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A bunch of dumbasses at the GOP.
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Ryan: GOP congress to hold hearings on Clinton FBI probe
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DrForester
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Hmmm. Good point. Deleting the as I hate perpetuating bad info. I should have known better.
She would only delete them and have a complicit fbi and media cover for her.
This is fucking disgusting.
I'm not even speaking as a Clinton supporter. I am just continuously amazed and disgusted at the amount of time, energy, and MONEY the GOP Congress is willing to waste hunting after Hillary Clinton.
We just had the largest mass shooting in the history of our country, and who knows for how long it'll be the largest because our Congress REFUSES to do a damn thing about it. REFUSES to actually seriously entertain legislation to address the fact that a murderous asshole can go out and buy a mass killing machine just as easily as I can buy some fleet for the weekend. But oh wait! UNLIMITED FUNDS because we have another done-and-dusted Clinton "scandal" to drag through the mud for as long as humanly possible.
This is the country we live in.
I'm not even speaking as a Clinton supporter. I am just continuously amazed and disgusted at the amount of time, energy, and MONEY the GOP Congress is willing to waste hunting after Hillary Clinton.
We just had the largest mass shooting in the history of our country, and who knows for how long it'll be the largest because our Congress REFUSES to do a damn thing about it. REFUSES to actually seriously entertain legislation to address the fact that a murderous asshole can go out and buy a mass killing machine just as easily as I can buy some fleet for the weekend. But oh wait! UNLIMITED FUNDS because we have another done-and-dusted Clinton "scandal" to drag through the mud for as long as humanly possible.
This is the country we live in.
Slurpy2k20
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Yep. Not a Clinton fan myself, this this is fucking vomit-inducing. There comes a time when it's healthy to move the fuck on. The amount of energy spent on this, and that will be continue to be spent, in a 100% partisan way that does not have an iota of a positive effect for a single fucking American, is disgusting. Fuck you, Paul Ryan. God forbid you try to move your shitty base into a more positive direction for once. Clearly, you've learned nothing about WHY you ended up with such a shitty nominee, even though you pretend that you did.
DeadlyParasite
Member
The circus never ends
Gentleman Jack
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Pretty sure this is the same congress that tried endlessly to repeal Obamacare.
So yeah get ready for 8 years of impeachment attempts.
So yeah get ready for 8 years of impeachment attempts.
Freezie KO
Banned
Redistricting in 2020. If the Dems can take the congress after a potential independent redistricting, we can finally be free of this madness.
Michael F. Assbender
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I'm sure this has nothing to do with trying to further damage the Clinton "brand" and ensure she doesn't win the White House. Nope. Totally above board. Just like the countless Benghazi hearings.
Sirpopopop
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3/10/2015: "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email...There is no classified material."
8/18/2015: “Whether it was a personal account or a government account, I did not send classified material,and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified, which is the way you know whether something is.”
Just two days ago, 7/3/2016: "“Let me just repeat what I have repeated for many months now. I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.”
Today, Comey unequivocally said that 113 of Clinton's emails contained classified information at the time they were sent or received.
So yeah, Clinton lied. She's been lying about it for the past year. I can understand why people are mad at that. This election sucks man, I don't like Clinton but I will have to vote for her anyway because Trump is far worse. Republicans have such a good chance this year but they continue to blow it year after year with the geezer McCain (and that idiot Palin), noted out-of-touch flip-flopping rich guy with binders full of women Mitt Romney, and now Trump, who is the worst one of the bunch in the year that the difficult-to-like Clinton is the Democratic nominee.
And now Republicans in Congress continue to waste time when they should just drop this email thing. What a farce this whole thing is.
8/18/2015: “Whether it was a personal account or a government account, I did not send classified material,and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified, which is the way you know whether something is.”
Just two days ago, 7/3/2016: "“Let me just repeat what I have repeated for many months now. I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.”
Today, Comey unequivocally said that 113 of Clinton's emails contained classified information at the time they were sent or received.
So yeah, Clinton lied. She's been lying about it for the past year. I can understand why people are mad at that. This election sucks man, I don't like Clinton but I will have to vote for her anyway because Trump is far worse. Republicans have such a good chance this year but they continue to blow it year after year with the geezer McCain (and that idiot Palin), noted out-of-touch flip-flopping rich guy with binders full of women Mitt Romney, and now Trump, who is the worst one of the bunch in the year that the difficult-to-like Clinton is the Democratic nominee.
And now Republicans in Congress continue to waste time when they should just drop this email thing. What a farce this whole thing is.
eddievanclaylen
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This fucking country.
Freezie KO
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Clinton is such an incredibly weak candidate, and, as with the private-server, so much of it is self-inflicted. Trump is repulsive, so my only hope is that two disliked candidates don't depress turnout too much.
adamsappel
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I don't understand the "David Patraeus is owed an apology" meme. If what Hillary did should result in jail time, shouldn't Patreaus be put away for a lot longer? He knowingly shared classified information with his mistress.
