House Majority Leader rejects DOJ's offer of documents in return for stopping Barr contempt vote

[Gothmog]

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Good!

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Say it ain't so,

now that Steny has a challenger he suddenly found a back bone. About frggin time Pal.

[StarfishSaver]

6. They don't do what you want, you trash them. They do what you want, you mock them

[malaise]

7. It's his democratic right

Good to see Steny fighting back for a change

[htuttle]

3. At this point in a fight against a tricky snake

...If the snake starts squealing and asking for a deal, you don't loosen your grip one bit.

You tighten it.

[triron]

5. You got that right.

[malaise]

4. Excellent

Go Dems!

[Bettie]

8. Good

unexpected too. But a great step forward.

[gratuitous]

9. Very good

When someone has a demonstrated history of bad faith action, you trust them about as far as you can caber-toss the Washington Monument. Barr needs to build up a little trust reserve with the House, because right now he's in a deficit situation.

[StarfishSaver]

10. And now they're in a good position to fight this in court since they

went out of their way to exhaust their remedies.

[rpannier]

11. Good

Not sure why anyone would agree to such a silly offer in the first place

[Volaris]

12. My take is, this means they're legit worried that if they ignore the contempt citation,

It will go to the federal district, and they will lose...meaning Barr will go the fuck to jail.

If they're scared of that , it means there's good reason for them to be...and as the above poster stated, it's smart to keep squeezing.