Solidarity thread for Bernie supporters who want Gowdy et. al prosecuted

[zazen]

Last edited Mon Oct 19, 2015, 09:13 PM - Edit history (1)

This might sink like a rock, but there seems to be some doubt, among HRC supporters, about solidarity among supporters of other candidates in the primary.

Please kick and rec this if you are appalled by the misappropriation of taxpayer funds by Gowdy, et. al to purposefully, maliciously, and deceptively target a longstanding, respected leader in the Democratic party, and if you want a special prosecutor appointed to investigate their possible wrongdoing.

Among our primary candidates I prefer Bernie Sanders, but I fiercely oppose Republican operatives who are targeting our former FLOTUS, Senator from NY State, and Secretary of State.

I can only hope one of them will see jail time.

[JackInGreen]

1. One?

Both? Anyone involved left or right. I too, as most can tell, am a Berner, but these guys need to get lodged in the doc.

[gopiscrap]

2. Me too

[randys1]

3. The email story and Benghazi are both bullshit, one is more obvious than the other.

Thank you for this thread.

Remember, people like Gowdy and other cons hate people like the Ambassador who was killed.

Chris Stevens was a BERKELEY lawyer and not a rightwing nut.

He was the type of person your typical asshat like Gowdy despised, until he could use his dead fucking body for political points.

These disgusting pricks make me sick.

[Capt. Obvious]

5. In real life

when nuts flip out about the ambassador killed I always ask, "So, what are the names of the other three Americans killed?"

Usually met with bewilderment.

[randys1]

9. Or ask them if they know how many times embassies under W were attacked.

They dont care about these 4 people anymore than they care about the troops they sent to Iraq to die and be wounded.

[SusanaMontana41]

86. Excellent point! eom

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I'd love to see his pointy head peering out from behind bars.

It probably won't happen, but we can dream.

[Cheese Sandwich]

6. I don't know who Gowdy is really.

He looks like that one kid from Harry Potter though.

[MisterP]

18. no, Tom Felton hit puberty

[LuvNewcastle]

37. He seems like a white trash version

of Anderson Cooper to me.

[corkhead]

42. If he bred with a conehead

Image from .

[TDale313]

7. K&R

This was a political witch hunt from the beginning. Already rumblings that if Hillary becomes President they'll try and impeach her. This is their game plan against any Democratic President now- destroy them, death by a thousand paper cuts, investigate investigate investigate. Obstruction Obstruction Obstruction. They'd do it to Bernie, too, or any Democrat. Tired of this crap.

[AlbertCat]

33. investigate investigate investigate

Still pouting over Watergate.

[GoneFishin]

51. You are probably right.

[femmedem]

8. K&R n/t

[Thinkingabout]

10. There should be accountability and why has tax payer money has bee wasted, just like the $100M

Wasted on the White Water investigation which would continue if Larry Flynt had not producing stories on Republicans. Old Newt got his crap thrown back at himself.

[MerryBlooms]

11. Happy to rec and kick!

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

12. Count me in

It's simply disgusting.

[TBF]

13. Bernie is right about the damned emails -

there are ample reasons to prefer him over Hillary without going there. I agree with the OP.

[WIProgressive88]

14. This has always been a political witch hunt.

We've had nearly six years of the mainstream media jumping aboard the bandwagon of whatever nonsensical pseudo-scandal the GOP happened to be obsessing over at that moment. Now, we have a real fucking scandal involving serious misuse of tax dollars and the exploitation of four dead Americans for presidential politics. Where is the media? Why is this not being treated more seriously? Why do I get the feeling that abso-fucking-lutely no one is going to be held accountable for this nonsense?

[salib]

15. Shows her strength to weather all of this until the repugs stumble. Badly. Many times.

This is excellent.

[ejbr]

16. Agreed

Enough of this shit.

[madokie]

17. I'm with you

[That Guy 888]

19. K&R n/t

[zazen]

20. I never had any doubt that we support a Dem primary candidate against criminal attacks

But I feel a few HRC supporters are unclear that we stand in solidarity with them in this cause.

