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Let’s Hear It for the Young Pups in the House!

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Not sure that Goldman is a young pup, but he is a freshman, so I’m gonna call it close enough.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    Nice. Glad to see something positive come out of these hearings — putting a spotlight on our young talent.

  2. 2.

    Jeffro

    When trump eventually goes to hell, and he will, I hope they play Rep Crockett’s remarks on a loop broadcast out loudly over his particular lake of fire for the first five million years.

  8. 8.

    West of the Rockies

    So one Republican aide declared the impeachment effort thus far a disaster.  Is that how it’s playing on Fox and National Review, etc?

  9. 9.

    Yarrow

    Young Pups in the House!

    Reminds me of the fawning coverage of the Republican Young Guns over a decade ago. McCarthy is the last one standing.

  13. 13.

    Dangerman

    Meanwhile, Trump is bitching that if they don’t impeach Biden right now, he’s going to hold his breath until his face turns blue. Or a bluish orange. Or whatever the hell blue mixed with orange makes.

  14. 14.

    piratedan

    really impressed by the breadth of the attacks….

    showing they have no proof of wrongdoing – check

    showing it’s performative theatre while a shutdown looms – check

    showing the encompassing hypocrisy – check

    putting the GOP on the record that this is about revenge – check

  15. 15.

    HumboldtBlue

    Wow! American workers are not mincing words. You have to see this new ad calling out Trump for his broken promises.

    It’s nice to see the Dems landing right hook after right hook, someone has massively improved their social media presence and effectiveness across the board.

    The Democrat highlights from this hearing are going to be played for years to come.

    Another excellent use of a chart highlighting that Trump has 50% of the impeachments and 100% of the Presidential indictments

  21. 21.

    Jeffro

    Raskin, omg: “I would like the member (MTG) to be instructed to not produce any pron [on the House floor] today” LOLOLOLOLOL

  26. 26.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    The contrast between the smart, informed Ds and the Rs and their witnesses is stunning

    ETA: In the last thread, there’s a clip of AOC handing the Rs their asses over a false image of what was supposedly a text. That’s fact checking in real time, MSM

  29. 29.

    Jeffro

    “X” is not worth shit anymore, we all know that…

    …except on days like today, when I’m seeing clip after clip that has me in stitches and ready to vote eight times this November.

    GO HOUSE Ds!

  30. 30.

    Dangerman

    @Jeffro: Speaking of which, now that the Writer’s Strike is over, with her enhanced attributes, if Boebert needs some extra cash, she can likely find work in the San Fernando Valley.

    Those films do use writers, right? And why is it always plumbers coming to the house? Why not electricians?

  35. 35.

    West of the Rockies

    @piratedan:

    I guess I’m feeling cynical.   I think the reason for cutting away was probably, “We go now to breaking news–Commander attacked another Secret Service agent!”

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Goldman is 47. Crockett is 42.

    During the NY-10 primary, two of Goldman’s “Justice Democrats” opponents , Mondaire Jones and Yuh-Line Niou, started campaigning on an “anybody but Goldman” line; fortunately they were either too dumb, too narcissistic, or both, to flip a coin on who would drop out.

  41. 41.

    piratedan

    @West of the Rockies: to be honest, the GOP looks like dogshit when they don’t have control of everything… each time they expose their audience to the reality the rest of us live in… it goes badly.

    They bluster bigly and with many much confidence under friendly skies…. throw a few clouds in there and suddenly their bronzer runs and their hairpieces start to flap.

    I’m sure that the network execs at Newsmax and Faux, who have invested so much airtime inflating that bubble they live in hate to see it punctured.

  42. 42.

    Geminid

    Dan Goldman had a tough primary for the open 10th CD seat, winning with just 25.8% to runner up Yuh-line Niaoh’s 23.7. Now that Goldman’s in there though, I think he’ll hold that seat as long as he wants.

  47. 47.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @HumboldtBlue: MSNBC just showed an amusing video of Comer calling for a vote on a Raskin’s motion, to subpoena Lev Parnas and Rudi Giuliani, and all the empty seats on the Republican side. Apparently somebody went and rounded them all up

  49. 49.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Yarrow: that cracked me up at the time because I considered myself to have both feet solidly in “What’s gonna hurt for no reason today?” middle age, and The Randian Eddie Haskell of Janesville was the only “young gun” younger than I, and not by that much

  53. 53.

    BruceFromOhio

    Love that these folks take their positions and responsibilities seriously, and are passionate and articulate.

    Hate that these folks have to deal with stupid fascist bullshit instead of getting real work done.

    Dropped a note to Cheri Jacobus thanking her for support, and willingness to tolerate the wave of noise her announcement likely generated.

    I am very much looking forward to my call to Rep Max Miller’s office tomorrow, now I have additional material for the staffers.

  54. 54.