Contained classified information, or were marked "Classified"?
rokkerkory
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Let's fucking waste more time and money as there is nothing else better to do!!
A Link to the Past
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I have no idea what the GOP is thinking. They must be in a desperate freefall mode, because I don't know how they think that a scandal that the American public doesn't care about is something they should be focusing on. It's ultimately going to mark them as people who responded to something no one asked them to do by throwing more and more money at it, all the while disregarding things that the American public is asking them to do, as a majority of the population, such as doing the first thing to move us towards having sensible gun control.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
due process matters only when it comes to guns, i guess. they werent going to accept any conclusion other than an indictment here, let's not kid ourselves
Bam Bam Baklava
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So what's the angle here? It can't be personal bias because Comey is a Republican and it can't be professional because Comey is a respected career professional and has no past issues. So what's their angle here?
The Republicans have been terrified of the Clintons for decades.
Hurting Clinton by keeping this in the news.
It's just a way to keep the email story hanging around forever so they can use it against Clinton in the election.
Maybe initiating these hearings helps them with their base? It's a huge waste of time and money, I think, and it's a huge mistake. There was plenty of meat in what Comey said to batter Clinton with. These hearings will result in nothing and make Hillary look better, not worse.
The distinction isn't a meaningful one, considering Clinton has freely switched between qualifying it with "marked" and not qualifying it all and simply saying she never sent any classified material whatsoever.
In any event, Comey said today that some of her emails were indeed marked classified.
So even if she tries to weasel her way into honesty by saying "oh but they weren't marked" -- actually, some of them were, (even if it was a "very small number") and as Comey says, even if they weren't, she should have known better. She has been dishonest about the whole thing.
Republicans don't have a platform they can run on to energies the base, specifically for house and senate seats, because Trump at the top the ticket is devastating. Before this they were looking at the next 5 months of nothing but Trump fucking up and dropping further in the polls, taking the senate and possibly the house with him. This move is to mitigated the damage because Republicans have nothing positive to offer the country.
Wont work.
OrangeGrayBlue
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An orange clown has become their nominee largely because the constituency is so dissatisfied that they want to blow up the party and the leadership has responded with, "Whatever, let it burn."
How on earth, at this point, do you not get the message that even your own voters are tired of this time wasting bullshit?
How on earth, at this point, do you not get the message that even your own voters are tired of this time wasting bullshit?
Imperfected
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I mean, I get it. You're down 0-35 in the second quarter, so you call nothing but hail-mary plays. I'd personally start running the clock to try and reduce the humiliation instead, but I can understand the mentality.
It's not like they can just go stump for Trump and accomplish anything, or like they can get serious Republican will in the House behind doing that anyway, so instead they're just going to take longshots at Hillary so they can pad their personal resumes--because Trump may be political poison, but hating Hillary is still en vogue with the GOP's following--and maybe have some one in a million chance of actually getting something done.
It's stupid, but they've backed themselves into a very stupid corner, so I don't expect things to get any smarter any time soon.
It's not like they can just go stump for Trump and accomplish anything, or like they can get serious Republican will in the House behind doing that anyway, so instead they're just going to take longshots at Hillary so they can pad their personal resumes--because Trump may be political poison, but hating Hillary is still en vogue with the GOP's following--and maybe have some one in a million chance of actually getting something done.
It's stupid, but they've backed themselves into a very stupid corner, so I don't expect things to get any smarter any time soon.
BreezyLimbo
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Atleast we don't have states successfully seceding from the country.
I mean, they tried it once. But y'know, it can be worse
A Black Falcon
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No, she didn't lie. As far as I know, the entirety of the disparity is just a part of the long-running feud between the State Department and the FBI over what should be considered classified and what shouldn't. The FBI thinks that a lot of discussions should be called classified which State does not. It's a part of the FBI's "we need to classify way more stuff than makes legitimate sense" tendencies.
The key issue here is not about whether she "lied" or not, but about the differences between State and the FBI's definitions of what classified should mean. And I think the FBI goes too far -- discussions of news reports of drone attacks in Pakistan should be marked as classified, seriously? Oh come on.
LiveFromKyoto
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They're going to apply for the rare triple impeachment, to try & make up for whiffing on the last two democrat presidents.
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
SHE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Did you watch the press conference? There were emails sent back and forth that were labeled under top secret, classified, and I don't remember the other one. Then there were other emails that were retroactively labeled as classified.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Yes, it would be nice to know if any emails were classified by all agencies, and did not fall under the Pakistan Situation.
He knew there would be prosecutors who would be more than willing to try even if it has zero chance of success. Therefore, the "reasonable" part he added.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
Only the GOP probes never actually find anything.
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