Holy shit! There may be another reason Garland appointed a Special Counsel.

and probably right.

Sometimes she will catch me pacing back and forth thinking and I do not know I am pacing back and forth. It is my way of thinking things through. Looking at all possibilities. I do not like making quick, rash decisions.

she wanted to make sure I wasn't dead.

Was probably for the best.

We saw a cartoon that had a panel with a dog thinking, then bumping into a wall with its head, then thinking again, then bumping again.

We now call moments of thought bump-thinks.

Must be a good thing!

"...Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Thanks, I will remember these words forever: The centre cannot hold

We don’t drive vehicles in the center of a lane, we drive between the lane markers. Neither too much in either direction.

Meaning the edges define the road, not the middle. Same for political parties and constituents.

the despicable traitor Jim Jordan.

As to wives - one time mine asked me a question and I gave her a rather involved answer.

She asked me if I actually knew or if I was just making shit up.

Wives are great that way - they keep us humble.

it makes total sense

and that's another reason why McCarthy has to surrender to the nut jobs (he's not far off). how many republican congresspeople and senators can they afford to get caught up and implicated as accomplices in a violent coup attempt with those margins?

because it well be many republican congressional congress persons were likely involved in the insurrection, including the new head of the judiciary committee who wants to impeach Garland and at the very least will be trying to call him in for information. It keeps the information away from Gym and his merry bandits prior to their possible arrests.

I rather like to concentrate on justice to those who are guilty.

Garland understands he's going to be a frequent "guest" of Jim Jordan's clown show ..he's wisely insulating Jack Smith and the two investigations...

Just the thought of Mental Lowbrow Gym Jordan asking someone like Merrick Garland a question is bound to result in long moments of silence, a la Ketanji Brown Jackson.

and they want to defund the F.B.I., DOJ any other law enforcement's, ICs all to cover up their corrupt and wrong doing which includes crimes against the USA.

Investigations against Dems are a deflection.

What a traitorous bunch of hacks.

Interstate sex trafficking just becomes OK?

Think about it.
It only takes 5 R reps from purple districts (NY, CA, MI, etc.) to cross the aisle and it fails.
Their grip on power with such a slim minority, Ds controlling the Senate and D POTUS is tenuous. They won't get their way anyway.
If those defections happen (we're talking 2% of their whole contingent) they look like failures, and since their whole approach to Congress is to look like their powerful, they'd expose themselves as impotent.
They're not going to set themselves up in '24 for accusations of "defunding the police" with no hope of success in the first place.
They're obstinate, obstuctionist, and not all that bright, but they're not suicidal.
This is all talk right now and they will never pursue it come January.

Eom

so calling him in would be worthless.

It will make fools think they are doing something.

but I will love the look on Gym's face when Mr. Smith tells him to go pound sand, in a diplomatic way of course.

Smith: "Do you want the diplomatic answer or the truth?"

Gym: "Diplomatic"

Smith: "Go pound sand."

Give them a taste of their own medicine.

Having him on the Hill in front of their committees with or without answers keeps him from the case all the same.

The premise that appointing a SC will prevent the GOP from effectively hindering and interfering is what I'm taking about. Post 12 is talking about the kabuki theater of it all.

If that's where your want to claim a W, enjoy.

Enjoy.

You really think he's doing this investigation all by his little lonesome self?

Let me clue you in, he's not, he'll have a whole gaggle of staff helping with this investigation, so even though he might be called to appear before Gym's committee, it won't slow down the investigation one whit.

However, he IS the point person for ALL the DOJ investigations and tying his time up means it delays and obstructs his ability to run point - whether it's analysis, research, or decision making.

Don't roll too far off the edge in your laughter.

is that it is isolated from political interference -- either from the President OR from Congress.

Don't you think they would have been hauling Robert Mueller in frequently if they'd been able to?

I hope you are.

