Comments on: By refusing to read the name of the whistleblower during the impeachment trial… https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:45:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/#comment-2479048 Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:45:15 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92907#comment-2479048 PS It was mostly the way he turned over the cards to read the question, with much the same expression that Carson had.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/#comment-2479006 Sun, 02 Feb 2020 04:32:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92907#comment-2479006 Well — it wasn’t just me after all!

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]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/#comment-2478955 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:47:23 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92907#comment-2478955 Snow on Pine on January 31, 2020 at 11:18 am said:
Hilarious end to this whole shit show, as Nadler upstages Schiff, to quickly waddle to the lectern to be the House Manager to answer the last question, leaving Schiff to call plaintively after Nadler–“Jerry, Jerry, Jerry.”
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Is is just me, or has anyone else noted the resemblance between Roberts and Johnny Carson in his persona as Carnac the Magnificent?

Lacking only the turban.
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]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/#comment-2478945 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 14:21:59 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92907#comment-2478945 Now I have no specific knowledge and maybe she really did have a change of heart. But I can say with certainty that former GOP Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was open to blackmail, because it turned out that he had been paying hush money to the victims of his pedophilia since (I think) before he became a congressman.

There is no indication of any paedophilia in Hastert’s past. There is some indication of pederasty, all of it prior to 1981. The blackmail payments were extorted out of him several years after he left Congress. He was nailed by federal authorities for doing something fairly benign: structuring withdrawals from his various accounts to avoid triggering certain reporting requirements.

The sister of one of the people whom he supposedly molested (ca. 1969) did over the years contact various parties in media and government in an attempt to expose him. I don’t think she got very far, because all she had was hearsay and because criminal prosecutions and civil suits generally cannot be brought 24 years after the fact or 35 years after the fact. All of his victims were proximate to the age of consent in Illinois at the time he molested them. Also, this Mrs. Burge clearly loathed him with peculiar intensity and that likely sent up red flags with anyone she spoke to about him.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/#comment-2478944 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 14:11:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92907#comment-2478944 Roberts has exposed himself as neither a towering intellect, nor a forceful personality, indeed to be a disappointing, a very unimpressive, pedestrian specimen.

It’s not his job in performing that particular function to distinguish himself in any way. Supposedly Wm. Rehnquist said, “I did very little, and did it quite well”.

I can think of several reasons for Roberts to have ruled the way he did on certain cases without reaching for the blackmail hypothesis. Not sure why that’s the go-to explanation for his critics.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/#comment-2478943 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 14:08:07 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92907#comment-2478943 For example, I note ex-senator Kelly Ayotte, who did a 180 degree flip-flop on “comprehensive immigration reform” right after she took office.

Because she was lying to her constituency during the election, and she had deals to make in Congress. There’s nothing so puzzling about her conduct that you’d reach for a blackmail hypothesis. The usual caste attitudes conjoined to the sociopathy you expect from members of Congress do just fine. Critics of Marco Rubio say he favors the Yasir Arafat two-step: one line for anglophone audiences, the real line for hispanophone audiences.

]]> By: Sarah Rolph https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/#comment-2478942 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 13:32:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92907#comment-2478942 There’s a video circulating on twitter this morning that appears to be Ciaramella and Schiff — a dark-haired man walking into a room after having cleared security, looking behind him to see why his companion isn’t following him, then that companion comes on camera and is shown to be Schiff, balking at coming through the door, apparently seeing the camera (probably a phone) and displaying a look of concern; then the dark-haired maybe-Ciaramella walks quickly back and the two disappear out of camera range.

]]> By: Leland https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/#comment-2478817 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:28:33 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92907#comment-2478817 It would only be different because the IG (member of Executive Branch) was supposed to protect the ID from Congress and the Supreme Court. CJ Roberts knows who it is because the whistleblower isn’t protected because they went to Congress first, thus violating the statute that would otherwise protect the whistleblower.

Just clarifying because the statute exists and would protect the whistleblower had Eric Ciaramella complied with the statute.

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/#comment-2478816 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:18:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92907#comment-2478816 Hilarious end to this whole shit show, as Nadler upstages Schiff, to quickly waddle to the lectern to be the House Manager to answer the last question, leaving Schiff to call plaintively after Nadler–“Jerry, Jerry, Jerry.”

Boy, I bet Schiff was pissed to have his great moment stolen from him.

See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/jerry-jerry-jerry-schiff-fumes-as-nadler-races-past-him-to-deliver-impeachment-qa-finale-video/

]]> By: LeClerc https://thenewneo.com/2020/01/30/by-refusing-to-read-the-name-of-the-whistleblower-during-the-impeachment-trial/#comment-2478812 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:17:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92907#comment-2478812 Roberts is a fellow who likes to be liked at the Georgetown dinner parties he attends.

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