We should know much more in a couple of weeks...

[kentuck]

...about where we stand?

In the next couple of weeks, the House and Senate Committees will question intelligence and former intelligence officials, including James Comey and Sally Yates.

Depending on what they are able to tell Congress will determine the direction we will go until the next election in 2018, unless something very damaging or important arises.

If they say there is nothing more to investigate and nothing to prosecute, many will be very disappointed. However, it will bring a new reality to politics in Washington.

But, if they say there is ample evidence of Russian tampering in our election and there is evidence to suggest that several people in the Trump campaign and transition were closely associated with Russian agents, then it is a whole 'nother ball game.

The next couple of weeks, with the sworn testimony of Comey, Yates, and others, will change the debate in Washington. There will be a renewed call for a special investigator or prosecutor.

Personally, I will be pleased to know what direction we are headed? This daily Chinese water torture has become unbearable. We need to know what is happening in our government. There is no reason to wait any longer.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Right there with ya man!

This waiting sucks.

[Docreed2003]

2. Not to be flippant....but waiting is the hardest part

[gordianot]

3. Yes and it gives time to ramp up a miniature Work War III.

[rzemanfl]

4. I think you meant "World." It won't be miniature to the folks who die. n/t

[gordianot]

9. Theorist have played with the idea of limited nuclear war for decades.

Once attempted successfully it would spread. There are no winners and the temptation of just a little war beckons only the demented.

[rzemanfl]

11. They suggested using three nuclear bombs in Korea when the Chinese entered it. n/t

[kentuck]

7. Unfortunately...

there is that possibility.

[stillsoleft]

5. Per Claude Taylor on twitter

This just in from a source with knowledge of Comey's investigation. "two grand juries have convened and I know that one is almost complete."

[kentuck]

6. I suspect Trump will invite Comey to the White House before he testifies before the Committee?

To get a read on him. So he can plan his next move.

[Mr. Ected]

8. I think Sally Yates' testimony on May 8th will send shock waves through Washington

She will testify that she was made privy of Flynn's overt connections with Turkey and Russia. She will testify that she hauled tail to the White House to warn them that there was a traitor in their midst. She will testify that the entire cast of characters was there to hear her assessment, including Mike Pence. They will hear that Trumpco did nothing for several weeks with respect to Flynn, choosing instead to fire Mrs. Yates from her post.

Who knows what other bombshells are days away from being dropped?

The speed at which this news is being disseminated in relation to its significance is uncomfortably slow, but it will assuredly pick up momentum and overwhelm us in the coming weeks.

[2naSalit]

10. The whole administration should be put in suspension until

this is finished.

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. This can kicked down the road is finally

going to be seen in the bright lights....I for one cannot wait.

[Scarsdale]

13. Me neither.

The top gop clowns, Ryan and McConnell will fight to keep all information sealed. They are knee deep in Russian money, too. Word is that there is a tape of them both discussing "laundering" Russian contributions to a superpac. TRAITORS. Imagine if a democratic president was implicated in even a small number of these scandals? Imagine a democratic president who has naked photos of his foreign born wife all over the internet? Yet, the gop expects us to treat the orange ass and his "supermodel" (yeah, right!) wife as normal people who belong in the WH?

[tblue37]

18. Michelle was excoriated for wearing sleeveless dresses!

As for being a supermodel, Melania was not a successful model. One of the guys running the model agency she worked for says she wasn't a good model and didn't achieve the success she hoped for as a model because she is too stiff. She doesn't move.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. They may clean it up in plain sight

IOW, hogtie the incumbents and wait for 2018

[vlyons]

15. Well hang in there, because patience is a virtue

Don't despair! We all need to practice patience and enthusiastic perseverance as we work diligently to take our country back from the criminal republican kleprocrats and traitors. Every day that goes by will be one more idiotic gesture from Trump that embarrasses our country, turns people off, and exposes the empty promises of his doomed presidency and GOP party. Be confident that we the people shall prevail. Every day that goes by, we get stronger in our resistance and expertise in opposing him and winning Dem elections in 2018.

[enid602]

16. Lepen

We'll also have the results of the French election.

[oberliner]

17. Nothing will come out of any of it

Is my prediction, unfortunately.

Also - have you looked at the seats that are up in 2018?

[kentuck]

19. You may be right?

But we know there is plenty to investigate.

[oberliner]

20. There certainly is

I'd be more optimistic if Congress wasn't in the hands of the Republicans for the foreseeable future.

[kentuck]

21. They are obstructing justice.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

[tavernier]

22. Two weeks ago it was all going to break open

in one week, possibly two.

I tend to be an optimist, but I've pretty much decided that things are so FUBAB up there that no one really knows anything. Too many people and organizations are compromised.

[L. Coyote]

23. In a couple of days, after hearings, plus there are developments daily

from independent investigations.

[ProudLib72]

24. I am predicting we get

some saucy tidbits that will hold us over till the next "big thing" but that we will not see any action come of the testimony. It'll be like the Steele dossier.