"That's it, Democrats," writes @TheRickWilson. "Put just one Trump minion in jail for contempt, and

[riversedge]

Wilson needs to also ask WHAT WILL THE REPUBLICANS DO??



Bill Barr’s Not Your Average Trump Stooge. He’s 100 Times Worse. Will Democrats Do Anything About It?


https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-barrs-not-your-average-trump-stooge-hes-100-times-worse-will-democrats-do-anything-about-it

Bob Mueller found out the hard way that the attorney general isn’t the average Trump stooge. Time is running dangerously short, and Democrats still don't get it.
Rick Wilson

04.30.19 7:35 PM ET
opinion

When Bill Barr testifies before the Senate and House Judiciary Committees this week, don’t expect to hear the head of the Department of Justice answering questions from a co-equal branch of the American government.

That was the old, boring Washington, where the attorney general was a guardian of the law and justice, not of Donald Trump’s political fortunes.


Bill Barr already showed us his cards with his performances declaring that the Mueller Report had exonerated Donald Trump—which the Washington Post reported Tuesday evening were delivered over the strenuous objections of Robert Mueller, who wrote to say that the A.G.'s “depiction of his findings failed to capture the ‘context, nature, and substance” of the probe.
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"That’s it, Democrats," writes @TheRickWilson. "Put just one Trump minion in jail for contempt, and you’ll show that you’re using the power the voters gave you. It’s that, or you can just shut up and watch AOC assemble Ikea furniture on Instagram"

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[Hortensis]

1. Mueller found out the hard way?

Because he’s too stupid or too ignorant to understand that his AG would be very power?

And we Democrat’s “don’t get it,” also too stupid to pound rocks.

What an asshole.

[Mister Ed]

3. I doubt that Mueller is either stupid or ignorant.

He may have expected the Attorney General to be something other than a common criminal. That's not at all an unreasonable expectation. But it turns out he was wrong

[Hortensis]

7. Barr identified himself as willing to sabotage the process

to those with no illusions, that's what Trump hired him for, and the reasonable expectation was that Barr would come through. Even those who wanted to believe him too principled worried that this would unfold as it has.

We're in a world where both the director and assistant director of the FBI knowingly put their careers on the line by taking illegal actions that helped put the Republicans in power. Those late actions were so blatant that, as had to be expected, they triggered immediate investigations by both the FBI's internal affairs and the OIG, which concluded both committed firing offences.

Mueller, who must have lost any illusions about what people are capable of decades ago, could not have failed for a second to understand that Barr was made the US's AG to keep Trump, and thus the Republicans, in office. Mueller is in the middle of an enormous battle for power -- as Biden puts it, a battle for the soul of our nation.

[Mister Ed]

13. Very well stated. n/t

[True Blue American]

16. Neither do I!

Democrats are not dumb either. They have not forgotten Nixon and John Mitchell.

It took 2 years to get Republicans to act then. They were as vicious as they are now.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/celebrity/politics/john-mitchell

[watoos]

4. I agree with Wilson,

the more that Democrats let treasonous Republicans get away with the more they will take.

The Mueller report wasn't even on the radar of the M$M, thank god for this latest leak or we would be talking about who is the president of Venezuela?

We have 19 presidential candidates and only 3 have gone after Trump; Sanders, Warren and Biden.

Sitting back and writing letters asking for documents that will never be given and subpoenaing people who are never going to show up is not going to cut it. Worse than that it is setting a precedence that not just Trump, but Republicans are above the law. Republicans don't need to win their court cases, all they need to do is delay everything until after the election.

Every fucking Democrat should be calling for Barr's resignation, so far I have heard 2, Castro and van Hollen.

The "justice department" is working on ways to keep Mueller from testifying while Democrats give them extensions.

Frankly if Democrats don't snort fire and brimstone over this latest leak they should all be fired, it won't matter anyway with an Authoritarian government.

[Hortensis]

12. I understand you think you're arguing for being strong.

I see it more like a crowd at a football game booing in disgust because their team doesn't just run the stupid ball down the field to the goal. Any idiot could understand that's how to do it.

