The last time we had a constitutional crisis of this dimension, Tip O’Neill made sure that there was enough money available to keep the proceedings, well, proceeding.
Ryan and McConnell deliberately and atrociously underfund their Intelligence Committees’ Trump-Putin investigations, refuse to appoint a special prosecutor, and applaud Trump’s FBI interference.
The Benghazi hearings cost about 10 million dollars. We— some of us, not Kos obviously— gave Bernie Sanders 180 million dollars for his campaign.
What do people think about the idea of kickstarting a slush fund for official but underfunded investigations into the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia’s interference with the presidential election? Seems like that could pay for a few dedicated staffers and a bunch of photocopying.
It’d be fun if we could put Preet Bharara in charge of it, but I guess that wouldn’t be acceptable to the committee chairmen. Or him, probably.