Wow, the Minority A-holes seem to be panicking

[TruckFump]

I wonder how much pressure the orange asshole has put on them -- like blackmail info -- to have grown adults act like two-year-old spoiled children who are not getting their way. This is totally disgusting,

I watched and listened to everyday of the Nixon impeachment, I do not remember childish conduct like this.

[C_U_L8R]

1. That's not how innocent people behave.

Their complicity and duplicity is transparent to the world

[TruckFump]

5. IMO, like McTurtle all of the RWNJ Reps have taken Russian money

I am betting that is a big part of why they are looking every way possible to protect Trump. If anyone of those RWNJs does not, Trump will spill the beans on what he has.

This is beyond a strong defense, IMO, it's plain nutty.

[LiberalFighter]

59. If they took money from the NRA absolutely it came from the Russians.

Then there is the dark money from PACs that are anonymous.

[lagomorph777]

64. +1 #NRAROUBLES Also they went to Moscow on the 4th of July to pick up their paychecks.

Putin was testing their loyalty by making them do that.

[rickyhall]

70. I wish something can be done about the damned National Russian Association.

I'm sorry I meant to say National RIFLE Association. not...

[DENVERPOPS]

77. Old saying.......

If he goes, we go

[c-rational]

28. Bingo!

[dem4decades]

2. Barry Burke knows how to take over doesn't he?

[DFW]

57. Barry is very cautious and very thorough

If he asks a question, chances are he already knows the answer, and he lets NOTHING slip his notice.

He spells his name with an "e," by the way: Berke.

[dem4decades]

58. Sorry, old fan of Burke's Law. If you have any idea what that is.

[DFW]

76. Without looking it up, I think it was a TV series, but decades ago

Close?

[eppur_se_muova]

62. That was one of the memorable lessons from "A Civil Action" ...

Never ask a quesiton (in court) unless you know what the answer is going to be.

[struggle4progress]

3. When the scandal finally blows, it'll remind us all of Krakatoa

[TruckFump]

8. There is more than loyalty to the orange asshole going on IMO

Innocent people do not act like these assholes.

[2naSalit]

25. most of them are

more intelligent, not by much mind you, than orangeanus, they are guilty of other offenses and they have a lot to answer for. I suspect it has to do with promotion of white supremacy and human trafficking which all get funded by laundered $$. The fact that there are other long term but soon to be exposed atrocities will include the fossil fuels/military industrial complex and international manipulation that has been shaping the world for decades. The whole big, ugly mess is about to spill out of the sewers soon. And this is either a catalyst or the actual beginning of that end.

I have been much more stressed through these past few months, I hope it ends well for the world's sake.

[TruckFump]

29. Yes, I, too, hope the ending is best for the sake of the world.

The hatred I see...bothers me greatly.

It is coming from those who fear being in the minority, IMO. White, Christian, male, in charge -- if not on the job, at home.

The greed is shocking...look at Collins and Hunter. They seem to think nothing of what they did.

[2naSalit]

31. Just like -45

They think it is their right to have power to be lawless and gain riches for winning their popularity contest. Others buy their power with ill gotten wealth.

The wealth faction have, once again, proven that they have no good will toward anyone other than themselves. This is a cyclical issue but we have to break the cycle this fight or we are doomed to an ugly transition no matter how it turns out.

[TruckFump]

32. Greed...

...one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

So many of those Seven apply to the Repubs.

[2naSalit]

33. Sad and true...nt

[Funtatlaguy]

4. They want a circus atmosphere and to rile up Nadler.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. So far he's been able to not let them rattle him. He has the patience of a saint.

[Funtatlaguy]

16. True, but unlike Californian Schiff, the New Yorker will have a shorter fuse.

[Arkansas Granny]

18. You might be right. I don't think he is quite as calm as Schiff, who was almost serene.

[badhair77]

6. I watched Watergate also and don't remember any of this nonsense.

Their acts of obstruction are all they’ve got. Disgusting.

[TruckFump]

10. I ask myself, "How did the decorum in govt sink this fair?"

Then I say, "Fox News, Rush...."

[DemocracyMouse]

22. ....and don't forget the Russian influence on AM RADIO

[CrispyQ]

23. Bingo.

I have three members in my family, two dems & a moderate republican, who turned hard right wing, & hate radio & Fox were the common factors. They are basically unreachable now.

[LittleGirl]

56. Indeed

I have a brother and sister that both turned rwnj after watching Fox and listening to Rush every freaking day. They are gone too.

[NewJeffCT]

7. They're not playing for the American people at large

they're playing for Trump and for soundbites that Rush Limbaugh and Fox News can play to their audiences.

[TruckFump]

13. Sad, isn't it.

That people who vote can actually buy into that bullshit as "the truth."

[samnsara]

11. the cult of trump will take them all down with him..

