Republicans Recommit to Trump's Impunity

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As the conventional wisdom about the 2018 midterms has re-congealed into the correct view that Republicans lost in a rout, the party’s outgoing leaders have processed their defeat with maximal contempt for the majority of voters.

Paul Ryan is bringing his speakership to a close by casting doubt on the election returns in California, where all vulnerable Republicans lost, calling the results “bizarre” and the vote-counting “loosey goose.”

The Republican legislatures in Wisconsin and Michigan are endeavoring, in a fundamentally illegitimate way, to strip their states’ executive offices of power, before Democratic governors, lieutenant governors, and attorneys general take office next year.

And in the House, the Republican-led Judiciary Committee’s last significant act will be to harass former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch in closed session about Hillary Clinton’s emails. Comey, at least, negotiated a compromise with chairman Bob Goodlatte, that will allow him to discuss the interview publicly and require the committee to release a transcript of the interview within 24 hours. Yet even with the smoke of election night cleared, these Republicans remain committed to protecting the current administration from legislative oversight, and using their official powers to feed President Trump’s supporters misinformation, propaganda, and distraction, so that they take notice of something other than his crimes.
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The new strategy, same as the old strategy, is an unambiguous political failure, but it remains a challenge for mainstream media outlets, which for two years allowed Trump and GOP committee chairmen to lead their reporters around by the nose. Republicans are counting on that same dynamic—driven by a mixture of gullibility and cynical economics—to repeat itself in the new year. - Crooked

I hope history and the electorate look back at McConnell and Ryan as the true traitors of the republic.

[Maraya1969]

1. K & R

[ROB-ROX]

2. REPUBLICAN VOTERS LACK COGNIZANT ABILITIES

I do not think many republican voters will doubt their masters. They basically fail to digest facts or basically THINK. They are the great herd of uneducated who have great FAITH with their evil leader. Our country is divided into different types of thinking people. Those who THINK and those who DO NOT THINK. When all the FACTS are presented republicans will NOT THINK. They have been told what to THINK by their masters. Only a small percentage will think about the FACTS, but they will remain with their HERD.....

[dalton99a]

3. The GOP leadership is 100% complicit.