Impeached?! Hell, he ought to also be im-mangoed, im-bananaed, and im-guavaed, too!
Well, yes. But that’s not exactly ground-breaking, is it?
You forgot “imprisoned.”
And “impaled.”
“If you are asking me if it seems likely the President could be removed from office based on what we know, is it more likely today than it was on Tuesday, the answer is yes.”
Hallefuckinglujah!!!
CHOP! CHOP!
IMPEACH! IMPEACH!
Getting their ducks in a row. And, as I recall, the Democratic House has hired several experienced lawyers who know this dance. It’s just a matter of time to prepare the American people for the inevitable.
Also - “impoverished”.
From your lips to G-d’s ears, Rep. Cicilline. I’ll keep praying but a lotta good its done so far.
C’mon, that kind of talk isn’t fruitful…
Actually, citrusky.
Listening to the news and reading the internet and Twitter, I don’t think the people who’ve been following this story closely are getting the importance of yesterday. Anecdotally, it appears that the people who don’t usually pay close attention were paying close attention yesterday. We’ll see if that’s true in the ratings, of course.
And if it is true, I think we’re gong to find that yesterday represented a shift in the way they think of, and about, Trump and impeachment comparable to John Dean’s testimony before the Joint Select Committee. (Granted, there was almost literally almost nothing else to watch then).
If the non-political junkie more or less sane people were as riveted as I think they were, they may or may not have heard things they didn’t already know. They may or may not have been struck by the hysteria and weakness of the defense. They may or may not have seen things they knew put together in a new way or seen a new context for Manafort and Stone’s indictment. But what I am sensing (or wildly baselessly speculating if you want to be all pedantic about it) is that there’s been a change in the emotional baseline, a feel for the overpowering, overarching criminality of Trump and his campaign and a dramatic shift towared a feeling that impeachment is justified, necessary and inevitable that wasn’t there before.
Indeed, I’m even getting that sense from the MSM asshats and Twitter pundits who are busily pooh-poohing what happened (NPR reached out to reliable Republican ball-washer and water-carrier Jonathan Turley, FFS, to help explain what a big legal nothingburger yesterday was) that however dismissive they are, even their emotional baseline has shifted toward the necessity of impeachment.
Or, you know, this could all be projection and wishful thinking. We’ll see.
No. I think you are correct. This moves the window, no question.
yep …
Now we just have to see what the effects of the Senate’s closed session …
coupled with the House’s today … has on Republicans —
Then we’ll know a little more on just how much —
I agree with you, actually. My comment was more of the “duh-uh” variety directed at the vapidity of a comment that Trump is more likely to get impeached after Cohen’s testimony than he was before. Yuh thiink? Being old enough to recall Watergate vividly, I, too, thought at once of John Dean. Although as I recall Dean was a less repellent personality, I think Cohen did himself a lot of good yesterday, and very likely performed a real service to the nation that he treated so badly since his former boss got involved in politics. He was open and frank about his misdeeds, and as I’m not the first person to note, his credibility was enhanced by what he did not say–no alleged knowledge about collusion with the Russians–and by his declaration that he does not believe that Trump would strike Melania. And while it may not have hurt the Republicans on the committee with their base that all they did was to attack Cohen, that won’t help with people other than their hard-core supporters.
Cicilline, along with his other committee members, will get the chance to follow up on questions
Cicilline doesn’t sit on House Intel.
BREAKING not NEWS!!!
Although he refused to divulge Trump’s exact SAT scores, Mueller hinted that they did reflect well on Trump in one respect. “From these SATs, it’s evident that he did not cheat off anyone else’s paper,” he said.
Somewhere in Vietnam there is a hotel with many smashed lamps
As I said on Twitter, yesterday was the #StupidWatergate John Dean moment.
I noted to a friend last night, after following Cohen’s testimony yesterday, that I had much the same feeling that I experienced after watching John Dean’s Watergate testimony many years ago. This felt like some sort of pivotal historical moment. To use Churchill’s phrase: “The end of the beginning.”