are fighting for their lives, their corrupt political lives.
Posted on 05/02/2019 2:47:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democrats outraged over Attorney General William Barr’s handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report are increasing their fire, threatening to hold him in contempt and even suggesting they could seek his impeachment.
The cries for Barr’s head exploded on Thursday after the attorney general skipped a House hearing one day after his testimony before a Senate panel shed new light on his differences with Mueller, the ex-FBI chief who led a two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Democrats left an empty chair for Barr as they opened a hearing that would go nowhere. Afterward, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led her press conference by accusing Barr of committing a crime.
“He lied to Congress, and if anybody else did that it would be considered a crime,” she said. “Nobody is above the law; not the president of the United States, and not the attorney general.”
Pelosi did not rule out jail time as a potential punishment if Barr is later found to have broken the law.
“I really lost sleep last night after watching over and over again this testimony of the attorney general of the United States,” Pelosi said.
Pelosi’s harsh denunciation of Barr reflects the real anger of rank-and-file Democrats, who see him as a political operative seeking to protect President Trump at all costs.
But the political theater — Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) showed up with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken at the early-morning hearing to make a point about Barr’s lack of courage — obscured the fact that in focusing their ire on Barr, Democrats were not focused on impeaching his boss, a more divisive issue in the party.
Asked about the status of the Trump impeachment effort, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) acknowledged the scrutiny, at least this week, has veered elsewhere.
“I'm hearing about the impeachment for Bill Barr,” Khanna said. “I think he needs to resign, and he's been probably the most guilty of obstructing an investigation.”
Democrats have long been wary of Barr, who had raised eyebrows last year in arguing that Mueller had no basis for investigating Trump for obstructing justice. But the Democrats’ reservations with the attorney general have mushroomed this week after revelations that Mueller was frustrated with Barr’s initial framing of the investigators’ findings — and had expressed that agitation directly to the attorney general.
Mueller’s concerns consumed much of the oxygen during Barr’s appearance Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Democrats hammered Barr to explain testimony he gave last month, when he suggested Mueller’s team had no problems with Barr’s summary of the report.
Multiple Democrats called for Barr to resign or be impeached, including Reps. Eric Swalwell (Calif.), Veronica Escobar (Texas), Kathleen Rice (N.Y.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Maxine Waters (Calif.).
Swalwell accused Barr of prejudging the special counsel's report, accusing the FBI of lying, lying to Congress and refusing to comply with a subpoena “all to protect the president.”
“There's only one thing left to do. Impeach him,” tweeted Swalwell, a member of the House Judiciary Committee who is running for president.
“He has abdicated on his responsibility. He has lied,” Waters, the House Financial Services Committee chairwoman, said of Barr on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes” Tuesday night.
Another Judiciary Committee member, Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), called for Barr to resign and endorsed the idea of holding him in contempt of Congress.
“He has proven incapable of obeying the oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States,” Demings said.
Republicans rushed to Barr’s defense, accusing House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) of making unreasonable demands on Barr’s appearance.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor blasting Democrats for allowing Cohen to mock Barr.
“You tell me whether or not the chair of that committee is actually serious about the subject when you've got a guy eating fried chicken in place of where they wanted Attorney General Barr to be,” Tillis said as he stood by an enlarged photo of Cohen eating the chicken.
“This guy didn't even have good enough sense to have Bojangles chicken,” Tillis added.
Democrats are vowing to press on, although some suggested a focus on ousting Barr might be a waste of time, since Trump would likely choose a replacement with similar legal views.
“The illusory thing about resignation as a remedy is the suggestion that somebody better might come back later. I hold out no hopes for that,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a former constitutional law professor. “But he certainly should resign if he has any professional self-respect left.”
I say list all the congress critters who used the taxpayer slush fund to cover up their sexual harassment charges. Name the names.
Dysfunctional children.
An embarrassment to their voters and to the nation
are fighting for their lives, their corrupt political lives.
Could they get more idiotic?
I saw Pelosi giving a press conference earlier today, and it looked like she either had a stroke last night, or she seriously “tied one on”. Her hair wasn’t even brushed. She looked like the cat had dragged her in. lol
Because they realize that he did everything he conceivably could including twisting, torturing, and spinning without blatantly provable lying in his report to help their cause.
I totally agree with you and have been saying the same thing for a long time. They don’t just dislike Trump, they have been up to some bad stuff and needed Hillary and all their people in place to protect their illegal activities. This is extreme paranoia and sheer terror.
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Ted Cruz alluded the other day to the possibility the FBI was spying on all the Republican candidates in 2016. I’m thinking he’s probably correct. This spying is not likely a “one of” situation. The corruption and polarization of the FBI that’s going to be uncovered is pervasive and endemic.
Barr is about to lower the boom on the Clinton Crime family, and everyone corrupted by them.
I call it, Panic on the Potomac....
“There’s something a lot bigger than even what we’ve seen so far in danger of being uncovered”
The leak investigations could snare sitting politicians, like Adam Shiftless and Diane Feinstein - and a bunch of media people.
When James Wolfe was indicted for leaking from the Senate Intelligence Committee, it came out that he had been flipped for a long time, while investigators were collecting evidence. Breaking from custom, they had used wide ranging surveillance warrants against media outlets he was working with, such as CNN, ABC, NBC and the NY Times. They collected all electronic communications from many of their people over many months.
They may well have been saving all that ammo, until the decisive moment - when they could see the whites of their eyes.
It could be that a very well prepared storm is coming.
This is their attempt to somehow derail the current investigations into the failed coup.
Fraudulent elections are a US tradition on both coasts and in Chicago, that's exactly why the Electoral College is one of their worst enemies. Even "squeaky clean" asshole shyster Carter was in on the democrat voter fraud. States are quietly moving to avoid the issue but NY, CA, and IL will only have honest and fair elections if there's martial law and the same sort of Voter ID plus dipping a finger in stain that was done in Iraq.
Even then, plenty of votes will be bought by the democrat party, wholesale from scum like "The Reverend Dindonuttin" as well as the few unions that still have some hold on their members. Then there's always the bloated payrolls at every level of government that is arguably nothing but vote buying once the headcount goes beyond what a reasonable for profit business would have in the same role.
Fraudulent elections are and have been business as usual for a hundred years. Something far larger than that is lurking just under the mire and the democrat machine including all their big money backers are way beyond the level of fear they'd have were some house cleaning of elections the issue.
Consider Kamala Harris' anti-lynching bill was to protect the deep staters from Spandau Ballet and had nothing to do with race.
I like the part in hearing where Blumenthal asked about his telephone conversation with Mueller.
Blumenthal: did you memorialize (take notes) of your conversation with Mueller?
Barr: No
Blumenthal: Did any one else in the room hear the conversation?
Barr: yes
Blumenthal: Did they memorialize the conversation?
Barr: Yes, they did take notes.
Blumenthal: Could you provide those notes to me?
Barr: No.
Blumenthal: shocked look for a few seconds..
Blumenthal: Why not?
Barr: shrugs, ‘Whatever for?’
Hahahhahahahahaha!!!! (my laugh)
Lindsey Graham jumped in, called the meeting over and avoided world war three.
Hahahahahha!
It could be that they know the leak investigations are ongoing and they all know that many of the people involved won’t hesitate to flip and start spilling the beans on everything they know about or heard rumors about.
Impotent rage.
The way they look at it, it’s his or theirs.
The left is going to lose.
Maybe Mueller can investigate Barr?......
This is why Trump failed when he did not jail the crooks early when he was elected. By brushing off the clintons and obama.
I am so fu##en sick of these people
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