Posted on 11/17/2019 10:36:56 AM PST by Kaslin
As chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, under the rules Herr Gruppenführer Schiff devised for his impeachment inquiry, he gets to begin every hearing with an opening statement, followed by opening statements from the witness — in Friday's iteration, Yovanovitch — and Republican ranking committee member Devin Nunes.
After the opening statements, Schiff gets 45 minutes, any portion of which he can delegate, at his discretion, to Democratic counsel Daniel Goldman. Nunes then gets his 45 minutes under the same rules. All this is followed by five-minute intervals of questioning alternating between members of each party.
Schiff's rules disallow the presence of White House counsel, and while Republicans can call witnesses, they must be approved by a committee vote, so essentially, Schiff decides, and that means no Republican witnesses.
Against all odds, and the predictions of...well, everybody, Republicans killed them at the Taylor/Kent hearing. The Republican members of HPSCI (If you Google "Republican Members of HPSCI," the first thing that "nonpartisan" Google gives you is the list of the Democratic Party members.), led by the 1970s band Jordan, Ratcliffe, and Stefanik, bludgeoned the two bureaucrats mercilessly. It was a great show.
The Republicans had a plan to do the same to Yovanovitch, and it was a good plan. It would have worked, too. After all, it succeeded against Blasey Ford with her tiny voice and gigantic glasses. Or at least it didn't fail, and it allowed Lindsey Graham time to find his testicular fortitude and pucker up.
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A new perspective ...interesting
“After the opening statements, Schiff gets 45 minutes, any portion of which he can delegate, at his discretion, to Democratic counsel Daniel Goldman. Nunes then gets his 45 minutes UNDER THE SAME RULES. All this is followed by five-minute intervals of questioning alternating between members of each party.”
Great, so Nunes can defer to the Democratic counsel, Daniel Goldman, too.
Some fair hearing. This is just crap.
Really?
I knew Schiff was a lying asshole, but friday he recealed himself to be a psychopath. Reading out a fresh Tweet by the POTUS about an incompetent FSO to the target while she was sitting there on camera before the whole world to get a complete unprotected fresh reaction was something beyond the pale. Like a serial killer watching a victim’s death thrawels while he twists the knife around her guts. Where we supposed to get the same “gotcha” joy he was getting? I bet he had to change his underwear after the show.
could this be one the reasons the Ukrainians complained about her: https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/ambassador-extraordinary-and-plenipotentiary-of-the-united-news-photo/977917798?adppopup=true
That's not bamboozling. That's being Shiffthead.
The Republicans made Schiff demonstrate to the world how unfair and insane the rules for the hearing are.
Well, apparently Schiff used the rules to keep Stefanic, who has been super effective in her questioning, from getting a block of time.
“Did they forget why they were there? We get it: the rules are unfair. Yet to have no plan to work within them was idiotic, and they deserved, to borrow a word from Barack Obama, that most dangerous of morons, the “shellacking” they got.”
Responding to an partisan impeachment sham should be an easy assignment for these people. They shouldn’t have to rely on a few stars. Any of them should have been able to hit it out of the park ... or they shouldn’t be up there.
That and she was super euromaiden in a nation where one third are not
I’m sure that was the Republican’s plan. Surely they are astute enough to become familiar with the unfair rules.
I can’t think of anything more inappropriate than an ambassador of the United States (or of any country for that matter) taking part in a political protest in the country to which they/zir/it is posted.
He relies on his Depends to take care of that.
Makes you wonder why Nunes seemingly wasn’t aware of the rule...and why didn’t they just hand their questions to the attorney then?
The upside is, Schiff showed his ass to the world.
Does anyone think that Adam Schiff is actually in charge here? Sure, he signals desperately, and tries to bully and intimidate the other members of the committee, but does he even have much control of the narrative? It seems to keep getting away from him, and he alternates between “the gentleman (or gentlelady) will suspend!” or wearing a “deer in the headlights” look.
While insightful, the author looks at the testimony in the wrong perspective and so misses the the Democrats purpose for involving Yovanovitch, Republican strategy to counter her role and how Republicans brilliantly turned the tables to make Yovo Schiffs biggest unforced error so far in the impeachment farce.
The Republicans absolutely de fused Yovo’s emotional appeal to working woman voters by killing the female job discrimination angle and her intended emotional crying for sympathy act and hit it out of the park with their questioning of yovanovitch.
Republicans politely and respectfully forced Yovanovitch to formally admit in sworn testimony
She served at Presidents pleasure Trump had absolute right to fire her for any and all reasons or even for no reason at all.
She still has a State Dept job and that job is a plumb position and dream billet for foreign service officers - a prestigious Senior Fellowship at even more prestigious GeorgeTown University so no retaliation or demotion for her - she was promoted up to a dream job
She has no evidence of wrongdoing of any kind by President Trump and she can identify no impeachable offense by Trump
She was removed from office before any of the events occurred so she has no first hand knowledge and she has never met Trump or most of other senior players
All information told to her by Amb Kent regarding Trump conversations was later found to be provably false
The only testimony she can give against Trump is that she is not happy with the way he terminated her and recalled her from Ukraine
What testimony she could provide about Ukraine corruption and the Bidens and Obama Admin was so incredibly damaging its hard to see how Democrats allowed her to be publicly questioned under oath
Fundamental is understanding that the house hearings only relevant as far as they document the Case Republicans will make to senate
At this point an impeachment vote in house is almost a foregone conclusion no matter what testimony is given and the house Kangaroo Court will vote to impeach .
Everything is about teeing things up for Senate hearings and for once Republicans did everything they needed to do and just nailed the execution
And his POP-eyes.......bug eyes......POop eyes? He must have a thyroid condition.
So then she should have walked over to Nunes and handed him what she was going to ask/say.
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