Just because some of us have policy differences with Hillary doesn't mean we aren't righteously incensed when these Republican moral cretins abuse one of our own, a woman who has worked very hard in her own way and sacrificed so much in her personal life to advance some progressive causes. It's appalling.

[daleanime]

21. K&R.....

[Jack Rabbit]

22. On what charges, exactly?

There quite likely something that would stick, but a congresscritter has a pretty wide latitude when he is "investigating" something, even if he isn't really investigating.

"Beyond a reasonable doubt" to convict of a criminal offense would have to be way, way, way beyond a reasonable doubt in this case.

[zazen]

24. would the redaction be interfering with federal investigation? using Super-PAC funds?

I really don't know. I'm hoping the lawyers here will help me out.

Siegelman suffers in prison, Martha Stewart (D) is prosecuted and imprisoned on a BS charge, African Americans can't have their cars broken down on the side of the road without getting assassinated by police (imprisonment would have been a luxury).

I guess I'm just kvetching in frustration that his and his pals' actions don't rise to some level of criminality, were there a Justice Dept (or federal district) willing to go fishing for it. They fished among Hilary's records with a lot less cause than we have now.

Is there no basis to investigate? I really don't know and welcome your legal analysis if you have that b/g.

[RichVRichV]

77. I'm not sure what they would be charged on.

But they should definitely be at least censured for the unethical farce.

[Lucky Luciano]

23. Yup. Throw the book at this prick and disbar him. nt

[tosh]

25. I'm in...

and have been all along.

This absurd rethug crap has to stop and those who pushed it should be punished.

[denverbill]

26. Sanders supporter, but this committee is a farce.

It's been clear to me from Day 1.

[Jack Rabbit]

30. True.

I don't like Mrs. Clinton and I don't want her to be president. However, the Republicans wouldn't touch any of the real skeletons in her closet. Those involve her being a war hawk and an adherent to trickle down economics. Those really aren't crimes, and if they are, then every Republican in congress or last three Republican administrations is also guilty of them in spades.

So they can't complain about anything but Benghazi or her mails. The Republicans are pathetic.

[Scuba]

65. /\_/\_Yep, this_/\_/\

[Scootaloo]

27. Dude falsified evidence and misappropriated funds. let's see how that pays off for him.

[shenmue]

28. I support Clinton

but it's good to see that at least some of us see the heart of the issue, for itself.

[aidbo]

29. It nothing but a witch hunt, I agree.

[deutsey]

31. I'm no fan of Hillary's

but these "investigations" are ridiculous.

[geek tragedy]

32. This Sanders supporter says fuck Trey Gowdy

and anyone who carries water for him.

[mahina]

34. Now.

[fredamae]

35. Why Isn't Prosecution

being discussed more broadly? I mean...they Intentionally wasted Our Money for Political Gains. I thought there is a Law against that? And let's Not forget Darrell Issa!
I want to see some fkg emails alright...All of theirs.

[onenote]

62. Precisely what statute would he be prosecuted under?

[Snotcicles]

36. K&R. nt

[libodem]

38. Of courrrrse

The whole thing is tax funded political theater. It is infuriating and ridiculous.

Makes me want to kick some Republican ass!

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[LuvNewcastle]

39. I'm glad this scandal is blowing up

in their faces, and I hope the real scandal goes even deeper and sheds light on the vile machinations of the Republican Party. They need to be weakened so much that they're unable to be competitive to anyone in the elections.

[CharlotteVale]

40. Kick but it won't stop the insane insults and memes.

[floriduck]

41. K&R Absolutely nm.

[libodem]

43. Investigate the select committee

It's a total witch hunt.

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[vkkv]

44. Yeah.. fry the bastards.................................. not really, jail time sounds about right.

[Plucketeer]

45. Rec'ing and kicking

Although I wish it was Gowdy and the rest of 'ems asses that were getting kicked!

[BuelahWitch]

46. I would

Plus their personal bank accounts depleted to replace the taxpayer funds that this boondoggle has taken away from important things. But I suppose any type of prosecution is "off the table."

[bullwinkle428]

47. K&R.

[cui bono]

48. I've asked this in other threads too...

when the hell is he getting charged with a crime?

