WaPo: Republicans just got what they didnt want: A special counsel

[TomCADem]

Will the media call out Republicans who insisted that no special counsel was necessary?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-republicans-just-got-what-they-didn%E2%80%99t-want-a-special-counsel/ar-BBBfBdI?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE01DHP

For all the fallout from the damning news surrounding President Trump this past week, Republicans calling for more investigations was not one of them.

As the world learned that Trump suddenly fired his FBI director, as the world learned the president told state secrets to the Russians, as the world learned that the fired FBI director said the president asked him to drop the FBI's investigation into one of the president's allies, the vast majority of Republicans in Congress didn't budge.

No, they didn't think a special counsel was necessary. No, they didn't think there would need to be any other kind of independent investigations. The ones going on in Congress (and the leaderless FBI) were sufficient enough, thank you.

It turns out Trump's own administration didn't agree. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced Wednesday that he was appointing a special counsel -- Robert Mueller, the head of the FBI from 2001 to 2013 -- to investigate Russia meddling in the presidential election. Mueller will have wide latitude to investigate Russia meddling, whether the Trump campaign helped, Trump's interactions with the FBI and anything else he wants.

[spanone]

1. the pressure was too great.

[spin]

2. Most Republicans feel Trump was not working with the Russians to beat Hillary. ...

Therefore they are not all the upset at the appointment of a special counsel.

Of course that may change in the future.