The Congressional Protection Racket Forms Up Around Franken and Conyers

DB Daily Update ^ | 11.27.2017 | David Blackmon

[EyesOfTX]

Franken and Conyers get protected by both their fellow Democrats and by Republicans Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, who have begun “investigations” into their behavior by the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). This is akin to siccing Inspector Clouseau onto the paths of serial killers. Placing these matters in the hands of the OCE simply means that nothing will happen for many months, as the “investigation” proceeds at a snail’s pace, in the hopes that it will all fade from the public’s collective memory in the meantime.

It’s a bi-partisan protection racket. – But of course, we all must keep in mind that it isn’t just Democrat members of congress who have much to lose here – it’s Republicans, too. Conyers’ lawyer threatened over the weekend that, if his client goes down, he will take lots of other members of congress down with him. That probably won’t be too hard for Conyers to achieve, given that a congressional slush fund has payed out roughly $18 million over the last 20 years in settlements of sexual harassment cases. Oh, the humanity!

Their rush to protect Franken and Conyers by calling for OCE “investigations” doesn’t necessarily mean McConnell and Ryan have anything to hide themselves, but they do no doubt have many members of their respective houses of congress to protect, and they’re wasting no time doing it. After all, whether Republican or Democrat, members of congress, like Ryan, McConnell and Pelosi, are members of America’s protected, ruling class. They have all become quite accustomed to exempting themselves from the laws and mandated behaviors that apply to the rest of us, and they’ll be damned if they’re going to go down without a fight.

No one ever said that draining the DC Swamp was going to be easy.

[humblegunner]

The message in this post seems to have been drowned in a flurry of flames sent at the messenger.

The poster has the ability to put an immediate and decisive end to that.

All he has to do is post the whole thing.

[trebb]

The bright side is they are crippling their efforts to express “moral outrage” over the 40 years ago fake allegations against Moore...

[Clutch Martin]

Well... I reckon it was a good thing Al wasn’t “escorting” a drunk home... as today he commented he thought, or had learned that some girls don’t take kindly to being groped and
having their.pictures taken.

AL FRANKEN DOES NOT ACT RESPONSIBLY!!!

That IS the problem. HE IS in a position of power and he is a buffoonish, sophomorish FOOL!