Goper hysteria over Comey is just precious
by digby
Today James Comey is found guilty of technically breaking FBI rules --- after he was fired --- by keeping and distributing some of his own memos to the file memorializing the president's lawbreaking behavior.
History will properly classify this as necessary whistleblowing. Comey is a complicated figure to say the least. But while his decision to put his thumb on the scale in the election to benefit Donald Trump, Trump's ungrateful reaction to his unwillingness to lick his boots in the White House is even worse.
And while the right-wingers are all throwing themselves on the fainting couch over Comey's reprehensible behavior, let's just look at yesterday's news one more time:
President Trump is so eager to complete hundreds of miles of border fence ahead of the 2020 presidential election that he has directed aides to fast-track billions of dollars’ worth of construction contracts, aggressively seize private land and disregard environmental rules, according to current and former officials involved with the project.
He also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly, those officials said.
The same people who are in hysterics over Comey's "rule-breaking" are still defending that today.
The lesson here is that any thoughts the Republicans are going to come to their sense if Trump is defeated in 2020 is a pipe dream. They are shameless hypocrites and they are proud of it. Avoiding impeachment or public hearings in order to preserve "norms" that will only be adhered to by one side is a joke. They have been going in this direction since Gingrich took over the messaging for the party in the 1990s.
This will end only when they are removed from power and live in the political wilderness for a long, long time.
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