Posted on 11/13/2019 5:19:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Day 1 of the public House impeachment hearings on President Trump is in the books, and nothing that happened will move public opinion in a meaningful way. The folks who have wanted to impeach Trump since he won the presidency still do, and the folks who dont still dont.
In other words, its a lost day for Democrats.
The burden of proof is on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) to do more than secure impeachment, which is all but certain. Their job is to conduct these hearings in a way that moves public opinion to the point that the Senate will convict the president. That means giving Republican senators something that changes their impression of Trumps conduct of Ukraine foreign policy. Whats alleged may make many members of the GOP uncomfortable, but it doesnt come remotely close to requiring that the president be removed from office.
The opening-day witnesses diplomatic officials Bill Taylor and George Kent testified professionally and with honor, but they failed to deliver a made-for-TV gotcha. Rather, they simply reiterated that they had no firsthand knowledge of the presidents interactions and had not had conversations with the president directly.
What I can do here for you today is tell you what I heard from people, Taylor said at one point to the Democratic counsel, which is not exactly compelling evidence if you are trying to convince the American people that what happened is worthy of taking down a presidency. In Taylors defense, he said he did not appear as a witness for either side of this debate, but obviously Democrats were hoping people would view him as a witness helpful to their impeachment ambitions.
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LOL!
Now put down the crack pipe and step away.
Seriously.
Denying Cocaine Mitch is a Uniparty puppet is...well...like a leftist.
Seriously.
btw, plagiarizing my post comment is indicative of a shallow intellect...and would partially explain your delusion of denial.
buh-bye.
Not thanks to Nunes or Castor. Jim Jordan and Ratcliffe were great and saved the day. Nunes, unable to stray off his script, let Taylor off the hook when Taylor gave that rambling answer about something Trump said about Crimea.
Castor, who is supposed to be their lawyer, sounded like he’d never questioned a witness before, let alone cross-examined a hostile one. I was literally yelling at the dashboard and pounding on my steering wheel listening to him, I was so frustrated. Looking at his bio, I see he’s been a congressional staffer for the last 15 years. That is an incredible blunder by Nunes—if they’re going to use a lawyer to question witnesses, then they need to hire an actual trial lawyer. This is too important to leave to an inexperienced amateur.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
Not even 0.000000000001% chance.
But thanks for playing the game...
I cannot confirm or deny that statement, since I don't remember him at all. Not that we had recess in high school.
I think it was just a statement about the way Schiff acts. Not a testimonial.
The longer they drag this whole charade out the more it will reveal the nefarious and blatantly partisan actions of the men and women who identify as part of the Democrat party. Keep it going, Adam and Nancy!
There is a difference between partisan and unprincipled. You hit it with "nefarious."
Similar vs. Kavanaugh, these people are making baseless accusations and with the help of the press, inflating them to proportions that make the accusations appear to have some reasonable basis.
Sociopaths, engaged in gaslighting or whatever it takes to get and hold money and power. Fundamentally dishonest.
Thank-you for your reply.
When I was a teenager, my family lived in Framingham, Massachusetts for a few years.
I had heard that Schiff was originally from Framingham, so I was wondering if he and I graduated from the same high school. (There are two high schools in that city, or there were when I lived there....Framingham South and Framingham North).
Apparently Schiff’s family moved to California earlier than I had thought.
You’re welcome.
I had read somewhere that he had gone to the same high school I did. I did a bit of digging and saw that he is a couple of months older than me. So I dug more and found out that we were indeed in the same class in high school.
I went an honorable path from there. He obviously did not.
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