When McCarthy exclaimed in the video "I swear there are two people Putin pays" Rohrbacher and Trump"

[Evolve Dammit]

and Ryan quickly interjected and cautioned everyone that "We're all family here" to end the discussion with much laughter, I always wondered why there was no follow-up. In their own words, in 2015? there was an acknowledged Russian connection. It was damning and telling that there was a link and monetary connection between GOP Congress and TFG. A disservice to our country that this story was not investigated thoroughly. One could argue, it continued to metastasize into where the former GOP is today. A rabid party waiting for the next coup and funded by rubles.

[BigmanPigman]

1. I will never live long enough to see the GQP

charged and prosecuted for every damn lie and crime that they committed from 2015 on and it pisses me off. I have waited, and waited, and waited, etc.

[Evolve Dammit]

3. it grows old doesn't it? EWric stating we have all the money we need from Russia should have been

investigated as well. So many passes, so little attention, and so little accountability. Almost zero.

[dameatball]

5. You aren't alone. Most of us want to see justice and to leave the world a better place. Looks kinda

iffy at present. Then again, an old friend I used to work with had a saying, "Tomorrow hasn't been touched."

[malaise]

2. But her emails

That was what the media followed not the ReTHUG Russian connections and don’t forget the eight ReTHUGs who spent July 4 2018 in Moscow either.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks/2018/07/06/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html

What does July 4th mean to me? Freedom,” Sen. Ron Johnson chirruped on Twitter on Independence Day.
For the Wisconsin Republican, it meant, specifically, the freedom to spend July 4 in Moscow with seven other Republican lawmakers posing for propaganda photos with Russian officials. On the same day it was reported in Britain that two more people had been poisoned by a Russian nerve agent British officials say came from Vladimir Putin’s regime. On the day after the Senate Intelligence Committee affirmed the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump.
So, what do we call these Red Square Republicans? My interlocutors on Twitter suggest “Moscow Mules.” Or, given the position they put themselves in before our masters in Moscow, perhaps they should be called the Prostrate Eight: Sens. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), Steve Daines (Mont.), John Hoeven (N.D.), John Neely Kennedy (La.), Jerry Moran (Kan.), John Thune (S.D.) and Johnson, plus Rep. Kay Granger (Tex.).

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Another free pass. Zero accountability for anything.

[DFW]

7. Actually, I like "Red Square Republicans"

It has a catchy ring to it.

[malaise]

8. Agree

😀

[DFW]

12. If the MainStream Media can be the "MSM" after all........... n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Gangsters Of Putin -- laundromats for rent.

[malaise]

10. THIS - add this one -How DeSantis got his swamp drained by Igor, Lev, and Russian cash

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/columns/2019/10/15/how-desantis-got-his-swamp-drained-by-igor-lev-and-russian-cash/2524833007/

It’s good to see Florida’s self-professed swamp drainer, Gov. Ron DeSantis, has decided to give up some of that Russian “hoax” money that flowed into his campaign last year.

DeSantis’ office announced last week that it would be returning the $50,000 his campaign political committee, The Friends of Ron DeSantis, took from a sham start-up company called Global Energy Producers, which was neither global, nor energy producing.

It was a creation of Delaware corporate paperwork magic that facilitated the transfer of money from an unnamed Russia oligarch into the coffers of Republican candidates across America, according to a federal indictment filed last week.

[Mr.Bill]

6. Don't forget the republican

projection rule: If McCarthy said people were being paid by Putin, it's likely he was being paid by Putin.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. It would follow, wouldn't it?

[czarjak]

13. Putin retribution. Made possible by fans of free money. How could you possibly resist?