You’re forgetting how the current Senate majority leader sat on a Supreme Court appointment for over a year so “his” guy could fill the seat instead. I would have thought vetting presidential appoints expeditiously would have fallen into that bucket until a couple years ago.
Perhaps Nunes, Giuliani and Parnas have been buttdialing each other. Rudy’s certainly got form, after all.
Deadlines aren’t a rule in anything Congress does. 
I, too, hate it when my cow gets on my phone with Ukrainian conmen.
So all the time that Nunes was playacting during the hearings, he knew full well that the phone records showed that he was talking to an already indicted conspirator in the Ukraine plot. He was just poisoning the well so that when he became implicated it might cause him less damage. He was in on it, Pence and Pompeo were in on it, and Bill Barr is still trying to get allies to throw their own intelligence agencies under the bus to back up the Ukraine conspiracy theories. Every single Republican needs to go.
Apparently, the TV coverage didn’t condition the news on Parnas’ lawyer.
I believe that I said a few pages ago that CNN was playing with fire on that one. (Though, Nunes’ protestations that Parnas is a crook and that they should have known better belies the fact that Nunes’ cow had a habit of calling to talk with Parnas.)
Nunes’ trip was long enough that he could have made one more stop, though. We’ll have to see if Parnas reveals any texts from the trip.
I feel like a judge could still hit Nunes with something, even in a no-anti-SLAPP state, if it came out that Nunes had knowingly lied when he issued the lawsuit. Perjury?
Boy I thought Jordan was a Donald Dick Sucker, but this guy Collins has him beat.
He seems to be a bit smarter than Jordan (a low bar), but his dignity and morals are about the same.
I bet it was that damn cow!
I can’t listen to the Donald Dick Suckers so I just read them via captioning. But on the whole, this part of the impeachment proceedings has been much more riveting than I anticipated.
I loved Professor Karlan giving Collins a hard slap for insulting her to imply she was not ascertaining the facts in advance of the hearing.
I also loved Professor Gerhardt finally saying the most important thing that needed saying: If this is not impeachable conduct, we may as well do away with the process, because it will have been rendered meaningless.
And somehow I’m not persuaded by the Turley Golden Doodle Defense.
If trump had asked the Ukrainians to divert a couple mill of that military aid into a certain numbered Swiss bank account, that would be undeniably impeachable conduct. This is worse because A.) Staying in the presidency does mean the continued ability to enrich himself at the public trough and may even be his only means of maintaining his liberty. B.) Undermining the free election process is a greater offense against the nation than simply lining one’s own pockets.
If the Swiss back scheme happened, Republicans would engage in a frenzy of accusations against whoever uncovered that conduct. He would be unmasked and hounded relentlessly the rest of his life. Not a single Republican would agree that the conduct was impeachable. NOTHING he could possible do would ever be considered impeachable by Republicans. Laws are made to protect Republicans and not bind them.
The question is moot.
That part about this being the worst Presidential misconduct? Gee, guys, I dunno. Nixon was impeached and underbussed for approximately similar levels or rotten. But Reagan/Contra? Subterfuge to sell arms to a hostile country in order to provide money for something Congress explicitly said for him not to do.
Then he stood up there and said yeppers, all the evidence is there, it happened, but that’s not how he remembers it. Period. Case closed. And he skated. Scot free, zero problems, zilch, nada damn thing!
So that argument bites. Ya got ten thousand sharpened weapons and you reach for the Nerf bat?
Nitpick. Nixon wasn’t impeached.
“It started with tears in Brooklyn” — Rep. Doug Collins
Now I can’t get that Eric Clapton song out of my head.
Memorable quotes have a certain strength.
Or course, the counter to that is to make sure that the strength is in infamy and that people remember it as something stupid.
As such, I’ll point out that Turley’s basic argument was, “People are angry.”
If I’m angry at a judge for taking a bribe to give a criminal a joke sentence, is that an argument that the judge should or should not be removed from his job?
it is true that phone records only show that phone nunes was connected to phone parnas.
to place human nunes and human parnas speaking to each other on said calls, you need something a bit more. something that is easily gained.
there is a very slim chance that they were not speaking to each other. that “someone else was using my phone” would be rather unbelievable. it does strain credulity that they did not speak to each other as there were 4 different calls.
Clinton operatives obviously picked Nunes pocket called Parnas, and then carefully replaced the phone to his pocket before he noticed it was gone, on each of those 4 separate occasions. Jeez, connect that dots sheeple!
Today’s Q&A with the constitutional scholars was a fascinating tutorial on the law of the land. Even the Republican shill had interesting things to say. The pubbies on the committee, of course, used their time to grandstand and sputter “but…but…Bidens!”