The Bigger Fool

 How it went:

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked the three Republican star witnesses a simple question: "In your testimony today, are you presenting any firsthand witness account of crimes committed by the President of the United States?" 

GOP Witness Jonathan Turley replied, "No, I'm not." 

GOP Witness Eileen O'Connor responded, "I am not." 

GOP Witness Bruce Dubinsky answered, "I have not." 

In another moment, Turley confessed, "I do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment.”

Even the GOP didn’t like it:

NEW: Frustration in the GOP over 1st impeachment hearing, as the GOP witnesses undercut their narrative &say no evidence of crimes. 

“Picking witnesses that refute House Republicans arguments for impeachment is mind blowing. This is an unmitigated disaster," said senior R aide.

Well, except the House Judiciary Committee, which reported in from Fantasy Island 🏝️:

. @GOPoversight and @RepJamesComer are crushing it at this hearing. 

-Witnesses testify that we’ve passed the threshold of evidence to open the President Joe Biden impeachment inquiry. 

-Mountains of evidence showing Biden Family influence peddling 

-Only the beginning.

No one else saw it that way.

Cavuto: For the better part of six hours, I have been following these hearings, talk an hour off to do my fox business show earlier today. I don't know what was achieved… None or the witnesses provided any proof for impeachment

And, also, too: 

The way this was built up was, ‘Where there’s smoke there’s fire’ …Well, we just got a lot more smoke.”

Smoke gets in your eyes, ya know.

Not even James Comer agreed with the Judiciary Committee:

Even Comer knows the hearing didn’t do well: This hearing wasn't supposed to be about fireworks and bells and whistles

But before that:

Jared Moskowicz, always the Happy Warrior, then said that as a former FEMA Director he recognizes a disaster when he sees one. He then let Republicans on the committee know that Steve Bannon was over on his podcast ranting and raving about how incompetent they were and how terrible Turley was as a witness.

 When Kweisi Mfume made a motion to subpoena Giuliani in order to get some first hand information, Comer called for a vote on his motion to deny Mfume’s motion, and the only two Republicans voting for it were Comer and Jordan. The rest had left the room, knowing a train wreck when they see one.

And if there’s any doubt what this hearing is about:

Greg Casar then challenged every member of the committee to raise their hands if they believed that both Trump and Hunter Biden should be held accountable if juries convicted them of their pending indictments. All Democrats held their hands up, no Republicans did.

No report on how many Republicans were actually in the room at the time. 

A splendid time was had by all. But the closing question is : who is the bigger fool?

1) James Comer, the head Bozo of this clown show;

 or

2) Steve Bannon, for expecting anything more than this?

Lines are open; this is a free call.