CNN saying Republicans have reacted to Comey firing in a more muted

[applegrove]

fashion than Democrats. They want to look into it a bit. Chickens. WH is framing it as deputy Attorney General reporting to Trump that Comey had lost the confidence of rank and file in the FBI.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. GOP can save the country, but I dont think they will.

I think we are in so much trouble here we dont even realize it yet.

[Boomerproud]

2. I don't believe that for a second.

They "want to look into it a bit"? Come on!!!!

[kairos12]

3. Rethugs don't think Democrats are Americans. They will side with Drumpt.

[Freethinker65]

4. Bullshit. There will be NO independent press in Trump's America if they do not start doing their job

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. White House saying tRump fired Comey for being too nice to Hillary after the election.

Comey walked back his claim about hundreds and thousands of classified emails on Weiner's laptop.

tRump fires him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-misstated-key-clinton-email-evidence-at-hearing-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/05/09/074c1c7e-34bd-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html

Officials said Comey was fired because senior Justice Department officials concluded he had violated Justice Department principles and procedures by publicly discussing the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email. Just last week, President Trump publicly accused Comey of giving Clinton “a free pass for many bad deeds’’ when he decided not to recommend criminal charges in the case.

[Zorro]

6. The Republican Party is a criminal conspiracy

Of course the Republicans won't do anything meaningful. They're all in with it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Ryan will jump ship because he has eyes on 2024. McCONnell will never. He is implicated.

For one thing, McCONnell blocked telling state electoral commissions about the Russian hacking until it was too late for them to do anything.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. tRump takes 18 days to fire Flynn and about 24 hours to fire Comey. Guess which

Guess which one was investing the #TrumpRussia scandal?

[Thrill]

9. COWARDS

[kentuck]

10. They will all fall in line once Mitch gives them a pep talk.

They will circle the wagons. They see everything through a partisan prism, unfortunately.