Posted on 11/21/2019 4:11:12 AM PST by EyesOfTX
The Tick-Tock News Hour finally gives us something other than gas. – All-hat and No-cattle Senator Lindsey Graham appeared on Sean Hannity’s Tick-Tock News Hour Wednesday evening. That’s nothing new. What is new is that the Senator from South Carolina had actually managed to round up some cattle for a change, informing Hannity’s loyal audience of something that they hadn’t already heard 600 times before on Tick-Tock News.
That item of actual new stuff is that the long-delayed report on abuse of the FISA process from plodding, obfuscating DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his staff of thousands of do-nothing bureaucrats will definitely, no question, you betcha be issued on December 9. Not December 9 of 2020, not of 2024, but…wait for it…THIS ACTUAL YEAR. I swear I’m not making this up. Here’s the clip:
For those Baby Boomers who still like to read stuff, here’s the transcript:
Mr. Tick-Tock – You’re gonna have, on December 11 [he actually said September 11, but I’m trying to be nice here], the Inspector General will be before your committee. I’m hoping we’ll get…
Sen. Graham – …December 11…
Mr. Tick-Tock – …a number of days, and not on a Friday, a dump…
Sen. Graham – …it’ll be December the 9th…
Mr. Tick-Tock – …derp…
Sen. Graham – …you’ll get the report.
Mr. Tick-Tock – [Shocked] December the 9th. That’s locked.
Sen. Graham – That’s locked.
[2 seconds of dead air as a shocked Hannity suddenly realizes he’s going to have to actually run a different show than he’s run the last 550 straight days come December 9.]
Mr. Tick-Tock – Ok. That’s a Monday. You’ll be in your chambers on Wednesday.
[End]
Ok, so, all of you who have been asking me for the last 10 months or so, “where’s the FISA report?” and “when’s the FISA report coming out?” – now you have it straight from the mouths of two of the most unreliable people on the face of the earth.
My only pieces of advice to you here are:
Don’t get your hopes up. Horowitz is a career DC Swamp creature. He is not in his job to actually find real, true wrongdoing that would create a major scandal within the department of government that pays his salary. As we have seen in the previous reports he has issued following his interminable investigations, his modus operandi is to do everything he can to create excuses to minimize and excuse wrongdoing by department employees.
While this report will likely contain criminal referrals, don’t expect them to be any sort of blockbusters involving people like James Comey. Horowitz will bend over backwards to ascribe real criminal wrongdoing by these people to simple violations of departmental policy. Remember: Horowitz is a bureaucrat at heart, and it is never in the self-interest of any career bureaucrat to do real damage to the department in which he is employed. The permanent driving incentive of the career federal bureaucrat is always to preserve and grow the bureaucracy. This is the fundamental problem with allowing the DOJ to investigate itself, regardless of who the Attorney General happens to be.
Don’t be surprised if these dates end up being delayed again. Everything Graham says about any of this is highly suspect. The man has already almost succeeded in getting through his entire first year as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee without calling a single hearing or issuing a single subpoena over any of this stuff. It seems odd that he’s suddenly now going to break that record of non-achievement with just three weeks remaining in the year and the Christmas holiday season coming up.
Don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger. And hey, maybe this will be the one time Sean Hannity’s Tick-Tock News Hour and his favorite guest actually deliver something real.
That is all.
1) Any Day Now.
2) 4 to 6 weeks.
3) Four to Six Months.
4) When Jesus Returns.
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It’s for real this time. The GOPe is giving POTUS the IG report as an excuse for doing nothing substantive as the House impeaches him.
There would be no impeachment inquiry were it not for the Intelligence IG. No one is believing “man of integrity” crap since Mueller blew up.
And then “embarrassing” for a few of the Swamp Creatures. Joe D. has even a law license or two might be lost over it. And Trump has taken to claiming victory over the Swamp because some of the obvious — Comey, McCabe, etc., — are no longer serving in his admin.
Sure, some flunky or two may end up with a suspended sentence for some bullet-taking along the way, but most of Barr and Durham’s investigations into this sort of thing are done to get the actual incriminating evidence sealed away.
If the IG report shows criminal behavior, watch the Democrats show us what a proper defense of charges looks like.
Republicans could learn from them.
I still remember when James Comey enumerated Hillary Clintons' deliberate, 'malice aforethought' wrong doings and then said, 'I don't see intent'.
What we'll get from this report is 'mistakes were made'.
“If the IG report shows criminal behavior, watch the Democrats show us what a proper defense of charges looks like.”
That made me laugh, but, unfortunately, it is too true.
Full IG Report...
“Somebody did something. The end.”
Graham is gonna write a letter! This is how the Repukes are when they can actually affect outcomes. The house Repukes are how they are when they can’t. Put it all together, they are all in on this crap
Not news. Just another way to say, “Not now, but someday.”
The Media, including “Mr. Tick-Tock’s” corrupt channel, will decide who is and who is not guilty. The GOP and the “Courts” are irrelevant.
If the IG report shows criminal behavior, watch the Democrats show us what a proper defense of charges looks like.
Republicans could learn from them.
Exactly. Can you imagine Harry Reid hiding under his desk in his Majority Leader office if a GOP House was abusing a Dem POTUS like this? Not in a million years.
I thought it was strange when Sen. Grassley and Grahamnesty did the shuffle whereby Grahamnesty took over the Judicial Committee.
I thought at the time that it meant either that (i) Grahamnesty was taking over to really go after the culprits of the soft coup attempt or (ii) Grahamnesty was taking over the committee to make sure nothing was done about it. With the House in the hands of Pelousy, that would ensure the culprits would never be held accountable.
It looks like curtain no. (ii) prevails. Grahamnesty is all bluff and no action.
Horowitz has referred both Comey and McCabe for prosecution previously. The DOJ under Barr declined to prosecute in both instances. I don’t have much confidence in Horowitz but he did refer two of the biggest fish only to have Barr blow them off. I don’t believe there was a deal where Horowitz (wink wink nod nod) refers and Barr declines. There was speculation at time that Barr would go for prosecution when more easily prosecuted referrals came out of the FISA report. If neither happens Horowitz and Barr are both DS operatives and I’ll see you at the barricades.
Don’t get your hopes up. THIS GOVERNMENT IS ALL WINDUP AND NO PITCH. First, I’m betting nothing happens on December 11 or whenever. Second, if it does, it will be nothing burger; a major attempt to downplay everything. Don’t forget Graham is a charter member of the swamp. Anytime you think that’s not true, just remember the $21m the senate used to cover up sexual harassment claims. He said nothing. That little twerp Graham was there the entire time and silent. The GOP are cowards of the worst kind. Don’t get your hopes up. I pray the good Lord will protect our POTUS. No one in the Senate will.
I don’t understand why people are breathlessly awaiting an administrative report that will change nothing from a known whitewash artist.
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