Posted on 05/08/2019 5:58:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that President Trump's attempts to block Congress from performing its oversight function is indicative of his growing authoritarianism.
"They’re throwing every obstacle in our way because the president has in many respects become a dictator," Speier said on CNN. "He is trying to prevent Congress from doing its oversight action, and we won’t accept that."
Speier's comments came as tensions continue to escalate between Democrats and the Trump administration over special counsel Robert Mueller's report into Russia's election interference and whether Trump committed obstruction of justice.
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When is the last time any of these tools legislated anything?!?! I don’t even think they know how. What the hell do we need them for?
Democrats are playing a very dangerous game, because when democrats start getting arrested, and if there was any doubt about that with Barr, I think the democrats have pushed him into it, their base will go nuts. That’s what they want, but people could get killed, and it can escalate very quickly.
Eric Holder? Remember him, anyone?
A dictator of them? Yes, that would be how a convict in a prison would view the average population voting to put him in there... ostentiably Marx had the same way of defining the dictatorship of the bourgeois.
Indeed. Bob Barr is not material to be put in prison like this. This is all nonsense. At this point it will be either them or him with ultimatum of this sort
I keep hoping, with the intelligence Barr has gathered
that there would be a Night of Long Indictments as these
people are hand cuffed and brought to justice.
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