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On 06/09/2017 11:56 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rhayes@frontier.com">rhayes@frontier.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497033746541_2679"> Jim Risch made a fool
of himself yesterday trying to "lawyer" Comey by insisting
that the president saying, "I <b>hope</b> the FBI (Comey)
would see fit to let Flynn go" is not some kind of directive.
Comey stood his ground by insisting that when the president
says that he hopes something happens, it is understood that
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1497033746541_2678" dir="ltr">Jim Risch is
a worthless Trump shill and is worthless to Idaho and the
nation. Grow a pair Jim Risch!</div>
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Though it may be uncomfortable to recognize it, the fact is that
Risch has been roosterizing Republican rantings in Idaho for nearly
half a century. He was first elected in 1970, two years out of the
local law school, and has been strutting his stuff pretty much
continuously ever since. He is 74 now, and will be 77 in 2020 when
he would run for a third six-year U.S. Senate term if he chooses not
to retire after 50 years of public life.<br>
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It is not impossible that he might actually lose the 2020 election
if a political tsunami were to sweep the country from west to east,
sweeping the rabble, rubble, and rancid remains of raucous
republicanism through the Potomac swamp and out into the Atlantic.
Since Trump and his cohorts are proposing to cancel funding for the
west coast early warning systems, perhaps they won't see a huge wave
coming their way. Seeing Risch lose to a Democrat in a more
reasonable revolution as Frank Church lost to a Republican in the
Reagan rumble would be a most satisfying political rebalancing in a
state that has been tilted off-balance for far too long.<br>
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Ken<br>
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