(05-19-2019, 04:03 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(05-19-2019, 10:41 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Justin Amash.

Heroic Renegade?

Useful Idiot?

Discuss.

Heroic? No. Renegade? Perhaps. Idiot? No, his statement pretty decisively shows that he is not an idiot. He calls out the AG for delivering an unfaithful representation of the report, then calls out everyone else in Congress on both sides for reacting so strongly to the report when, clearly, none of them have read it. He apparently spent weeks consulting with his staff to discuss this before making any kind of statement. If you think back to the Cohen hearings, he was the only Republican asking questions with any kind of meat to them as the rest of the group waxed poetic about how unfair it was of Democrats to have the audacity to subpoena anyone about anything.

If anything, I think he might have just made the most thorough, thought-out statement of anyone to date, and he wasn't terribly complementary to either side in doing so. He acted like an independent, and we need more independents in Congress to slap both of the major parties back towards the middle or replace them entirely.