My prevailing point is that if there is any angle to disrupt, the GOP will push through it no matter the procedural layering DOJ tries to implement.

If he was worried that the House would go to the GOPers, as all the polls indicated, and they would investigate him, then he should have indicted before the election. Having the House change hands should have been even more reason to act faster and indict sooner. Burn some midnight oil slow poke.

It was clear from 6 months ago that the house was going GOP.

And even if it hadn't, it's not a bad thing to move quickly and indict.

I am going to indict Trump now because the Republicans have a good chance of winning the House.

Prosecutors do not work that way.

It was not clear the Republicans were going to win the House.

It kinda was in the polling that the house would change hands. Not the bad polling at the end but early on.

But you should sometimes plan for the bad and hope for the good.

But I get your point about it being more of a guesstimate.

Because they didn't have to be. The DCCC screwed up, and it didn't help that Patrick Maloney was on vacation when he should have been campaigning. A relative in Jamaica Queens told me this was going to happen, and darned if she wasn't right. Cuomo had a hand in this disastrous feud also. IF Biden could have gotten the house flat out. Now, I do feel that the GQP US Taliban Party could lose the house before 2024, because some of them were inolvment in Jan. 6th. ciil insurrection. It's meant for the country to see just how treasonous and how craen & hideous the likes of Marjorie traitor Greene, Gym Jordan are, because whoeer is house Speaker for that bunch of asses, they won't be able to control them beccause they're unhinged, evil traitors. Dems have to hammer on them on how THEY will stop inflation, just like they hammered Dems with that nonsense, especially duing this global pandemic and especially with all this price-gouging (ALL of the GQP voted against anti-gouging leglation) by these greedy CEO's who made reccord profits. The GQP don't know how to govern, and Dems really need to hang that around their necks like a loadstone every day.


Democrats May Lose U.S. House Because New York Dem. Leaders Were Too Focused on Defeating the Left

The balance of power in Congress is still up in the air two days after Tuesday’s midterm elections, and control of the Senate now rests on three states: Nevada, Arizona and Georgia. Meanwhile, Republicans have not yet won enough House seats to regain the majority, though there are still over 30 House races not yet decided. Many analysts say if Democrats lose control of the House, it may largely be because of New York state, where Republicans have flipped four congressional seats. Sochie Nnaemeka, director of the New York Working Families Party, says the “low-participation, low-energy election” was the result of the Democrats’ “failed strategies at the state level.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/11/10/congress_midterm_elections_republicans_flip_seats

Two indictments, zero convictions, lots of assumptions:



Wait, wait, don't tell me, you meant "prosecutors with whom I agree don't make assumptions" amirite?

Because I can show you fucked-up prosecutors all day long if you like.

He wasn't making assumptions, he was lying.

...prosecutors can be as fucked up as anyone else.

What a piece of crap.

I was thinking the assumption would be the House changing hands. But I can see where the assumption that Trump was going to throw his hat in, might have been a bigger assumption.

You could plan for the house changing hands but not what that idiot Trump might do.

Durham was able to work independently and unimpeded across two administrations. The fact that he was on an actual “Witch Hunt” that came up empty handed doesn’t diminish the power and protected autonomy of a special counsel- and that’s what a lot of folks are missing about Smith.

and evidence currently in hand in order to make such a statement? How would that be?

Gym will try to have Garland turn over evidence to the committee.
This was a move that HAD to be done.

investigations amplified by Faux and HateRadio. Hunter’s supposed laptop will become the single greatest threat to mankind in ALL of history and all Democrats will be linked to it.

Let’s see if MSM goes along with the plot.

Thanks.

In my mind, this is a strategic move, gamed out for a while now. Not a knee jerk reaction.

that tRump has been indicted. Enough with the semantics and wasting time. Many many crimes have been committed, arrest the bastard and be done with it!

Jim Jordan is going to be head of the Judiciary Committee, and will have access to all of the information in regular investigations.

