Devin Nunes fails early and often

Rep. Devin Nunes fails at what he should be doing. He has been busy not doing his job for the past year and a half or so. First he manges to turn the respected and bipartisan House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence into a national disgrace with his wild claims of wrongdoing by our intelligence community and sharing his “evidence” with the Trump administration rather than his committee (see articles in Wired and this blog).

As a result, he was recused from the investigation into Russian election interference but still did his best to stop the Russian election interference investigation including the “extraordinarily reckless” release of a previously classified and highly biased memo.

Devin Nunes fails again

Now he seems to have mistaken the Congressional obligation to do their bit for the balance of power (3 co-equal branches of government) for an obligation to defend the President at all costs (see In one sentence Devin Nunes proved his critics right.

I should note that he is not the only problem. The Republican majority is failing badly at this task. Cleary, there was Russian interference in our election and this needs to be thoroughly investigated in order to take appropriate measure to prevent a repeat.

Apparently Devin Nunes likes to call himself a farmer. It might help if the voters of California’s 22nd Congressional District voted him out of office and let him return to the farm. In general we might be better off replacing many of his Republican colleagues.