Tell me how this firing is a good thing.

[Kingofalldems]

He's got the powers in the Justice Dept. now covering for him.

[dhill926]

1. agree....

he wouldn't do this unless he knew it could help coverup....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Only if it is a blatant sign to Republicans in Congress that he's desperately covering up.

And if they want to save their party, they'll lose their king.

That's the only way this turns out well.

[regnaD kciN]

6. And why will they do that? Now they have all the power.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. If their President is a traitor, there's a chance they'll want to cut bait.

Half of them were embarrassed as hell to be associated with him in the first place.

Pence will push their agenda just as Trump will, so they'll figure he's a safer bet. (Of course, we'll never let the America public who picked Pence, but that's our "trump' card.)

[Kingofalldems]

14. They are part of it.

His bases are covered now.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

3. It's not. Full coup in effect. But nobody listened.

[LibraLiz1973]

18. This is a dark day for democracy

[Sculpin Beauregard]

22. It may be the end of it. That is not hyperbole.

[octoberlib]

4. Only way this is good is if it leads to a special prosecutor and independent investigation.

Trump has a record of picking the absolute worst person in America for every position.

[Demsrule86]

8. It won't lead to any such thing unless we take back Congress.

[regnaD kciN]

5. Yep

Now, any "investigation" is sure to be handled by a handpicked Trump loyalist. Move along -- nothing to see here…

[Demsrule86]

7. It is not a good thing.

[Thrill]

9. Its not. Its over folks. DOJ is in full coverup mode

Trump is getting away with it

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. This is only going to make things worse for him, it's even more obvious now that he has shit to hide

[Goodheart]

12. This is NOT good.

This was a blatant attempt at stopping all FBI investigations about Russia. This is a Hitler moment. Trump has disgraced our Republic.

The GOP in Congress must now do the AMERICAN thing... not the Party thing.... to call for a special investigator.

[blogslut]

13. I can't.

This is bad. This is real bad.

[Kingofalldems]

15. The FBI never heard of Russia.

Nor has the AG or his assistant.

[cwydro]

16. I can't stand Comey.

But if Trump did this, it can't be good.

[LibraLiz1973]

17. Anyone who says this is good is a Trump supporter.

This is bad.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. Seems to me no one has any confidence in Comey by now

Not the Dems, since he pulled the email stunt in October, and then the BS about sending hundreds of emails for printing; not Trump, with his implications that there's a large investigation finding things about Trump.

What does "He's got the powers in the Justice Dept. now covering for him" mean?

[Kingofalldems]

20. Just what it says.

Final answer to you.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Ah - 'he' means Trump, does it? I thought the 'he' was Comey

since he's the one in the news. OK, now it makes some sense.

[StevieM]

23. It's a good think because Comey is worse than Trump. In his own way, he is Nixonian.

Comey basically slaughtered our democracy.