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Throttling it back a bit…

Well….after my breathless post yesterday, I wanted to come back here and ground myself back in reality in regards to Jason Chaffetz. Okay….I am going to admit I am probably wrong that he is quitting the house because of wrongdoing on his part…it’s possible, but I think there is a simpler explanation for his resignation…after doing a little reading on his career, I think the real reason is that he sees which way the wind is blowing and he doesn’t want his career derailed by association with trump…and his move yesterday to have trump explain to his committee that he is not violating the constitution with his business dealings seems to buttress that conclusion. Chaffetz also has seen much of the evidence against trump and his cronies and knows what it coming and wants to get on the right side of the law with it…and that would square with Chaffetz’s ambitions to higher office in the future. So, my return to sanity from the world of wishful thinking is complete….it was kind of fun over there, though, and I can’t promise that sanity is going to be permanent….

Yow…this is big…

Well…the pieces are falling into place on why Jason Chaffetz abruptly resigned from congress today…. money laundering for the Russians through his campaign since the Russians knew of his long term affair and were blackmailing him about it….I thought it was strange that he got a 10 million dollar donation from trump the day after he released the Comey letter before the election….and now information is coming out that the Russian connections go much wider than trump and his cronies. A source has said today that the FBI has a tape of both Ryan and McConnell talking about how to launder Russian mob money through their campaigns. Yep, you heard that right…the speaker of the house and the senate majority leader are on tape colluding to launder money for the Russians…how corrupt are the damn repubs? Can it get worse? Yep…I’ve been saying it for a long time that these were the most corrupt people ever to run this country and now it appears I was right….and the reason that ole Jason resigned so abruptly is that he is cutting a deal and that is probably part of it…I just can’t wait to see the perp walks that are going to come from this….impeach the whole lot of them….

Okay…I thought I’d better come back here for a minute to temper the breathlessness of this post…sure don’t want to be the left wing version of Breitbart or Infowars, sites that lie and lie and lie for political gain…let’s just leave this as something to watch for….and see what happens…..don’t want to hurt my credibility by going too far…and if this isn’t true, I’ll be back to say I was wrong….

Bye, bye Jason…

Well…a small smile came to my face this morning when I read that the trump shill, Jason Chaffetz, won’t run for re-election in his safe Utah seat 2018. I guess he’s not cashing in enough being in congress and I’m sure he will end up on the wingnut welfare circuit and make a few million dollars a year being a lobbyist or go to work for fox news. I wonder if this has anything to do with the information he has seen concerning the trump collusion with Russia? I wonder even more if he sees himself being caught up in the investigation…after all, he was involved with the trump campaign and it seem like everyone that had a finger in that rotten pie is going to go to jail. All I have to day is good riddance….maybe the protesters who have shouting “do your job” about the trump investigation he has been stalling have had an effect…impeach trump….

A health care turd…

Well…since I’m sitting here having my third cup of coffee, I thought I’d do a short comment on the repubs new “healthcare” plan that was introduced yesterday…I think turd really is the best descriptor for this piece of hatred directed at working people and the poor. How can covering 20 million fewer people and raising costs for everyone else be considered an improvement? Oh, okay, I get it…it is an improvement for the rich and for the insurance companies since the rich will get massive tax cuts (are you surprised? Is there nothing that the repubs think massive tax cuts for the rich won’t cure?) the poor lose Medicaid, and the insurance companies get to charge much, much more for the same coverage that people get now under the ACA. The contempt for the poor is evident in comments made by the idiot Jason Chaffetz when he said that the poor will have to decide between “healthcare or a new Iphone”…this from an idiot who has us pay for his healthcare…Jason, I have news for you… the $600 dollar cost of an Iphone doesn’t pay for anything when just getting a yearly checkup costs over $1500 dollars. They also rolled out the turdish idea of health savings accounts that would let people save money tax free for their healthcare…I hope you can see the flaw in this thinking…most of the people helped under the ACA barely make their payments as it is…where the hell are they going to come up with the thousands and thousands of dollars a year they would be on the hook for if the ACA goes away?  The sick thing about all of the repub plan is that they shout “freedom” to justify screwing over the entire country (except for the rich)…how much freedom do you have when you go bankrupt from uncovered medical bills? I just hate these guys….

