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‘I’m Melting! I’m Melting!’
This must be the cry the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats are trying to stifle, following the hearing with Attorney General William Barr. While they can’t miss the fact that their whole case for taking down Donald Trump is crumbling, they are desperate to try to maintain their image of righteousness behind the curtain. But the curtain is slowly being drawn back, and I think they are realizing that they are all in deep trouble. In their collusion to destroy Donald Trump, they have ensured their own destruction, in part because they have underestimated AG Barr.
Due to the memo Mr. Barr sent several months ago, saying the Mueller probe was “legally unsupportable,” the Democrats have hated him. In spite of their criticism, he was still approved as Attorney General, but the Democrats weren’t happy. They have attacked him ever since. With his comments about the investigations that the DOJ is now conducting regarding the Russian probe, the Dems are either in full denial mode or carefully controlled hysteria. And it is showing in their fury toward Barr’s intransigence on their petty issues and his refusal to pander to them.
Several Democrats are now calling him a liar:
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii has accused him of lying to Congress.
Sen. Michael Bennet has accused him of lying to Congress about what was in the Mueller report and demanded his resignation. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren all have demanded his resignation, the latter calling him “a disgrace” and calling for his impeachment, as did Rep. Eric Swalwell.
It’s as if they are all trying to outdo each other in the condemnation of AG Barr.
Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, chair of the Judiciary Committee threatened AG Barr with contempt of court if he doesn’t turn over the unredacted report. We all know how intimidated Barack Obama’s AG, Eric Holder, was by being held in contempt.
After insulting AG Barr for four hours in the Senate, he decided that he wasn’t going to submit to interviews by staffers of House members. Mr. Nadler had more to say:
Mr. Nadler said Mr. Barr’s refusal to show for the scheduled hearing, as well as President Trump’s broader refusal to cooperate with a slew of Democratic investigative requests, has left the government teetering.
He said Mr. Trump and his team represent a ‘clear and present danger to our constitutional order.’
Several Democrats told the media that Mr. Barr was a coward for refusing to attend the House Judiciary Committee hearing. And not to be outdone for the nastiest criticism, Rep. Ted Lieu called AG Barr the “most dangerous man in the nation’s capital.”
I am saddened and disgusted by the behavior of the Democrats. Unlike Donald Trump, AG Barr has been around the block and then some in terms of his government service. In his previous appointment as attorney general, he had plenty of opportunities to witness the machinations of the Senate and House. He has conducted himself professionally, with as much restraint as any man under attack possibly could, and he will not be intimidated or pushed out of office. As more news comes out about all the parties involved with the “Russian investigation,” I’m actually starting to believe that justice will be served. In fact, I would guess at this point, with the other fine work he is doing, AG Barr may be getting a certain satisfaction out of anticipating the Democrat meltdown.
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I suspect that some of the Dim hysteria comes from the fact that AG Barr is actually investigating the Russia connections and their ties to the Dim Party.
It sure gets me excited, @jimmcconnell! It’s is so transparently obvious that they are trying to intimidate him. I just recognized your “Dim” party–so apt!
The Democrats behave like spoiled children. They stomp their feet, scream, and rudely call people names, as if they cannot get out of grade school. I watch them and think, who supports this type of behavior? Joe Biden claims he is “going to make America moral again”. He apparently doesn’t realize that infants have no morality.
That’s the image I carry with me, too,-
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It seems that it easy these days for politicians to get some “airtime” (mentions) in the era of Twitter, just by saying extreme stuff. The MSM desperately uses the same extremism to attract viewers. It matters, because the MSM used to be a check on the honesty of politicians. Now, both Dem. politicians and MSM are unchecked on what they say. In fact, there is a feedback of extreme derangement, where nobody is bound by reality and fake news has become the norm.
I don’t know what the outcome of that is. I would expect it to ramp up while the MSM is continually less relevant. Hopefully the MSM just implodes into a tiny black hole of TDS. Meanwhile, those of clinging to reality will hold to Trump as an anchor of relative normalcy.
