If today didn’t take all! I have not commented much about the impeachment goings on. But today’s schoolboy stunt by the Rethuglicans who are not on the House Intelligence, Foreign Relations or Oversight Committees deserves excoriating comment.
These people sought to derail today’s scheduled hearing by rushing the secure conference room where the hearing was being held. One idiot, upon entering the room, took a video of himself bragging as he broke the law. A schoolboy’s stunt, pure and simple. One that says, “Hey, look at us!”
They are all members of Congress. They all know the rules. They all know that the current investigation is equivalent to a grand jury proceeding. They all know that grand jury proceedings are kept secret. They all know that, when the investigation is complete, they will all be read into it, and will vote on the Articles of Impeachment. They all know this.
Yet, they decided to commit a crime in order to hold up the hearings. They acted like a bunch of punky schoolboys who were out to harass the teacher they don’t like. They were led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, Fl., whose level of immaturity parallels that of his golden idol, Trump. “Oh, DOD is testifying today. Let’s break that up.” And so, they rushed a closed-door hearing, complete with cell phone/cameras, which is illegal.
The levels to which the Rethuglicans will stoop to thwart testimony unfavorable to their golden idol is amazing. They have sacrificed all dignity. They have no integrity. They will lie for this man. They will commit crimes for this man. They will die for this man. My question is: why?
It is true that power is a powerful aphrodisiac. But is that hold on power worth what the Rethuglicans have done to themselves, and allowed their golden idol to do to them? How do they stand up straight and walk as men after such an undignified, amateurish, childish display?
Some years ago, I saw video of an all out brawl, ,with fisticuffs, which happened at a meeting of the Japanese Diet, or parliament. I remember how people laughed at the collective immaturity of this governing body of Japan. Today, the Congress of the United States of America became a laughingstock.
Americans who love our country should be disturbed by this ridiculous behavior exhibited by our elected representatives. Our Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves. The dignity of the institution has been trampled. The credibility of the House as a lawmaking body has been compromised. Further erosion of our democratic republic has occurred. And the golden idol for whose benefit they did this can still cry, “Unfair!” “Witch hunt!” “Lynching!”
What their golden idol has done is indefensible. Yet the Rethuglicans continue to attempt to defend him. What they have done to destroy the nobility, decorum and dignity of the Institution under whose Dome they serve is appalling. The jobs of all 197 Republican members of the House are up for grabs in 2020. Vote them OUT!
VOTE!!!!!
Anne Keller