The Law And Order Party?????

Question: Which party bills itself as the party of "Law and Order?"

Is it the party that wants to defund the FBI?
Is it the party that wants to defund Homeland Security?
Is it the party that wants to defund the Department of Justice?
Is it the party that fired duly elected prosecutor and replaced him with his crony?

 

And now they have out done themselves!

Republicans demand a ransom: Defund the prosecution of Donald Trump or else
A government shutdown over something that will make no difference is a perfect illustration of the Republican Party
Salon
By Heather Digby Parton
August 30, 2023

Donald Trump's legal problems just got very real.

We now have trial dates being set, jockeying among various co-defendants and even Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, taking the stand to essentially say he was only following orders. It now appears certain that one way or the other, Trump will be facing a jury before the 2024 election. And for all his blustering about how every indictment makes him more popular, he wants his Republican supporters to do something about it.

Talk about interfering with justice! I wouldn’t put it past Trump to want to have his bail revoked and then get out immediately so he can use it to raise money. Then on the campaign trail he can play it up and zipper his lips.

Trump has exhorted them on his social media platform Truth Social for months to put a stop to what the GOP refers to as the "weaponization" of the Department of Justice. And he's taken it to the campaign trail as well. At a Pennsylvania rally this summer, Trump excoriated congressional Republicans whom he believes have not been fighting for him hard enough:

The Republicans are very high class. You've got to get a little bit lower class...Any Republican that doesn't act on Democrat fraud should be immediately primaried and get out — out! They have to play tough and ... if they're not willing to do it, we got a lot of good, tough Republicans around ... and they're going to get my endorsement every single time.

And this is from a man who used the DOJ as his personal legal department by stuffing it with his cronies. He wants elected officials to put party before country.

Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., has two amendments that would "prohibit the use of federal funding for the prosecution of any major presidential candidate prior to the upcoming presidential election on November 5th, 2024." Another one, proposed by Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is to "defund Jack Smith's office and end the witch hunt." He has the support of one of the most powerful people in the Republican Party:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
@RepMTG
Jack Smith is a terrible attorney with a lot of failures in his career.

Now, he’s abusing his power, the power of the special counsel, and the power of the Department of Injustice.

I will not fund Jack Smith’s special counsel and I will use the Holman Rule to defund his office.

President Trump is innocent and we must end the witch hunts!

Remember, this is from a party that calls itself the party of “Law and Order!” It is nothing more than a "Get Out of Jail Free" card! This is from the party that wants to impeach President Biden even though they haven’t found any evidence yet.

This is all more of the performance art that passes for politics in the Republican Party these days. A government shutdown over something that will make no difference is a perfect illustration of how preposterous they've become. Unfortunately for them, Republicans always take a big hit in popularity when they pull this stunt but they just can't seem to help themselves. And better leaders than Kevin McCarthy have gone down with the ship when they do it.

But we pay the price, for the Republicans we are just pieces on a chess board to be used and discarded.