Jeb Bush crawls from under a rock to praise Bill Barr, Joe Walsh tells it like it is

[Demovictory9]

Link to tweet

[True Blue American]

1. Bill Barr was not chosen

To protect the President. He was the head of the Justice Department.

Of course he played the same role for Poppy Bush, getting him to pardon all the Iran/ Contra crooks under Poppy and Ronald who did not know nothin’!

[GoneOffShore]

2. Does this somehow 'rehabilitate' Joe Walsh?

Asking for a friend.

[OnDoutside]

3. Whatever about Walsh, what possessed Bush to tweet his support of Barr, after his tenure of lying

and shameful acts ? That's a bigger question.

[GoneOffShore]

4. Bush likes where Barr stands. He's another authoritarian wanting to dismantle the US.

[Hortensis]

6. I agree. Why did he push forward to endorse him on his way out?

A lot of Barr's shameful acts occurred during Bush's father's presidency as he advocated and assisted increased authoritarian executive powers, though. And the Bush push to authoritarianism increased further under his brother's administration.

Whatever else may be going on, his approval of Barr underlines with a Trump sharpie that JEBush is one of what Steve Schmidt identifies as the Republican autocratic coalition, inimical to democracy.

I never think of him, though, without remembering that he wanted to bring back "shaming" of girls to reduce teen pregnancy. Shocking on its own, but this was also at a time when suicides among teenage girls were increasing tragically.

[hlthe2b]

8. Any rehab of any R is moment by moment and fully conditional on future behavior.

As with the LP, I don't get why this should be in question. Maybe the only rational statement from Reagan, "Trust, but verify." And in all cases going forward with self-professed former R's, VERIFY before you trust.

[onetexan]

5. Jeb again proves why he's the "underachieving" son of GW.

[Mike Nelson]

7. Dots...

... wasn't Barr "Mr Fix-It" for the Iran-Contra mess, which was a Bush family (not Ronnie) mess...

[Cosmocat]

9. LONG track record of doing the dirt

Why I lost my mind when the Joe Scarboroughs of the world blathered on about how wonderful he was when 45 hired him.

[Klaralven]

10. Barr was George Herbert Walker Bush's man

From 1973 to 1977, Barr was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency during his schooling years. He then served as a law clerk to judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey. In the 1980s, Barr worked for the law firm Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, sandwiching a year's work in the White House of the Ronald Reagan administration dealing with legal policies. Before becoming Attorney General in 1991, Barr held numerous other posts within the Department of Justice, including leading the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and serving as Deputy Attorney General. From 1994 to 2008, Barr did corporate legal work for GTE and its successor company Verizon Communications, which made him a multimillionaire. From 2009 to 2018, Barr served on the board of directors for Time Warner.

Barr is a longtime proponent of the unitary executive theory of nearly unfettered presidential authority over the executive branch of the U.S. government.[1][2][3] In 1989, Barr, as the head of the OLC, justified the U.S. invasion of Panama to arrest Manuel Noriega. As deputy attorney general, Barr authorized an FBI operation in 1991 which freed hostages at the Talladega federal prison. An influential advocate for tougher criminal justice policies, Barr as attorney general in 1992 authored the report The Case for More Incarceration, where he argued for an increase in the United States incarceration rate.[4] Under Barr's advice, President George H. W. Bush in 1992 pardoned six officials involved in the Iran–Contra affair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr

John Durham is another Deep State cleanup man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Durham_(lawyer)#Appointments_as_special_investigator

Whitey Bulger case
Amid allegations that FBI informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had corrupted their handlers, US Attorney General Janet Reno named Durham special prosecutor in 1999.

CIA interrogation tapes destruction
In 2008, Durham was appointed by Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate the destruction of CIA videotapes of detainee interrogations

Torture investigation
In August 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder appointed Durham to lead the Justice Department's investigation of the legality of CIA's use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" in the torture of detainees.

[blueinredohio]

11. Jeb Bush can eat shit.

He didn't say anything when Barr was intervening to let all the crooks out of trouble.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Can't demonize liberals anymore? None left?

Now the GOP character assassins are on to progressives.

[spanone]

13. and all this time I thought Junior was the stupid bu$h.