    BruceFromOhio

    @piratedan:

    I’m sure that the network execs at Newsmax and Faux, who have invested so much airtime inflating that bubble they live in hate to see it punctured.

    Throw some footage out there of squirrels running around with shiny objects and it’s all good.

  57. 57.

    BruceFromOhio

    @Baud: ​

    @OzarkHillbilly: ​
    First Pelosi stepped down and aside, and Jeffries stepped up and in.
    Now they all have the opportunity to exercise their individual and collective voices.
    This is the bulwark we need against the fascists if democracy is to survive.

  58. 58.

    bbleh

    @WaterGirl: O thank you.  I was looking for that earlier but it hadn’t been posted.

    I do like how they don’t even bother to address the Trump lawyers’ silly arguments, and they say only that “due deliberation” has been “had thereon.”

    [cut to conference room with panel judges]

    “HAhahahahaha!  AHAhahahaaaa!  OMG I can’t stop laughing!  Hahahahahaha!”

    “Yeah, did you see on page 7, that bit about his ‘political opponent?’  Omigod …!”

    “I swear he made his lawyers do that.  That has to be what happened.  Oh my, oh …”

    “Ok folks, settle down, we gotta write something.”  [snicker]  “Ok, what’re we gonna say?

    “I know! How about, ‘NOW THEREFORE it is ORDERED that said motion be crumpled into a tiny ball and shitcanned’?”

    “Maybe we could flush it down the toilet?  Y’know, like he used to do?  Hahahahahaha!”

  61. 61.

    Geminid

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan are out of office now, and the remaining Gun is not so young anymore. But the “Young Guns” label lives on in the Republicans’ Young Guns Program that supports candidates in close districts. Last year I was reading up on Illiinois Representative Lauren Underwood’s reelection campaign and I cracked up when I read that her opponent, dairy baron Jim Oberwies, was in the Young Guns program.

    Oberweis was 76 years old! Lauren Underwood was less than half his age.

  62. 62.

    Frankensteinbeck

    The only thing that impresses and surprises me about the show trial hearings the Republicans have held this year is the witnesses.  How drastically, ludicrously incompetent do you have to be to run a kangaroo court where your handpicked witnesses say you’re wrong?  It has happened repeatedly!  It’s not an actual investigation.  I’m serious about the ‘handpicked witnesses’ part.  They’re not just calling in anybody, they’re calling in the crackpots who will support their bullshit and failing.

  65. 65.

    delphinium

    @Steeplejack: ​
    Yep, they are doing an excellent job of calling out this clown show.
    Also, love the fact that they have the Republican shutdown clock right next to them when speaking so that will be in the news clips.

  66. 66.

    delphinium

    @Frankensteinbeck: My old manager had a saying “It’s like giving hand grenades to monkeys” when utter incompetence led to shit hitting the fan. That pretty much sums up the republicans in the House.

  67. 67.

    eversor

    @BruceFromOhio:

    I actually don’t object to diesel from a green perspective.  It has it’s uses.  We’re going to need gas powered vechicles for a bit and if we are going to do it diesel makes more sense.

    There’s also the fact that diesel vehicles run forever.  Our family still has a couple Mercedes from the 80s that are still going.

  75. 75.

    jonas

    The Dems should all show up in fishing gear next time — you know, with those khaki bucket hats with the fly lures in the band, and waders — because all this is is a fishing expedition. They basically admitted it on live tv: they’ve got nothing right now, but hope that if they talk in front of the cameras about Hunter Biden’s laptop enough (which now may get them sued, btw), something will eventually turn up that they can jump up and down enough on to make the case for impeaching *Joe* Biden. It’s all a very well thought-out plan.

    It’s also hilarious to think that were they actually interested in calling witnesses with purported first-hand information about Joe and Hunter Biden’s nefarious schemes in Ukraine, they might start with Lev Parnas, the shady fixer who first looped Giuliani into the Ukrainian underworld where all these Russian influencers were working that angle. Unfortunately, those witnesses, particularly Parnas, would simply testify to the facts that got *Trump* impeached the first time.  *Sad trombone

  76. 76.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    John McCain’s widow and son about to appear on MSNBC, in Nicolle Wallace’s usual spot, with a substitute host. I gotta wonder what those negotiations were like. I imagine could have gotten any slot they wanted from… whoever’s running MSNBC these days.

  79. 79.

    Gretchen

    I love how the House Dems are putting their talented young’uns like AOC, Matthew Frost, Crockett and Lee on important committees like Judiciary and Oversight and helping them learn the ropes. We’ve got a great bench.

  80. 80.

    Gretchen

    AOC got all the Republican witnesses to admit on the record  that none of them were first-hand witnesses to any wrongdoings by the President.

  81. 81.

    Geminid

    @jonas: Parnas has dirt to spill about events that were not covered in the impeachment, I think. Like you say, Parnas was mixed up in the Hunter Biden laptop operation.

