The Nuclear Option: Rod Rosenstein the Face of the Swamp

breitbart.com ^ | 6/13/18 | Charles Hurt

[a little elbow grease]

However bad you thought it was, it really is so much worse. However rotten and ungovernable you thought the federal swamp was, it really is so much worse. Indeed, it will take a hundred Donald Trumps to carve out all the cancer riddling this federal government. Behold, Rod Rosenstein, the very face of the swamp Leviathan.

Geeky and bespectacled, he is the cancer that even America’s Founders could not imagine when they crafted a set of checks and balances designed to temper even the most monstrous of human nature.

[Red Badger]

The Director of the FBI term of appointment in office is 10 years. That is supposed to insulate them from political influence.

Comey & Mueller CHOSE to be political tools. It was no accident. The fish rots from the head.......................

[binreadin]

This goes far deeper, I think, than the Justice Dept., which is why Brennan is saying so confidently that Trump is only temporary.

Can you imagine being a mid-level Justice Dept. employee waking up one morning and becoming aware that you are working for a vast criminal enterprise that will spare no effort to subvert the US government and it's people? An enterprise that wouldn't hesitate to imprison and even murder its opponents? If you think that's going too far, look back on the folks who mysteriously died or suicided that had the goods on the Clintons. You can see why so many cooperated simply out of fear.

[DesertRhino]

“They probably would have said that the republic died sometime in the 1960s.”

I think the founders would have thought it was over in the progressive era of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson especially when it kicked into high gear. An income tax that made King Georges taxes look tiny, national slavery of citizens to join into a war between Europeans, a national mission to spread an American empire and gain colonies, the creation of an early FBI. Thoughtcrimes in the Espionage act. Congress abandoning it’s constitutional role to set the value of money to a private and foreign bank.

The Republic, as founded, ended in the early 1900s.

[Mariner]

“Wtf is trump doing about it”

Trump needs political cover to fire the guy.

Multiple Republicans in Congress have warned him of severe consequences if he fires either Rosenstein or Sessions. And we already know how Dims will vote, no matter what.

DJT is the enemy of both parties.

[lewislynn]

The responsibilities for dealing with this start with Congress. You know, McConnell and Ryan. Remember them? They're the representatives for the Koch, brothers, Wall Street and the cheap labor express for amnesty NOT FOR YOU.

The President, ANY President, is the last one to take action. The President (again, ANY president) is the last resort, NOT the first resort.

[DesertRhino]

Lighten up Francis.

[a little elbow grease]

Save it for your family.

[Pollster1]

However bad you thought it was, it really is so much worse.

However bad you thought the Obama regime and the "Russia" and "Stormy" nonsense were, our second Civil War will be so much worse. I pray that we will be able to avoid civil war and also avoid a Deep State victory over the American people. To put it mildly, I am not optimistic.

[rlmorel]

Exactly. Which makes you realized the power of a document (The US Constitution) which attempts to take the corruptible nature into account, rather than assume everyone will treat others as they would like to be treated, and work towards the common good!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. - Declaration

I prefer this one:

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."  --Abraham Lincoln

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

At some point a patriot is going to pick up a rifle.

Our forefathers would have been shooting by now.

[a little elbow grease]

" I pray that we will be able to avoid civil war and also avoid a Deep State victory over the American people. To put it mildly, I am not optimistic."

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I share your feelings but hold out "some" optimism.

[DesertRhino]

“The Director of the FBI term of appointment in office is 10 years. That is supposed to insulate them from political influence.”

No, that is a maximum limit. Not a ‘term”. When appointed you are not given 10 years that you can expect to be left alone. And it’s intent was precisely the opposite. It wasn’t to protect the FBI from political influence. The FBI and DOJ were are not supposed to have ANY independence from the President...none whatsoever. The 10 year LIMIT was designed to prevent another J Edgar from “serving” for 50 years and running a national blackmail scheme as he did.

[a little elbow grease]

...... in time.

[DesertRhino]

Then keep your little hurt feelings off the thread dillweed

[a little elbow grease]

"Rosenstein is the one briefing the President on the OIG report today .... isn’t that “interesting”?"

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Great satire.

[Paladin2]

"Wtf is trump doing about it"

Or Sessions?

[Paladin2]

I suspect that The Donald’s arms will be tightly crossed for most of the session.

[Red Badger]

J. Edgar may have been an a-hole, and was wrong on some things, but he had the right idea on how to run the org.................

[a little elbow grease]

Then keep your little hurt feelings off the thread dillweed

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Hey, lightweight, I STARTED this thread early this morning.

Take a nap.

And you might want to try some dill weed ............. it might improve your pathetic digestion.