..and i cant wait..

[TruckFump]

17. That is what I keep seeing in my mind.

A house of cards going higher and higher at the demands of MF 45. I, too, can't wait...

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. People need to keep in mind it wasn't just the DNC servers the Russians successfully hacked.

Begging the question, why didn't they release the RNC troves?

[TruckFump]

15. Repuke legislators iMO are bought and paid for.

Sad, so sad. I wonder how many more will fall like Collins and Hunter. Betting the Russians know which ones dipped into questionable funds, Russian, use of political contribution funds, etc.

IMO, a prime example of this is Devin Nunes...all the law suits say to me he is running scared and not merely filing justiciable law suits.

[malaise]

14. Because their king con is terrified of being impeached

and their orders are to stop the impeachment by any means necessary - fuck the collective pack.

[marieo1]

19. Grown up rich kids!!

A lot of the congressmen today are only grown-up little rich kids. They are just like DJT and when they don't get their way, they cry and stomp their feet!!! Grown up spoiled brats just like their boss!! Sickening!! They throw a tantrum, call names, and make a scene. Why do you think they love DJT so much? They are just like him.

[TruckFump]

21. Frankly, I'm embarrassed.

We are being laughed at by the rest of the free world.

[HubertHeaver]

53. Only the free world?

[TruckFump]

20. Mega panicking again.

They are running scared.

Betting that there are some very juicy blackmail items on all of those asshole and Comrades Trump and Putin are very pleased.

[greatauntoftriplets]

24. It's all they have.

All that Spanky did is indefensible, so they object, disrupt, and generally act like the idiots they are.

[mucifer]

26. This is not a good sign IMO

[TruckFump]

30. Do you think MF45 will exact revenge even if he takes down the whole govt?

This is what scares me. He has NO concern about what is best for anyone but himself. IMO, he would sell Ivanka into the Sex Trade if if meant that he could go free.

I have this thought in the back of my mind that when MF45 is finally cornered, he will flee to Russian where Putin will exact revenge.

[CrispyQ]

27. I'm embarrassed and ashamed for the people I know who still support the Republican Party. -nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. Was just wondering if there was a decent old clip of

A republican acting dignified during Nixon hearing to make go viral

[TruckFump]

36. I cannot think of his name...

...became an actor, ran for Prez, has passed away.

He was a Republican and IIRC, he was not an a-hole like we are seeing today. I can picture him, but I cannot think of his name.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

41. Heres one

[Laura PourMeADrink]

43. That one who sold insurance on TV?

[TruckFump]

44. Might be the one.

He was a big guy, lots of dark hair and had a much younger wife when he ran for Prez.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

55. Fred

[ChubbyStar]

45. Fred Thompson n/t

[TruckFump]

48. Yep...it finally came to mind.

I recall in WG that he was not a complete a-hole like we are seeing today.

[TruckFump]

46. BINGO...

thought of his name: FRED THOMPSON

[Mr.Bill]

35. I think most if not every American government official

that has traveled to Russia has been videoed with 12 year old girls.

Our country is going to be destroyed by 12 year old sex slaves while we spend billions building aircraft carriers for national defense.

[TruckFump]

37. The Epstein problem...

...it's all over and not just because of Epstein and his "friends." Makes me wonder about Old White Men in power...does dominating female children (and possible male children as well) sexually make up for the power they fear the are losing to POS and adult women?

[barbtries]

38. it wasn't like this.

i guess republicans still pretended to respect the rule of law in those days.

[TruckFump]

40. I think some actually did.

I recall when Goldwater and other Repubs went to the Nixon WH and told him, they had the votes. I will say this for Nixon, he had the good grace to give up and not try and BS like we are seeing today.

[barbtries]

52. i agree with that.

i hated nixon with all my heart but at the end of the day he wasn't willing to burn the entire country down for himself.

[DENVERPOPS]

78. Maybe......

If the Repubs in the house and senate had gotten behind him, he might have pushed thru......

[barbtries]

81. they did for the longest time.

it wasn't until the tapes were released that it changed.

[getagrip_already]

39. I don't see it as panic.. It is an orchestrated act for the benefit of the hate class.....

Just scream and delay and be outraged. that's all they have to do. That's all they are doing.

[TruckFump]

42. They are afraid of something and..

...someone said it earlier: The RNC server was hacked, too.

[getagrip_already]

47. it has to be more than the rnc....

those asshats are gone now. the rnc is trumps now. Nobody is left that could be directly implicated.

They have to have kompromat on the critters themselves. For example, we know almost all of them visited mar a lago. Mar a lago had a prostitution ring running disguised as massage. Trumps security chief was really only good at video surveillance.

The dots connect themselves.

But the act in the house is just a coreographed response. It is very deliberate. They aren't afraid of anything except losing power.

