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Posted on 04/05/2019 9:52:54 AM PDT by jazusamo
The Democrat-led U.S. House is in a panic, stunned and overreacting to Attorney General Barr’s summary of Mueller’s “no collusion” report, misstating law, making wild claims for White House documents, misusing congressional subpoena power, mischaracterizing oversight authorities. They are making a big mistake. Oversight overreach is reckless, but the U.S. House is going rogue.
As a former U.S. House oversight staff director and counsel, having managed countless investigations of Justice, Defense, State and NASA for five years, we focused on waste, fraud and abuse, loss of life at Waco, mismanagement at immigration, defense inventory management, counter-narcotics, interagency coordination – plain vanilla topics intended to make the government work better.
Taxpayer-funded oversight is boring, if sensitive – like work of the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. Constitutional oversight is not about politics, but accountability. Oversight is about budgets, missions, outcomes and alignment – not impeaching a president, destroying grand jury secrecy, abusing subpoena power, or settling electoral scores.
In my day, we asked for documents only when needed, which was rarely. We gave a Democratic administration time to produce them, often accommodating White House counter-offers. Subpoena power was seldom used, although always available. We respected institutional prerogatives, separation of powers, executive authorities, the U.S. Constitution and established case law.
None of that is germane today. What is happening is an abomination. Democrat chairmen – and a U.S. House Speaker – are twisting the oversight process to crass political ends, ignoring historical precedents, institutional norms and prerogatives, the Constitution, statutes and case law on a beeline for impeachment.
On Wednesday, Chairman Jerald Nadler, D-N.Y., of the Judiciary Committee led his committee to a party-line vote authorizing a subpoena for the “full, un-redacted report” by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Russian interference.
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I think and hope it will backfire on them.
I want a House vote on impeachment.
Get every one of them on the record for 2020 and all the Dem senate and POTUS candidates too.
...misstating law, making wild claims for White House documents, misusing congressional subpoena power, mischaracterizing oversight authorities.
IOW, the Demagogic Party continues to do it. Thanks jazusamo.
Off the Wall Ping!
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“Robert Charles: House Democrats go rogue – abusing oversight for impeachment”
The Democrats aka Demoncrats have done nothing but try to destroy the first President since Reagan that is actually trying to help the average American. The establishment Republicans have also helped them do that. Congress is proving they are no longer useful to this Republic.
They know that time is running out. The president will turn the tables and destroy the democrats.
It is quite simple in the essence. Destroy or be destroyed.
I'm waiting for our holding action to end. You can't win by playing defense. We need to start our offense.
Well said...The Dems know they’re in real trouble.
The Republican Establishment will stop the Trump Admin from going after Obama’s FBI and Hillary.
Remember Sandy Berger only received a $50,000 fine for stealing documents under Bush?
The various House chairmen may have collectively just stepped on a land mine.
That may be a little hard to walk back. Stepping OFF the land mine is what triggers the detonation.
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We get promises of a carrot with “Release of FISA.” I’ve heard that since last year. You know what? Even if FISA is released, it will excite Hannity and others, but what will it mean? The media will just ignore the truth, and most of the public won’t understand or won’t care. Remember when the release of the “Five Page Memo” was supposed to bring down the house? “Tick Tock !!!“ It generated light and heat for a couple of days, and then it all died.
The Left is using baseball bats and we are complaining to the etiquette counselors.
If the American people supported crap like this, the Congressional approval rating would be higher than 21%.
“None of that is germane today. What is happening is an abomination. Democrat chairmen – and a U.S. House Speaker – are twisting the oversight process to crass political ends, ignoring historical precedents, institutional norms and prerogatives, the Constitution, statutes and case law on a beeline for impeachment.”
Screw these people. TINVOWOOT. They are at war with our society and its centuries-old rules, and with anyone who opposes them by supporting those rules. Treat them like the domestic enemy that they are.
——Where are the arrests and indictments——
Sealed until the proper moment
You can’t win by playing defense. We need to start our offense.
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That won’t happen until we replace Bush League Republicans with people who stand with the citizens and the rule of law.
The Republican Establishment will stop the Trump Admin from going after Obama’s FBI and Hillary.
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Because they are afraid of the entire Kenyanesian Usurpation being exposed along with their complicity.
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