| Goodwin's open line: Is that it? Is that all they got? * * * Is That All There Is? -- Peggy Lee (YouTube 4:20) And when I was twelve years old, my father took me to a circus, the greatest show on earth |
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Posted on 11/13/2019 9:26:03 PM PST by conservative98
If Schiff, the zealous California chair of the intelligence panel, has a compelling vision about how to persuade the public that the president committed crimes or anything approaching crimes involving Ukraine, it escapes me. The first day of hearings and the first witnesses should have at least been able to produce facts and tantalizing hints that would leave viewers wanting more.
Instead, the performances of acting Ukraine Ambassador William Taylor and State Department official George Kent left the impression there is little or nothing more to want. Everything to come likely will offer only more detail about the things we already know.
As several GOP members argued, it is impossible to prove the allegations of a quid pro quo when Ukraine got the American aid even though it never promised to investigate that country’s role in the 2016 election or the hiring of Hunter Biden by an energy company for $50,000 a month when his father was vice president.
That idea was captured best when Ohio Republican Jim Jordan got Taylor to acknowledge he had three meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over a 55-day period after the Trump phone call. Not once, Jordan said and Taylor agreed, did Zelensky complain that Trump was pressuring him to do the investigation or that there had been a holdup in aid.
“And you’re the star witnesses,” Jordan said, which got a laugh out of Taylor and many in the room.
It was a compelling moment that underscored the difficulty — and maybe the insanity — of what Democrats are trying to do.
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| Goodwin's open line: Is that it? Is that all they got? * * * Is That All There Is? -- Peggy Lee (YouTube 4:20) And when I was twelve years old, my father took me to a circus, the greatest show on earth |
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I’d rather see the aerial piano playing act
When we fret about who will succeed Trump,
will this gentleman suffice?
They’re just ‘running out the clock’ until next election… for sure
No question......Jordan’s up there with the best of them.
My GUESS is that less than HALF of the people, who watched at least some of yesterday’s “coverage”, will bother to tune-in tomorrow.
MOST people know that your “lead off witnesses” are your “best shot” of proving your case as the prosecutor & those “witnesses” were a FLOP.
The dishonest/hateful/overly partisan DIMocRATS LOSE again!!
Yours, TMN78247
Remember both of those cartoons. Good memories. Still grinning.
LOL Love Rocky and Bullwinkle, even now.
‘Animals are great.”
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