Will Pelosi and Schumer have a press conference tomorrow when the GOP meets with Rosenstein?

[OrlandoDem1]

They better fight like hell and link this to their narrative about corruption in DC.

The Dems better yell and scream about this to draw attention to how the GOP is obstructing justice and stepping over the line of normalcy.

[C_U_L8R]

1. They ought to bust their way into that meeting.

Democracy needs a dose of bright sunlight.

[Hortensis]

21. No, they should demand the cameras move to THEM

so the Republicans can sneak around while the nation is distracted.

Our leaders will appear appropriately before the media, but of course they're not so stupid as to distract attention while the Republicans are committing severe procedural violations and perhaps even criminal offenses while the nation is watching.

This is probably explained in Politics for Dummies.

[trueblue2007]

42. I agree. I would JOIN the meeting because they too are leaders in the Senate & House of Reprepresen

THE CROOKS ould NOT keep me out of the meeting. What would they do, Arrest Nancy and Chuck ???
I doubt it !!!

[msongs]

2. storm the meeting. demand entry. act like they really care. nt

[pangaia]

3. Damn right. If they let this fly..............

And don't use those nice politician type words and phrases.

TELL the truth with clear meaningful words that carry emotional weight.....

[Maraya1969]

12. If they let this fly....................

They will be acting like the republicans

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Better if they aren't in there

It will be easier to Identify the leaks when only that narrow group of Republicans are in there. And there will be leaks.

Nunes - I'm convinced - is really trying to figure out what they have on HIM. I'm counting on Mueller to suppress that. Rule of law and courtesy be damned.

[Iliyah]

5. Agreed. I'm convinced that they are investigating Nunes and probably more.

This meeting is Un-American. But we know that the GOPs are not patriots and haven't been for a long time.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. Yeah - I really don't like it

And I think Nunes thinks he's getting ahead of the investigation on him.

I think Nunes will be a surprise indictment.

[Wwcd]

29. Maybe they'll all be issued indictments at Rosenstein's meetup

You know they will ALL BE THERE!
Saves the time of tracking them all down.

It's going down tomorrow guys!
Its a sting op.

Every damn one of those Repub traitors will be in that room.
I'm going with "indictments for everyone!"

HA!

[kacekwl]

33. Giving me false hope.

Oh to dream.

[Wwcd]

46. Ya. It felt good to say it too!

Wouldn't that just be a kick in the trumpass!
HA!

[CrispyQ]

9. I'm tired of hearing that excuse.

It's better if we don't fight. WTF? That's partly why we're in this clusterfuck–the dems sit too many fights out & the GOP is confident they won't be challenged.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. I didn't say that

I have a meet and greet with Tom Malinowksi tomorrow. That's how I fight. We get rid of Leaonard Lances weak spineless Republican ass and replace him with a former member of the Obama Admin.

Truthfully - I'm sick of 'we'.

I'm always reading 'we' but it seems like folks never can tell me they are running for committee, running for office, helping out their local candidate, etc. etc.

Asking all of the Democratic Congressman and Women to go beg to be let in and STILL have the door slammed in their face? Publicly.

Nope - what I hope is that Maxine Waters does an interview in front of the closed door and 'questions' what the investigation has on Nunes. She will NOT lose her seat if she gets vicious. She is in no danger of that.

45 HATES her. Her alone would cause him to stroke out. I've got a short game - get the fucker to stroke out and die.

[Hortensis]

52. Interesting discussion, thanks. Ignore the interruption.

I thought the name Tom Malinowski sounded familiar. This explains why it might, though I still don't remember. He writes for Foreign Policy, though, and maybe that's it.

Foreign Policy: Tom Malinowski is a candidate for the Democratic nomination in New Jersey's 7th congressional district. He served as U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor under President Barack Obama, from 2014 to 2017. Before that, he was Washington director for Human Rights Watch, a senior director on the National Security Council staff, President Bill Clinton’s chief foreign policy speechwriter, and a speechwriter and member of the policy planning staff at the State Department under Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Warren Christopher.

