dukkha (11-13-2019), Earl (11-14-2019), PostmodernProphet (11-14-2019)
Pelosi said she had asked Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of California, who is overseeing the impeachment proceedings, to provide Democrats with “a narrative at the end about a summation of what happened there.”
She warned Democrats to “not to get distracted” if Republicans disrupt the hearings. “The press will say, ‘What do you think of the Republicans doing this?’ They don’t think so I don’t think about what they think, but I do think that we need to have a common narrative.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...mpression=true
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Ya think lol?
It’s late in the game to be searching for a narrative—you’re not in the basement anymore, the whole country is tuned in now.
I almost feel bad for Schiff: Nancy laid the responsibility of ‘the narrative’ right at his feet. But the narrative business is what makes this impeachment effort [it’s not even an actual impeachment yet] different from the Clinton or Nixon impeachment’s.
In both prior instances it was cut and dry: Nixon was caught dead to rights covering up a petty crime; and Clinton clearly lied about petty sex with a WH intern. Regardless of whether either were worthy of impeachment, both were easily assimilated by voters—and congress responded accordingly.
In contrast, Democrats are trying to construct a complex narrative built almost exclusively on hearsay—and they have yet to settle on what that narrative is. And they expect voters to follow along?
I’m not a democrat but if I was I’d say ‘please, just stop’. Quit while your ahead. Cut your loses. Say what you have to in order to get out of it.
After yesterday, I’m inclined to think they will. But I don’t know democrats anymore.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
dukkha (11-13-2019), Earl (11-14-2019), PostmodernProphet (11-14-2019)
Pelosi wanted that so people like you could understand it. Trump was doing terrible and wrong things since he lucked into office. He does not know the job and asking for interference in the next election is not just wrong, but illegal. He has not learned from the illegal help he got from Russia. He thought that worked out for me, let's do it again. He has Rudy working on it. He had Sondland working on it.
He was cheating and lying as he does.
Trump should resign and cut his losses and avoid the law.
Earl (11-14-2019)
ThatOwlWoman (11-14-2019)
The fact it ‘needs understanding’ is precisely the problem for democrats.
Democrats didn’t need a complex narrative to impeach Nixon: they had the tapes. Clinton insulted voters intelligence on national television by claiming he didn’t have sex with that woman—notably, they forgave him at the polls for it.
Presently, Democrats are claiming Trump was squeezing Zelensky for campaign dirt on Biden. But instead of tapes there’s a transcript ‘that doesn’t exactly say that’. In fact, the campaign wasn’t mentioned at all. So democrats are forced to ask voters to read something impeachable into the transcript—that simply isn’t there.
Worse yet, there’s a small army of complicating factors: people are apt to think ‘well, the thing with Biden’s son sure looks suspicious so why shouldn’t Trump ask Zelensky to look into it?’ Democrats don’t have a coherent answer for that.
And again, ‘well, if Trump seemed a little anxious to get Zelensky on board, so what? That Biden is hiding something and Trump is anxious to find it hardly adds up to Impeachment’.
That democrats and the media are partnering to ‘not leak’ about the WB is *comically* unlike democrats and the media who would happily dox a white minor who did little more than smirk at a crank in public—while wearing a MAGA hat.
That’s literally laughable.
When Democrats went after Nixon, it wasn’t straight on the heels [mere weeks] of a previous failed attempt to go after him. It’s very easy for reasonable people to get the idea that democrats would grasp at anything to impeach Trump with so you can’t blame them for being skeptical.
No, they SHOULD be skeptical of it.
And on and on. This clearly ISN’T the early 70’s or 90’s. Not by a mile.
Last edited by Darth Omar; 11-14-2019 at 05:47 AM.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Earl (11-14-2019)
Post the part of the US Code where a law was broken.
The Democrat impeachment clown show is crumbling under the weight of the transcript.
Even the. Uber-left LA Times agrees.
OPINION
“Opinion: Day 1 of the Trump impeachment hearing was a lost day for Democrats
“Day 1 of the public House impeachment hearings on President Trump is in the books, and nothing that happened will move public opinion in a meaningful way. The folks who have wanted to impeach Trump since he won the presidency still do, and the folks who don’t still don’t.
In other words, it’s a lost day for Democrats.
The burden of proof is on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) to do more than secure impeachment, which is all but certain. Their job is to conduct these hearings in a way that moves public opinion to the point that the Senate will convict the president. That means giving Republican senators something that changes their impression of Trump’s conduct of Ukraine foreign policy. What’s alleged may make many members of the GOP uncomfortable, but it doesn’t come remotely close to requiring that the president be removed from office.
The opening-day witnesses — diplomatic officials Bill Taylor and George Kent — testified professionally and with honor, but they failed to deliver a made-for-TV gotcha. Rather, they simply reiterated that they had no firsthand knowledge of the president’s interactions and had not had conversations with the president directly.“
LA Times
LA Times...gasp!
Darth Omar (11-14-2019)
That democrats had a bad Opening Day is, yet another, Stop Sign.
People’s impression of things are often based on the first impression and all that. So Pelosi is faced with an uphill battle after yesterday.
I have to believe she is hearing from some of her caucus. Yes, a vote in the House for impeachment is a slam dunk—but is it prudent, politically?
Some people are convinced that vote is a given—I’m not one of them.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Earl (11-14-2019)
The entire democrat party narrative can be summed up thusly
ORANGE MAN BAD
Earl (11-14-2019), PostmodernProphet (11-14-2019)
It's not our problem you don't care that your president was caught red handed attempting to bribe a foreign government to attack
Biden using my taxes. It's yours. Nice potus you elected, dumbass. You are going to pay for your stupidity.
Earl (11-14-2019)
Earl (11-14-2019)
Micawber (11-14-2019), ThatOwlWoman (11-14-2019)
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Earl (11-14-2019)
Micawber (11-14-2019)
“ Hannity: Shut this down!”
“Hannity dubbed day one "THE WORST SHOW ON EARTH." He said the Democrats are "a national disgrace." He said they are guilty of "an abuse of their power." (This is a classic case of "I know you are but what am I," flipping the charge against Trump back on his accusers.)
The Democrats are "corrupt idiots" who look "dumb, bad, stupid, and shallow" after Wednesday's "sham hearing," he said. House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff? A "congenital liar." Wednesday's witnesses? Just "self-important, uncompelling" bureaucrats. The hearing was so bad, Hannity said, that "I'm not so sure" that all the House Democrats will vote for impeachment. "It was that bad a day for them."
But even though the day was "a disaster for Democrats," and "the Republicans had a great day all the way around," Hannity said "this circus, this sham, this charade" should be "shut down immediately" for "the sake of the country."
As for Hannity's guests, well, Mark Levin called Schiff "an incompetent left-wing boob" and likened the witnesses to "two homeless guys." Donald Trump Jr. said "everything was hearsay" from "career government bureaucrats." Steve Scalise said "a lot" of Democrats are worried about impeachment backfiring. Which brings me to the 10 p.m. hour...”
CNN Business
Yep, Owl, that's why their cynicism doesn't solve their problem. Go ahead, rightard scum, and assume bad motives and that Dems really don't care about integrity
of elections and abuse of office, it still doesn't change the fact that Trump provided the rope for us to hang him. You people are dumb and so you elected
someone as dumb as you.
Earl (11-14-2019)
ThatOwlWoman (11-14-2019)
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
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