What good is an oath to a liar?

A couple items from Melissa McEwan of Shakesville:

Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the guy investigating connections to Russia, is talking to the nasty guy team about having the big guy himself talk to the investigator while under oath. The nasty guy team is in a panic. He is a liar. He will lie even while under oath. That will add perjury to his crimes. So, yeah, his lawyers are trying to make it not happen, in spite of their client’s stated enthusiasm for the idea.



McEwan does a bit of reading between the lines. Carter Page is falling under Robert Mueller’s study because Page appeared to be acting as a Russian agent. Page had been an advisor to the nasty guy’s campaign. But the GOP in Congress are trying to discredit Mueller and the investigation, and not Page.

McEwan asks an important question: Why?

The question is why, and clearly it's more than just their intransigent fealty to party above country, because, if Trump were ousted, they'd be left with Mike Pence, who is at least as partisan as Trump and probably even more so, and, beyond him, Paul Ryan.

The only conceivable answer is because they're all compromised, in one way or another.
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If if we know one thing about Republicans, it's that they're powerfully motivated by self-interest. And it seems like they've got a compelling reason to protect themselves.

I’ll only add that McEwan has a pretty good track record of figuring out what the nasty guy is doing well before the public sees the result – a much better track record than the media talking heads. A track record good enough to make one wonder why media sources don’t give her a microphone.