Oh, Comey is furious is he?
Is he furious enough to do the right thing and expose this motherfucker for the fraud that he is?
Comey always has this 'holier-than-thou' respect for the institutions of this country, but his silence is allowing someone to erode them. I'm sure it's a tough line for him to straddle, but he needs to do it.
I get the feeling that Comey's strategy is to remain above the fray and let the investigation run its course. He can be subpoenaed, but appearing in front of an ostensibly complicit GOP interrogation about unrelated and 100% partisan matters won't help in the current climate. He can't discuss the Russia stuff at all and Trump's own actions post and during firing should be considered directly related to the investigation and therefore classified anyway.
All Comey would be able to comment on is horseshit questions about "Doesn't the president have the lega authority to fire him" and "Why would you say you felt nauseous" and "How dare you try to infer Clinton's mails were an issue during a sensitive election!"
The Sally Yates/Clapper farce this week demonstrated that perfectly.
This is trump's biggest single error so far, IMO, but it's going to take a while to play out.
And when Nixon did the Saturday Night Massacre (eerily similar to this) it was a democratic congress and a near 100% cross-aisle impeachment call because back then the GOP was wretched but not a treasonous power mad cabal. The republicans at that time, once the Supreme Court ordered the whitehouse tapes released, saw the writing on the wall and did the rational thing.
McConnell is plainly up to his neck in this and will go down with the ship. None of these clowns (Freedom Caucus aside) actually care about philsophy or policy. They care about control and the ability to almost directly respond to their corporate masters.
They're throwing their base under a bus on healthcare, jobs, the environment, the economy and drug policy and hoping that dog whistles racism will distract them from the fact that they'are being slowly boiled like frogs. They're behaving like corporations who erode their long term business chasing quarterly profits. In this case the profits are jamming through as much legislation as possible before it all combusts.
