Just when you thought Dems couldn’t get any weaker by delaying, stalling, foot dragging, and literally having people like fascist Barr laugh right in the face of Pelosi at contempt threats, House Ways and Means committee chairman Neal says, hold my beer!
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal would be the only Democrat allowed by the new law to ask for the documents, but so far he has said he won’t do it.
Neal has said he fears that getting the state returns would bolster Trump administration arguments that Congress is on a political fishing expedition — and not, as Neal has claimed, overseeing the Internal Revenue Service’s annual audits of the president.
Remember weeks ago when Mnuchin laughed at a Neal subpoena for Trump’s tax returns and Neal said they would go to court, yeah, that never happened either.
Neal has asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin three times for six years of Trump’s federal personal and business returns, citing a 1924 law that allows the chairmen of the congressional tax committees to ask and requires the Treasury secretary to provide them. When Mnuchin refused the request three times, Neal followed with a subpoena but that, too, was rejected
Here’s what some other Dems are saying:
“Yes, absolutely, we need to ask” for the New York returns, said Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington State, who co-chairs the House Progressive Caucus. “We need to know. There is an emoluments clause and a Constitution for a reason.”
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“Why not?” Representative Charlie Crist, a Florida Democrat, said. “I don’t think there is any downside for us.”
The next time you hear the press talk about the Democrats “aggressive investigation”, it’s all nonsense. Nadler has folded more times than an accordion in a Polka band, Schiff hasn’t held a significant public hearing in the 5 months he’s been chair, Cummings just disappeared, and even Maxine Waters, who I had so much hope for, is hiding behind Pelosi.
Clearly Pelosi has all these chairs on a tight rope and like Mueller, they’ve chosen to salute their boss rather than do what is good for the country.
Only House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has been focused on winning court battles related to the investigations, can persuade Neal to pursue the New York option.
The Democratic leadership is digging an historic hole for their reputations, and the country, at a critical time in our country’s history. It will be up to all the Democratic activists that want REAL and PUBLIC investigations, to tell the leadership to either do their damn jobs or get out of the way and let some of the new Democrats do it for them!
RESIST!