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Don’t Buy RepubliCan’t Posturing
We are supposed to be shocked, shocked! We should be, but at the cynical purveyors of another story spun to deflect from full force electoral pressure on the House and Senate RepubliCan’t Conferences. Shame on Katie Pavlich at Townhall for playing their game in “Wait, That’s How the FBI Labeled the Attempted Assassination of Republicans on a Baseball Field?” The FBI willfully, falsely categorized the 2017 leftist premeditated mass-assassination attempt, targeting Republican senators and congressmen, as “suicide by cop.” J. Edgar’s boys continued their corrupt culture by brazenly ignoring left-wing deadly political violence, part of cooking their books against the forgotten Americans, against whose champions the FBI was already in full seek-and-destroy mode in 2017. So, we should be outraged.
And.
If you read past the headlines and tweets, you find a very inconvenient truth. The Congressional RepubliCAN’Ts had this information almost immediately, as the FBI brazenly briefed its lies in November 2017. Calling the FBI on its fraud, on its failure to honestly characterize and so focus resources on actual threats to Republican members of Congress, would have threatened the Russia hoax and RepubliCAN’T leader collusion with Democrats in seeking to undo or at least stifle the forgotten Americans’ electoral command, expressed in their shocking 2016 victory. So, it did not matter that Congressman Scalise was nearly killed and going through a series of surgeries, with a long and painful rehabilitation ahead of him. What mattered was protecting Speaker Lyin’ Ryan as he colluded with Democrats and Mitch and the Gang over in the Senate to defy the American people and bring them back to heel as mere election pawns in the Crony Capitalism game.
How brazen is this bunch? How stupid do they think we are? See for yourself. Here is the relevant passage in the original Politico story, “Lawmakers reveal — and dispute — FBI conclusion about 2017 baseball field shooting,” in which a Republican congressman fesses up to having the facts way back in 2017, when it could have been weaponized for the American people against the Deep State, the Swamp:
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) revealed the previously undisclosed determination during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, upbraiding FBI Director Christopher Wray and prompting several colleagues of both parties to pile on. He said FBI agents privately briefed the baseball team on Nov. 16, 2017 to deliver the controversial determination.
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The FBI never publicly disclosed its final conclusions about the June 14, 2017, shooting. In an interim update just a week later, investigators said the gunman had made numerous social media posts supporting left-wing causes and backing candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), but the bureau also noted that it found no evidence of threats to GOP lawmakers or the baseball team on the gunman’s devices. Wenstrup’s comments are the first public references that the FBI concluded the shooting was a “suicide by cop.”
That day, a lone gunman, James Hodgkinson, unloaded dozens of rounds at GOP lawmakers practicing on an Alexandria, Va., field for the annual congressional baseball game. After asking one lawmaker whether the team was the Republicans or Democrats, Hodgkinson returned to his van — which had been stationed outside the field for weeks — pulled out two firearms and began shooting at the team, narrowly missing Rep. Trent Kelly (R-Miss.) before hitting Scalise in the hip, which nearly led to him bleeding to death on the field. Scalise required multiple surgeries and weeks in the hospital before recovering and returning to Congress.
So. Spare us your false posturing of conveniently belated outrage, Doc Wenstrup. Steve Scalise, stifle yourself. Senator Rand Paul, you were there, so you were presumably in on the FBI briefing. Where was your tweetstorm? Where is the hot video clip where you called out the FBI? You knew. You knew and chose to back Lyin’ Ryan and the whole rotten bunch over the truth, the Constitution, and the American people. Oh, and Katie Pavlich, shame on you for being a willing tool in this game. You included the incriminating Politico paragraph, but gave the current bunch of congressional RepubliCan’ts a complete pass, raising not a single question about the 3-1/2-year delay of this false outrage.
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All too typical.