[Agschmid]

49. Ill be the 100th rec.

[BeanMusical]

50. Kick and R

[GoneFishin]

52. They belong in jail.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

53. Just remember, they lied about a WAR and got away with it.

[TexasBushwhacker]

73. Yes, but it could sway some independent voters n/t

[sabrina 1]

54. I wouldn't mind starting with this crew and the moving on up to the ones we had HOPED

would be prosecuted what seems like an eternity ago.

Obama saved them, and well, look at the thanks he got.

We knew that it would be no worse IF he had sought justice for all their victims than if he hadn't.

[restorefreedom]

55. i agree

lets go all the way back to bush and cheney and rumsfeld.....mop the whole damn lot of em up.....gowdy can share a cell with dick....he will be thrilled to be with a modern day " hero "

[kenfrequed]

56. Yeah...

Pretty much agree. The guy needs to have to pay some consequence for lying his ass off.

[Kalidurga]

57. Trey Gowdy, has that look of someone who is under the influence of ring...

not that it's important just sayin. He is playing partisan politics it's disgusting he is using tax money to do it. If he was half as fierce in going after war criminals some peeps would be in jail, just sayin.

[world wide wally]

58. We should be able to prosecute for over indulgence in bullshit

[Betty Karlson]

59. Kick and rec.

We want to discuss issues.

[Lunabell]

60. K&R

[Major Hogwash]

61. This looks like a good place to leave this.

I want to remember just how angry I was after reading this thread that you created, when 2017 rolls around, after the Democrats take back control of Congress.

So I can retrieve the huge turd that I just created out of the toilet, in order to make a shit sandwich to shove down Gowdy's lying, fucking throat!!!

I'm going to call this sandwich the "Benghazi Special".

[Enthusiast]

63. Kicked and recommended!

[eridani]

64. Just about every Clinton "scandal" is Repuke bullshit

Except Bill screwing around a lot--but even that certainly didn't rate impeachment.

[yuiyoshida]

66. K&R

[gregcrawford]

67. Malice and mendacity define the Republican Party

As I have said for years:

A Liberal gets up in the morning and asks, "Who can I help today?"

A conservative gets up in the morning and asks, "Who can I punish?"

[lonestarnot]

68. K & R!

[MynameisBlarney]

69. Why stop with Gowdy?

Why not McCarthy and Issa and their lackeys?

[SoapBox]

70. Kicked and Rec'd!

[MoonRiver]

71. Yes, turn the investigation around and prosecute the criminal "investigators."

Thank you for this thread zazen!

[denvine]

72. Absolutely!

[JDPriestly]

74. K&R.

Although I have to add that if Hillary is nominated, the entire campaign will be focused on the kind of nonsense that the Benghazi hearings represent.

Hillary's candidacy through no fault of her own will be all about trumped up Hillary scandals.

That's one reason I do not support her.

[riderinthestorm]

75. Im undecided but I'll add my name here because I 110% agree

regardless of who the candidate is.

This committee is a disgrace

[geardaddy]

76. K and R

[freebrew]

78. K&R nt

[99th_Monkey]

79. I can kick that & rec it too. Gowdy is such a sleaze ball. -nt-

[stage left]

80. it's time

to stop giving Republicans a pass on their illegal behavior. It's time to investigate Gowdy and his confedrates. I wonder how many people have been wrongfully jailed by this former prosecutor?

[Thespian2]

81. K & R !!!!

All criminals should be held accountable for their crimes...won't happen in the US, but we can hope...

[grahamhgreen]

82. Lol, this admin won't prosecute torturers. I can't imagine they'll do anything.

[rhett o rick]

85. They won't even condemn torturers. nm

[Robbins]

83. Doesn't matter

those who support bernie are ilrelvent In Democratic party.

[jwirr]

84. K&R When a candidate uses airforce one for political reasons

the political party has to pay for it. IMO when a party high jacks a committee for political reasons the party should also have to pay the costs. Send the GOP a bill for the costs of all these political committees.

[emulatorloo]

87. Gowdy is so corrupt, I just read he is in bed with a repug "Stop Hillary" PAC

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1237697