• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia[W:280]

Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

JANFU said:
Sent a number of W Street people to jail. Were they Dem or Repub? Was also on the trail of the Gov who is a Democrat
Click to expand...

He was a New York liberal.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

Snakebite said:
You're taking a walk in to hack territory now. You know full well that Yates was fired for insubordination when she refused to have US attorneys defend the original Muslim Ban in court.
Click to expand...

Ah. So her objection to the placing of a foreign agent susceptible to manipulation by foreign powers at the head of our national security apparatus was just sort of an incidental thing? Egg on my face.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

Greenbeard said:
Ah. So her objection to the placing of a foreign agent susceptible to manipulation by foreign powers at the head of our national security apparatus was just sort of an incidental thing? Egg on my face.
Click to expand...

General Flynn is a "foreign agent" now?

Wow.... we just left the deep end. This is worse than birtherism.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

You are right that PP will be funded and Medicaid will be expanded. Tax legislation will be a hoot.
Click to expand...

Snakebite said:
Haha nope. Planned Parenthood is done. Ironically, Trump is in favor of funding Planned Parenthood. It's the Republican Congress that will kill it.
Click to expand...
Ironically, Trump and the GOP Senate will not allow the bill to pass without PP funding and Medicaid expansion. Tough.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

Snakebite said:
Yates was fired for insubordination. You really do live in an alternate reality.
Click to expand...

Yates has the most desired positive character traits that trump could never imagine--such as integrity, honesty, humility, responsibility, courageousness, conscientious and self-discipline--and that's just for starters .
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

Snakebite said:
Some of us trust the actual election more than we trust the polls.

The polls got the election totally wrong. The media are a liberal propaganda arm. Why should we trust either of them? We Trump supporters laugh at the biased, fake polls and the fake media.
Click to expand...

FYI, the election polls predicted a 2-3pt Clinton victory, which did happen, and was within the margin of error. Polls aren't dead but, your objectivity is.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

JamesBY said:
Ironically, Trump and the GOP Senate will not allow the bill to pass without PP funding and Medicaid expansion. Tough.
Click to expand...

Don't trust McConnell as far as you can throw him--the senate bill they're drafting in private with none of their 5 GOP female senators is a frame of the house disaster .
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

Snakebite said:
Fewer Dems than Republicans.
Click to expand...

Did you know that Congressional and Senate Democrats represent more people than Congressional and Senate Republicans?
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

Snakebite said:
General Flynn is a "foreign agent" now?

Wow.... we just left the deep end. This is worse than birtherism.
Click to expand...

Yes. That isn't a bad thing, unless one, like Flynn, neglects to register as one.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

NIMBY said:
Don't trust McConnell as far as you can throw him--the senate bill they're drafting in private with none of their 5 GOP female senators is a frame of the house disaster .
Click to expand...
McConnell needs 50 votes, and 8 of the 52 GOP senators are not on his side.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

Winston said:
FYI, the election polls predicted a 2-3pt Clinton victory, which did happen, and was within the margin of error. Polls aren't dead but, your objectivity is.
Click to expand...

The current RCP average for the generic house vote is DEMs by 5.8%.

That's probably a house tie when you factor in GOP smear money from citizens dived 1.0/2.0 and a name to the DEM challengers.

GOPs in DC won't move on trump for a while. They'll wait to see the results of the 3 special elections through 6/20, if then. Then there's the August vacation and the the "good" shutdown trump wants in October .
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

reinoe said:
Steve Bannon should take the job.
Click to expand...

Steve Bannon has no legal or law enforcement experience. What am I saying? Trump put Rick Perry in charge of energy and Betsy Devos in charge of education. What would it hurt to put someone who doesn't know anything about the law enforcement or the law in charge of the FBI?
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

Skeptic Bob said:
Yes. That isn't a bad thing, unless one, like Flynn, neglects to register as one.
Click to expand...

Whoa, somebody just "left the deep end"!

Or has a basic awareness of things that were news months ago.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

pragmatic said:
Fine by me. Like Andrew McCabe in the role of acting director.

If Schumer pulls the blackmail tactic he'll be left looking silly for the duration. The FBI is not in "pause mode" just because Comey is gone.
Click to expand...

I wonder if Trump realizes the FBI probe lives on.. Lmao.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

reinoe said:
Steve Bannon should take the job.
Click to expand...

Please have Bannon take the job .
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

NIMBY said:
He probably doesn't know that Flynn's lawyer wanted immunity and directly said "he has a good story to tell" .
Click to expand...

He thinks it's a conspiracy theory to know that Flynn is a registered foreign agent. And was briefly this nation's national security adviser.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

JANFU said:
Question- Bi Partisan Committee, comprised of equal parts D and R, or a Special Prosecutor, or perhaps both. Where a Bi Part Com appoints an SP who reports directly to the committee who would have direct access to the FBI Director who would be required to comply with requests?
Click to expand...

Why would any committee be equal parts Dem and Rep? Dems don't control equal parts of either chamber of Congress.

Congress has only appointed a SP during one event, the TeaPot scandal. All other decisions to appoint an SP are controlled by the AG or the President. Under current law, the SP is selected by a 3 judge panel but the AG still makes the decision to appoint or not. What you are describing is a way to totally politicize the event and make it subject to multiple opportunities to leak to either sides advantage.

No thank you.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

JamesBY said:
McConnell needs 50 votes, and 8 of the 52 GOP senators are not on his side.
Click to expand...

Remember DeVos--only two GOP senators were 'allowed' to vote no.

Reconciliation with amendments for wary senators will give them 50. Then it will go to a joint committee.

This is why McConnell is so silent right now, including on trump.

All DEMs can do is bring the Senate to a crawl .
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

Hawkeye10 said:
Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel - CNNPolitics.com

What an asshole...his partisan agenda just HAS to come before the common good.
Click to expand...

With the Senator Harry Reid's nuclear option now part of the rules of the senate. Presidential nominations only need a simple majority. I don't see a thing that Senator Schumer and the Democrats can do to stop Trump from appointing whom he wants as FBI Director. That is unless Schumer can get three Republican senators to desert Trump and vote against the nominee whomever that is.

That may be possible, but not too probable.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

NIMBY said:
Remember DeVos--only two GOP senators were 'allowed' to vote no.

Reconciliation with amendments for wary senators will give them 50. Then it will go to a joint committee.

This is why McConnell is so silent right now, including on trump.

All DEMs can do is bring the Senate to a crawl .
Click to expand...
This is not about Dems. McConnel needs 6 of those 8 Senators, and that is going to be very, very hard. The House is going to have drop its opposition to PP funding and medicaid expansion. The dems in the House will give Ryan the votes he needs.
 
Re: Schumer: No new FBI director without a special counsel on Russia

NIMBY said:
Yates has the most desired positive character traits that trump could never imagine--such as integrity, honesty, humility, responsibility, courageousness, conscientious and self-discipline--and that's just for starters .
Click to expand...

If she had those, she would have resigned.

She wouldn't have gone to the press with a press release. She had multiple choices, she chose the LEAST honorable one.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom