Thread for watching GOPers stand up for crime

Russia is alleged by all of our intelligence agencies to have interfered in our elections, a foreign adversary striking a blow at the heart of our Democratic system. The GOP response? Don’t get too curious. Let’s investigate the FBI for bias for daring to look into it.

About that- the firing of James Comey was the impetus for the Mueller investigation, because firing the guy investigating Russian interference while the POTUS is suspected of cooperating with said interference was a case of possible obstruction of justice. GOP response? Put Comey on trial.

Trump tweeted a thousand times his displeasure with Jeff Sessions recusing himself from the Russia investigation (after demanding loyalty from the former head of the FBI and asking him to cover up the Flynn allegations, a guy who was taking bribes from Turkey in exchange for policy concessions, not to mention lying about his contacts with Russia) eventually firing him and replacing him with a not-Senate-confirmed large wiener accommodating toilet salesman who has been openly critical of the Mueller investigation. Probably a double act of obstruction of justice, getting rid of the guy who won’t end the investigation and replacing him with somebody who maybe will. Legislation is demanded to protect the investigation to allow justice to run its course. GOP reaction? Naaaahh, it’ll be fine, no worries.

Now, with Trump threatening to keep the government shut down for years because our 240+ year old democratic system won’t provide him with the green light to build his monument to hatred of Mexico, a country that is one of our biggest trading partners and which should be our closest ally, the GOP’s response is to not allow the possibility of breaking the impasse with a veto-overriding compromise because they won’t allow Senate votes on the matter at all. No democracy for you, America!

As the GOP becomes ever more clearly an anti-democratic criminal organization headed by a Russian asset determined to sabotage our country, either by destroying our alliances, wrecking our foreign markets with tariffs, dividing our population with rampant lies, destroying our budget with debt, shutting down the government and stoking hatred with our neighbors, all while the POTUS openly profits from his office, again without sparking the curiosity of his GOP comrades, I thought it would be appropriate to launch a thread documenting GOP figures who stand up and defend crimes and/or anti-democratic authoritarianism. Here it is.

Oops. mis-read thread.
old age strikes.

The GOP is quite effectively a crime syndicate at this point. That’s about it, really.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/420704-hatch-i-dont-care-if-prosecutors-are-arguing-trump-broke-the-law

The Republican-run Senate functions like the Roman Senate.

So when Trump is on the ground, bleeding from 23 stab wounds inflicted by senators, and mutters, “You, too, ____”, whose name will fill in the blank?

… Rafael? Like father, like son, I see…" (expires)

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Booker?

Bernie?

Barrasso?

Trump calls a cold-blooded murderer a hero.

No, needs to be an ostensible ally. Caesar wasn’t surprised that Cassius stabbed him, just his good friend Brutus.

“And you, uh… it’s Eric, right?”

Bueller? Bueller?

You too, Ivanka?

[heavy, rasping breathing] “Eric, I am your father.”[/heavy, rasping breathing]

“I KNOOOOOOOW!!!” resumes stabbing

Okay, we have the thread winner here.

Best assassination in history.
Ok, this quote is from the elections forum in a discussion of breaking the impasse by removing McConnell as majority leader:

If any part of the intent of the shutdown is to retard the progress of the House, and Senate GOPers know this, isn’t that obstruction of justice? Wouldn’t the entire GOP Senate caucus be participating in it?

Obstruction of justice is interference with a criminal investigation. Obstructing the political process is not the same as obstruction of justice.

No reason for the shutdown to prevent the House from doing investigating. They can pass a CR every morning before 9, and hold committee hearings the rest of the day.

When he was up on the shuttle, they should have pushed him out of the airlock.

Bill Nelson (D-FL) (when in the House) and Jake Garn (R Sen-Utah) rode on shuttle flights, not Hatch.