsters, and its debt-and-draft-dodging republican plant in our White House, Gowdy is complicit in treason. He is betraying America.
* per all 17 US Intelligence Agencies and even dick freaking cheney.
** per ronald freaking reagan, for crying out loud.
Irish_Dem
(47,287 posts)Subverted American democracy without a second thought.
They didn't care when they caused the economy to crash, Americans losing their homes and retirement accounts. And now Americans losing health insurance.
Nothing matters to them but money and power.
barbtries
(28,810 posts)it's an entire party of fucking sociopaths. i hate them.
Irish_Dem
(47,287 posts)I hate them too.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)barbtries
(28,810 posts)i hold them in contempt, i detest them, i abhor them, all the synonyms. i do hate them. not just for all they do and don't do, for making me hate.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)America is a melting pot. I was taught that as a kid in the '60s, and it's even more true today. Yet Republican media outlets have now banned the use of the term, "multi-culti".
Without this control, there's no way people would vote for the GOP white-centric platform.
Who's funding this control? White christians. Churches have seen polls where US citizens identify as christian drop from 81% 10 years ago to 43% now. So their fearmongering is now at a fever pitch. It's not a religion as much as it's a business.
Cspan airs a meeting in Congress where people pray (!) And close the prayer with, "in jesus name"!!! So much for multi-culti...
SeattlePop
(256 posts)Gowdy is a traitor.
Who cares about terrorist attacks or Russians.
Botany
(70,559 posts)Treason weasels
world wide wally
(21,751 posts)Response to DonViejo (Original post)
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