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Showing Original Post only (View all)In 2009, President Obama made a decision to not investigate the Bush/Cheney Administration. [View all]
He did this in the interest of looking forward, and to show that he was committed to working with both sides, and bringing both sides together.
The GOP, the leadership and voters, saw this as weakness and Mitch McConnell stated that the only goal of the GOP was to make Obama a one term President.
For the sake of the country, and for the sake of generating enthusiasm among Democratic voters, it is my hope that Biden takes a much different course.
Imagine tasking VP Kamala Harris with forming a special commission to investigate the crimes of the Trump crime cabal.
And imagine a House and Senate pursuing their own investigations.
Imagine the Justice Department conducting its own investigation.
Some, especially in the US corporate media, will counsel caution, and suggest a bi-partisan approach.
Ignore that. When the GOP is in charge, the media never suggests reaching out, and being bi-partisan, and moving to the far right, laughingly called the center in the US.