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Meidas Touch seems a bit confident. I wish I shared that optimism. (Original Post) kpete Jul 2021 OP
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Interesting first post Tanuki Jul 2021 #4
Well, in all honesty, it was exposed on Jan 6th and with the vote afterwards... Ferrets are Cool Jul 2021 #3
One thing to bear in mind is that EarlG Jul 2021 #5
McCarthy and the GOP fought so hard to kill these hearings means that they are scared LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2021 #6

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Ferrets are Cool

(21,103 posts)
3. Well, in all honesty, it was exposed on Jan 6th and with the vote afterwards...
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 09:30 AM
Jul 2021

All we can hope for with the investigation is that some of the criminality comes to light.

EarlG

(21,935 posts)
5. One thing to bear in mind is that
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 09:37 AM
Jul 2021

without McCarthy's picks on the committee, this is not going to come across as a partisan exercise. If McCarthy had kept his three picks, all of their questions would have been angry, shouty versions of "Wah wah, the Democrats did this, the Democrats did that..." They would have turned it into a partisan clown show.

Without those picks, that will not happen. Today we're going to see Democrats and Republicans working together to do the people's business, without any partisan BS, and I think that WILL expose how Trump Republicans have been operating. I'm not saying "This is it, the GOP is going down!" But it's definitely going to leave a mark.

From a purely political perspective, I think McCarthy has made a major tactical error by not keeping some of his people on the committee. He has thrown away the ability to disrupt and distract the process, which is Plan A in the Trump Republican playbook. And they don't have a Plan B.

LetMyPeopleVote

(144,932 posts)
6. McCarthy and the GOP fought so hard to kill these hearings means that they are scared
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 11:10 AM
Jul 2021

I have feeling that there is some good dirt that will be coming out

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