Friday, November 15, 2019

I've Only Heard It's a Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham....



“I think it works as a political argument and it doesn’t resonate with people … especially when Jim Jordan reads that long answer where he says, you know, it’s ‘six people having four conversations,’ and by the end of it you don’t really know what you started with,” McCarthy said. “But legally what I would be concerned about is that they’re eventually walking right into a left hook, because when you keep saying, ‘hearsay, hearsay, hearsay,’ you are raising the importance of the statement, and you’re suggesting that this would be really damaging if it were from a source that’s actually admissible rather than a hearsay source.”

And the fact that an NPR reporter this morning, just before the hearing started, pointed out the witnesses with first-hand knowledge have been specifically blocked from testifying by the White House.  The "hearsay!" cry is already failing among reporters.  And it doesn't really undermine the force of the statements of people like Marie Yovanovich (whose opening statement is particularly powerful, especially up against the drivel and poor recitation skills of Devin Nunes).  Her closing comments are about the public servants who serve the people.  That description implicitly draws in the Representatives she is addressing.  Now watch the GOP members of the committee fall to squabbling in order to "prove" this hearing is a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.  By making a mockery of the proceedings.  The contrast is going to be delicious, especially as the Republicans try to paint Yovanovich's ouster as justified because she served at the pleasure of the President (but no President can act without oversight of his actions, or without being called to account for them, especially to reveal when those actions serve corrupt purposes).

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