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| Jordan defends push to impeach Rosenstein: 'If you don't push... you never get anything' |
| 2018-08-03 |
| [Wash Times] Rep. Jim Jordan said the struggle between the House of Representatives and the Department of Justice is part of a larger show of disrespect from several parts of the executive branch. During an interview with The Washington Times’ Tim Constantine for "The Capitol Hill Show" on Thursday, Mr. Jordan explained the reasoning behind the decision to file articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. "This is the executive branch, people in high levels of the bureaucracy basically telling a separate and equal branch to go take a hike," Mr. Jordan said, "And it’s not supposed to work that way. That’s not how the Constitution is set up. That not how the system is supposed to operate, so yes, it’s a big problem." Mr. Jordan cited several other examples of what he saw as executive agencies resisting orders from Congress. He said this FBI issue is similar to withholding and deleting evidence during the 2014 IRS controversy and Benghazi hearings. The Ohio congressman filed impeachment articles against Mr. Rosenstein alongside fellow Freedom Caucus member Rep. Mark Meadows and other Republicans on July 25. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 A tranche of docs was released today - almost TOTALLY redacted. Can there be more of a FU? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-08-03 22:44 |
| #6 "And if we don't pretend to push, the rubes and normies might finally figure that it's all bullshit! And then we'll lose our phony baloney jobs! Hey! I didn't get a 'harumph' out of that guy!" |
| Posted by: charger 2018-08-03 20:02 |
| #5 But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. They may be compiling the long train of abuses before exercising their duty to alter Deep State. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-08-03 17:44 |
| #4 Trump is waiting until after the mid-terms to settle all family business. |
| Posted by: Regular joe 2018-08-03 14:10 |
| #3 At this point it seems Rosenstein is obstructing justice and covering-up criminality. The House has a Constitutional duty of oversight and they are entitled to the requested documents. If the documents are not forthcoming, push the impeachment and see what breaks loose. Even if impeachment fails in the Senate, Rosenstein becomes damaged goods. Rosenstein signed the phony FISA application based on a phony dossier bought and paid for by the Hillary campaign. Obama unleashed the power of State on Trump before Trump took office to try to take him down. These people deserve harsh treatment; they are traitors. Go for it Rep. Jordan--the people of this country deserve a good airing of all of this. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-08-03 11:15 |
| #2 Even if Jordan can't get 60 percent of the Senate to go along with this, if all he can get is a simple majority, wouldn't that be all the excuse Trump needs to fire Rosenstein? Maybe Trump will have a little more flexibility in this matter after the election. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-08-03 10:31 |
| #1 If you don't destroy the Mandarinate, they'll bury all of Trump's reforms 10 min after he's out of office (whether it 2020 or 2024) |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-08-03 05:54 |