House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) and GOP staff attorney Steve Castor seemed to have little use for the witnesses at Wednesday’s impeachment inquiry, preferring to use their time to advance sometimes baseless assertions of which the witnesses had no knowledge.
…and then whine and snivel about how they were ‘unable’ to ask questions because of those meanies the DEMOCRATS!!! They have nothing but excuses wrapped up in victimization and lies…
Bad strategy because it gives the impression that-
-the witness is credible
-the testimony is true and thorough
-the testimony describes impeachment-level misdeeds
-they got nothing
We are shocked–SHOCKED–that a campaign by the other party would pay to obtain opposition research on our party’s candidate, that was obtained by interviewing–gasp–FURRINERS! My god, the humanity! Have those people no decency?!?
Seriously, they’re actually arguing that Clinton paying FGPS for oppo research that had originally been commissioned by a conservative organization and which had mostly been completed by then, is not just wrong, but corrupt and illegal. That’s like saying that it’s wrong to read an op-ed in the WaPo that’s critical of Trump because it was critical of Trump. You’re allowed to read or say anything you like so long as it’s pro-Trump! I don’t know whether they’re trying to pull something with their idiot base and clueless swing voters or they actually believe this. With these cretins it’s hard to tell.
Eustace has been an institution here at TPM for years (although we, sadly, hear less from him than a few years back) and his, um, distinctive style of writing is all part of the joke.
I would expect anyone but a diehard will quickly see through the tattic. Diehards are not watching to begin with. Diehards will take marching orders from faux noise.
The Republicans are stooges, they look like stooges and they question like stooges. As predicted they have nothing and have made it abundantly clear. Stooges.