Posted on 02/20/2021 2:49:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
You’ve probably never heard of Chicago’s U.S. attorney John Lausch. For the last two years, he has been going after some of the biggest, most powerful Democrats in the state of Illinois.
His office indicted a Chicago alderman who had been serving since 1969. Edward Burke had been in the crosshairs of prosecutors for four decades but it wasn’t until Lausch came into office that he was indicted.
Then there’s the case of the most powerful state politician in the United States, Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan. His aides and cronies have been indicted for various crimes of influence over the years and Lausch has now set his sights on Madigan himself.
In fact, it’s believed Lausch has targeted some other high-profile Democratic politicians in other investigations. It’s a target-rich environment and Democrats in Illinois have gotten extremely nervous about who Lausch will go after next.
Now it appears, that bringing down corrupt Democratic politicians will be the job of the next U.S. attorney. Along with 56 other U.S. attorneys named by former president Trump, Lausch will lose his job — fired by Joe Biden. “It’s tradition,” said Biden supporters. This is true. But it’s also “tradition” to keep prosecutors in place who were pursuing high-profile cases. Lausch certainly qualified under that criteria.
Biden’s firing hasn’t gone down well in Illinois.
Lausch’s abrupt removal has drawn bipartisan criticism from Illinois lawmakers who say he should be allowed to finish his work or depart on a longer timeline to ensure an orderly transition. The president asked all Trump-appointed U.S. attorneys to resign by the end of February but allowed two to remain in place to conclude politically sensitive work.
With much of the state’s Democratic establishment in his sights, it’s not clear why Biden did not extend the same courtesy to Lausch.
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It shows how profoundly corrupt the federal government is and how much they protect “their own.” It’s one reason I think we should return to patronage again. Get rid of these lifelong “civil servants” who go to D.C. to get rich and powerful at the expense of the public.
I am of the position that George W. Bush could have done nothing BUT take out Saddam. Every single intel agency in the world-—GB, FR, GER, Russia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, UN, and our own CIA (cough)-—said Saddam had WMDs. The possibility of al-Qaeda at the time getting a nuke or anthrax was too great to ignore. What we did after we were there, I’m open to debate.
But if I was presiden in 2002 under those circumstances I would have done the same thing.
Taking out Saddam was never the problem (What a massive Intel failure though you have to wonder if they were stupid or faking, could be either they ARE stupid), , the years of pointless occupation afterwards were, “nation-building” they call it. We should have installed some General to rule as a pro-American strongman and left it at that. If you have to go back in a few years and take out some more trash, big deal. But making camp and and letting our men get fragged by peasants with pipe bombs? All for what? Democracy? Which in Iraq with it’s shia majority means an Iranian satellite state? Piss on that. How much of it was neocon ideology and how much was $$$$$ reasons? I don’t know, probably a good deal of both,
As for Cheney, given the significant failures of the Bush administration in both foreign and domestic policy, and the fact that he was essentially co-President, especially on the FP side, it’s time to consider the likelihood that he is probably someone we should lower our opinion of. I won’t put his daughter’s sins on his shoulders but that doesn’t speak well of him either. Apples can fall from trees but presumably her primary political education came from dad.
Valerie Plame is a disgusting snake and the last kind of person you want working for the CIA but I guess I have to reevaluate my feelings on that since her snake husband was correct. Fitzgerald still shouldn’t have thrown the book at Scooter Libby though.
If there is a next GOP President, he needs to use the full power of the US Attorneys to focus on taking down American’s domestic enemies (lock her up was just a slogan, it shouldn’t have been). All I recall Trump’s USAs doings is taking down two pro-Trump GOP Congressman over trifles, and that hurt us in the midterms. They need to be taught that they merely exercise power that belongs to the President (at least when the President is a good one). I have no qualms about being a hypocrite and criticizing the usurper Joe Biden here but his actions are to be expected. Remember Trump kept that Indian prick in NY in place for a while and later caught flak for canning his ass. Eventually all the previous sides political appointees go.
Well, getting back on topic, my gut feeling is telling me something is very odd if BOTH Turban Durban and Suckworthless are issuing a joint statement imploring Biden NOT to fire the guy. If they just leftist Democrats but occasionally did something decent time to time, I could chalk it up to “hmmm, maybe they’re throwing us a bone here and standing up for a Trump appointee because he’s done a great job” but we both know they are complete combiner puppets and knee jerk against anything and everything Trump does, no matter how good it turns out to be. Given those facts, I’d expect them to issue a joint statement calling Lausch an “overzealous prosecutor and dangerous right-wing extremist” and thus Biden’s firing was “a step in the right direction to correct the damage done to Illinois by Trump’s reckless appointments”. That is, IF this guy Lausch is as good as the article claims.
They are probably just afraid of catching flak. Like the RINOs who “denounced” it every time Trump said or did something controversial, they just don’t want anyone blaming them.
What they actually think almost doesn’t matter, they only care about winning reelection.
President Trump’s mistake was not firing everyone (including Comey) during his first day in office. (Well, asking for their resignation, and if he didn’t receive it, then firing them.) Trump repeated GW Bush’s mistake from 2005. If you fire a few hundred people as part of a general housecleaning, no particular case will get much attention; firing Comey a couple of months later, though, got Trump a special prosecutor.
He should never have allowed that. Sessions should have been commanded to unrecuse and fire Mueller.
Another example of the double standard. If not for rampant voter fraud, Hiden should already have impeachment proceedings started against him for this.
Liz Cheney: Yet another example of “our side” going off the rails. Can you imagine a Kennedy, Cuomo, etc. going off the RAT plantation? It’s ALWAYS a one way street. Always.
(And spare me the one “whoever” who changed sides 100+ years ago.)
“If there is a next GOP President...”. Exactly.
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