“Just what is our side going to physically do for 6-8 weeks while this goes on?”
Aside from this impeachment farce, our side looks like cattle going to slaughter. I don’t understand why the GOP is letting this go on.
I don’t understand why the GOP is letting this go on.
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Yes you do...because they want it to happen and they want things said to sound so bad it will give them cover when they vote for it.
They have no choice. The day that the GOP "stormed" the basement room where the hearings were held, was the day that Pelosi announced the vote on the sham open hearings.
The GOP offered 17 simple amendments that would have made the process somewhat more transparent and fair: https://rules.house.gov/bill/116/h-res-PIH-inquiry They were as simple as changing "authorized to transfer" to "shall transfer" potentially exculpatory evidence to the defense. In other words, the Brady Rule. But no Brady Rule for Trump. Nothing for Trump, just a now-public circus orchestrated by Schiff.
The GOP did what they could to the limits of their power.