House Democratic leaders are placing an early emphasis on healthcare as they discuss their immediate priorities upon the swearing in of a new Congress on Jan. 3.
This is all well and good, but I doubt they’ll get anything past Trump.
You seemed to agree with me that prosecution in this environment isn’t realistic and that you wanted investigations for when it can be. I shared a website highlighting that there is a commitment by the incoming head of the oversight committee to perform those investigations. It’s going to happen.
I don’t see why you’re concerned with a politician politicking and trying to give soundbytes saying that he wants to focus on something with broader appeal across both parties to the media. This guy wants to be speaker and needs both parties to support him right now. Has no bearing on what the oversight committee will do.
I am not trying to change your mind here; I am simply pointing that there are conflicting “announcements” and I have no trust the Democrats will hold anyone accountable.
…It’s going to happen.
It did not happen with Obama after Bush Jr nor with Biden after Orange Turd 1.0, why are you so sure it will happen this time?
I don’t see why you’re concerned with a politician politicking and trying to give soundbytes saying that he wants to focus on something with broader appeal across both parties to the media.
Again because that scenario has been in play before and they never hold anyone accountable. Obama may have just been “politicking” when he said “let bygones be bygones” but that ended up being the policy of his admin re ALL of the Bush era corruption and now here we are
Not having trust is warranted, I’ve said elsewhere that they’ve not done anything to earn it.
However you seem to be ignoring that investigations did happen during both of those Presidencies and there were criminal charges brought as a result. There is proof of people involved being held accountable that you could go and read about if you cared to. Corruption scandals involving Halliburton and Blackwater during the Bush era also did result in prosecution, as did various investigations during Biden’s term. Both Epstein and Maxwell were arrested, with the latter being tried and convicted.
I’ll concede that I can’t be certain that an investigation will actually take place and shouldn’t have said that, however history has shown that these investigations do routinely happen by this committee.
I’ll also concede that minor politicians, staffers, and private sector participants were primarily the ones that had charges brought against them, not Presidents. But you’re exaggerating when you say there is never accountability and that AGs during Democratic Presidencies don’t prosecute criminal charges around corruption.
I know you were. Doesn’t change what I said.
You seemed to agree with me that prosecution in this environment isn’t realistic and that you wanted investigations for when it can be. I shared a website highlighting that there is a commitment by the incoming head of the oversight committee to perform those investigations. It’s going to happen.
I don’t see why you’re concerned with a politician politicking and trying to give soundbytes saying that he wants to focus on something with broader appeal across both parties to the media. This guy wants to be speaker and needs both parties to support him right now. Has no bearing on what the oversight committee will do.
I am not trying to change your mind here; I am simply pointing that there are conflicting “announcements” and I have no trust the Democrats will hold anyone accountable.
It did not happen with Obama after Bush Jr nor with Biden after Orange Turd 1.0, why are you so sure it will happen this time?
Again because that scenario has been in play before and they never hold anyone accountable. Obama may have just been “politicking” when he said “let bygones be bygones” but that ended up being the policy of his admin re ALL of the Bush era corruption and now here we are
Not having trust is warranted, I’ve said elsewhere that they’ve not done anything to earn it.
However you seem to be ignoring that investigations did happen during both of those Presidencies and there were criminal charges brought as a result. There is proof of people involved being held accountable that you could go and read about if you cared to. Corruption scandals involving Halliburton and Blackwater during the Bush era also did result in prosecution, as did various investigations during Biden’s term. Both Epstein and Maxwell were arrested, with the latter being tried and convicted.
I’ll concede that I can’t be certain that an investigation will actually take place and shouldn’t have said that, however history has shown that these investigations do routinely happen by this committee.
I’ll also concede that minor politicians, staffers, and private sector participants were primarily the ones that had charges brought against them, not Presidents. But you’re exaggerating when you say there is never accountability and that AGs during Democratic Presidencies don’t prosecute criminal charges around corruption.