Launching
Brilliant satire.
House Republican leaders on Capitol Hill said they were launching two new investigations into Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, keeping alive a pair of storylines that have fueled anger with the party base.
One is a project aimed at looking into the FBI’s decision not to prosecute Clinton for her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Less than an hour later, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said he would look into Clinton’s role in a 2010 uranium deal that became a favorite attack line by then-candidate Donald Trump.
Hahahaha that’s hilarious – saying they’re still investigating her even though she doesn’t have any kind of government job any more and they have more pressing matters like I don’t know North Korea Puerto Rico ISIS health insurance climate change – stuff like that.
But wait, there’s more.
Tuesday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, of Virginia, and House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy, of South Carolina, announced a joint inquiry by their committees to investigate the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation last year, including the FBI’s decision-making “in respect to charging or not charging Secretary Clinton.”
So so funny.
Oh wait. This isn’t The Onion. It’s NPR. They’re not joking.
You cannot parody these people any more than you can parody creationists (which most of them almost certainly are anyway), since you cannot make up anything
more obnoxious thanas obnoxious as the truth.I wonder if the ‘FBI decision-making’ part Trump’s way of trying to get some dirt on James Comey in an attempt to discredit him before he can testify against him?
They so desperately want to be able to say “You, too” when it comes to obstruction charges (which, if anything brings low Dear Leader, it will probably be that). It would be funny, if it weren’t so pathetic.
Also, I’m starting to suspect that some of them have been unable to alter the original game-plan. It’s been speculated before that a lot of the GOP was just as surprised by Trump’s win as everyone else. Trump was supposed to help the GOP win by losing–damage Hillary with outrageous slanders that the base would believe, then lose the election (and claim it was rigged), then the Congressional wing of the GOP would be in a position to make Hillary a lame-duck President from Day 1, by continuing to harp on these jaywalking complaints, and trying to build a bigger case out of carefully arrayed smoke and mirrors. Meanwhile, they can go to their base and say, “We’d love to pass all those things we’ve been promising to do, but that evil woman won’t sign our bills, so you need to get us a supermajority in both houses in the mid-terms!”
But Hillary lost, the soggy Cheeto is in office, and they don’t have a gameplan for that. So they continue investigating Hillary, in order to have something to do.
Freemage, I think that is spot on. The Republicans always deal badly with winning, because it violates their narrative, the narrative that this country is in the hands of liberal coastal elites who are taxing and spending it to death, their narrative of fear, and their narrative of being the underdog. They play underdog politics, even though they have not been truly the underdog in my lifetime. Even after Watergate, it took only 4 years for them to come roaring back, and during the 8 years of Obama, they have held most of the states in their iron grip, and prevented Obama from doing much that was truly progressive. They like being in that position, where they have tons of power, but are able to make it appear that they are the underdog. Suddenly they have all three branches of government, albeit a light hold on an unruly, unpredictable President, but still one who is willing to stock the courts with their “liberal’s worst nightmare” choices. How can you play underdog if you are top dog? By focusing everything on Hillary.