As Democrats prep for Comey, some on left want them to give up Russia story

[Blue_Tires]

Source: WaPo

After Saturdays March for Truth, where activists called for answers on whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election, Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) strolled offstage and straight into quicksand. Max Blumenthal, a dogged reporter working with the Baltimore-based Real News Network, brought Raskin on camera to ask what, exactly, Democrats wanted to know.

For four minutes, until the congressman was pulled away by a staffer, an award-winning journalist with bylines at the Nation and Salon asked whether hed been telling bellicose lies about Russia and the Trump team. Why arent we talking about jobs or racism? Blumenthal asked.

That question, which has occupied much of the political left since Hillary Clinton’s campaign first fingered Russia for a series of campaign hacks, has not gone away. This week, as former FBI director James B. Comey prepares to answer questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee, some prominent left voices warn that the party is wasting its time — or worse, that it is engaging in a new superpower slap-fight that will be used to further a hawkish agenda.

“We are in a new cold war with Russia that is totally unjustified given the facts,” said Dan Kovalik, a labor lawyer and author of “The Plot to Scapegoat Russia,” officially released Tuesday. “Putin was the first international leader to call Bush after 9/11 to offer us help. I don’t see them as this big enemy.”

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Nobody wants to have a real discussion about it, but the political left will never get anywhere until it does something about these quislings smokescreening/concern trolling for Trump and Kremlingate...

Remember their names and the names of their allies well, because they WILL merrily kneecap Dems in '18 and '20 if we aren't vigilant.