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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 02:10 PM Dec 2017

I Doubt The Democrats Will Gain Much From Forced Franken Resignation. It Was A Keystone Cop Moment.

Doing the right thing was important and the Democrats screwed it up. Their panic attack going after Franken the way they did gave the GOP a "lynch mob" meme that will not help them but help worse GOP offenders go free. Now the GOP can supposedly go through a fake due process where they can control the outcome. Because they a lot of political apparatus they can run ethics investigations of their own the twill be like Kabuki theater where the out come is known. The guilty will be exonerated by a faux investigation where the victims will become the abusers.

In the end nothing will change except there will be no Franken in the Senate. All that will be left is the notion that the Democrats can be stampeded about anything even mirages.

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I Doubt The Democrats Will Gain Much From Forced Franken Resignation. It Was A Keystone Cop Moment. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Dec 2017 OP
As many of us here forcasted. Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #1
Elaine Chao has a HELL of a lot more to worry about than that. sandensea Dec 2017 #5
Wow,hope this story sprouts tons of legs. Wellstone ruled Dec 2017 #7
Unfortunately, the Colombians must have been bribed/threatened to sit on it sandensea Dec 2017 #8
Whats so suspicious about that? Nevernose Dec 2017 #10
Unlimited, unfiltered CNN interviews Nevernose Dec 2017 #9
+1, it seems like a net loss on the face of things. When Mueller is accused by 5 ananonymous... uponit7771 Dec 2017 #2
The media did a good job of goading them on, IMO RandomAccess Dec 2017 #3
And time is running out to undo it. world wide wally Dec 2017 #4
Nothing to gain now true but we had a lot to potentially loose and my bet is cstanleytech Dec 2017 #6
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. As many of us here forcasted.
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 02:30 PM
Dec 2017

I think even the Rethugs are now scared to death what will happen to them if Moore gets to the Senate. Elaine Chao kind of front run things earlier last week with her let it go POS. That alone will buy them a few weeks,in which they can ram the Tax Bill Through. Next year is going to be real entertaining to watch the Rethugs eat their own.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
7. Wow,hope this story sprouts tons of legs.
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 05:23 PM
Dec 2017

Here is the thing that really smells,Chao's family received the Shipping Contracts for inter coastal US waters. Or what is called US Flagged ships.

Just no end to the Corruption in this Friggin Administration. Just asked the people in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

sandensea

(21,635 posts)
8. Unfortunately, the Colombians must have been bribed/threatened to sit on it
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 05:33 PM
Dec 2017

The contraband was seized, people were arrested, and a police inquiry was started - but it never went anywhere. That was five years ago.

Coincidentally (or not), bundles of cocaine kilos similar to the ones apprehended in Jimmy Chao's Ping May began appearing floating off the coast of Rotterdam a few months after this incident (presumably for pick-up by waiting speedboats).

The Ping May's main route was Santa Marta (a top cocaine transshipment hub) to Rotterdam.

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
10. Whats so suspicious about that?
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 05:50 PM
Dec 2017

It’s just your average, everyday, completely innocuous business arrangement: a maritime business based out of Kentucky, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands, co-owned by a US Senator’s family and a Chinese billionaire that OCCASIONALLY gets busted for shipping a hundred pounds of cocaine to Rotterdam.

A dime a dozen! Practically an everyday occurrence!

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
9. Unlimited, unfiltered CNN interviews
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 05:37 PM
Dec 2017

Remember his moronic lawyer? The easy Peasy lemon squeezy guy?

If that’s the kind of top tier talent Roy Moore is surrounding himself with, this will be an AMAZING six years (assuming we don’t all die in a nuclear apocalypse).

uponit7771

(90,339 posts)
2. +1, it seems like a net loss on the face of things. When Mueller is accused by 5 ananonymous...
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 02:42 PM
Dec 2017

People like Franken the rest of em will look like hypocrites

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
3. The media did a good job of goading them on, IMO
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 03:51 PM
Dec 2017

Remember how Chuck Todd shamed Pelosi for not insisting Conyers should step down, like the day after the chargers were even made public ? That's an exaggeration on my part, but still -- this whole thing has been very fast to develop.

cstanleytech

(26,291 posts)
6. Nothing to gain now true but we had a lot to potentially loose and my bet is
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 05:11 PM
Dec 2017

Al knew that if he tried to fight for his position that the Republicans would have opened multiple investigations as well as used it as a weapon against fellow Democrats so I think personally that he decided to take the bullets out of the Republicans guns as far as doing that.
Plus another thing is it doesn't prevent him from running for office again to retake that senate seat down the road or maybe even for another office like president.

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