As I am typing this I'm listening to a pirated video of Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word Program from last night. He just asked J. W. Verrett an associate professor from the Scalia School of Law* at George Mason University, someone who worked on and quit Trump's transition team and who has announced that the Mueller Report has led to him braking with Trump - O'Donnell just asked, if he is disappointed with elected Republicans who are all standing with Trump or absolutely silent and the Republican took the opportunity to crap on Democrats in the House for not doing what they can't do without Republicans standing up to Trump.
That, in a single incident is what you can count on almost all current, Trump era Republicans to do.
And now as I'm typing this out O'Donnell is playing a clip from a speech which Rod Rosenstein gave yesterday in which he is clearly holding the same line that William Barr has taken in this. I never trusted that smarmy little piece of crap. I think he's smart enough to know that his brief period of being given the benefit of the doubt during the active phase of the Mueller regime ended when he participated in Barr's cover-up and distortion campaign. I think he 's just that smart which is why his stunned emu face sounded a bit heated in his speech but he's too much of a gangster punk and coward that he's going to stand with the big bullies hoping that he can become one of those Republican punks who reporters and columnists prop up as a respectable, honorable man for the record and he goes on to profitable positions in the private sector.
Rod Rosenstein is a Republican punk, that became obvious to us who never knew who he was when his letter giving Trump a' transparently insincere reason for firing another piece of Republican crap but one who, finally, finally found a step too far for even him to take in letting Mike Flynn's Putin connections go. It's not much to say about someone like Comey that they have more demonstrable character than Rod Rosenstein but it says a lot about Rosenstein that he demonstrably has less than James Comey and has thrown his lot in with William Barr who will likely join John Mitchell as the worst Attorneys General in the history of an often pretty dishonorable bunch.
* I think anyone who would work at a "school of law" named for a fascist thug like Scalia is announcing to the world that they are that kind of person. The former George Mason School of Law, named for the guy who forced his fellow slave owners and their northern gangster Founder cronies into adopting a "Bill of Rights" and whose draft proposal for one has some language that, if they'd adopted it, would have been superior to the one we got from those gangsters. The name was changed for money, of course, American academia being pretty much an intellectual knocking shop, ten million of it came from the Kochs, and twenty million came from an anonymous money bag which, no doubt Scalia had enriched by his time on the Supreme Court. I'd guess it was one of the billionaires he went killing small birds with and got other emoluments from while he was their servant on the bench. You know how sentimental the rich can be for their most devoted servants when they die and go to hell.
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