Jim Jordan, along with at least one other Republican, is a part of the 6Jan investigation (remember his phone call. IIRC, he was also mentioned as being part of it in other phone captures already obtained). Won't even go into what a scumbag he is, and the possibility of him pulling a Nunes with the information.

A SC investigation is firewalled, IIRC, from everyone to prevent political interference.

Should just ignore them, just as they did when subpoenaed by the J6 committee. They get brought up on contempt of Congress, then they get pardoned by Biden. That would surely throw a monkey wrench into their antics

to set up and conduct the coup are in the slammer.



Whole wheat that gives shy persons the strength to get up and invade the Capitol Building. Heavens, they're tasty, and so seditious!"

Paint the effing house blue.

...While we're at it.

Consecutive terms resulting in 150 years ought to serve justice!

Garland just let it go off in the wind. As if that never happened!

And I've read SC is not required to share info with qpukes.

I will love to see the look on Gym's face when Mr. Smith tells him to go pound sand up his ass, in a diplomatic way of course.

Priceless.

I just listened to Rachael Maddow's Ultra while traveling. My husband got a bachelor's in political science and said he had never been taught anything in college about that near end to our democracy. That is the play book the Putin sympathizers are using. Ultra needs to be turned into a movie so America will watch and learn. That's the only way to teach America anything. It has to look like entertainment.

Given the DOJ's Election Sensitivities rule, will the Special Counsel be able to indict Trump in the middle of his "campaign"? Garland said he appointed a Special Counsel now because Trump declared his 2024 run a few days ago. Apparently, the DOJ sees a potential conflict of interest in prosecuting Trump now because the DOJ's Election Sensitivities rule prevents investigations and prosecutions of political candidates during election season. Wouldn't the Special Counsel's investigation, possible indictment and prosecution of Trump, a declared candidate, also be a conflict of interest and violate the DOJ rule?

Think about it. They’re good with sharing our top secrets with putrid.

TFG’s political announcement would have no impact on any investigation.

of a candidate for 60 days before an election. But that didn't help Hillary any, did it?

Garland could just ignore them!

Set a date two months out when he can meet them. Maybe Trump is indicted by then, and he says he can't discuss matters in an ongoing prosecution. Sorry, assholes.

So. Tired. Of. The. Hysteria. Over. This.

Seems crystal clear to me.

...and it would be right to consider Garland

abbreviation to avoid confusion. Instead of SC for special counsel, maybe SP for special prosecutor would help to distinguish him from the Supreme Court.

Just said on PBS they had enough to indict Trump! His own AG!

Consider the SC “Jim Jordan insurance”…

interesting.

Crazy shit.

The investigations are better protected from the Klown Kommittee, Emptee G and the rest of the KKKrew.

AND…

As Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out the investigations now have a dedicated prosecutor, whereas before they were a couple of items on Garland’s very full plate.

hearings? Based on any batshit-crazy rationale?

What would prevent them from harassing Jack Smith?

And 100% logical and correct. Nothing will stop the cult of Trumpites from attacking everyone. I don't think the cult of Garland defenders are capable of separating justice from their false notion that Garland somehow represents everything holy about the democratic party.

TY!

Thank you for you excellent expression of this opinion.

I don't recall.
Can you describe what you mean by gazpacho?
Mr. Gym - I'm sorry Jordan . . .

He's so measured and controlled - soft spoken . . . a simple question back will set off those shit flinging howler monkeys.

obstruction of justice, contempt of Congress, and complicit in the J^ insurrection. They are on tape both audio and video. Every time a Dem or DOJ witness gets a chance he or she should link the GOP behavior to those crimes. I wouldn't take much to answer any question they ask by linking one of them to the subject being questioned...even about Hunter Biden.

read speculation that resonates that....

If they do indict trump, this investigation will take all of the AG's time that he won't be able to focus on other issues. Appointing the SC means they can have an investigator who can fully focus on this particular case.