Tag: GOP hyperpartisanship

During Watergate, it was country first, party second. What about now?

NOTE:  Some of us have been around long enough to remember Watergate and how Republicans did view President Nixon’s abuse of power and disregard for the law of the land as something not to be tolerated.  Unfortunately, the currently elected group of Republicans (and that seems to include Rep. Erik Paulsen) doesn’t hold with those standards and are now attacking the special investigation into the 2016 Russian interference in our elections.

The following article by Daniel Bush was posted on the PBS.org website May 26, 2017:

For most politicians, comparisons to Watergate are a sure sign of trouble. But President Donald Trump, as he has often reminded the American public, is not your average politician.

Mr. Trump put that claim to the test this month by firing the director of the FBI. The move drew immediate comparisons to Richard Nixon’s dismissal of Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investigating his presidency, after an extraordinary turn of events known in Washington shorthand as the “Saturday Night Massacre.” Continue reading “During Watergate, it was country first, party second. What about now?”

GOP’s fear and loathing of Hillary Clinton cost you $100 million

NOTE:  With the increasing chorus of Republican congress members calling for Special Prosecutor Mueller to be fired, we’re looking back at their investigations into Hillary Clinton, which ran on and on and on and cost the American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars and resulted in absolutely nothing.

The following article by James Williams was posted on the Newstalk Florida website July 29, 2016:

Republican’s hate Hillary Clinton because she is smarter than they are

PHILADELPHIA — The conventions are over and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton watched as her party did a wonderful job of showing her to be human. A wife, mother, grandmother, someone who loves life and doesn’t mind that she has a boisterous laugh.

Clinton is smart, and likes to play hard ball with the boys and that is something the Republican’s in and out of Washington hate. Let me say that Hillary Clinton is not a saint, nor has she always made the wisest choices, but she is a political survivor in a man’s world.

Truth is that the Republican’s in the House and the Senate have had two decades of defining Hillary Clinton as un trustworthy and un truthful. They have done it spending more taxpayers money on battling her than any other political figure in history. Continue reading “GOP’s fear and loathing of Hillary Clinton cost you $100 million”

GOP Congressional Investigation into Democrats

As the Republicans on the committees investigating Russian interference into our 2016 are now putting party over the good of the country in increasingly serious ways, we though a look back at their Benghazi investigation might help people put things into perspective (and point out some of the falseness of their position as the party of “fiscal responsibility”).

Note that they spent $7.8 million. We like using the zeros to help people visualize the size of the expenditure: $7,800,000.

Here is a December 12, 2016 article by Mary Troyan from the USA Today website:

House Benghazi committee files final report and shuts down

WASHINGTON — The special congressional investigation into the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi is officially over now that the panel filed its final report the day before the House adjourned for the year.

The Select Committee on Benghazi initially released its findings in June but remained in place for months afterward trying to declassify supporting documents like emails and interview transcripts for public release. Continue reading “GOP Congressional Investigation into Democrats”