My question: Are any laws broken? Admitted political committee financed by all of our tax dollars, liberal, conservative, independent. Yet no money for education, infrastructure, housing, hunger, etc.
Number two: can this be used to prevent him from getting the speakership?
Representative Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the Benghazi farce committee, has been saying it all along. But your point is well taken as other Democrats have done little or nothing to push back on this obvious politically-motivated scam committee.
I would like to see Rep. Elijah Cummings and the other Democrats on this committee just drop out and refuse to participate in what has now been confirmed as a political witch hunt. There is no need for Democrats to participate and waste time and taxpayer money on this republican charade.
Thanks for the MoJo link. This particular Select Committee has been āinvestigatingā longer than the attack on Pearl Harbor or JFKās assassination were investigated. Donāt how the Rs are going to justify its existence, but how do Democrats force them to shut it down.
There was a lot of debate among the Democrats who were selected for the committee in 2014 as to whether they should show up or not and then dignify this farce, but they decided they might provide a check on the Rās dastardly intentions with their presence. They have to rethink thatā¦
Boycotting a committee has never, and will never work to prevent abuse by the other side. If you donāt show up they will say and do anything that strikes their fancy without ever being challenged. Being in the minority sucks but we have to look down the road and around the corner before we go off half cocked. A boycott would be a disaster for the Democrates.
I donāt want the committee disbanded before Hillary Clinton has the chance to address the panel later this month. I predict her appearance before Gowdyās star chamber will be a pivotal event in Clintonās presidential campaign.
Any Democrat on this bullshit committee must spend all of his/her time pounding on this and eviscerating and embarrassing the GOP for even existing. Turn lemons into lemonade and drown the motherfuckers in it.
Rachel had a great riff on his speakmanship ā¦ I posted it in another thread but here it is too. The whole thing is good but first five minutes are priceless.