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In reply to the discussion: Pelosi "negligent at best" -- Charlie Pierce [View all]Texin
(2,594 posts)Last night on Lawrence, there was a lengthy discussion about the process by which the Dems on the Judiciary and the Finance Committees are methodically going through their paces to obtain the documentation and testimonies they need for oversight and they are meeting one stone wall after another. But this is not an empty exercise in any way. Taken together with what is already known, those stone walls are yet more proof in plain sight that the (mal) administration is obstructing justice and thwarting the constitutionally-mandated congressional oversight.
On a daily basis now, we are beginning to see a wave of former jurists and law enforcement officials stepping forward publicly proclaiming that the administration - tRump, Mnuchin et al, are openly obstructing justice We're seeing even Fux Spews talking heads say it on air. There seems to be an increasingly growing number of people to publicly accuse the tRump government of obstruction and coverup. With Schumer and Pelosi taking on McConnell's admonition that the Dems need to "move on 'cause there's nothing to see here", they are (it seems to me) ratcheting up the rhetoric. This type of approach takes time, but it can be more effective because it emboldens more and more people of respectability to begin repeating the message and demanding that the rethugs do THEIR jobs and protect the laws of the land.
What I'm saying here is that this seems to be a step by step building the foundation for bringing impeachment forward to proceed. With more and more pressure, there may be fewer rethugs to be willing to allow tRump to undermine the laws and institutions and who are not happy about trying to burnish their reputations for this execrable cretin and his swamp dwellers.