Democrats want investigation into Trump administrations reported blackmail over health care votes

[malaise]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-threatens-alaska-over-health-care-vote-845aae9a3d58
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Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, plans to request a formal investigation into whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke threatened to pull projects from Alaska in retaliation for Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) vote on Tuesday against moving forward with a debate on health care legislation.

Grijalva said Zinke’s willingness to reportedly threaten Alaska in response to the senator’s vote serves as “an alarming sign of how far the administration’s ethical standards have fallen and how irresponsible the Interior Department has become.”

“Threatening to punish your rivals as political blackmail is something we’d see from the Kremlin,” Grijalva said in a statement Thursday. “Secretary Zinke’s willingness to deliver these threats speaks volumes about his ethical standards and demonstrates that Interior’s policy positions are up for political grabs, rather than based on science or the public interest.”

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. If a democrat did this, the Secret Service could not protect them from

the deplorables

Any democrat would literally be hunted down and killed.

Deplorables have no interest in democracy or justice. I see very bad times ahead.

[Iliyah]

2. Good luck with that

GOP seems to not care . . .

[unblock]

3. that's actually pretty normal politics.

supporting or opposing bills or provisions or policies or funding and such that a key congresscritter cares about is how power is wielded in congress and the presidency. others might be less crass about it, but that's how it's done.

few congressional minds are changed by arguing the actual merits of any particular policy.

[ProudLib72]

4. That's the problem with tweeting

But the GOP don't seem to mind, so tRump tweets with impunity.

[Panich52]

5. It's called abuse of power. Pols have gone to prison f/ it

[apkhgp]

6. If I may reiterate

45 song lyric

They are tearing up our democracy
To build their aristocracy

[malaise]

7. Pretty much

This has been going on for quite some time