The (D)’s and mostly Nadler blatantly telegraphed the Barr hearing scheduled was going to be nothing more than an unmitigated poop show.
Barr would have been a fool to walk into that fecal fray:
“May we have the notes about the call?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Why should you have them?”
The WSJ has this front page blurb:
I call fake. I don’t see any escalation of tensions. It sounds like the same old same old.
What I am enjoying in all this folderol is the way AG Barr is simply insisting the House Dems follow the House’s own rules.
As explained by veteran DC lawyer Joe DiGenova, under the rules congressional staffers or lawyers do NOT question witnesses at hearings except when in an officially launched congressional investigation. (Thus answering what had puzzled me, the contrast with the Watergate hearings by the Select Committee, for which Sam Dash and Fred Thompson were the D and R staff counsel, respectively, and who each did a significant amount of questioning, in addition to committee members.)
So this means that in oversight hearings, such as these supposedly are, the rules say each House member on a committee gets five minutes to ask questions, and by turns questioners go around the committee based on seniority and party.
Also, why Barr’s declining to give Sen. Blumenthal the notes from his call with Mueller is spot on –> no conceivable legislative purpose or agency oversight is connected with such a demand. In other words, “pound sand” (but much more nicely put).
Thanks so much, @fritz! I hadn’t heard this and it explains a lot. Barr is simply holding them to their own rules. Well done, Mr. Attorney General.
I’m almost embarrassed for him regarding this display. But the man has shown his true colors before; this chicken behavior just reinforces his image.
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I wish I could feel good about the latest but it is the kind of grandstanding that gullible people will believe HAS to be legit, just because it is DRAMATIC. If you read what is going on, and have no discernment or remote concept that the Dems could be “bad,” it can be foggy and tedious at best, maybe convincing at worst. How many ordinary citizens have a clue about rules etc. anyway? Even the BBC is making this look like a new “crisis,” although they do explain that the Dems can’t do much with it.
No wonder we have a rising wave of wanting a “change in government” right down to the taproots. Take a look at this survey all over the liberal press today, as if it just started with Donald Trump. Not comforting in how far the reaction to tedium could go. What people really need to question is their source of news and its power to manipulate, more than the foundations of government. But for some of them, it’s either they win or they destroy it.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-05-02/poll-finds-hunger-for-change-to-us-system-of-government
It bothers me that AG Barr keeps being referred to as a “witness.” A witness to what? What crime is he a “witness” to and is he “testifying” under oath? It seems to me he’s just fulfilling his role as AG reporting to the oversight committee.
At some level, the public doubts the media. But as you say, @eridemus, people will also believe that it’s so outrageous, it must be true. There is still an old hang over from the past that if it’s in print, it must be true. That applies today to the newspapers and the internet. And since they are all complicit, I don’t know what we can do. Once again, I look to AG Barr to find such controversial data that it will be difficult for anyone to ignore. Let’s hope.
True, WC, but the word “witness” makes him sound complicit–with Donald Trump, of course. So far I think he’s handling himself extremely well. Let’s hope he can stay on task and not get sidetracked with ridiculous accusations.
Edison,
Well if it isn’t Bozo the Congressman. This psychotic ass looks like a refugee from a Stephen King movie.
Regards,
Jim
I think Democrat efforts to oust AG Barr go beyond #Resistance to all things Trump: I think they actually fear him. They fear not that he will engage in retaliatory action, but that he will follow the law come what may.
Every day I pray extra helpings of wisdom and fortitude for Barr because I think Trump may have found the person who can accurately evaluate all the various threads of the tangled web woven by the last administration, and will do what needs done (as far as he can prove) and is best for the country.
