Revealing exchange on speculative impeachment inquiry

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Analysis by Aaron Blake
December 13, 2023 at 12:58 p.m. EST

... “What is the specific constitutional crime that you’re investigating?” Neguse asked Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.).

“Well, we’re having an inquiry so we can do an investigation to compel the production of witnesses and documents,” Reschenthaler said.

Neguse, who served as a House prosecutor during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, pressed again: “And what is the crime you’re investigating?”

Reschenthaler responded merely, “High crimes, misdemeanors and bribery.” It was a reference to the constitutional threshold for impeachment, not a specific offense ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/13/republican-impeachment-case-analysis/

[elleng]

1. I really like Neguse!

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Yup. Smart, no-bullshit . . . .

. . . . . and young!

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2. About to emerge from right-wing bubble

Analysis by Philip Bump
National columnist
December 13, 2023 at 10:53 a.m. EST

... “To say that we somehow lack transparency is laughable,” Reschenthaler insisted. After all, he explained, Republican Reps. James Comer (Ky.), Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Jason T. Smith (Mo.) — the chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means committees, respectively — “have been on TV. They’ve been in print. You can’t turn on a news program without seeing one of those three update the American people on this.”

Comer in particular has been omnipresent on cable news — at least on Fox News ...

... When Comer has dared to present himself to non-right-wing interlocutors, he has invariably fared poorly ... His challenge is that he consistently misrepresents his putative evidence incriminating Biden, sometimes to a staggering degree. Objective journalists point out the obvious flaws in his claims, leaving Comer sputtering and hustling back to friendly right-wing terrain where he can mope about how, say, the CNN audience has a “low IQ” ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has offered no evidence that he’s cautious about this thing. Out of either loyalty to the team or a lack of curiosity about the claims, he is moving forward with the impeachment probe and the vote to make it a formality. He does not seem to understand that it is a vampire inquiry, dead for some time but still wandering around the political right, infecting new people with nonsense ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/13/biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote-analysis/

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Every time Comer has been on TV, even on Fox News and Newsmax, he's

been exposed for the idiot he is.

No surprise he wants a closed door hearing.

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4. Comer stopped appearing on 'Fox & Friends' because Doocy critical of the Biden impeachment

A high-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives said he's no longer making appearances "Fox & Friends" because one of its hosts has been critical of the GOP's investigation into President Joe Biden ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-lawmaker-wont-appear-on-fox-and-friends-doocy-2023-12

[ShazzieB]

7. Oh, that's hilarious!

Enjoy your little snit, Jimbo! I'm pretty sure Doocy and company will not be losing any sleep over your snub of them!

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5. Luckovich

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