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PCIntern

(25,552 posts)
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 07:25 AM Oct 2022

Here is a question I have long pondered:

Say for the sake of argument we lose the House and the 1/6 Committee is no longer in existence or whatever the mechanism might be for renewal or reconstitution. What is to prevent the Senate, still hopefully in Democratic hands, from creating a Select Committee a la Watergate? You KNOW that if the situation were reversed, there’d already have been ten Senate committees looking into this.

As usual: Enquiring minds want to know!!

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Here is a question I have long pondered: (Original Post) PCIntern Oct 2022 OP
I believe the stumbling block for this is still the filibuster. House of Roberts Oct 2022 #1
So they can't get ten of those bastards PCIntern Oct 2022 #2
Ten bastards. Heh. House of Roberts Oct 2022 #3
They are Magatcons now. No sense calling them what you did. GreenWave Oct 2022 #4
DoJ Kid Berwyn Oct 2022 #5

House of Roberts

(5,174 posts)
1. I believe the stumbling block for this is still the filibuster.
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 07:57 AM
Oct 2022

That's why the House could have the 1/6 committee.

The DOJ is still the instrument for prosecution and will have two more years to indict regardless of the outcome of the 2022 election.

PCIntern

(25,552 posts)
2. So they can't get ten of those bastards
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 08:12 AM
Oct 2022

To stand up for law and the Constitution.

Make certain your and your family’s passports are in order. This place is self-destructing.

House of Roberts

(5,174 posts)
3. Ten bastards. Heh.
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 08:52 AM
Oct 2022

The party that rejected a Cheney for reelection?

Republicans have two real goals. No taxes for the wealthy, and no accountability for the wealthy. Everything else is just wedge issues to pry votes from the gullible. The Citizen's United decision by the SCOTUS saw to that.

GreenWave

(6,757 posts)
4. They are Magatcons now. No sense calling them what you did.
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 10:19 AM
Oct 2022

Just tell their voters the GOP is dead and they will announce it if they take over. Hopefully that will stop enough from voting.

Vote NO for insurrectionist lovers!

Kid Berwyn

(14,907 posts)
5. DoJ
Fri Oct 14, 2022, 10:30 AM
Oct 2022

The Select Committee, I understand, will refer all of Orange Traitor’s crimes for prosecution.

A great day.

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