Comments on: Impeachment: to call witnesses or not to call witnesses?

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:43:47 +0000

Witnesses might supply the missing entertainment value. Whether that’s good tactics or strategy is a separate issue, although I lean to it hurting the dems.
Hunter can do one of three things:
Fess up and make his and his family’s shenanigans look really, really awful. But they’re dems and so it’s okay.
Lie and depend on connections and his relationship to “That’s Just Joe” to beat perjury charges.
Plead the Fifth.

By: jon baker

jon baker — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 02:21:57 +0000

At this point, Republicans should point out that if Trump can be removed from office over Ukraine, so can the Democrats front runner, Joe Biden, if he were elected President. Just keep mentioning it here and there. Let that percolate with the Dem voters…..

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:45:38 +0000

Before the Senate considers calling witnesses the House neglected to call, it should demand release of the ICIG’s testimony.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:38:10 +0000

I don’t know how Biden could claim executive privilege when his offense in Ukraine is self-admitted on video. Unless, of course, Senators ask him what Obama knew and when he knew it.

By: Roy Nathanson

Roy Nathanson — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:06:42 +0000

The grand irony of the idea if having Biden testify is that he will refuse, claiming executive privilege… and the Democrats will agree with him.

By: Xennady

Xennady — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:02:02 +0000

“But instead of trying to cut their losses and flee the battlefield, the Democrats want to keep sending in reinforcements?”

It’s because the alternative to their continuous and embarrassing yet completely insane raving is actually worse.

If they admit they notice that Trump is just a successful president who is achieving his goals and doing his job in a typical presidential manner- suited to the circumstances- then some yuuuge fraction of the people who normally vote democrat would decamp from that party forever, thus reducing it to the obscure fringe group that it rightfully deserves to be.

Can’t have that.

Thus, hysteria, 24/7.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 23:36:13 +0000

“This entire push could boomerang and hit the Democrats squarely in the face.” neo

Yes and if Republicans should regain the house and attain a 2/3rds majority in the Senate*… they should impeach and convict every activist federal judge who has ruled extra-constitutionally, having demonstrated their unfitness for the office they hold.

* yes, that’s too good to be true but what else are dreams for?

By: MBunge

MBunge — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 22:57:15 +0000

Unless I’m completely missing something, literally every piece of available evidence indicates that Trump is actually being HELPED by this impeachment mess. But instead of trying to cut their losses and flee the battlefield, the Democrats want to keep sending in reinforcements?

Mike

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 22:08:22 +0000

I don’t know if Graeme Wood actually has a window into Bolton’s soul, but he writes as if he does.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/john-bolton-wont-give-anything-away-free/605614/

By: mikeski

mikeski — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:58:35 +0000

@sdferr –

I believe the 4th would be Alexander.

“Ratbastards” seems about right to me. We would also accept “indolent apparatchiks”.