Abbreviated pundit roundup: Comey did exactly the wrong thing; meet the GOP's Trumpkins

By Meteor Blades
Monday Oct 31, 2016 · 7:31 AM EDT

In his late Sunday op-ed on FBI chief James Comey’s “murky” letter to Congress about the latest email contretemps, E.J. Dionne Jr. at The Washington Post takes note of the “hints” that certain Republicans have given that they will do to Hillary Clinton the same that Mitch McConnell has finally admitted was ordered done to Barack Obama even before he took office: Be utterly uncooperative. Obstruct and attack. The same for Hillary, that is, only more and worse.

In anticipation of her presidency, “impeachment” has been raised before most of the people who will vote this year have filled out their ballots, before Clinton has taken the oath of office, before she’s signed one executive order or formally proposed a single piece of legislation. Newt Gingrich raised the “I” word in an interview with Politico’s Mark Allen Friday. Of course, Newt’s a has-been, but at least one prominent sitting member of Congress has also said it:

[Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chair of the Oversight Committee] had already made clear that if Clinton wins, the GOP’s top priority will be to keep the Clinton investigative machine rolling.

“It’s a target-rich environment,” Chaffetz cheerfully told The Post’s David Weigel last week. “Even before we get to Day One, we’ve got two years’ worth of material already lined up. She has four years of history at the State Department, and it ain’t good.”

And on ABC Sunday, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chair of the Judiciary Committee, gave the Republicans’ game away when he spoke of Clinton’s “potential impeachment” before correcting himself.

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