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Home Front: Politix
Plan to probe Bidens sparks GOP divisions
2020-02-09
[The Hill] A pledge to investigate the Bidens and Ukraine once the impeachment trial wraps is sparking divisions among Senate Republicans.

President Trump and top allies have homed in on former Vice President Joe Biden’s push to oust a top Ukrainian prosecutor and Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company, as they’ve sought to counterprogram on the sidelines of the months-long impeachment drama.

Now, with the trial in the rearview mirror, that chatter is set to move to center stage as Republicans strategize over their next steps. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a vocal ally of Trump’s, is pledging "oversight."

Other GOP senators are warning that it’s time for the Senate to move on after a weeks-long divisive fight that left scars on the chamber’s normally clubby atmosphere.

"I know there’s been some discussion about the Judiciary Committee taking a look at that. I think what I would like to see happen around here is a return to normalcy," said Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Republican senator, in response to a question from The Hill about talk within the caucus about investigating the Bidens.

"People just kind of put their spears down and let’s get back to work and focus on I think what most people in the country think we ought to be doing," he added.
Posted by:Besoeker

#17  Just read this unbelievable bullshit from former Amb. Bill Taylor about how Ukraine is somehiw the new Fulda Gap, the "front line" for Defending Democracy, how Russia is "attacking us"....

That's why he's a former ambassador.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-02-09 15:09  

#16  The 4th Turning is a cyclical view of history submitted by Strauss and Howe. I think instead of cyclical it should be psycho view of history.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-02-09 15:09  

#15  The feral govt is unwilling and unable to reform itself. It will be changed by circumstances of its own making. Welcome to the 4th turning, kids.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-02-09 12:35  

#14  For the past few decades we have been swamped in corruptcracy.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-02-09 11:29  

#13  ...we are at war with Russia

Cui bono?

Or, to put it another way: does it make sense for Chinese to buy into top USA universities but not into USDS?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-02-09 11:28  

#12  Just read this unbelievable bullshit from former Amb. Bill Taylor about how Ukraine is somehiw the new Fulda Gap, the "front line" for Defending Democracy, how Russia is "attacking us"....

Note the source above. This isn't Brennan ranting in cable, or Schiff the Mad Hatter, or Flounder the Fabulist or some other loon, ululating on Twitter.

No: this is a sober, senior diplomat, our former ambassador, speaking to a reporter from long-form quality media, about how we are at war with Russia. Over f---ing Ukraine, the Northern Shithole. Zimbabwe with white faces.

Unbelievable.

Bill Taylor, Robin Wright and the New Yorker editors cannot seriously believe this madness. Either they've gone insane or they're in on the Big Grift.
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-09 10:29  

#11  this shit has got to stop before the USA has a French Revolution

The shit will keep flying so long as the baksheesh keeps flowing.

Ukraine = a Uniparty Grift. The Grift that keeps giving.

That's the Shitshow, Jake.
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-09 10:20  

#10  Mistah Plugz, he dead
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-09 10:17  

#9  Uniparty group
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-02-09 09:31  

#8  These investigations can't go to deep, to many Repubs are elbow deep in the foreign aid cookie jar as well. Graham talks a good game, that's all. Who here honestly thinks all this bullshit was unknown to everyone in the Senate until the investigations ''uncovered '' it? No one that deserves jail will go.
Posted by: One Eyed Tsar   2020-02-09 07:42  

#7  It would be better if the Justice Department did their job, instead of leaving it to the Senate to prosecute what too many of them see as one of their own.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-02-09 02:54  

#6  Yeah, Joe does like to maunder about how he hasn't gotten rich in the politics game. Story in there somewhere.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-02-09 02:51  

#5  Look Pubs. We know Dems are stuck on crazy and some Pubs are still stuck on stupid and both are crooks.
However, this shit has got to stop before the USA has a French Revolution.
Are you pubs too stupid to understand that?
Posted by: 3dc   2020-02-09 02:49  

#4  Heard him somewhere last night bemoaning his tough life and personal losses. He'll likely be dropping out of the race soon and coming down with the Corona, Asperger's or some other terrible malady to garner sympathy and escape justice.

Hunter however, may not be so lucky.

Posted by: Besoeker   2020-02-09 02:43  

#3  a return to normalcy

Also known as "Bidness as usual..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-02-09 02:36  

#2  I think what I would like to see happen around here is a return to normalcy

Talk to Mrs Pelosi.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-02-09 02:20  

#1  Sounds like GOP swamp people were in on the gig.
Posted by: Dale   2020-02-09 02:11  

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