I don't think Congress is ready to release Nunes' memo Friday

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Republicans originally threw the document the White House fed them back at the WH like they planned (extremely difficult for congressmen like Nunes to get this kind of FISA info), and the White House threw it back into Congress' lap.

The people in the White House who know how to read had to tell Trump that, not only didn't the documents fit their own narrative about Rosenstein and his approval of renewal of surveillance of Carter Page (a FBI investigation which originated in 2013, predating both Rosenstein and the Steele dossier), they likely noticed releasing it would do little more than draw even more attention to the Russia investigation they're trying desperately to distract from.

The White House threw it back to Congress to release, and those folks are going to wake up tomorrow with a hangover from all of the celebrating they did in Nunes office, and recognize that they need to just sit on this thing. The WH probably told them to, or expects them to shelve it.

The best they could do is allow the Dem version to come out at the same time. That's going to be a hard swallow for them, but it may be the only way to save face.

The document's timeline is so fatally flawed that, while it might look like an initial score to release it, chances are the rebuttal will already have eclipsed it, leaving nothing but the salacious stuff about Carter Page and his work for Russia as a foreign agent while serving in the Trump campaign.

That's all that's left republicans right now. Nothing more than a shit sandwich with a sprinkle of self-incriminating irony for them to produce out of this farce. They've been Trumped.

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1. They dont need to any more

Media are swift boating mueller just as they did Kerry, even though couching their coverage more skeptically than they did in 04.

As George Lakoff says, the mere constant repetition of anti mueller propaganda strengthens neuronal connections that uncinsciously influence one’s acceptance of false information, particularly in low information geebs who follow propaganda outlets like fox or Breitbart

They know what they’re doing, and are paving the way to get rid of Rosenstein

You know what happens after that

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2. I'm not buying that narrative

...this is their own undoing, typical of this bunch, at their own hands.

They have zero cover for firing Rosenstein. Doesn't mean Trump won't, but he doesn't have cover for it in this memo.

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5. Maybe not, but

Would you B surprised very heavily?

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6. he'd need Congress to go along

Julian Sanchez @normative 5h5 hours ago
“What this is not is an indictment of our institutions, of our justice system," House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday about the now infamous Nunes memo.” Yeah, sorry, I don’t think you get to play this one both ways. https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/paul-ryan-is-tarnishing-the-house/2018/02/01/48968bca-0798-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html …

Link to tweet

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3. Didn't Lying Ryan and Nunes

realize that this may backfire. Oh wait, a show for their base and masters, and deflection from all the evil that t-rump, the administration and gopers are doing to the USA and her people.

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4. Ryan tried hard to downplay the significance of the document

...trying to say that it was unrelated to the Russia investigation (Page makes that a lie), while working to preserve what's left of their left-field complaint about the FISA application.

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7. kick