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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: A Difference of Patriotic Opinion

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The Democrats want to find out if our country’s security has been compromised. The Repubs want to be sure investigating the thimblerigging that put Putin’s Paul Ryan’s Puppet into the Oval Office won’t unduly delay their looting the country’s common treasury to benefit themselves. Both sides!… [warning: autoplay]

The Republican and Democratic leaders of the House intelligence committee have voiced divergent goals for their investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election, suggesting possible discord over how deeply Congress will examine any links between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia.

The committee announced Wednesday that it is investigating Russian cyberattacks in a parallel probe to the Senate intelligence committee investigation announced two weeks ago. The House committee said it has already received “important documents” and that staff members went to CIA headquarters on January 19 to review records.

But the House committee’s top Republican and Democratic leaders stressed differing questions they want to answer following the January 6 US intelligence report that found Russian President Vladimir Putin “aspired to help” the Trump campaign by publicly discrediting Hillary Clinton.

Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the committee’s top Democrat, told NPR on Thursday that the committee “certainly” would investigate “any links between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.”

By contrast, Chairman Devin Nunes, a California Republican, said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the panel wants to “get to the bottom of this intelligence report, whether it was put together properly or not.”…

I’m sure Adam will have more intelligent things to say about this tomorrow, but: You can’t take your eyes off these bastids long enough to blink!

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  4. 4.

    seaboogie

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I keep being amazed not that we’re losing (used to that) but that we’re losing to these guys.

    I think we believed that truth and morality and logic would carry the day – and we were naive in the extreme. I’ve never been a fan of the zombie meme, but it seems to hold a certain relevance right now.

  5. 5.

    Repatriated

    @Villago Delenda Est: Perhaps the reason Comey stonewalled in front of the House committee wasn’t to deny the Democrats any talking points, but instead to keep Nunez from leaking information to the Trump transition team. The possibility is at least worthy of consideration.

  6. 6.

    slag

    @Major Major Major Major: They’re not beating us; we’re beating ourselves. If Democrats vote, Democratic candidates win. So, it’s not Republicans that are always hitting us in the face; we’re hitting ourselves in the face.

  8. 8.

    slag

    @Major Major Major Major: True. But we’re hitting some of them in the face too. Apparently, punching Nazis in the face is the new hotness.

    Also, this is the best use of Interwebs I’ve seen in many moons:

    Enter your phone number and email address to receive a call that will connect you to one of Trump’s properties. You may be asked to make a reservation or a tee-time, but tell management that until Trump steps away from his businesses for real, their property is no different from the Oval Office and you want to talk about the issues that matter most.

  9. 9.

    Kat

    Hope someone else finds this informative:

    Christo’s blog: Tower of Cards (part 1)

    A dissection of Christopher Steele’s Trump dossier, including amazingly well-informed speculation about Steele’s possible sources.

  10. 10.

    Millard Filmore

    the panel wants to “get to the bottom of this intelligence report, whether it was put together properly or not.”

    The Republicans want to know if the document was put through a spell checker before it was released? Maybe they want to know if any information in the report was illegally obtained.

    The Party of Lincoln is now the Party of Treason.

  11. 11.

    amk

    Hopefully dems go all the way benghazi!!! benghazi!!! benghazi!!! emailz!!! emailz!!! emailz!!! style. Make the treasonous fuckers answerable and fuck the optics.

  13. 13.

    John Revolta

    @Millard Filmore: More likely they’re looking for any apostrophes that are in the wrong place that would enable the various states to decide whether they accept the report as legitimate or not.

  15. 15.

    Leaving Texas

    @slag:
    I called the local Trump property last night. After I told the guy who answered that I wanted to get a message to Trump, he congenially dumped my call to a Trump campaign upfront announcement that, after asking for a donation, informed me I could make policy suggestions by e-mail. I called the Trump property again and was automatically routed back to the Trump campaign announcement.

  16. 16.

    piratedan

    @amk: don’t worry, in a couple of generations after we’ve finally brought these corrupt bigots down, some future generation will be sure to publish how DT and the Tea Party gang got a raw deal and how they were simply misunderstood in how they chose to exercise their patriotism.

  19. 19.

    Chet Murthy

    @Leaving Texas: Two thoughts:

    (1) if they (bernie’s website) are calling you, I presume they’re using some sort of automated dialer. One presumes those can be programmed to not send caller-id

    (2) and ifnot, one presumes that we could replace the man-in-the-middle with an app, at which point your own phone could (I presume) not send caller-id.

  20. 20.

    TriassicSands

    So, the Republican goal is to prove the CIA, et al. wrong. After they do that, they’ll find 5 million “illegal aliens and dead people who voted and every single one — without exception — will have voted for Clinton.

    Even though that will mean that voting illegally in the US is easier than finding sand at the beach, Republicans are so honest that not a single Trump supporter would tarnish the sanctity of the vote, which they revere above all else (except Jesus and Ronald Reagan), by voting illegally. I’m moved to tears.

  21. 21.

    Gator90

    @slag: You’re kind of exaggerating; apparently one Nazi has been punched one time. But hopefully it’s the start of a trend.

  23. 23.

    SFAW

    @TriassicSands:

    Well, actually, according to one item I’ve seen, 75 percent of the documented fraudulent votes cast in 2016 were cast by Rethugs.

    That should be the screaming banner on the front page of every nationally-known newspaper, and a chyron on every non-print news source.

    ETA: And that’s even before the headlines about Bannon, Mnuchin, and the First Lady Ivanka being registered in two states.

  25. 25.

    Ohio Mom

    @Leaving Texas: Maybe we need to mail bomb one Trump property at at time.

    I don’t know how to make that happen though. Not on Twitter or Facebook or whatever it is you need to use to get something like that going.

  26. 26.

    Kristine

    The pressure will have to come from the outside. As many have said, Congress won’t budge until they’re threatened directly. If not by public opinion, maybe by visits from members of the IC with the warning that if they don’t take him down, they’ll go down with him. And if that doesn’t work, the leaks to the press will start.

    How much did Congress know about Nixon before the WP stories? Had the FBI gone to them first, and been rebuffed? I don’t know. That said, T***p’s made enemies of the two entities that can take him down, and I hope they do.

  27. 27.

    Leaving Texas

    @Chet Murthy:
    I wasn’t using Bernies’s app, just calling on my own. Maybe their app solves the problem I had calling back? It’s a little disturbing that I’m on a Trump contact list now.

  28. 28.

    Leaving Texas

    @Ohio Mom: I love that idea! Not sure how to do it, though. If someone gets that together I’ll be the first to write letters.

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