House Dems Held Secret Meeting | Talking Points Memo

House Democrats reportedly held a closed-door meeting in the moments before the House Judiciary Committee began its first impeachment hearing Wednesday morning.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1266375

That’s not a secret meeting. It’s a meeting that’s not being conducted in public.

29 Likes

Please, please, please let the GOP Coc–Republicans, complain about this. Puh-leeze!

I 'm pretty sure the networks have footage of Second Punchable and his pizza stunt that they are dying to use.

4 Likes

I wonder if they are deciding whether to call Devvy as a witness.

3 Likes

House Dems Hold Secret Meeting Before Judiciary’s First Impeachment Hearing

It was so secret I didn’t know they held it. Oh, wait…

7 Likes

Or to censure. Unfortunately it takes 2/3s (3/4s ?) to expel. But I’ll bet the phone log was a big part of this “family” discussion.

6 Likes

Closed door meeting not secret, please for the love of god stop it with the headlines.

17 Likes

Every day TPM is holding SeCReT meetings deep in their offices. OOOoOoOOoOoo. Its annoying and doesn’t match up to the content.

4 Likes

6 Likes

That is actually more accurate of a headline.

4 Likes

Call him as a witness first. Then when he refuses, vote to expel. Then, when the GOP Coc–Republicans, refuse to expel him, call THEM out as tools uninterested in the truth and watch the public reaction toward the SENATORS.

2 Likes

TPM has entered clickbait hell.

8 Likes

“Tales Of The Weird” :scream:

1 Like

Geez Josh. I WAS a reporter and you ARE one. This headline is the kind of unalloyed shit I’d expect from Louie Gohmert’s office. At least you’re in the position to correct it.

8 Likes

I’m not sure the networks are dying to do that. A lot of media networks are owned by rapaciously greedy right-wingers, who use their power over the media to shape public opinion to suit their own narrow interests, and who gleefully use every election as a chance to siphon wealth from the bottom 90% (which they then invest in right-wing causes that hurt the bottom 90%).

They do not want to see Trump removed. They want to see permanent rule by organized money. The GOP stands for permanent rule by organized rich whites. It’s a match made on Wall Street.

If these media orgs kept that footage, it’s only because they want an insurance policy they can use to blackmail or shame current GOPers for disloyalty in the future.

3 Likes

I disagree. If ONE network uses it, the others will follow.

1 Like

The meeting I think was to tell Nadler not to fuck it up

3 Likes

This is war and not really a time to play nice. It’s just our country that is on trial here. Do we want to be an elective dictatorship or a representative republic?

2 Likes

“Private” would be the correct word. They didn’t keep it secret at all.

8 Likes

Bingo. Not very ‘secret’ if we’re all reading about it.

5 Likes