House Republicans' biggest plan just blew up in their faces

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House Republicans' biggest plan just blew up in their faces
Sadly, this will not be the end of Republicans' reckless escapades

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 9:13AM (EDT)


(Salon) The House Republicans have been promising that the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden was going to be filled with fireworks from the word go. We would see evidence of bribery and extortion and payoffs from foreign companies in the tens of millions of dollars, the "Biden Crime Family" would finally be exposed as the international gangsters they are Donald Trump would be exonerated. Or something. They held their first hearing yesterday and all those fireworks blew up in their faces.

Keep in mind that they decided to hold this preposterous hearing two days before the government is set to shut down because a tiny rump faction of extremists in their party is demanding that they get everything they ever wanted or they'll hold their breath until they turn blue. Nobody knows exactly what that is other than to torture Speaker Kevin McCarthy and make America miserable again. It's been reported that they have no plans to table their "inquiry" when the government is shut down even though their staff won't be paid and all regular business is usually curtailed until an agreement is reached. Not this time. It's full speed ahead.

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The fabricated text message implied that back in 2018 Joe Biden's brother James told Hunter Biden that he would "work with" his father alone for some nefarious purpose to give Hunter a "safe harbor." Even though, once again, Joe Biden wasn't in office at the time which these Republicans don't seem to realize means that he wasn't in a position to commit treason or whatever they think he's done, they sure made it sound suspicious.

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That was pretty much how it went all day long with Republicans stepping in it over and over again. The Democrats, led by the extremely competent Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin and aided by excellent committee members, Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, Jasmine Crockett, D-Tx., Maxwell Frost, D-Fl., and more all of whom obviously did much more homework than any of the Republicans who babbled their way through the hearing, casting aspersions and throwing out innuendo with no evidence that the president had done anything wrong. .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/09/29/republicans-biggest-plan-just-blew-up-in-their-faces/

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Democrats have gotten a lot of experience, conducting actual impeachments over the past 4 years.

And that includes how to defend against bogus ones.

[lees1975]

2. The Democrats on that committee should be in charge of the party's 2024 campaign.

The Republicans were so inept, incompetent, fumbling, stumbling, unprepared and self-sabotaging, that they couldn't even keep the committee members in the chamber for the whole session. And they wound up facing that group of Democrats, who were flawless, aggressive, angry, and so well prepared for this particular session, it was like a professional football team going up against a pee-wee league squad. Sorry for the football analogy, but it works.

It's about time Democrats got that angry, and started raising the level of the rhetoric. Essentially, they proved the case against impeachment yesterday and made the start of that investigation look like the political clown show that it was.

Keep it up! It's long past time for this party to get aggressive, go on the offensive and start attacking and getting rid of these extremists, sending them scurrying back down to the sewers where they came from.

[hurple]

4. Preach it!

[underpants]

3. I saw the video of AOC yesterday. On the way home Hannity had Gym Jordan on his radio show

They played the tape of Byron DONALD reading these texts. I figured it’s what AOC had been talking about. Hannity and Jordan made this seem like the smoking gun. I’m sure Fox News viewers never heard that it was fake.

[TheRickles]

6. That's the key point. How are these proceedings being covered by Fox et al (if at all)?

What is the non-DU portion of America learning from all of this? If they just pay attention to the headlines and soundbites from right-wing media, then nothing much will change, even if we here on DU think that the Dems are masterfully dismantling all of the the Republican talking points.

[JohnSJ]

5. republicans have demonstrated time and again they are liars and frauds. They need to be called out

at every opportunity like Rep Ocasio-Cortez did.

[dchill]

7. Delusions of grandeur combined with low intelligence...

...and spiced with lots of Q creates entire congressional districts with a majority of crackpots. The call is coming from inside the House.

[UCmeNdc]

8. Republicans are nothing but liars. Republicans ma false statementsuse innuendo as if it is a fact.

Pure fantasyland. Republicans are crazy.

[Skittles]

9. IOW, they've got nothing

but anyone with a couple of brain cells already knew that