Exactly, Nadler is acting like a pro. He is signalling what he will do to everyone, setting up the committee process ahead of time (so he can’t be accused of abusing his authority or railroading anything), and being ready to challenge Whitaker via a subpeona if he plays the usual Trump games…
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Please proceed, sir…
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Unless it’s a republican administration.
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Collins misses the point…if Whitaker tries to dodge Congress’ oversight then he must be subpoenaed and forced to testify. That’s how it works, otherwise the executive can just ridge answers and ignore difficult items, as the Trump administration has for the past two years. Really, Republicans have no leg to stand on to complain that Democrats are following the usual oversight procedures…it’s actually a bit worrisome that they care so little for the process, and were just fine letting Trump’s administration do whatever it wanted. That’s the way dictatorships grow, when the rest of the government allows the executive to proceed…it has happened that way multiple times in history, including several nations right now. For a bunch that calls themselves patriots the Republicans sure don’t seem to care about the nation.
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You misapprehend that Republicans miss points. They do not. They do not give a shit about anything that comes between them and obtaining, and exercising, power.
I guess I see it more as Patrick Leahy going after the guy who led that pre-election prosecution (one of Josh’s favorite moments from the Bush Administration). You just go in armed with a thorough knowledge of the principles and precedents involved and you ask question after question designed to expose how completely baseless these pre-emptive non-assertions of privilege are. I think it’s much more likely that the questioner would look statesmanlike as opposed to merely splenetic.