Republicans Don’t Want to Find Out What Happened With Russia - Polidicks

[quote] On Monday, the House Intelligence Committee interrogated FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers about Russia’s covert operation to manipulate the 2016 presidential election. Comey confirmed that the FBI was investigating, among other things, whether anyone associated with Donald Trump had coordinated with the Russians. The committee is supposed to be conducting its own Russia probe. But Monday’s hearing showed that the Republicans who run the committee can’t be trusted. In the five-hour hearing, not one Republican asked a question to elicit information about what Trump or his associates might have done. Instead, they hurled every imaginable defense—and attack—at the FBI’s investigation. While the Democrats acted like prosecutors, the committee’s Republicans became defense attorneys for Trump, Michael Flynn, the GOP, and Russia. Here’s a breakdown of their case... [/quote] [url="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/03/republicans_don_t_want_to_find_out_what_happened_with_russia.html"]Slate[/url] Visit source for reasons. If you watched the hearing with Comey, the GOP was targeting the leakers, not the probable outcome that Trump is a Russian puppet.

I noticed that. Watched about two hours of it. We can't trust the House Intelligence Committee to impeach Trump if he is found a traitor for precisely this reason. We [I]need[/I] an independent commission.

Not surprised in the least. The Republicans only care about power, and they have that now; they don't care about the consequences and will happily dance to any tune so long as they profit from it. Absolute scum. [editline]21st March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE]When Comey and Rogers said they couldn’t rebut these statements about a lack of evidence (since to do so would reveal classified or investigation-related information), Republicans portrayed that as confirmation of Trump’s innocence. This is an attempt to end the investigation before it begins.[/QUOTE] I mean, look at this. Fuck me.

[QUOTE=Llamaguy;51992796]If you watched the hearing with Comey, the GOP was targeting the leakers, not the probable outcome that Trump is a Russian puppet.[/QUOTE] If the Trump affair turns out to be true, charge them all with aiding and abetting enemies of the state. Show the treasonous bastards the error of their ways with life imprisonment at best. I bet the GOP will resist an independent commission, even though they were all too happy to have Bill Clinton investigated down to the last molecule.

[QUOTE=Llamaguy;51992796]If you watched the hearing with Comey, the GOP was targeting the leakers, not the [B]probable[/B] outcome that Trump is a Russian puppet.[/QUOTE] That should be "possible".

I hope the people behind all this garbage accidentally shit a little in their pants today

Its pretty funny to see the shoe on the other foot now

We all already know this but if this situation was flip flopped on the parties there'd be a fucking outrage :v:

They don't want to know because they already know, and you already know, and pretty much everyone who isn't blind knows what they're almost certainly going to find. Trump is a milestone for being the first Russian president ever, but the republicans don't care about that so long as it means power for them. If it were flipped, we'd be seeing them screaming and losing their minds. More than ever. Republicans would be more upset about russians influencing a democratic win than they were about Obamacare. Truth is they don't mind being puppets for a foreign government as long as they're the puppets in power.

Its absolutely astonishing the level of cognitive dissonance/complacency that this situation is engendering, not to mention the outright complicity.

no independant probes needed, move along. all they focused on was discussing prosecution of journalists who publish classified info, which is pretty fucking bad. yes wikileaks is bad but legitimate journalists don't publish info to harm the US and substantially redact things

Party before country. They're Republicans, not Americans.

I guess this comes as no surprise. This was the answer to the question 'what the fuck would they do if they were in power' when they were all insisting Obama was Kenyan.

[QUOTE=Kylel999;51992850]We all already know this but if this situation was flip flopped on the parties there'd be a fucking outrage :v:[/QUOTE] Considering the Republican party spent untold millions on investigating Benghazi something like a dozen fucking times, despite it being conclusive that Clinton was in the clear each and every fucking time. Damn straight there'd be outrage from them. How the fuck do you justify that kind of wasteful spending unless you're operating on nothing but a lust for a show of power? Because it would appear the Republicans are nothing but a bunch of children who haven't developed a sense of empathy yet. 6 year olds are more empathetic human beings and capable of more rational thought.

[quote]2. Russia wouldn’t have favored a Republican. Rep. Devin Nunes, the committee’s chairman, dismissed as absurd the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia had sought to favor the Republican presidential nominee. “Don’t you think it’s ridiculous for anyone to say that the Russians prefer Republicans over Democrats?” he asked Comey and Rogers. When they tried to explain that their assessment was specific to Trump, and not about party, Nunes repeated his partisan view that the whole idea was “preposterous.”[/quote] I absoultely hate this fucking argument. It's used so fucking much. During Obama's term, democrats wanted peace with Russia. Republicans didn't by shouting DICTATOR and the such. After the peace deal, Russia then invaded Ukraine. Democrats were pissed and started hating Russia, republicans said "I told you so!" I don't know what the fuck changed, but Republicans are now suddenly "Oh let's be friends with Russia!" while democrats are shouting DICTATOR.

I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend situation. They really hated Obama.

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;51993911]I absoultely hate this fucking argument. It's used so fucking much. During Obama's term, democrats wanted peace with Russia. Republicans didn't by shouting DICTATOR and the such. After the peace deal, Russia then invaded Ukraine. Democrats were pissed and started hating Russia, republicans said "I told you so!" I don't know what the fuck changed, but Republicans are now suddenly "Oh let's be friends with Russia!" while democrats are shouting DICTATOR.[/QUOTE] What changed on the democrat side was Russia invading Ukraine. I would have been all for "let the cold war be the past", but then Putin went and screwed that up. What changed on the republican side was Trump and his ties to Putin. The republican politicians care more about their control of the government than anything else, so they pretend that ties to Russia aren't a problem.