How exciting to be fighting to elect a candidate with such a distinguished background in a red district that's now considered flippable. You're battling on the front lines.

[JustAnotherGen]

54. Yep

I made my decision two weeks ago. I couldn't support Peter Jacob anymore.

Tom is running forward - not against anything.

[Hortensis]

55. Oh, yes! I understand that last completely.

Best of luck to you all.

[Wwcd]

47. Um..that is NOT why we're in this cfk.

Geez.

[CrispyQ]

68. The one fight they could have taken on, no, should have taken on, was hate radio.

Instead they've ignored it for 35+ years & today we have a large segment of the population who would rather vote for a child predator than a democrat. And the dems/left still ignore this malignant force in our public sphere.

[Wwcd]

69. That's wrong. Dems aren't the evil bastards that used the free market system for greed & self servic

Where was everyone else? Where were voters when hate radio ran rampant?
Voting for Repubs?

[George II]

65. Guess what, Democrats (NOT "dems") are going to be at BOTH briefings today! So much for......

....sitting out "too many fights" and the GOP not challenged.

What say you about these development???????

[Proud Liberal Dem]

80. Nunes doesn't even seem to be pretending anymore

that he recused himself from the Russia investigation or things associated with it.

[mcar]

30. Way to support Democrats

[Eliot Rosewater]

35. Yikes, why is that SHIT allowed here? Why is this a thread BASHING democrats over

the FUCKING NAZIS doing what they are doing

I

AM

CONFUSED

is this a pro democratic party site or not?

I am reading a lot of "better do this" and "better do that" I wonder if those folks are calling their reps, financially supporting the party, knocking on doors, etc.

[mcar]

50. I don't understand either, Eliot

[ehrnst]

38. Boom!

Somebody needs a nap.

I hear they have cots over at JPR.

[Cha]

79. Lol..

[sunRISEnow]

40. Our Democratic Leadership has done a stiller job the last two years up against all this.

[CrispyQ]

8. It better be more than just Pelosi & Schumer.

A battalion of dems need to show up & be heard. They need to send them to the network news studios & raise a stink about this.

[BigmanPigman]

10. Good idea. They need to do PR on this and do it now!

[JustAnotherGen]

16. Have you called or written your Congress Member yet?

I've sent an email and called Lance's DC office demanding he tell me why he is allowing this to occur. That it's un-American. Lance is a Republican but his wimpy lazy ass is what I'm stuck with.

I've cc'd in Booker and Menendez on the email.

[BigmanPigman]

22. I have a relative who works for one of my reps in his DC office

so I am always calling her to complain. I think she is reaching her limit with me at this point. I need to back off and call my other reps instead.

[JustAnotherGen]

23. She needs to continue to take down your comments

EVERY single comment counts. We've nailed Lance's balls to the walls with this shit - its very effective.

[ehrnst]

41. So, if they there isn't a "battalion" and they aren't on enough networks

and they don't raise enough of a stink...

What will YOU do?

[LanternWaste]

70. "They better" and "they need to..." are much more convenient than "I better" and "I need to..."

The important thing though, is that you continue telling others what they should do (especially after your initial premise was illustrated to be inaccurate), rather than choosing the obvious alternative of, well... y'know, doing something on your own.

"They better" and "they need to..." are much more convenient to apathy than "I better" and "I need to..."

[Takket]

11. Probably not

They will continue to let the right define the entire narrative. Tomorrow we will probably here that intelligence says Hillary eats babies and there will be no dem to refute it.

[OliverQ]

14. They won't. They've been pretty weak.

Schumer still tweets comments hoping that trump eventually behaves normally instead of accepting that the man is a criminal and will never change.

[JustAnotherGen]

18. Schumer - GOP Lawmakers say Nunes is off the deep end

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/388857-schumer-gop-lawmakers-tell-me-nunes-is-off-the-deep-end

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday that Republican lawmakers have privately told him that House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is “off the deep end.”

Schumer condemned Nunes and the White House in a speech on the Senate floor, saying the “White House has put extraordinary, unusual and inappropriate pressure on the Department of Justice and the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.”

