How The Day Ended

REPUBLICANS: None of these witnesses even have first-hand information! What a waste of time.

DEMS: Okay well then let’s have some fact witnesses testi—

REPUBLICANS: Witch hunt!

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 4, 2019

.@RepMcClintock grills the witnesses about how they voted in 2016 pic.twitter.com/nJSyztU28I

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 4, 2019

Because loyalty oaths and prying into voting decisions in the voting booth are never un-American!

And the most important issue of the day:

Conservatives found the thing they're going to collectively wet their pants over today, and it's ... this I guess. https://t.co/UlThYLlYc4

— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) December 4, 2019

First Lady reacts: https://t.co/qb5EZhBcu3

— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) December 4, 2019

What about mentioning Barron as one of the children of Donald Trump in a news report, or a Wikipedia entry?

Of course, there was this, because Matt Gaetz, amirite?

So Matt Gaetz tries to catch Professor Feldman in a gotcha moment and ends up allowing him to make an even more convincing case for Trump's impeachment.

Gaetz is so incredibly bad at this.pic.twitter.com/tTwiTVgNzo

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) December 4, 2019

No, really:  Matt Gaetz:

Matt Gaetz. “Maybe it’s a different president we should be impeaching.”

We only have one president, so im not sure how this would work.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 4, 2019

You actually can impeach a former President, FWIW

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) December 4, 2019

Among other things, even saying that completely blows up the legal argument Jonathan Turley was trying to make today.  But I digress:

I’m really starting to think that the House GOP caucus has some kind of an IQ cap the way some sports leagues have salary caps. https://t.co/JA2MBEaAda

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) December 4, 2019

By no means am I saying they’re all stupid, but some of these guys are so dumb it’s as though they are trying to stay under some aggregate intelligence limit.

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) December 4, 2019

It is hard to get under Gaetz on that scale.  And finally:

Reminder: Turley is the best witness Republicans could come up with today. https://t.co/ymhcZrqkTK

— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) December 4, 2019