Posted on 10/24/2019 8:53:23 PM PDT by pgyanke
I appreciate the GOP for at least putting on a show yesterday at Adam Schiff's private party. However, there is a better way to tackle this... hold hearings of your own.
Adam Schiff may be the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee... but doesn't the GOP have the Senate and a Judiciary Committee of theirr own? If the GOP truly wants to win (which is often in doubt) they should convene the Senate Judiciary Committee and call each witness to testify after Adam Schiff is done with them. Let their questioning and testimony be done in public.
Don't like secret hearings? Hold public ones. Simple.
Just my two cents.
Might also make them pretty useless in a trial by the Senate?
Sounds like a great idea to moi.
One train of thought is that if Republicans do their own investigations, if they hold their own hearings, it will give credibility and respectability to these bogus whistle blower charges. Even if they prove conclusively that none of these baseless lies are true, It may not work out so well to our advantage.
Perhaps the best plan of action is to let these silly liberal idiots conduct their kabuki theater and then if and when it gets to the Senate, Hold an immediate vote to deny removing the President.
Take an evening watching “High Noon.”
No need to add anything. That’s EXACTLY what’s going on here.
Townspeople (the GOP leadership) letting the Sheriff put himself on the line for them.
Like the townspeople in “High Noon,” they should be ashamed.
Subpoena Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi. If they won’t show up...gotcha! If they do, then neither, as witnesses, can do any questioning. Plus you expose Schiff’s lying and his conspiracy to overthrow the President by the subterfuge of an impeachment.
C’mon, Lindsay, subpoena Schiff!
The House Judiciary Committee is controlled by the Democrats (hold majority), and the Senate Judiciary Committee is controlled by the Republicans (hold majority). Hopefully that answers your question.
The senate chairman man
The Senate Intelligence committee chairman promised to investigate a lot of the wrong doings but has of yet refused to even open up hearings on anything. I believe he is afraid of any findings that may come out of Senate hearings might implicate him. He is just another deep state swamp dweller.
The problem is historical Republican cowardice, weakness, and fecklessness.
While Nancy Pelosi is pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable with "impeachment inquiries" in the House, we have Mitch McConnell declaring that: 1) he's powerless to influence the Senate, 2) he will take impeachment up immediately and for as long as it takes, and 3) he will work with Democrats to establish the process of the Senate trial.
To answer my opening question, the Senate would show how the House's articles of impeachment are flawed, biased, and lack due process. However, McConnell is not up to that task: 1) he's unwilling to match Pelosi's tradition-busting with his own in response, 2) he's abdicated his power to control the agenda, and 3) he's going to give the Democrats power that they didn't give their own House counter-parts, probably anticipated by Democrats from the very start.
Everything going on now is intended to manipulate McConnell into behaving in the most favorable way towards what Democrats want.
-PJ
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