The 2000 presidential election was stolen and decided in a disgraceful, partisan Supreme Court ruling. That election’s negative mandate didn’t keep a Republican administration from using a national tragedy to implement a laundry list of bad Republican ideas, including destructive tax cuts, deregulation and deprofessionalizing the federal bureaucracy. They lied and cajoled us into starting wars which have resulted in over a million deaths and squandered trillions of dollars. They rendered America’s respect for international standards of justice meaningless.
But Gowdy and Goodlatte are worried about those emails.
Similarly, we are looking at another presidential election stolen by Republicans in 2016 and another negative mandate. Unfair tax cuts have again been enacted and justified by lies. Sinister, illegal, racist policies have been promoted against the will of the people but mostly halted by the courts. Crooks and scoundrels occupy many high, including cabinet-level, positions. Other important jobs remain unfilled and their duties neglected. Budgets are irresponsibly and punitively slashed. The weakening of the civil service, begun by Republican ideologues under Reagan, runs rampant.
Gowdy and Goodlatte, partisan hacks, hucksters and shills, don’t care.
Donald Trump’s entire career turns out to have been rooted in fraud and illegality. His administration is rooted in fraud and illegality. Paul Manafort’s inability to conceive of the possibility of accountability is instructive. He can’t stop lying even when he is certain to be caught. Other Trump associates have done the same and some are under indictment. The president systematically undermines the nation's laws and encourages illegal behavior. He incites citizens to violence and racial, religious and ethnic resentment. He refuses to condemn racist behavior when it occurs.
God riddance, Gowdy and Goodlatte. You are scumbags who will not be missed.
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