Instead, they keep zigzagging, all that jumping backwards, practically running in circles for god's sake! Are they brain dead or something?! And passing the ball, of course they're going to lose it to the other team if they do that! The idiots, what did they expect???!!!

Etc.

[MrsCoffee]

11. +1

[Hamlette]

2. I am sick and tired of Republicans screaming at us to clean up the mess they made, only faster!

That was the story of the Obama administration when the GOP broke the economy under Bush. "Obama failed because the recession was longer than it should have been" they said even though not one of them voted for a package to get us out of the recession.

Now the likes of Rick Wilson, who encouraged the theory behind the southern solution to the point that Trump gets elected, say we are not cleaning up the mess of a racist President elected by racist republicans that he helped elect (no, he didn't help elect Trump but if the rest of the GOP would stand up to Trump. we wouldn't be in this mess.) fast enough or to his liking.

I'm not a fan.

[RVN VET71]

5. Is Wilson still a Republican?

There are so many of these people in the media and on TV, the folks who get all over Trump but still proudly remain loyal members of the Party that created him.

Here's a test for you, Rick: How do you feel about Reagan's racist attacks on black people, his propagandizing about "welfare queens", implying that all blacks were welfare cheaters sucking up taxpayer money from hard working white people? Or about his referencing Willie Horton as emblematic of the dangers black men pose to the white women they want to rape and defile -- not to mention the liberal (by which he meant evil and weak) whites who abetted their crimes by releasing them from prison on an unsuspecting virginal and pure white population?

Where did you stand on Bush/Cheney's war in Iraq, not only misdirected and immoral but -- for the first time in the history of any civilization -- paid for not by raising taxed but by issuing promissory notes which crested an enormous budget deficit which, of course, co-president Cheney said "didn't matter"?

And what outrage did you express publicly at how the Republican Party's dog-whistle attacks on the Obamas, including their children?

Maybe I'm wrong, here, maybe he came out publicly against all of the above, but I don't recall. Maybe Joe Scarborough did the same? And the rest of the Republican pundit crew currently making coin on cable and network news by attacking the monster the GOP created?

[Hamlette]

17. I'm not sure but I read his book and he's still a tool

I've read several books by anti Trump republicans. Changing party affiliation is part of showing me you are sincere but also, not beating up on democrats is part of it too. His book beats up on democrats.

There are a few who I admire. Oddly enough, Max Boot is one of them. His book is the best of the bunch. And I adore Nicole Wallace. Watch her show every day. Neither dis dems.

(My father was a republican until Reagan. He hated Reagan with a passion and became the biggest leftie ever. I wish I'd talked to him about it more. I know it was because Reagan said it was possible to have a limited nuclear war and my father, who worked in the defense industry, thought that was crazy, irresponsible talk. So, from my perspective, some do change.)

[RVN VET71]

18. I'd almost forgotten Crazy Ronnie and the Nunes

I recall one of his advisors insisting publicly that nuclear warfare posed no real lasting threat to the environment or the people who live in it. I think the line he used was "All you have to do to escape nuclear radiation is dig a shallow hole, place a wooden door -- say a kitchen door -- over top of it, cover it with dirt and crawl in until the all clear signal. With enough shovels," this man said, "we'll survive."

Must have scared the hell out of Gorbachev dealing with a lunatic like Reagan.

[superpatriotman]

6. He's right, you know

Power. Use it or lose it.

[watoos]

9. Yeah, I don't give a fuck if Wilson belongs to the Bull Moose Party,

what he said I agree with.

[Oneironaut]

8. They'll just whine about Trump on CNN and say "worry about 2020!"

Doing something would take actual effort. We’ll just throw some real zingers at Trump and Barr to Anderson Cooper and then call it a day. That’ll show them!

[watoos]

10. Infrastructure time,

The Mueller investigation is over, time to investigate the crooked FBI and Democrats who carried on a witch hunt against Trump. Do I need the sarcasm thingy? Probably do?

[BSdetect]

14. If I hear about the Dems giving Barr or any other repugnant a time extension to produce docs....

[mcar]

15. Oh goody, another Republican telling Democrats what to do

and smearing them at the same time.

Perhaps this guy should be looking at his own side.