"A man like Devin Nunes, who, I hear privately from my Republican colleagues — they think he's off the deep end," he added.


Nunes has pressured the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release information about the FBI’s use of an informant who met with three of President Trump's campaign advisers during the 2016 campaign. He subpoenaed the department for all documents related to the FBI informant earlier this month — a request that was initially rejected due to fear that it could endanger the source and his associates.

[OliverQ]

24. Ok? And what are those GOP lawmakers doing to stop Nunes?

It isn't just Nunes either. Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, Matt Gaetz, Gohmert, etc. are all as criminal and treasonous as Nunes.

When are they going to get indicted? Maybe if GOP congressmen start getting indicted, they'll change their behavior.

[bettyellen]

26. Lawmakers don't hand down indictments, LOL. Know this before you post more nonsense.

[OliverQ]

27. I'm aware of that. I'm saying, why haven't those other GOP lawmakers stood up to Nunes

and the other treasonous GOP? Why haven't they made public statements about his criminal, unethical behavior?

[bettyellen]

32. You don't seem to be following the news or Twitter. Schumer, Lieu and others are

actually doing exactly what you say they aren’t. You’re repeating anti Dem bullshit.

[OliverQ]

49. Nope, I'm not. But you're definitely being rude.

[LanternWaste]

71. You're confusing the words "rude" and "accurate."

You're confusing the words "rude" and "accurate." They are two separate words with two wholly different meanings.

But I do realize that sometimes, a mindful decision to conflate meanings is the last, best hope our biases may have.

[bettyellen]

74. I'm being truthful. That's what matters.

[Cha]

81. Mahalo, bettyellen..

FACTS!

[OliverQ]

82. Nope, you're not.

[NurseJackie]

60. That's exactly what's happening. I see it too. Thanks for calling-out the anti-Dem bullshit.

You’re repeating anti Dem bullshit.

That's exactly what's happening. I see it too. Thanks for calling-out the anti-Dem bullshit.

It's painfully obvious and so repetitive and tiresome. Honestly, I just don't see what good purpose it serves. I do not understand the motivation for anyone wanting to smear and denigrate Democratic leadership and the party itself.

All I'm trying to say is that it's divisive and it's a cause of distrust. It perpetuates suspicion and weakens the party. Ohhhh... wait a minute... maybe the motivation is starting to come into focus.

[JustAnotherGen]

28. Schumer and Pelosi Can't Do that

It has to come from the DOJ.

We can give Schumer and Pelosi a lot more Democratics - we have control over that. If you have a Republicant Congress critter like I do -

Harass them.
Terrorize them.
Go to their local office.


Nunes I have a particular bead on. He's been in hip deep from day one - and I think he's probably in very close contact with the Russkies. 45's messenger boy? Uh uh - he's going to leak it all.

We'll know by Friday everything that is going on in that meeting tomorrow. Now - you see where Schumer and Pelosi have sent a letter to the DOJ requesting they be allowed in or meeting cancelled until all are attended?

It might not be what you want - and I'm not sure of what that is. But Fed Gov doesn't work that way. Brass knuckles and battering rams are not going to get them behind that closed door.

I still think Nunes is coming out shaken.

The others - their constituents need to vote the bastards out. Democratics can't just demand they 'quit their jobs'.

Your the boss of your Congress man/woman - get them to quit if they aren't doing as they are told. Or - Fire them this November.

[ehrnst]

43. Oh, Democratic leadership is "weak?" Far be it from me to harsh your buzz, but

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210643805

Take it over to JPR, where they'll salivate with you...

[Eliot Rosewater]

44. So sick of this SHIT...I dont want to see anymore FUCKING SHIT Here ATTACKING

my god damn party

fuck this

I am a DEMOCRAT and now of all fucking times I wont be criticizing the only thing standing between us and total fascism because I am not an IDIOT

[USALiberal]

45. This was alerted. Silly alert. nt

[ehrnst]

48. Really?

I don't think that the alert is the silly thing here.

