How come this scandal doesn’t have a catchy name yet?
Can we pin Stupid Watergate down?
Brilliant.
What lies between “what can be done” and “what will be done” is a gap so wide Evel Knievel himself would shake his head, say “Oh, hell no!” and walk away.
I mentioned some weeks ago that he has to show up in the Capitol to give next year’s SOTU. If the Sergeant at Arms shows up loaded for bear, he can probably bring a posse who can get the drop on the SS, and cart the America-hating fuckstick off to what passes for mall jail in the Capitol.
Yeah, it means a several-month delay, but it would be worth it.
They can use D.C. jails if local authorities permit it. Not part of DOJ. Barr carries no more weight there than you or I do.
Err, or so I’ve heard. IANAL.
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I haven’t read the whole (45 page!) thread but why is Pelosi so afraid of giving Republicans subpoena power? AIUI, that’s one of the main reasons that she’s not bringing the inquiry up for a vote.
See that the trap springs not
'Til the greedy varmint gorges
On raw bait in the kill zone
Muster all your patience
For there will not be
A second chance
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Hey, that’s good!
The White House seems to be under the impression (or more likely they’re pretending they’re under the impression) that the House impeachment inquiry is a “trial”. This is factually false, quite obviously.
It’s telling that the lies their spewing are now so incredibly obvious. It means they’ve got nothing else – not even “good” lies. But we’ll see how this affects the polling, and ultimately Republican votes in the Senate, which is what matters.
Remember when Republicans got mad that Al Gore used a telephone in the White House to call possible campaign donors?
Or when some Chinese gave a bunch of illegal campaign donations that were rejected, and Republicans held two years of hearings about it?
Because they will turn it into a Biden trial.
Even better— it’s a bunch of them, all fancied up in some really official-like legalish-sounding language like them TV lawyers use. Check and mate and scatter the pieces off chessboard, Liddle’ Adam Schiff!
I could tell it was garbage based on the post the link appeared in.
Because elections matter and Democrats took back the house in 2018 (in no small part a reaction to the lawlessness of this administration) she’s in charge of the House majority now.
Did you have problems when Trey Gowdy was in charge of “oversight” but he spent all that time ignoring Trump and investigating Benghazi 13144 times?
Did you have similar problems when Mitch McConnell blocked a Democratic Supreme Court nomination for over a year, or held up other Obama judicial nominees, things he was able to do because he was in charge of the Senate majority? Will you have a problem if he pulls similar shenanigans if the House sends him articles of impeachment?
I’m pretty sure you didn’t and wouldn’t.
Elections have consequences, buttercup. And Republicans worried about decorum after all the shit they pulled can bite me for every record-breaking number of filibusters they did.
But subpoena power has to happen sooner or later doesn’t it?
Maybe because the House rules change that effectively squashed subpoena participation by the minority party were implemented by then-majority Republicans in 2015 during the last years of the Obama administration, over objections by the Democrats.
So they might as well let the Republicans turn it into a Biden trial sooner?
“Buttercup?” Wow. You inferred quite a bit from what I believed to be an honest question. For the record, I fully support this impeachment inquiry and hope that Trump is drummed out of office in total disgrace.
But to answer your questions. Yes, yes, and yes.
Zelensky rhymes with Lewinsky. I’m sure someone more creative can come up with something…