Dems say they won't vote on FBI Director unless special prosecutor appointed

[CharlesDavenport]

A growing number of Democrats have said they will refuse to nominate a new FBI director until the deputy attorney general appoints a special prosecutor to investigate potential ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia.

During an interview on Sunday on "State of the Union," CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer if he supported the idea, floated by Senate Intelligence Committee vice chairman Mark Warner.

"I think there are a lot of Democrats who feel that way," Schumer said. "We'll have to discuss it as a caucus, but I would support that move."

http://www.businessinsider.com/demo...-director-special-prosecutor-appointed-2017-5

How about you just show up and do your ******* job? Anyway, we have 52 republican senators, so even with a nutjob like McCain out there, we should be able to confirm anyone even if all the dems stay home. Schumer and company keep stomping their feet and trying to get their way. You are the minority party, ********. Suck it up and go to work, or resign.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Pffffhhhttttt....they can't get a special prosecutor. That rule expired in 1999. Congress would have to reauthorize the law or pass a new one and that's not happening with a Repub Congress and President. This is just another smokescreen being presented to the people as news when the news should be also saying it's not possible. The only thing that can happen is a "special counsel" can be appointed but Trump can simply halt that investigation himself by firing the counsel for any reason he wants....again, the news will not report that. Oh, and that counsel has to be appointed by Jeff Sessions but seeing how he recused himself it would fall to the Deputy AG who's been on the job two weeks. This is all fake and the news knows it.

 

[Roy92040]

A special prosecutor for what? They need one more opinion that there was no collusion between Trump and the Russians? Give me a break Chuckie.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

A special prosecutor for what? They need one more opinion that there was no collusion between Trump and the Russians? Give me a break Chuckie.

Give you a break about what, RoyBoy?

 

[Superman]

 

[wig]

Will this special prosecutor also look into Clinton's email scandal?

Cause perhaps there SHOULD be a special prosecutor assigned some work. I'd go ahead and propose it that way. "Hey fellas, we DO need a prosecutor. One that has 2 jobs. Whattya say we fund that position?"

"Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?"

 

[TDX27]

McCain has seriously gone senile. He is right there with Reid, who finally got the **** out, and Pelosi. Term limits are a must, especially for these old farts that have obviously started into dementia and other brain issues.

 

[Roy92040]

Give you a break about what, RoyBoy?

When ever I turn the news on Chuckie is whining about special prosecutors. If we don't get special prosecutors we are going to hold our breath until we turn blue.

 

[Superman]

Will this special prosecutor also look into Clinton's email scandal?

Cause perhaps there SHOULD be a special prosecutor assigned some work. I'd go ahead and propose it that way. "Hey fellas, we DO need a prosecutor. One that has 2 jobs. Whattya say we fund that position?"

"Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?"

maybe such a guy is available.

 

[Roy92040]

maybe such a guy is available.

The only problem with this guy is who would take his place in congress? He's been doing a good job in congress and I don't know who they would get to take his place.


Sent from my iPad using Steeler Nation mobile app

 

[CharlesDavenport]

When ever I turn the news on Chuckie is whining about special prosecutors. If we don't get special prosecutors we are going to hold our breath until we turn blue.

Holy ****. I thought you were asking me. Sorry bud.

 

[SCSteeler4life]

The only problem with this guy is who would take his place in congress? He's been doing a good job in congress and I don't know who they would get to take his place.


Sent from my iPad using Steeler Nation mobile app

Gowdy is a bad *** he is my local Congressman.

 

[SteelerInLebanon]

Holy ****. I thought you were asking me. Sorry bud.

Charles, Chuckie I see what happened here! LOL.

 

[Spike]

Nobody cares, the Dems are powerless to do anything, they can WANT all they want. It's a GOP Congress, Dems opinions no longer matter.

Ignore them, just rat scratchings in the cellar

 

[SteelChip]

I heard ( on Rush ?) that that "special prosecutor" stuff is all a big money tree for the connected lawyers. It usually ends up costing $160-$180 million, takes years to complete and almost never gets anything accomplished.

While appointing a special prosecutor may be an obvious path forward in light of those revelations, it has proven over the years to be a deeply flawed mechanism, so much so that Congress allowed a law authorizing them to lapse in 1999, “abandoned by all but a few of its earlier supporters,” as The Post wrote at the time.

The investigations are costly and unusually time consuming, and sometimes expand far beyond their original missions.

The reason, critics have suggested, is the extraordinary public pressure placed on special prosecutors (also known as special counsels or independent counsels) to come up with something, or at the least to exhaust all possibilities that there might be something to come up with before calling it quits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...versy-as-they-resolve/?utm_term=.fa7ba8f6c08f

 

[Stryker]

I heard ( on Rush ?) that that "special prosecutor" stuff is all a big money tree for the connected lawyers. It usually ends up costing $160-$180 million, takes years to complete and almost never gets anything accomplished.

Yet enough of that money was wasted on a blow job.

You guys slay me. If the Dems had a president with Russian allegations, this board would be losing their freaking minds asking for accountability for the "communist/socialist Dem" and getting to the bottom of their Russian involvement.

This hasn't been refuted people. It's not a Corporate news snowjob. The Russian involvement has been confirmed by multiple intelligence agencies, so it would be their job to get to the bottom of it.

Not saying the Dems are right for stonewalling an appointment. It is the job of the congress to interview and hire new positions. It's not like the GOP failed to ever do their civic duty and hear/appoint a Supreme Court justice when it came up. It goes both ways, and both sides are doing an excellent job of bastardizing the legislative branch...

 

[Superman]

For eight years we had a guy who shouldn't have been considered at all, due to his lying on college applications to obtain foreign student financial aid even though he was born here. That is a felony for you and me.

 

[Steelin]

I heard ( on Rush ?) that that "special prosecutor" stuff is all a big money tree for the connected lawyers. It usually ends up costing $160-$180 million, takes years to complete and almost never gets anything accomplished.

That's our feckless gubmint in action er inaction.

 

[hamster]

As far as I know, the Russian investigation is still ongoing. Did I miss something?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

maybe such a guy is available.

Gowdy rocks Ray-Bans better than anybody.

 

[Stryker]

maybe such a guy is available.

I like it when he starts his sets with Pump It Up!

 

[SteelChip]

As far as I know, the Russian investigation is still ongoing. Did I miss something?

..