Love this today from Nadler and Schiff. You know, the two guys who didn't allow the opposition or Trump to have witnesses, etc.:
The managers argued that during the 1999 impeachment, Clinton provided “more than 90,000 pages” of documents before the trial took place, “all of the witnesses had testified before the Senate trial began,” and the only issue was “whether they would be re-called to testify once more.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem...ules-as-rigged
Yes, that's exactly right. The Clinton impeachment was based on the independent counsel work, and the whole process was nearly a year. Yes in that time the witnesses had testified, the evidence was collected, subpoenas pursued.
The Dems didn't do any of that here. The first step for the UKraine mess was probably to ask for another independent counsel to investigate. Barring that it would take a lengthy House investigation that would serve that role and call witnesses, etc.
What they did was rush to impeach him without really investigating whether he should be impeached, then they want to do that work of calling witnesses etc. in the Senate trial. A complete reversal of how every other such proceeding has been done.
Of course that's b/c it suits their political goals better, and likewise the GOP is having none of it b/c it doesn't suit their goals. Welcome to politics.
But this faux outrage at a "rigged" system is hysterical coming from the House, which was the most rigged investigation perhaps ever conducted even by that very political body. Hey, it's politics, I get it, but I do tire of the absurd hypocrisy of the claims of both sides. Right now the Left is outrunning the Right on that. In the 80s I think the New Right won the contest, but the Left's hypocrisy has grown nicely the last 20 years.
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