Republicans Block Investigation of Russia Connection, Focus on Whistleblowers
The Republicans are following our founding traditions. We all remember when the Founding Fathers hung Paul Revere for waking everybody up at night. We honor their decision to rat out the revolutionaries to the occupying British. Do we even ask why we celebrate Benedict Arnold's birthday every year? We take a day off to worship his memory without questioning it.
In that tradition the Republicans in Congress, led by Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, have decided to hunt down the people who told us that the president's campaign was collaborating with Russian spy agencies instead of investigating the president's ties to Russian spy agencies.
Reported by VOX
And The Hill
CNN reports
The Salt Lake Tribune
At Politico
Is this diversion or is it a cover up? Howard Baker famously said "It's almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble." In this case it's both. Collusion with a foreign enemy is not a second rate burglary.
Howard Baker was a Republican who helped uncover Watergate. There are no more Republicans like him. Modern Republicans have learned that their failure during Watergate wasn't the crime, it was failing to cover it up better. Covering up is something they have gotten expert at since the '70s.
Shoot the messenger.
What we don't know can't hurt them.
Ignorance is bliss. Consuming fake news instead of factual news is even blissier.
Ignorance is bliss might be the survival mantra of Vice President Pence, who the party is desperately insulating from the Russia treason story. When Trump goes, if he does go, we will be gifted with a man who kept his eyes wide shut for most of the past year.
Deliberate, obedient ignorance is the only way Americans will learn to call their new president Dear Leader the way North Koreans refer to Kim Jong Un. This is how we will become more like North Korea and authoritarian Russia.
Is it treason to deliver our sovereignty into the hands of a foreign power? Or is it treason to warn people that is what is happening?
The Intercept has this take on that.
An opinion piece in the Observer (Trump's son-in-law's publication, ironically) had this surprising view.
In that tradition the Republicans in Congress, led by Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, have decided to hunt down the people who told us that the president's campaign was collaborating with Russian spy agencies instead of investigating the president's ties to Russian spy agencies.
Reported by VOX
And The Hill
CNN reports
The Salt Lake Tribune
At Politico
Is this diversion or is it a cover up? Howard Baker famously said "It's almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble." In this case it's both. Collusion with a foreign enemy is not a second rate burglary.
Howard Baker was a Republican who helped uncover Watergate. There are no more Republicans like him. Modern Republicans have learned that their failure during Watergate wasn't the crime, it was failing to cover it up better. Covering up is something they have gotten expert at since the '70s.
Shoot the messenger.
What we don't know can't hurt them.
Ignorance is bliss. Consuming fake news instead of factual news is even blissier.
Ignorance is bliss might be the survival mantra of Vice President Pence, who the party is desperately insulating from the Russia treason story. When Trump goes, if he does go, we will be gifted with a man who kept his eyes wide shut for most of the past year.
Deliberate, obedient ignorance is the only way Americans will learn to call their new president Dear Leader the way North Koreans refer to Kim Jong Un. This is how we will become more like North Korea and authoritarian Russia.
Is it treason to deliver our sovereignty into the hands of a foreign power? Or is it treason to warn people that is what is happening?
The Intercept has this take on that.
An opinion piece in the Observer (Trump's son-in-law's publication, ironically) had this surprising view.
Labels: coverup, Jason Chaffetz, leaks, Michael Flynn, Russia, shoot the messenger, treason
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