As I’ve watched and listened to him I realize that he is operating on multiple levels: one of them is giving Americans a class in Proper US Attorney General 101 (bonus points to Barr for making me laugh with his expression/body language at the end of the clip):
That’s all some of us were wanting and despairing we would see: someone inside DOJ courageous enough to tackle the threat to our Republic posed by the department’s conduct, and by his/her presence remove politicians’ ability to use the department as a weapon (and that includes Donald Trump if he were to request retaliatory action not called for by US law.)
Good post and sourcing, @susanquinn.
It’s a preemptive effort to discredit Barr as a partisan hack before any information starts coming back from not just the AG’s investigation, but from the IG report by Horowitz (who also will be demonized by the Democrats if that report comes back and shows ethical violations by Obama’s underlings in the top positions at the FBI and Justice Department). They may not be able to remove Barr from office, but they want swing voters to discount anything he comes up with as being biased, by running his reputation before the information is released.
“We have to stop using the criminal justice process as a political weapon” ~ William Barr, Attorney General of the United States
Americans not wedded to a particular political view would probably hear that, consider the past two years and think, “He’s right.” They might get the idea America has a pretty darn good Attorney General presiding over DOJ.
So what do leading Senate and House Democrats do after receiving this bit of wisdom from AG Barr? As @susanquinn has posted: call him a liar and cry for his impeachment and/or resignation. IOW, they do exactly what Barr suggested government officials need to stop doing. They label him criminal and threaten him with the weapons of government at their disposal.
While that’s certainly part of it I think we have to remember that all the marbles are up for grabs in ’20 and the Dem leadership is using every trick they think they can get away with to keep Trump on his heels.
It’s been consistent during his presidency that when he’s got a win in public, the Dems make sure (through their media allies) to conjure up a new accusation.
He’s like Harrison Bergeron and they are desperate to keep him down.
They are just trying to preemptively smear him so that when the charges come out they can say to their useful idiots, he’s a partisan liar, don’t listen!
They could not do this without the assistance of the media and their contacts on the “right” to help lend a shallow legitimacy.
This is why the media must not be granted any legitimacy and why Trump is fully justified – and has been tactically right – in slamming them as “fake news”.
This is why the nevers are toxic and need to be flushed.
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The most effective antidote to the smearing of Barr will be turning some of the implicated (there are quite a few to choose from) to spell out the details of the corruption as a part of their plea agreement so the (D)/MSM combine will have a difficult time concocting/sustaining a “Barr is a corrupt partisan hack/Barr’s a Trumpy liar don’t believe him” narrative.
This woman is going for the title “Biggest Slimeball in the Senate”, IMHO . . .
Her crazed actions does make it easier to understand how we ended up with “The Hawaiian Judge” meme, when it comes to someone from there basically taking down a Trump order on the grounds that he doesn’t like Trump. Hirono didn’t have any questions for Barr about his decision-making process, she just wanted to rant at Barr for five minutes because Barr was Trump’s AG.
I agree — and I read whispers that some are spilling the beans while claiming they did it out of national security concerns — but I wonder just how far people will go who are so embedded in the idea Donald Trump has to be removed to either a) save the country or b) regain and expand power.
I was young, but I remember the Vietnam era riots, and Watergate hearings. Even then I don’t remember the level of virulence directed at an administration we have now. The widespread abdication of journalistic integrity is alarming, including the adoption of “conservative piety” (for lack of a better term). You have the sense of watching the US govt burn while Trump detractors fiddle.
WAAAAAY off topic …. but it’s a peave …… the WWotW didn’t melt, she sublimated. Melting is passing from a solid state to a liquid state. Going from solid to gas as she did is sublimating.
Thanks, @mim526. In spite of my ridiculing the Democrats, my main emphasis is the courage, wisdom and legal knowledge that Barr is going to bring to this country. May he receive divine guidance and strength for the difficulties that will lie ahead.
Excellent point, @user_54742, although some will say that they caved to save their skins. That doesn’t mean that what they say isn’t true.
picky, picky, picky! ;-)