[TruckFump]

49. Whatever it is to have grown men (and some women) acting like this...

...it's big and very ugly.

[getagrip_already]

51. only to the sane....

to the base gop voter, it's expected and enjoyable.

[Initech]

54. He does seem to bring out the absolute worst in people.

I cannot wait until this national nightmare is over.

[unitedwethrive]

60. I'm kind of enjoying all the votes. Every time they go through this seemingly unnecessary procedure,

it just shows the great diversity on the Democratic side, and the utter lack of diversity of the repubs.

[Baked Potato]

61. They are really crappy actors.

Their constituents will slobber all over them back home me how they brought it to the Dems.

[zonkers]

63. My favorite orig. post..... (link)

They. All. Took. The. Money.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212721615

[TruckFump]

65. That thread was a total winner.

They're dirty. They thought they could take easy money and now they have a hard way out.

[zonkers]

87. Confucious say, when one find himself in a hole, stop digging.

[sandensea]

66. The Nixon-era GOP was the image of statesmanship compared to today's neo-fascist shit show

One shudders to think what they'll be like in 20 years.

[TruckFump]

67. They showed respect to EVERYONE.

This was a sobering event worthy of dignity unlike what we are seeing from the jackasses in the minority on the Judic Com.

I swear Nadler is gonna bust that gavel before this is over.

[sandensea]

68. Next stop: incitement to violence

I don't put anything past these cretins anymore. They're shameless.

[TruckFump]

69. These "people" on the other side...

...they are totally uncivilized.

Frankly, if I were the parent of anyone of them, I would put them on restriction and keep catsup and chocolate out of the house.

[sandensea]

85. Or Chick Fil-A.

If someone wanted an all-out Chumpkin riot, shutting those down would be the easiest way.

My favorite health food store is, ironically, next door to one of those.

Every day, lunch time and rush hour, the drive-in is jam-packed with Chumpsters (you can tell).

Thank goodness the health food store has parking in the back, I'll tell you that.

[TruckFump]

88. That, too!

Fuck 'em and feed 'em peanuts!

[DENVERPOPS]

79. The hell with

what it will be like twenty years from now.......

We only need to wait until November 3-4 of his year.......

It possibly will be a lot like the Jerry Springer show with guns......

Sorry, but some of these people are just that radical......

[sandensea]

86. Interesting times, right?

God help us all.

[lastlib]

71. To borrow a line from one of my fave scenes of "Blazing Saddles":

"Oh, Lohdy, Lord--he DESPERATE!!"

Do republikans go to a special school to be trained to be assholes of this magnitude??

[TruckFump]

72. With Trump as an example,

they have a path to follow that assuredly leads to asshole magnitude!

[apnu]

73. Part of it is the erosion of decorum and respect (both self and others)

I was born in 1973. But even in my 46 years, I've witnessed a erosion of decorum, manners, and basic respect. Even self-respect. America's culture has coarsened and become childish by American standards, for get other geographical regions. We've always been fairly uncouth to European and Asian eyes, but we're worse off, culturally, by our own standards today.

For a few decades now we've celebrated our idiotic tendencies and worst base instincts. That Republicans are pouting children on television should surprise no one at all.

[TruckFump]

74. Pouting is one thing,

but the yelling over the chair and refusing to be quiet. Also, all their Points of Order are at the best merely silly.

[apnu]

75. Yes

But this is what conservatives do. Have conniption fits at the slightest provocation. Its entertaining and makes great TV. The GOP base loves to be entertained. Seeing these jackasses parade ignorance while bellowing about it is empowering to other childish ignorants.

We can tell they have no argument, all they have his hysteria and chum.

[DENVERPOPS]

80. The republicans

need to stage sound & video bites for Fox News, etc......

This is all highly organized and orchestrated before hand for maximum effect on their TrumpHumpers.......

[TruckFump]

82. Exactly! EOM

[progressoid]

83. There doesn't need to be blackmail for a lot of them. They simply despise us.

He may have something on Lindsey or a handful of others, but I think the rest truly believe their rhetoric. We are their enemy.

This has been building since Bill Clinton's presidency, with the help of AM radio and FOX "news".

[TruckFump]

84. I agree about RW nutso media

They are scary. Hate and more hate.

[Blue Owl]

89. Describe the Emperor's new outfit to us again, Minority A-holes...

n/t

[nitpicker]

90. It's simple: keeping their committee assignments

It's not the election: most remaining Repugs are in safe seats.

But come January 2021, committee assignments will be re-drawn by each party.

IMO, if members don't show they're all in for the ((so-called)) President, their odds of keeping favored committee assignments go down.

And this can have knock-on events, such as decreased fundraising support, etc.

[nitpicker]

91. And for those retiring

IMO, they generally want to keep the revolving door into lobbyist or other jobs well-oiled.