The American Politics Thread

omphaloskepsis wrote: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/01/gop-wants-to-eliminate-shadowy-doj-slush-fund-bankrolling-leftist-groups.html The Obama administration funneled billions of dollars to activist organizations through a Department of Justice slush fund scheme, according to congressional investigators. “It’s clear partisan politics played a role in the illicit actions that were made,” Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, told Fox News. “The DOJ is the last place this should have occurred.” Findings spearheaded by the House Judiciary Committee point to a process shrouded in secrecy whereby monies were distributed to a labyrinth of nonprofit organizations involved with grass-roots activism.

You mean settlements from corrupt corporations. The money is from judgments against unethical corporations who have cheated consumers. Like the Bank of America. And Volkswagen. If you actually read the Fox News hogwash, you'd actually understand what the Republicans are trying to do, once you eliminate the Faux News rhetoric.

But nice try making the Republicans seem ethical. Oh, but sorry, they aren't ethical at all; in fact, they just recently gutted the Office of Congressional Ethics, because they want to hide their dishonest, unethical nature...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-gops-ethics-disaster/512021/

And why is this important now, considering Republican reluctance to investigate actual treason occurring in the Trump White House. Treason. For a group that professes an alleged attachment to constitutionality (when it suits their agenda), one would think a hostile act perpetrated by a foreign power on the U.S. (you know, the hacking of the election process every national security agency says was done by the Russians), and mounting evidence that every staffer in the White House had conversations with the Russians during the presidential campaign or had questionable business dealings with the Russians would supersede anything else.