Over the past two weeks Barr's fans/pundits have soured on his

[BigmanPigman]

"outstanding" reputation. Several attorneys and those who worked with Barr at some time in their careers have admitted their impressions of Barr are now the opposite of what they were a few weeks ago when they were giving him praise for his legal reputation and good character.

I never understood how they were fooled. Everyone on DU knew he was a shithead due to his reputation during the Bush years and the cover ups back then.

[SunSeeker]

1. Right? The sycophant wrote a legally nonsensical memo to Trump to get his AG job.

The memo in essence announced he would exonerate Trump for anything and everything.

What about that screams credibility?

[Skittles]

2. I don't think they were fooled

everyone is just afraid to speak out now

[Perseus]

13. Very good point

Where have all the balls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the balls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the balls gone?
Whose picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Sung to the tune of "Where have all the flowers gone?"

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[Skittles]

24. LOL

but....just so you know, male body parts are not required for courage. Maxine comes to mind.

[Midnight Writer]

3. The old saying is "Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line". They will see no wrong.

[stopdiggin]

4. compared to Whitaker, Sessions

Barr had serious credentials in the sense of when compared to Sessions, Whitaker, and a good deal of other appointments made by this administration. (DeVos, Carson, Bannon, etc.) I think anyone who expected more than a partisan hack in the position at this point in history ... Delusional.

[True Blue American]

6. He may

Have serious credentials but he also has a history of cover up in Iran/ Contra.

Now he is known as Cover up Barr.

Is this the lead up to Saturday night massacre in reverse?

[Perseus]

14. "Cover up Barr"

This needs to become a meme...please spread it around, that should stick very well.

[True Blue American]

18. Will do!:)

Feel free to do it for both of us!

[ancianita]

25. I think you mean "coverup Barr" will cover up his own and Lizard's gluttonous corruption.

I've seen the memes out there. But for every one of them there are 20 memes about the Democrats being every evil thing banker, globalist and free range techie libertarians can buy.

Thank the universe we've got Earl G.

[Danascot]

31. " Baghdad Bill"

Brian Williams yesterday

[Cousin Dupree]

5. They're all lining up outside the Oval Office to fall on their swords, ruin their reputations,

whatever it is that Don the Con needs. What is this thing that he has that gets people to act against their own interests and the interests of the country? I’m mystified.

[murielm99]

7. There might be a number of republicans

who are refusing to do this, and we just don't know about it. There may be some who are honest and discreet about their refusal to knuckle under to 45.

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[Perseus]

16. Compromised, maybe even without their knowledge

Let us not forget that the orange buffoon is a mafioso, and they know the art of compromising. You suddenly wake up to find the head of a dead horse under the blankets, and from then on they have you.

I believe it explains Graham's 180 turn after one golf outing with the buffoon. One round of golf and Graham was a changed human being, from someone who criticized the buffoon to someone who willingly leaks his balls.

[True Blue American]

19. Trump has Lindsey's Blue Dress!

[duforsure]

8. By Barr acting as trumps lawyer instead of the American people's

Will only make more people come out to vote trump and all republicans out of office, and then he'll be in deep trouble , and along with trumps last two AG's . Barr will end up in prison, and he should be scared.

[Perseus]

17. Amen

I hope you are 100% correct.

[democratisphere]

9. Barr and Rosenstein are common rethuglicon criminals

protecting and serving their master. Both are a DOJ disgrace and another stain on America.

[SergeStorms]

28. I'm starting to worry about Mueller.

He's a republican, don't forget. For all the praise that's been heaped on him he's still a republican, and I don't trust a republican as far as I can throw Donald Trump.

[democratisphere]

30. NO rethuglicons can ever be trusted. Being crooked is in their DNA.

Mueller must prove himself by testifying before the House and telling all, regardless of the fallout with criminal AG Barr and criminal Deputy AG.Rosenstein.

[lark]

10. Yeah they clutch their pearls now, what total crap.

The ones doing this are all rw'ers who just wanted one of their own and who shut their eyes and pretended because it was good for the party and rw when they totally knew better. But they and drumpf succeeded so now they can pretend they give a shit - they don't.

[yardwork]

12. I don't understand why anybody is surprised by all this.

It was clear from the time Barr was brought in as AG that the goal was to stop the Mueller investigation and cover up the results.

[Hortensis]

15. Doubt former colleagues were "fooled" in the slightest.

Disappointed in some cases, no doubt. As for their pubic comments, perhaps they hoped to prop up his behavior with expectations and reminders that he could still have a place among honorable people if he wished.

Chuck Rosenberg is one of my favorites among them. He's remarkable in this ungentlemanly era for starting every comment by saying something courteous and agreeable about whoever and whatever was just said. Then he continues on in his gentle, deliberate way to enlarge on it or disagree, but always informing viewers about how and why things are done. He's currently regretfully had to rethink his confidence in the reputation Barr had when they both worked for the DoJ. "There are things that have shaken my view." Progressing on through why to condemnation, but in such restrained terms that some might miss it.

Remembering that Rosenberg is anything but a fool. He was a very high-level prosecutor who put a lot of people in prison and in whom any delusions about what humans are capable of would have been smashed long ago.

[True Blue American]

20. Yes, he is!

I also think Matt Miller is very clear on facts.

[Hortensis]

22. Yes. Matt Miller is one of very few I've heard speak/allude

very briefly (!) to Comey's behavior as interference on behalf of the Republicans in the election. I've heard him do it a couple of times and seen the very quick acknowledgements of agreement from others before the conversations were whisked off to apparently much less dangerous ground.

Congressmen and senators aren't the only ones who like their cushy, elite jobs way too much for our good. Of course, with Comey's continued power as a man who knows where many bodies are buried, and that of whomever else was involved, there might be more just just their current jobs at stake.

[Grasswire2]

27. I just learned this about Rosenberg today. He resigned from DoJ after Trump told..

...law enforcement it was okay to rough up detainees. I believe that WaPo has a story about that today, too...

[Hortensis]

29. Heard that too, had before but forgotten.

I looked it up. Turns out was the job of director of the DEA he resigned from in this case. Long, really impressive resume on Wikipedia, including various U.S. DA positions, chief of staff to Director Comey at the FBI and, interestingly, counselor and later assistant to the AG.

The WaPo Editorial Board lauded his memo to everyone at the DEA back then too.

"His letter was important not as a rebuke to the president but as a model of leadership and courage in reaffirming democratic values. As Mr. Rosenberg explained to his staff, "We have an obligation to speak out when something is wrong." "We fix stuff." "At least, we try."

and

"We have an obligation to speak out when something is wrong." He listed "core values" that he said were fundamental to the agency: "Rule of Law, Respect and Compassion, Service, Devotion, Integrity, [and] Accountability. This is how we conduct ourselves. This is how we treat those whom we encounter in our work: victims, witnesses, subjects, and defendants. This is who we are."

[peggysue2]

21. I'm someone who was willing to give . . .

Barr the benefit of the doubt because of his reputation as an 'institutionalist.' Which in my mind meant protecting the country from the continuous assault we've been experiencing, preserving norms and defending the Rule of Law.

But now?

Barr has compromised himself and is just another example of:

Everything Trump Touches Dies

[Wounded Bear]

23. He covered for Reagan...

I guess they thought he could cover for Trump.

Now they're all sorry they got caught.

[Anon-C]

26. He's a stooge and today was a bad day for the United States of America!