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originally posted by: WeMustCare
May 6, 2024
Could JOE BIDEN's MIND be why the DOJ has declined to honor Congressional subpoenas for the AUDIO of Special Counsel Robert Hur's interview of the President? Merrick Garland is putting his reputation on the line to protect "something" Joe Biden related...
Source: apnews.com...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans plan to move forward next week with holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for his refusal to turn over the unredacted audio of an interview that was conducted as part of the special counsel probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.
The House Judiciary Committee is set to convene on May 16 to advance contempt charges against the Cabinet official, according to a person familiar with the matter who was granted anonymity to discuss plans not yet made public. The resolution would then go to the full House for a vote.
The contempt proceedings are just the latest flare-up in the increasingly tense relationship between Republicans and the Justice Department. House Republicans last month threatened to hold Garland in contempt for refusing to fully comply with a congressional subpoena issued as part their probe into Special Counsel Robert Hur’s decision not to charge the president with any crimes.
Republicans — led by Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and James Comer of Kentucky — had ordered the department to turn over audio of Hur’s interviews with Biden by early April. But the Justice Department only turned over some of the records, excluding the audio interview with the president. They warned of the precedent that would be set for future investigations if the audio was provided.
Dems in full-blown ‘freakout’ over Biden
“This isn’t, ‘Oh my God, Mitt Romney might become president.’ It’s ‘Oh my God, the democracy might end.’”
nearly five months from the election, anxiety has morphed into palpable trepidation, according to more than a dozen party leaders and operatives. And the gap between what Democrats will say on TV or in print, and what they’ll text their friends, has only grown as worries have surged about Biden’s prospects.
“You don’t want to be that guy who is on the record saying we’re doomed, or the campaign’s bad or Biden’s making mistakes. Nobody wants to be that guy,” said a Democratic operative in close touch with the White House and granted anonymity to speak freely.
But Biden’s stubbornly poor polling and the stakes of the election “are creating the freakout,” he said.
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originally posted by: Annee
a reply to: Dandandat3
The presidency really isn't a one-man operation -- unless you have dictator tendencies.
You hire good people and delegate -- unless you have dictator tendencies.
You don't vote the person -- you vote the policies (or should).
Should not be a popularity contest between contenders.
Or -- like me -- you vote against what you don't want.
originally posted by: network dude
originally posted by: Annee
a reply to: Dandandat3
The presidency really isn't a one-man operation -- unless you have dictator tendencies.
You hire good people and delegate -- unless you have dictator tendencies.
You don't vote the person -- you vote the policies (or should).
Should not be a popularity contest between contenders.
Or -- like me -- you vote against what you don't want.
good advice. I don't want the nation run by a pedo who is trying to destroy the country, so I'll vote against that. I just don't like communist ideaologies.
originally posted by: Dandandat3
a reply to: Annee
Agreed.
I am not happy with the Democrat party's slow march toward authoritarianism, their continued abandonment of tolerance and inclusiveness, and their propensity to not solve party plank issues so that they can exploit them as wedge issues....
So I will be voting against that this year. Won't be sure if voting for Trump or third-party would make the most impact untill we get closer to the election.
I am stating a fact.
In my era fathers and daughters taking showers together was not unusual.
Times change.
I do not talk about Biden on ATS.
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Let's all speculate now what -- "at a YOUNG AGE" means.
Isn't it interesting -- that part seems to be left out of previous conversations.
originally posted by: MrGashler
a reply to: Annee
I am stating a fact.
In my era fathers and daughters taking showers together was not unusual.
Times change.
I do not talk about Biden on ATS.
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Let's all speculate now what -- "at a YOUNG AGE" means.
Isn't it interesting -- that part seems to be left out of previous conversations.
originally posted by: Annee
a reply to: Dandandat3
Or -- like me -- you vote against what you don't want.
originally posted by: Dandandat3
a reply to: Annee
Republicans are fine I guess; I dislike both major parties relatively equally. It's the political machines that are the problem; the individual Republicans and Democrats are just human, each with their flaws. I am more critical of the Democrat party because rhetorically they and I share a lot of the same ideals; so it sticks in my craw more when the party bastardises those ideals to gain more power. When Republicans bastardise their ideals; it is usually of no consequence to me, or ironically it moves them in the direction I'd like to see them go. All that said, on it's own merits, I am not at all happy with the authoritarianism and intolerance coming out of the Democrat party. It has become so palpable the last decade that it is beginning to disturb me in a "worried for my children" kind of way.
Truthfully it's your rhetoric that sounds like its stuck in the past. I don't say that to disrespect your opinion; it's your's and you are entitled to it. But it's not what I see when I look out the window. I only know it from history books and old TV shows from I was knee high. Perhaps it's an issue of the two of us living in different parts of the country.
These non-"cookie cutter" life styles you are referring to are already here; they have been here for a few generations now. Every other house in my neighborhood has a different lifestyle; all most all of the women I know work(ed) (including my grandmothers and most of their friends); I know a few stay at home dads; plenty of non nuclear families; divorce is a way of life, and many in my generation and the next are not getting married.
I know absolutely no fundamentalist Christians who live in the dark ages. And there are are none hiding under my bed looking to get me in the middle of the night. And from my prospective it seems like organized religion is on the down slope. Hardly the Boogeymen you're making them out to be. These RW Christian Nationalist/Dominionists of yours feel like the general purpose Nazi bad guys from the movies every time I hear or read someone talking about them.
originally posted by: Onlyfewdaysleftguys
a reply to: Annee
Joe Biden is a genius . There’s nothing wrong with his mind !
originally posted by: WeMustCare
a reply to: RazorV66
President Biden would get a ticker-tape parade, and an easy re-election, if he had simply maintained the low inflation, low gas prices, the world peace, and normal migrant entry levels that President Trump delivered and maintained.
But because Democrats love their leaders more than what's good for the country, they prefer to keep President Joe Biden, and the misery for America and the World, that comes with this evil, incompetent, MIA dementia patient.
Their attitude defies reason and logic. Legally, wanting what's worse for the United States is called "treason" against America. 😠
More at: www.nationalreview.com...
In a headline that sounds like something from the Babylon Bee, the Washington Post informs us that “Biden team hails ‘lightning speed’ call on strikes in Russia. Meanwhile, Kharkiv burned.”
The Biden team’s idea of “lightning speed” to make a life-and-death decision is 17 days. It’s part of a continuing pattern of indecision from this president, a man who wants the popularity and adulation of the job and who often seeks some middle path that ends up satisfying no one. In the realm of national security and foreign policy, the cost of delay and indecision is measured in lives.