Formal Impeachment Inquiry of Trump Begins

[Thrag]

Feldman will have to be played by Benedict Cumberbatch when the made for TV movie about this is made. There’s something about Feldman’s look where even through he’s speaking with an american accent in my head I’m hearing a British one.

[Ginger_Yellow]

Is there any reason they didn’t just use the same counsel?

[Guap]

Is there any reason they didn’t just use the same counsel?

My educated guess is that each committee has its own staff attorneys.

[Thrag]

The congressional AV club really needs to get its shit together. It seems every time there’s some small flub every time they need to display something or roll tape.

[scottagibson]

I have to say Karlan is outstanding.

[abidingdude]

She’s been great.

Garrett Haake (GarrettHaake)

[Thrag]

Tilda Swinton can play her and we’ll have a little Dr. Strange reunion.

[scottagibson]

Turkey’s testimony in the Clinton impeachment:

Sentient autocorrect strikes again?

Argh! I corrected that multiple times and autocorrect kept overriding it. I’m going to leave it there as testimony to my own impotence.

[Thrag]

The Kavanaugh callout. Nice. She is crushing it.

[scottagibson]

Humanitarian recess FTW.

[Ginger_Yellow]

Aside: that ringing sound you’ll hear during the next break is every TV network calling Professor Karlan to offer her a contributor contract.

Funny, I don’t remember her leaving the Trump campaign/administration in disgrace.

[Clay]

Turkey’s testimony in the Clinton impeachment:

In my view, President Clinton’s conduct demands an open and deliberative review under the conditions created for that purpose by the Framers. By his own admission, President Clinton has engaged in reprehensible conduct in office. Allegations of criminal acts in office by a president are perhaps the greatest threat to the perceived legitimacy of a government. When there is compelling evidence of criminal acts in the Chief Executive, an entire system of laws is undermined and demands some form corrective action.

In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker; it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The allegations against President Clinton go to the very heart of the legitimacy of his office and the integrity of the political system. As an individual, a president may seek spiritual redemption in the company of friends and family. Constitutional redemption, however, is found only in the company of representatives of all three branches in the well of the Senate. It is there that legitimacy, once recklessly lost, can be regained by a president.

Keith Boykin (keithboykin)

edit: well, that’s supposed to have an embedded video. Click through to see him talking, I guess.

[Papageno]

So basically, according to the GOP, Trump would have to murder someone on the White House lawn with cameras rolling to be impeachable. But he couldn’t actually be charged with murder till he left or was removed from office.

Also: “neepotism,” really?

[sillhouette]

Mark Strauss (MarkDStrauss)

[scharmers]

Rules for thee; not for me.

There needs to be a new word invented just for the mindbending, deliberate, shameless hypocrisy these republican fucks literally sweat from their pores. I’m sure that Eric Blair could come up with something pithy (scumthink? shitspeak?) but he’s been dead for a while and I ain’t no Eric Blair.

Then again duckspeak and doublethink pretty much cover these fucking assholes’ every syllable, so maybe O.G. 1984 is just best as usual.

[Timex]

Yes, I think it was the hypocrisy more than anything that drove me from the GOP.

There are few things that I hate more than such overt hypocrisy. Especially when it’s rich people who already have every advantage… the game is already rigged in their favor, and they STILL break the rules.

[Papageno]

“The Mueller Investigation was a flop.” O RLY? A whole mess of criminal convictions would disagree with you, Congressman.

[Gordon_Cameron]

I think it has to do with the mentality that if you’re not on offense, then by default you are on defense. So you have to always be on offense, even if you’ve run up the score 88-0. Which, to be fair, is a good attitude if you happen to be playing a basketball game or something.

[Papageno]

And it’s the Gym Jordan Yelling Hour!

[scottagibson]

He makes 5 or 10 minutes seem an eternity, doesn’t he?