It didn’t take long for Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) to react with a backhanded compliment to House Democratic leaders after Monday’s announcement of a full vote on the impeachment process.
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Bad bad House Dems for not being transparent at all even though it was necessary for the investigation stage of the inquiry and that public hearings had been promised from the get-go.
Perfectly fine for Republican WH and administration to argue that the GOPer POTUS is literally immune from any sort of oversight by Congress, congressional investigation and subpoenas or even criminal investigation for witnessed crimes in broad daylight, and that the immunity extends as far as the GOPer POTUS needs it to extend at whim in order to prevent any transparency whatsoever and turn the administration/Executive Branch into a black box star chamber “Schrodinger’s justice” situation.
Talking parrots parrot talking point.
They obviously had their replies pre-scripted, as at some point the Democrats were going to call for a vote of some kind during the process. The Republicans will continue trying to make the process into something illegitimate, up until the point that the testimony overwhelms their narrative…they really don’t want to have the public testimony of Bill Taylor and others happen in an environment where people are watching to learn the details of what happened.
They also really shouldn’t want to ask the questions they are planning, dragging in other BS conspiracy stuff with no relation to Trump’s actions in Ukraine. People will see right through that, and it will make them lose even worse in 2020. The very best strategy for them is to take it seriously, work on getting honest testimony, and then either convict Trump or figure out a reasonable fiction to let him off. We’ll get the BS conspiracy though, it’s pretty obvious that too many Republicans in Congress actually believe the garbage or fear not hyping it and then losing their election.
Mo Brooks, Kevin McCarthy, and Greg Walden are all dim bulbs. Which is the dimmest bulb? Survey Says???
In doing so, they will be pushing conspiracy theories to gaslight their own constituents.
Thats foul. I hope enough of their constituents see it for what this is - and turn on their representative in the voting booth.
“But if substantively it opens the doors so that the American people can see the travesty that is taking fold, then that’s a good thing for the American people.”
I assume Mo Brooks means the American people will finally see compelling proof of the travesty that has been ongoing since January 20, 2017.
We will not legitimize the Schiff/Pelosi sham impeachment.
Maybe I’ve missed something. Did Schiff/Pelosi impeach the motherfucker while I’ve been off the mainland?
But no further than Bacon’s Law on six degrees of separation.
So you see why they’re between a rock and a hard place. If they just had a sane criminal in the WH to collude with on this, everything would be fine.
Instead, he just keeps on doing ever wilder and crazier things, and expects them to be cleaning up after his mess, all without letting them in on his next great adventure that’s going to come back to bite them.
Mo, I may call you Mo can’t I? Well Mo the only thing you accomplished is to tell the Democrats where to punch and to keep punching that spot.
It is kind of like a lawyer accusing the police of obsessively stalking a mobster – for a while, you sound more believable if the mobster in question goes on a killing spree because during the investigation phase the police detain and question the mobster and their associates.
Except Trump isn’t “like a mobster” he actually is a mobster.
I’m old enough to remember all the way back to last week when 24 frenzied Republicans, with Trump’s blessings, crashed and compromised a SCIF to bitterly complain about “lack of transparency” regarding an Impeachment investigation allegedly occurring under secrecy and cloak of darkness.
Well, are they ever going to be sorry now that the Speaker is taking it all public. I suspect the testimony and depositions are even more damaging than what we currently know. I very much look forward to hear them bitching about how this all should not be public, reputations are being damaged, etc etc, without a hint of irony.
Pelosi is dancing circles around these fools.
ps: I hope they enjoyed the boos at the ballgame. Good preparation for what’s coming for them.
Not unlike the owners you see walking behind their dogs with plastic bag in hand meekly saying “Do you want to go #2 for Daddy, now?”
Are you familiar with the purpose of cannon fodder?
Oh Mo…you little humper you…you mean the process YOU AND YOUR PEEPS dreamed up? But it’s only GOOD when you are in the majority? THAT ‘closed door’ policy? Oh and the LEAKING that is actually coming from YOU GUYS with your ASSUMPTIONS about what is going on? For Christ’s sake…do you honestly think we don’t SEE YOU and your silly a$$ antics? Really?
unfortunately, when you’re allies are all saying “voting to officially authorize an impeachment investigation is unnecessary, and would caving into to Republican demands”, its kinda expected that they would gloat in this fashion.
There were always excellent reasons why the vote should be done – and none of those reasons had anything to do with the GOP talking points.
But in terms of messaging, at this point that doesn’t matter.
The Rs need to put this one down in the “be careful what you wish for” file.
All of them, Katie.
They’re like the dumbed down version of the Borg.
A mobster the complexion of a lobster…a cooked one.
The GOP in Congress are all needed to clean the biggest baddest elephant in the room-Trump. At some point you’d think that they would get tired of being shat on.
the dumbed down version of the Borg
After they welcomed toasters and hairdryers into the Borg collective, and now look for planets that they can gently heat.