Rand Paul on Flynn: 'Makes no sense' to investigate fellow Republicans

[sunonmars]

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/kfile-rand-paul-republican-investigations/index.html?sr=twCNN021417kfile-rand-paul-republican-investigations0850PMStoryLink&linkId=34504233

Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday an investigation into the resignation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn would be excessive and it would not make sense to investigate other Republicans.

"I think that might be excessive. It looks like the President has handled the situation, and unless there's some kind of other evidence of malfeasance, this sounds like something that was internal White House politics and it looks like the President's handled it," Paul told the "Kilmeade and Friends" radio show.
Flynn resigned Monday evening amid revelations that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about conversations he had in December with Russia's ambassador to the US about sanctions placed on Russia. Pence had defended Flynn on television and denied he discussed sanctions after initial reports of the conversations.

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I cant believe i am hearing this shit, this from the party that would have investigated Hillary Clinton sneezing......

Screw them all, no mercy in taking these ratbastards down

[FiveGoodMen]

1. "no mercy in taking these ratbastards down"

The Dem Party is going to have to re-invent itself pretty completely and pretty fast if we're ever going to see that!

They have to give up 'reach across the aisle', 'off the table' and 'they go low, we go high' and attach themselves to 'we will beat your ass bloody, MF!'

That's what we need. But I don't know where we're going to find it.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

21. +1 nt

[Tanuki]

2. This is why an independent investigation is crucial. Ryan's appalling admission

that he places his own partisan interests above the security and future of our nation is scandalous and in better times would have disqualified him from office. He can try all he wants to minimize the damage and normalize selling out national security to a hostile foreign power, but this is not going to be swept under the rug. "Stonewalling" was a word that was used in the Watergate era. How did that work out for the GOP president?

[dem4decades]

3. Well said

[AgadorSparticus]

4. THAT is the kind of shit that needs to be weeded out of politics.

Absolutely SHAMEFUL!!!!

[moonscape]

5. The hypocrisy, the word appropriate for every sentence re this

administration and Republican congress, is mind-numbing. It's a crazier Republican free-for-all than my nightmares never imagined.

[LanternWaste]

6. But two years and $13 mill on Benghazi wasn't excessive?

"When you put yourself at risk and the country at risk with information potentially being exposed to enemies, I think it goes to a really poor judgement.” (Rand Paul on Clinton/Beghazi, accurately illustrating that he holds his own party to a much lower standard than he holds the Dems.)

[Chipper Chat]

7. Is he too young to remember fucking Watergate?

It was the REPUBLICANS in Congress that pushed investigations that led to Nixon's resignation.
THOSE republicans placed being an American over party. Rand may have to eat his words.

[Thrill]

8. Forget that whole checks and balances thing

[spanone]

9. typical bullshit from paul

[TrekLuver]

10. These words better come back to haunt him.

[Jim Beard]

11. Flynn is true Russian hero. He was awarded hero of the Soviet Union Medal last night for his great

service to the motherland!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. There IS "other evidence of malfeasance". #PenceKnew #TrumpKnew . . . nt

[kentuck]

13. He's delusional.

We will get to the bottom of it when we get to the bottom of it.

[Lucky Luciano]

14. They did investigate Hillary sneezing. Remember when she had a cold...

...and the thugs questioned her stamina during the campaign?

[notdarkyet]

15. Lying to the FBI is serious enough to "LOCK HIM UP".

[SunSeeker]

16. Fuck Rand Paul. nt

[spanone]

17. that's a quick look inside the republican mind. scary. that's. how. they. think.

they don't play fair for one second.

[Liberal In Texas]

18. Because they only engage in political witch hunts. n/t

[LisaL]

19. I guess if you are a republican, you are above the law.

[Blue_Tires]

20. At least the left's love affair with the Paul boys is long dead...

[elmac]

22. well, guess that moral majority thingy didn't last too long nt

[OldRedneck]

23. I agree with Rand Paul . . .

. . . We should not investigate Flynn until we get to the bottom of Hillary's emails and the Benghazi affair!!!!

Am I right or am I right??

[zentrum]

24. Party....

....uber alles, apparently.

Rand too shows a treason-like mentality. Scrap the country! Scrap the Government! Scrap the Constitution! All that matters is my tribe!

[llmart]

25. The GOP is just trying to make this go away quickly...

and hope we move on to other things.

AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN! We have the numbers to make a lot of noise about all this shit and we damned well better do it continuously. Keep up the pressure and keep contacting Congress any which way you can. We're not going away until this administration is shown for the scum that they are.

[Freethinker65]

26. Looks like they have something pretty damning on Rand

[njhoneybadger]

27. It makes no sense to republicans

not to cheat,lie and steal if they can get away with it.

[Mr. Evil]

28. The disingenuousness flows like a river of blood from Rand Paul.

The republican party is no longer a political ideology. It is an amoral criminal cabal that needs to be eradicated, eviscerated and exterminated!

[dalton99a]

34. +1

[crazycatlady]

29. call call call

[Liberalagogo]

30. As far as I'm concerned

this is an admission of guilt, for the entire GOPee.

[MrScorpio]

31. Pretty much proof that all GOPrs are hypocrites. Nt

[dalton99a]

32. Honor Among Thieves.

[HopeAgain]

33. When has Rand Paul ever made sense? nt