Sad. True. My boss and I just finished a mutual rant on this same subject. I’ve replied to every plea from the GOP for money with this comment: Not one more dime
Can we just be done with giving the FBI, DOJ, or any other government entity any degree of prestige? They’ve all proven time and again that they’re not interested in anything other than bureaucratic sustainability. They lie and nobody in leadership cares.
There is an off the books agenda both parties are pursuing. And it isn’t us.
Just another bullet point to highlight this fact.
Sigh…sometimes I pine for the good old days of J. Edgar and his pink tutu.
As for Ryan and his predecessor John Boehner, the old saying, “Not a pair between’em” seems particularly relevant.
The FBI has introduced the phrase Known Wolf into the lexicon. No one should be taking them seriously.
Remember, the modern FBI “manages” crimes, they don’t solve them.
Remember the era of “detente” back in the 1970s? Kissinger denied having said it, but the phrase attributed to him regarding the US and the USSR is, ” … it is my job to negotiate the most acceptable second-best position.”
Exactly the way the GOPe regards its role with the Demo-rats.
OK, so these Republican squishes are no good.
What are we supposed to do about it? Undermine them, so the Dems get a bigger majority? It is quite a pickle.
I believe that’s why we have primaries. No guarantee that approach will work, but I don’t see another.
@vinceguerra, FIFY.
If you can’t primary them, then start a third party. Polls suggest that a third party that was Trump-like in its policy positions would have more following than the GOP.
Right. That worked out so well with TR and Taft . . .
If the only other option is the permanent bipartisan fusion party . . . what are you going to do?
If a politician sells out after politics, why should I not conclude the were a sellout while a politician?
There are two things I don’t like about Ryan, namely his face, but other than that I don’t know much about him. What are the qualifications he has for such a position beyond political connections?
Exactly this. I have long been convinced there is a similar view on the inevitability of leftist victory, long term, as there was of Communism ultimately prevailing over democracies whose people lacked the stomach for really long term fights. Given that pessimistic view, it makes sense to seek to lose slower.
Throw in Mitch too ….
I think we could add a few dozen more.
More accurately, it worked out so well for the new Republican Party versus the Whigs versus the Democrats. If the RepubliCAN’Ts are determined to go the way of the Whigs, we need a new party vehicle in real opposition to the social Democrat party.
Mitch was the one who declared war. Punching the Tea Party in the nose and backing fossil Thad in Mississipppi over rising star Chris McDaniel. Muck Fitch.
“Remember Mississippi!” should be the battle cry. I’m a Kentucky native and I’m embarrassed for my state. Why do they keep re-electing that POS?
If they knew in 2017, why are they making it public now? What is the purpose? What agenda is promoted?
Never Forget Mississippi 2014! (The Barbour Clan is one giant POS too.) That was the end of me in the R Party.
Perhaps to stick their finger in our eye. Sip bourbon 🥃 and giggle.
I’m guessing, Mr. Brown is a Georgia voter who stayed home for the Senate runoff as a “protest” …
Add the 2020 Libertarian Party vote to Trump’s vote and you have an Electoral College tie. Which makes me want to see who’s financing the L.P. these days!
He’ll soon have some kids who’ll want to sit in the boards of Ukrainian gas companies.
It could be they knew it was going to come out, so they wanted to be the ones to release the news.
Which means there’s even worse information hiding behind the bad information.
This episode falls into context when we read what I would consider to be the most important part of the Townhall column, which Mr. Brown did not quote:
“Director, you want suicide by cop, you just pull a gun on a cop. It doesn’t take 136 rounds. It takes one bullet. Both the DHS and the (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) published products labeling this attack as a domestic violent extremism event, specifically targeting Republican members of Congress. The FBI did not.”
Wray did not directly address [Congressman] Wenstrup’s criticism, other than to confirm he was not the FBI director at the time — a role held in June 2017 by Andrew McCabe …
In other words, the FBI’s opinion, during the few months the corrupt hack Andrew McCabe was Acting Director, simply wasn’t very important.
This is a tempest in a teapot.
Defund the FBI