kerzain
6396
That’s not the best thing ever.
Grab them by the Kitty-Kat? Hahaha, they can’t say it!
Technical question for anyone who knows: when the President’s people say “we didn’t engage in blanket stonewalling on subpoenas but pointed out legal errors in them” WTF are they talking about? Is it the tired nonsense where they’re telling the House how to handle the impeachment investigation?
JoshL
6399
“Fox has gone to the other side”. Apparently Pence is the other side. So, like, the other side from Republicans… is Republicans.
To be specific, it’s “Republicans for the Rule of Law.” Seems right.
I found that helpful.
tldr is that the house lawyers are shitheads.
The president’s position, incredibly, is that if an ongoing oversight investigation begins to produce evidence that might result in impeachment, the committees conducting that investigation somehow lose their subpoena authority until the whole House declares a formal impeachment inquiry.
magnet
6402
Bribery requires quid pro quo. Quid pro quo means not acting in the national interest. Dershowitz suggested that to a politician, furthering re-election is in the national interest. Therefore furthering re-election, by itself, should not be regarded as bribery.
The argument is flawed, similar to Costanza’s “It’s not a lie if you believe it”. And the argument only works for crimes that require quid pro quo. Presumably, that includes the abuse of power impeachment article. But not other crimes. For instance, shooting someone on 5th Ave. has no exception for acting in the national interest.
Susan Collins is an aye on witnesses.
vyshka
6404
Bets on Murkowski folding?
Presumably Romney will be an aye. Murkowski may be an aye.
But they would need one more. Don’t think that fourth vote is out there.
I really wonder if it wouldn’t be worthwhile for somebody to spend some Super PAC dark money on trying to push the idiots more towards tearing each other apart with some fake ads promoting other Republicans over Trump.
And as if there was any doubt.
vyshka
6409
He’s a no. Fucking coward. “He’s guilty of it all, but it isn’t impeachable … let the people decide”
It’s almost like he’s from the same state as ‘reasonable’ Bob Corker or something. Marsha Blackburn is a complete wingnut cryptofascist, but at least she never pretends otherwise for show. I find that somehow less loathsome.
It was probably foolish to get one’s hopes up. I gather there’s no chance of a fourth now?
vyshka
6411
I doubt it, unless someone comes from nowhere to do it. I guess maybe this will give Murkowski cover to say yes now?
She got a hall pass from McConnell.
Tim_N
6413
We really need another John Mccain thumbs down moment.
I’m ready for a Lenin-returns-from-exile moment personally, but then the American Lenin would end up being someone like John McAfee so maybe not.
Tim_N
6415
Pierre Delecto is a YES on witnesses.