    When I saw that Parnas was a possible witness I thought “Good! Get him and Giuliani to testify back-to-back.” Giuliani would have to either take the 5th, commit perjury, or admit to facts that would discredit this sham of an impeachment, all in front of the TV cameras.

  83. 83.

    pb3550

    These young Representatives give me great hope for the future of the country. They’re articulate, passionate, and very well prepared for the hearing.

  84. 84.

    Jeffro

    @jonas:The Dems should all show up in fishing gear next time — you know, with those khaki bucket hats with the fly lures in the band, and waders — because all this is is a fishing expedition.

    This is genius and I have to agree.

    If we’re going to be an “Idiocracy” – and clearly, the GOP is determined that we will be, at least for a while longer – then we ought to mock the living shit out of them in a way that plays well on TV.

    Also, I am already looking forward to the Republicans’ complaints:

    “Mr. Chairman, the esteemed members of the opposition are CLEARLY not taking this hearing seriously like we are” (audience literally dies in their seats from laughter)
    “Mr. Chairman, I move that the gentlelady from Texas please remove the bucket of live bait from the hearing room”

    and so on…LOL…

  85. 85.

    mrmoshpotato

    The Rethuglican party has been a goddamned fucking pile of shit since before the younger members of the House were even conceived!

    And then there’s that thieving shitstain George Warcriminal Bush letting our country be attacked, lying about why he invaded Iraq, letting New Orleans drown, and letting the economy collapse.  And I’m damn sure I’m forgetting a ton of things!

    Some members of the House are old enough, and young enough, to remember what a shitstain the GOP has been for their entire lives!

    Good on Rep. Crockett!

  87. 87.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Yarrow:

    Reminds me of the fawning coverage of the Republican Young Guns Slapdicks over a decade ago. McCarthy is the last one standing. 

    Fixed.

  88. 88.

    JaneE

    Seeing the quality of Democrats in the House, young pups and all, just makes me wonder even more about the voters who send GOP representatives to the House, people like Boebert or Johnson.

    We really need to field candidates in every district.

  90. 90.

    cain

    We’ve finally come to that wonderful time and place where our folks are feisty and ready to do battle like we’ve always wanted them to do over the past 20 years. With the old guard going away – we finally have folks who don’t give a shit about bipartisan and other 3rd way bullshit.

  91. 91.

    mrmoshpotato

    @piratedan:

    to be honest, the GOP looks like dogshit

    Way, way too wordy. Fixed. :)

    Strike through was being an ass, so I just deleted the unneeded paragraphs.

  92. 92.

    jimmiraybob

    I have never seen such damning insinuation, innuendo, accusations, assertions, fabricated evidence*, smoke and shiny objects as I witnessed during today’s Biden Impeachment inquiry. The weight of alternative-fact based evidence is overwhelming and irrefutable.

    …….

    …..

    ..

    Wait a minute. Something don’t seem right.

    *you should find the clip of AOC revealing that documentary evidence was fabricated.

  94. 94.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @cain: I don’t think there are any “centralist” Democrats left anymore, and that’s a good thing.

    This new generation of Democrats realizes that in the current political landscape, “bipartisanship” is a pipe dream.

    The Democrats know 1) the GOP is batshit crazy and 2) the media won’t say it, so they will. Out loud.

     

     

  97. 97.

    thalarctosMaritimus

    @JoyceH: I am *so* not a lawyer, but this item that came up when I googled the term makes me hope that it’s so much more than just that.

    Disgorgement is a remedy requiring a party who profits from illegal or wrongful acts to give up any profits they made as a result of that illegal or wrongful conduct. The purpose of this remedy is to prevent unjust enrichment and make illegal conduct unprofitable.

  100. 100.

    bbleh

    @pb3550: @The Thin Black Duke: @gwangung: YES thank you all very much, and hello MSM enough with the fkin “OMG Nancy so old!” FFS; have you been introduced to Mr Hakeem Jeffries?

    It’s hardly news that Republicans are fighting a long-term losing battle, and that at most they’re just smashing and grabbing while they can, but it seems it has to be reiterated over and over and over and …

  101. 101.

    tokyokie

    I live near Jasmine Crockett’s congressional district, but unfortunately, my congresscritter is the odious Kay Granger, one of the members of the group of GOP lawmakers who went to Russia on the Fourth of July a few years back, hoping for a chance to lick the boots of war criminal Vladimir Vladimirovich and maybe get some more of that sweeeeeet laundered Russkie campaign cash. (The enemy of humanity didn’t bother to meet with them; he’d already compromised every last one of them and they were of no further use to him.) Anyway, I may need to move a few miles east.

  102. 102.

    RaflW

    Popping by this thread late just to say: I love this.
    The best way to deal with these hearings is to point out how absurd and dumb this spectacle is. Congrats to the Dems for realizing that mocking is pitch-perfect. Treating the GOP-invited witnesses as legit would give this a sheen of reality it absolutely doesn’t deserve.

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