Uncle Sam, We Need You Now
History has been kind
Jason Chaffetz just was handed a golden opportunity to go down in history as a principled American statesman, putting justice and country ahead of partisan political concerns, and gilding his so-far petty, small-minded career with a patina of patriotism.
We’ve seen this before. Sam Ervin, of North Carolina, was a retrograde Dixiecrat senator who spent most of his career on the wrong side of history as a strict constructionist, fighting against Brown and civil rights legislation, fighting against the ERA, fighting against immigration reform – I’m sure you’re familiar with the type.
But late in life, this old “country lawyer” who had passed the bar immediately after serving in the Big Red One – the First Division – during WWI, achieved historical prominence and affection among true Americans for his work as the chair of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Campaign Practices. You may know it better as “The Watergate Committee.”
They put him on a damn WRISTWATCH
With the resignation of Lt.Gen. Michael T Flynn as NSA, following revelations that he was coordinating with the Russians before the election and during the transition, coupled with the multitude of manifest ties between Dat Guy’s campaign and inner circle with Vladimir Putin, there is now more than enough data to begin a large-scale investigation into the Treason of Donald J Trump.
But, with Flynn now gone, Chaffetz has already said, in effect: well, that’s that, nothing to see here, move along. The GOP Congressvolk are falling in line – still! – despite the ever-mounting evidence that the Hair Drumpfenfuhrer and his merry bund have deep, wide and continual ties to Russia’s dictator, despite Dat Guy’s obsession with becoming a dicTator-Tot, and despite the clear and present danger that Scrotus is completely unhinged. Instead of hiring an independent prosecutor (Sally Yates is available, I hear) and proceeding to investigate articles of impeachment, the Reich Wing is instead investigating the leaks to find out which patriotic Americans are putting country in front of politics, the bastards.
No wristwatch for YOU
(Thanks, Salt Lake Tribune)
In case one should wonder why, the answer is painfully clear: these maleficent morons have been hoist by their own petard. For 50 years they have been fostering the cognitive dissonance of the mouth breathers on the Right so that they have a permanent base from which to control legislatures, state houses, courts and Congress. And in Dat Guy, the Drumpfen proletariat have found their hero, their king, their god.
…their whatever THIS is.
So all of the fake news, disinformation, propaganda, and plain old bullshit that’s been pumped into the ears of their base, obfuscating reality in order to foster Republican power-mongering, has hardened into concrete inside the heads of their base. If the GOP now turned on Dat Guy, they would be committing political suicide back home in Gerrymandia, where the primary IS the general, and reality is vastly overrated.
Shelter in place. Hunker and hope. Duck and cover. Don’t be a hero.
Sam Ervin would have slapped their faces.
Primo Excellence!
“Sam Ervin would have slapped their faces.” Let that be our motto moving forward, “slap them for Sam.” ‘Them’ being the Congress varmints like Chaffetz. Some say with Nixon that it wasn’t the crime so much as the cover-up that cost him. So, let’s make certain that this cover-up costs not only Donnie, but the spineless ninnies in Congress who are enabling him.
In the next e-mail or phone call, I will be sure to remind the not so honorable Dean Heller that 2018 approaches and the many who fell in Nixon’s wake.
http://images.dailykos.com/images/365212/large/Writ_Cover_BTR.jpg Let’s make it happen.
1Welcome to the New ‘T’ Party. Worse than the old one.
Thank you for that, Primo. (BTW: You got a nice mention in a Daily Kos post of, January 17, I think. Found that on the Google. Congrats!)
2Hey, that’s not very fair. They made Spiro Agnew watches, too. Jason Chaffetz has at least the gravitas of former Maryland Governor Spiro T. Agnew — even if we don’t know that he has accepted kickbacks and/or bribes from the Utah highway construction industry.
I’m sure we can collectively gift a Jason Chaffetz watch to Mickey Mouse.
3For all of you other oldies out there:
After Donnie’s “American Carnage” speech, can we call him a nattering nabob of negativism?
Also flashback of Trudeau’s cartoon of Nixon staring at a TV and snarling, “‘Simple country lawyer,’ my ass!”
4Chaffie will bite the dust…just not soon enough, that is.
5Keep in mind, no matter what the GOP say, they prize winning over everything else, as they are proving every day.
6Wow! No wonder so many refer to this guy as Chap Ass! And he hasn’t got a clue. Thinks he is unsinkable even after the mad house at his last Town Hall meeting. Seriously! what does it take! An anvil falling on his head like Wily Coyote in the cartoons?
7Chaffetz was a place kicker in college. As odd as it seems, that transference to politics has served him well. His willingness to kick Republican negatives out of the public view, are legend. He should have Benghazi tattooed on his forehead.
8maggie: “… an anvil falling on his head…”.
Hmmm. Interesting thought. I’d chip in to finance that experiment. Anyone else?
9Bud, not just any college. The little punter attended Bang ’em Young U. Tattoo? Maybe we could arrange to have images of Cecile Richards tattooed inside his eyelids to scare him every time the little squirm blinks.
10As chair of the house oversight committee, Jason Chaffetz is demonstrating world-class overlooking skills.
I have to applaud our press and the many government leakers who can’t overlook the obvious. Now that the press has (finally) noticed the smoke, they’re looking hard for the fires.
11@Primo
This piece condenses and captures in print my worst political nightmares. On the one hand, “Bad, but well done”. On the other, “ewwww”.
Bad: “For 50 years they” (the snacilbupeR) “have been fostering the cognitive dissonance of the mouth breathers on the Right so that they have a permanent base from which to control legislatures, state houses, courts and Congress.”
Ewwww: “in Dat Guy, the Drumpfen proletariat have found their hero, their king, their god.”
Frankly, it isnt the Federal Government that needs drowning in Norver Gorquist’s bathtub. Also, “ewwwww”.
12And as I recall one of my heros, Barbara Jordan had a role in that
13The “whatever THIS is” picture is so much better that what we’ve got to deal with. At least it isn’t orange…
14I happen to own a Spiro Agnew watch. Wonder what it would bring in an auction to raise money to buy that anvil.
15I, too, would eagerly contribute to the Anvil Fund provided it happens posthaste.
16Paul,
Back then I wrote Barbara Jordan a “thank-you” letter for her contributions to the US. I thought perhaps I would get a form “thank you.” Do you know, that classy lady wrote me a personal letter back!
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