rowe33
3613
Is it just me or does every GOP questioner sound like a combination of Boss Hogg and every TV portrayal of a southern hick in the past 80 years? I’m near the beginning still but the last GOP guy was squealing like a pig at times.
That’s a terrible take, really. Mueller confirmed that the President engaged in multiple acts that constitute obstruction, that the reason that he didn’t indict Trump was that he wasn’t allowed to, that Trump could be indicted once he left office, and that impeachment is the alternative process that applies now in lieu of indictment.
I especially like how these two different takes are appearing simultaneously today.
Mueller has saved/ruined democracy!
Clay
3619
Nunes going full conspiracy theory and aping Fox News is just a national embarrassment.
What is happening to the Grey Lady these days?
Basically, they hired hack conservatives to make editorial decisions, and those hack conservatives now make those editorial decisions, with predictable results. As to why they hired those people, I’d guess because they reflect the political views of the hirers.
orald
3622
Seems to me Mueller’s reluctance to testify today is based on his knowledge that it has been six years since he testified at any length before Congress and he knows he is rusty, or simply no longer up to the task.
He’s too upright and too proud to tell Schiff that this isn’t likely to go as the Dems wished.
Is my hot take on Nunes’s line of questioning accurate?
Clay
3624
I’m not sure it was even clear enough where he was trying to go to get the crazy eyes of that photo. It was more of a “Huh?”
A lot of people expected/wanted Mueller to show up wearing a cape, break through the wall, sing “Here I come to save the day!” and then throw Trump into the sun.
… Which would have be dramatic and gratifying and absolve all of the rest of us from doing anything, but has nothing to do with how the real world works. All Mueller can do is tell us things we already know.
A big chunk of the problem is the media, which expresses contempt and loathing for the good guys if they ever appear weaker than Superman or less virtuous than Christ … but then when the bad guys are terrible and incompetent and obviously idiots, just nods sagely and says, “They’re doing much better than expected.”
So expect a whole lot of media blather about Mueller not being able to bring it home, and the House Dems being weak for not having started impeachment … and not a single solitary word about the Senate failing to do its job, and indeed aiding and abetting a criminal.
The conversation should be how bat crazy the GOP now falling over themselves to believe conspiracies at the highest level.
No need to have been so specific
Mueller: “I can’t agree with that. Not that it’s not true, but I can’t agree with it.”
Oh, you.
Just for clarity of the conversation (not a fan of trump, but of accuracy), Muller rolled this back in his opening statement for the afternoon hearing.
Here’s the statement:
“Before we go to questions," Mueller said to the House Intel Committee. "I want to go back to one thing that was said this morning by Mr. Lieu who said ‘you didn’t charge the president because of the OLC opinion.’ That is not the correct way to say it. As we say in the report and as I say in the opening, we didn’t reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime. With that I’m ready to answer questions.”
House Intel committee members are getting it done. Schiff was excellent.