[ehrnst]

58. You mean weak like this?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210651396

[awesomerwb1]

15. Sigh

Should I hold my breath?

I'd like to think that if the Dems do nothing about this but tweet, that it's a planned thing for very smart reasons and not simply apathy.

[global1]

17. Why Can't The Dems Demand Their Own Meeting With Rosenstein?.....

Demand equal treatment to get the same briefing the Repugs get. Point out that the way it stands now is partisan. Rosenstein needs to be fair to both sides.

[bettyellen]

34. They have been. For fucks sake.

[ehrnst]

39. Um... why do you think they haven't been?

But hey, if you need outrage, why not direct it at Democrats?

[mcar]

53. Do you not follow the news?

They have been. But far be it from me to interrupt the Dem bashing.

[George II]

62. They did, they will....later this afternoon.

[Vinca]

19. They should and they should point out how guilty this makes the GOP look.

By excluding Democrats, it's clear they're hiding something and trying to obstruct the investigation.

[awesomerwb1]

25. That's a pretty good way to frame it. nt

[LAS14]

20. How did it happen in the first place that the GOP instead of a bi-partican group...

....are meeting with Rosenstein?

[mcar]

31. Seems like they are fighting

Sorry to interrupt your narrative.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210648044

[Eliot Rosewater]

36. No dont you see the main point is ATTACK democrats, isnt it!

FUCK

The absolutely SICK part of all this is how armchair politicians have NO CLUE how hard all this is in real life.

[mcar]

51. Fornsome, it's always the Dems fault

[ehrnst]

37. Sorry to interrupt your rant, but perhaps you haven't seen this?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210643805

Turning up the heat on Trump: Dems say 'culture of corruption' to be focus of midterms
The party has decided to go full drain the swamp on the president's administration, after debating whether to target economic issues or alleged wrongdoing in the coming elections.

"The swamp has never been more foul or more feted than under this president," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said at a news conference on the Capitol steps.

But midterm elections have often functioned as a referendum on the president. And the strategy is acknowledgment that the opposition party may be better off swimming with the anti-Trump tide and harnessing the energy among progressives.

"The problem is that a lot of people hear that (economic) message, they agree with that message, but they're not convinced that we can actually get it done because they view Washington as captured by special interests," Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., who helped craft the new strategy, told NBC News.

"We realized that every other message we're putting out there needs to be accompanied by a democracy reform agenda," Sarbanes continued. "We think that that caffeinates every other message that we're delivering."

[betsuni]

56. Blah blah blah. Another blame Democrats attack.

[marble falls]

57. Why "The" Dems? Aren't you a Dem?

[George II]

59. I hate it when people refer to us as "Dems" - we're DEMOCRATS!

[NurseJackie]

61. Outsiders.

[Me.]

63. Want To Apologize Now?

Not only is there now a meeting with the gang of 8, A. Schiff is reported as being included in the first meeting at noon. If you want to yell and scream please do so at Comrade Trump and His Fellow Cons and not the DEms. Your voice would also be better used at GOTV.

[George II]

66. I doubt you'll get a response. The bashing has been done, on to the next one.

[George II]

64. So, what do you have to say about Schiff going to the first (and second) briefing today....

....and several Democrats going to the second?

Now, are you going to retract your bashing of the "Dems" (i.e. DEMOCRATS) here and apologize? Do you have any idea of what they were doing yesterday afternoon and evening? My guess is you don't.

[Me.]

67. +1

[George II]

73. Once again (since you avoided addressing it)....

So, what do you have to say about Schiff going to the first (and second) briefing today and several Democrats going to the second?

Anything?

[George II]

77. And yet your OP asks a question for which presumably, to quote you:

".....you sit around waiting for people to answer your precise questions on a message board."

"Will Pelosi and Schumer have a press conference tomorrow when the GOP meets with Rosenstein?"

But I wouldn't try to psychoanalyze your status in life (i.e., "miserable" ) or your attitude (i.e., "hostile" )

Have a great evening!