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You Go Girl! Kellyanne Conway Goes after Adam Schiff
Kellyanne Conway is fighting back. She’s not just willing to say, “let’s just move along, folks”; for one, she’s going after Adam Schiff:
Adam Schiff should resign. He has no right as somebody who has been peddling a lie, day after day after day, unchallenged and not under oath. Somebody should have put him under oath and said ‘you have evidence, where is it’?
. . . Those who let this lie fly for two years, haranguing and harassing and trying to embarrass and worse, those of us connected to the 2016 campaign, beginning with the president and his own family really do owe people — owe America an apology.
I think Republicans need to call out every Democrat and every “journalist,” every reporter and every media organization that spread the lies and fake news. I think they should do it with dignity, dispassion and class. They should show them how a professional comports him or herself.
Let’s not forget all those people who lost their families, their fortunes and their reputations at the hands of James Comey and his pals, and Mueller and his crew.
This country will never be the same.
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This is the first shot.
We have an Atty General in Barr who has not recused himself from any of this junk. He can work with the Inspector General at the Justice Department and clean house. Separate the quality staff who were doing good work and got pulled into a bad situation from the partisan hacks in his own organization.
Sounds good to me! Between Barr and the IG, we could see some real progress. Actually, I’m sick enough to want to watch Barr being interviewed by the Dems. It should be quite the show.
I was just reflecting that I’m not the kind of person who calls for revenge. But then, I don’t think that’s my primary motivation here. I’m sick and tired of there being no accountability for bad actors! There must be consequences. If there aren’t how will we ever have any hope of lasting changes in government, even if we make them? How will we send the message to people that if you mess up, especially maliciously, you will pay! We already know that Lois Lerner and her boss left with no consequences. And who knows how many of those who retired from the intelligence organizations will pay a price, if we just send them on their way with a full pension? Okay, rant is over. It’s called fairness, justice.
I want more than just an IG investigation. I want a special prosecutor going the other way. There appears to have been no basis/fake basis for opening the investigations into the Trump campaign and Trump administration. So, how did it come about? Who did what? How far up the “scandal free” Obama administration did it go? If the President Trump isn’t a traitor after all and if there was never any good reason to think that he was then the big conclusion is that this really was a witch hunt. But it was so much more serious than that. A soft coup is not an unreasonable description.
On the media side: who was involved as more than just a useful idiot? Who were the useful idiots? Who were the pros asking the right questions? Who were the hacks ignoring obvious lines of inquiry?
That’s actually what they’re hoping for
Well, I am. Can’t pretend I’m not. I want someone (or several someones) to go to prison.
I may feel that way but I stop short of calling for it, @JustmeinAZ. Maybe I’m nitpicking. ;-)
There are media personalities that should not be allowed on TV without dunce caps on those misshapen lumps of fat and bone that they call “heads.”
I think a bicameral committee needs to propose some fixes to the FISA process and the Unmasking process. Those were both abused. Whoever released the phone calls between Flynn and Kislyac did so without accountability, so the process is broken there too. One last thing, Comey lied to Trump during the transition period. There should be clarifications that that is against the law (seems clear enough to me already).
All good points, @dong. There are so many issues to investigate or initiate–I hope someone, somewhere is keeping track!
Schiff is a partisan hack. Who cares what he thinks?
Yeah, but he’s been screaming collusion for two years at the top of his lungs. I know he’s a liar, but I assume there are lots of people on the Left who don’t. And I only care what they think if they use their belief in Schiff to vote against Trump. That is kind of complicated, isn’t it?
Look at his eyes. Look at his smirk. Not saying the guy’s a psycho killer. Am saying I won’t be surprised at anything they find, should they dig up his back yard.
Why bicameral? I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, but I’m curious as to why you call for that when it’s seldom, if ever, done that way.
I nominate Judge Willett, or AZ Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick for Special Prosecutor extraordinaire!
Could someone explain why a Special Prosecutor or Special Council would be better than having AG Barr handle further steps?
You know, I am really getting tired of no one being held accountable for their actions when you reach a certain level. As an average citizen it is disheartening to see that no one, NO ONE, resigns, gets fired, is made a pariah.. ETC. Nothing, and I am really sick of it.
Andrew McCabe kinda, sorta did. Just sayin’ . . .
I’m not sure I’d put Mueller in that bucket. He was given a job to do and did it, thoroughly. That he worked so hard, even aggressively, makes his nothing-burger conclusion all the more devastating for the impeachment mob.
The reason I’m including him, @suspira, is because there were people who were accused of perjury by Mueller and his crew and they spent thousands of dollars defending themselves, lost whatever fortunes they had and some families fell apart. There are questions whether he had to drag them through the mud the way he did virtually for nothing. Just look at Carter Paige or George Popadopoulus (sp?)
No, but I could explain why it would be worse. These unaccountable special prosecutors are an abomination, and it doesn’t matter which side they are investigating. The fact that Mueller couldn’t find any witches doesn’t make the last two years any less of a witch hunt.
Are we supposed to know who Adam Schiff is, and whatever he did that might be wrong?
Would that I didn’t know who Schiff is. You’re in a much better place.
I’m going to assume that you’ve been living in a cave. The man is a scourge, a liar, an obsessed idiot. For a more objective view, you can read here.
I’m of the mind that such collateral damage is part of the process, rather than malice on the part of Mueller. The mills of the special prosecutor grind exceeding fine. It’s a good reason to resist the temptation to appoint one of these creatures.
It’s better than justice; it is removing entrenched injustice.
There is no way of knowing how long we have been living under a corrupted FBI while believing it to be clean.
I want to believe in a clean FBI again. That’s going to require jailing and firing people at some quite high levels.
At the end of it I want all Americans (real ones and even liberals) to be able to trust that the people governing us will provide us the equal protection before the law that they are there to guarantee.
Me too. A lot of patriots died in the name of this kind of thing not happening in this particular country.
I do wonder why we need a ‘special’ anything when we are all supposedly equal and all subject to the same laws.
I so agree, @robtgilsdorf. Trust lost is so difficult to recover.