Putin is laughing his ass off…

Well….Putin’s plan to remake the world by electing the idiot trump is working out perfectly for him and he must be laughing his ass off as he watches the ignorant idiot play right into his hands. As trump’s minions were trying to reassure the rest of the world at a security conference in Europe that trump is not the idiot he appears, Putin was making the third of the Ukraine that his army has been fighting to annex a permanent part of Russia…and I hope you remember trump’s pledge that “he’s not in Ukraine” during the campaign which was a lie then and it is still a lie now…and there is no response since Russia’s foreign policy goals are trump’s goals, too. Jason Chaffetz, what does it take to put the US first instead of your own personal power? The investigations need to start…now….

Watergate, watergate, watergate….

Well…only thirty days in and the trump administration is breaking the law just as much as Nixon did…or even more…the latest revelation is that the wh chief of staff leaned on the FBI to have them say that there is nothing to the investigation into trumps ties to Russian intelligence…essentially trying to quash the investigation and use the FBI as another propaganda arm of the administration, just like Fox news. Now, I have no trust in the FBI and Comey, but at least this time they told the wh to kiss off and stop trying to meddle in an ongoing investigation….the thing here is that one of the articles of impeachment that was levied against Nixon was that he tried to get the FBI to drop the investigation of Watergate and that is obstruction of justice…see any parallels? Okay Jason Chaffetz…is THIS enough for you to get an investigation going? No…I didn’t think so you partisan hack….geez….

Republicans, what does it take?

Well…I am getting scandal overload and yet the repubs don’t see anything that the idiot trump does is wrong….so maybe this will push them over the top…Politico just revealed that they have recordings of trump selling off access to sit in on interviews with his potential cabinet secretaries….read that one again…trump is lining his pockets by trashing our democracy…why am I not surprised? This venal asshole would probably rent out the white house if he could get away with it…..what does it take, repubs, for you to do something? Jason Chaffetz, I’m talking to you….

868 days…

Well…if you had any doubt that the repub house is full of partisan hacks that will do anything to protect a criminal president from their party, you just have to look at the length of time that Jason Chaffetz took to “investigate” Benghazi and Hillary’s e-mails where he found no wrongdoing at all…868 days and 10′s of millions of dollars that turned up nothing…not a damn bit of lawbreaking and yet he persisted in wasting the house’s time and our money…and when three investigative agencies tell him (and he HAS been briefed on their findings) that trump and his cronies broke the law and colluded with the Russians to throw the election, what is his response? That he is not going to do a damn thing about it…and I will keep hammering this home….if Obama had done one of the many things that trump has done and continues to do, Chaffetz would have been leading the charge for impeachment….why not now Jason? Do your damn job….

Partisan hacks…

Well…with the revelations that the trump team colluded with the Russians to throw the election, a fact borne out by investigations done by the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI, the response from the repubs that should be investigating this blatant disregard for our democracy is nothing but crickets….not one of them…not Jason Chaffetz whose job in the house is government oversight, nor Jeff Sessions, the attorney general whose job it is to root out lawbreaking has said they are going to do anything about it…it would be as if we found out about Nixon’s lawbreaking in Watergate and the government watchdogs just said huh and then never did anything about it…and this is much worse than Watergate, this is a foreign country throwing an election to a compliant toady who they have under the thumb of blackmail….and the partisan hacks that the repubs have become will do nothing about it…if Chaffetz was in charge when Nixon broke the law, Nixon would have served out his second term and lived the life of senior statesman instead of the crook that he was…shame on you Jason…watch the tapes of the Watergate hearings if you don’t know how to do your job….

Jason Chaffetz…do your damn job…

Well…with Mike Flynn resigning and with it the tacit admission that he broke the law by colluding with the Russians against the Obama administration, the only thing I have to say is “Jason Chaffetz, do your damn job” and investigate how deep the Russians influence is in the trump administration…it wasn’t enough for you to investigate when trump’s campaign manager was found to be on the Russian’s payroll, is it enough now that trump and his cronies have been working with the Russians to undermine our democracy? And that it is clear that they have broken the law? Not for you if your comments from this morning are any indicator…that the Flynn affair is “working itself out” and you see no need to investigate while you are still investigating Hillary’s e-mails? Do your damn job, Jason…or you are complicit in this lawbreaking and you should resign along with the rest of them….