Allegience to the party and president over the good of the country

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

From David Cay Johnston's DC Report. Seems like the Russians are getting just what they paid for. They'll probably give Trump 4 stars on Amazon...I can just see the review "I bought this politician thinking he might be useful. Turns out to be the best purchase I ever made. Does so much more damage than advertised. Given the opportunity, I would buy Donald Trump again and again."

Republicans Pursue an Anti-American Attack on the FBI

The Republican-majority House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines to issue the memo publicly, which it will once the White House agrees that no important classified information is involved. Minority Democrats objected, screeching that the memo is incomplete, reflects classified information and is biased in its interpretation of the facts. And it is a declassification of “classified” information, of all things.

OK, we’ll likely all get a chance to make that judgment in a day or two. The White House has five days to stop it, but, of course, won’t do so. This was a Republican ploy to bigfoot an internal Justice Department investigation of its own behavior that is using the material for partisan advantage.

I look forward to reading the document, but then I’m a glutton for such punishment.

Rather, supporters of Trump, who present themselves as supporters of Law and Order over all else, seem tickled pink to have found another in a series of moves to muddy the waters that lap up against the White House and the Russia investigation. And they will play it for all its worth, just as they did on Monday with the early (by a month) retirement of Andrew McCabe as deputy FBI director, with an organized publicity campaign questioning the tactics of the FBI and the missteps of a couple of individual FBI agents who, in fact, were cashiered from the Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s team for any appearance of bias.

There will be endless noodling over the details of the 4-page memo–and eventually, one would guess, a delayed, but eventual 10-page Democratic point-by-point response. From all that I can read, there are plenty of opportunities to context the bullet points of the memo, starting with the fact that the government needs evidence to win approval in the FISA federal investigative court to surveil individuals.

https://www.dcreport.org/2018/01/31/republicans-pursue-an-anti-american-attack-on-the-fbi/

[Gothmog]

1. The GOP is the party of Putin and Russia and will put trump over the country

[iscooterliberally]

2. After all these years, it turns out the GOP were the commie-pinkos after all. Who knew? n/t