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Post by goldenvalley on Mar 18, 2024 15:23:33 GMT
These guys Comer and Jordan were long on theory but lacked evidence. Seems like all they could come up with is that Hunter Biden is Joe Biden's son and James Biden is Joe's brother. All their leaps to a conclusion rested only on those two facts. |
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Post by andydp on Mar 21, 2024 13:11:45 GMT
More crickets. Interesting sidelight: one of the GOP Witnesses was via remote from an Alabama Federal Prison where he is serving time for fraud. Needing a win, GOP’s Comer produced yet another impeachment dudThe last couple of paragraphs say it all: As part of yesterday’s proceedings, the panel’s members heard sworn testimony from Lev Parnas, a former Rudy Giuliani associate who shed fresh light on a Republican scheme to smear Biden ahead of the 2020 elections. At one point, Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts explained, “When you review the entire record of evidence of these hearings going back over a year, you’ve actually provided more evidence to impeach Donald Trump for a third time than you have in so much as laying a glove on Joe Biden.”www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maddow-blog-needing-a-win-gop-s-comer-produced-yet-another-impeachment-dud/ar-BB1khNKh?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=72bd862282cc4dda98c44569876f659a&ei=40From the article but it makes a good point: Last week, White House counsel Ed Siskel took the unusual step of writing a detailed letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, making the case to the Louisiana Republican that it’s “obviously time to move on” from the failed impeachment effort. A Washington Post analysis added soon after that the correspondence might’ve been a tactical mistake: GOP officials would inevitably resisting ending the inquiry in response to the letter, for fear of giving the appearance of retreating under pressure from Team Biden. But what if that was the point? What if the White House wants to keep this fiasco going, knowing that it’s making Comer and his cohorts look ridiculous? |
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Post by goldenvalley on Mar 21, 2024 14:03:50 GMT
More crickets. Interesting sidelight: one of the GOP Witnesses was via remote from an Alabama Federal Prison where he is serving time for fraud. Needing a win, GOP’s Comer produced yet another impeachment dudBut what if that was the point? What if the White House wants to keep this fiasco going, knowing that it’s making Comer and his cohorts look ridiculous? How many people are noticing that Comer and his crew look ridiculous? The credulous folks that will vote for the former president anyway will just say more investigation is needed and that's what Comer is doing. Maybe a few undecided types might notice but this is one election in which I wonder if those who say they are undecided truly are. Sometimes I think the undecideds just haven't decided if they will bother to vote at all. Politico has some video clips of the hearing for those who want a very condensed version. |
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Post by andydp on Mar 22, 2024 15:15:00 GMT
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" I find it hard to believe (<< satire) there has been almost no news about this. The only ones saying anything are Fox News. I like the word "shambolic". The House GOP’s shambolic Biden impeachment is dead — and Fox News dealt the fatal blowIt’s time to call it: The House GOP’s shambolic inquiry into the impeachment of President Joe Biden expired on Wednesday night at 9:01 p.m. That’s when Sean Hannity opened his Fox News show by promising “highlights” from the day’s “explosive” hearing with Hunter Biden’s former business partners — and then immediately pivoted to a monologue not about its revelations, but about the president’s poll numbers. Hannity did more than perhaps any other single figure to will the impeachment probe into existence. Since 2018, he has led a Fox propaganda campaign aimed at using lies about the younger Biden’s foreign business interests to damage his father’s political standing. The resulting House Republican impeachment effort has both followed Fox’s lead and played out in large part on its airwaves. But it has utterly failed to produce evidence of wrongdoing by the president that would convince anyone other than the network’s most fervent fans. If even Hannity can no longer feign enthusiasm about the impeachment effort, it is truly toast — and Fox itself deserves a big share of the blame for leading Republicans into this debacle.www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-house-gop-s-shambolic-biden-impeachment-is-dead-and-fox-news-dealt-the-fatal-blow/ar-BB1kldlY?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=a82258a769df4cf3872a780bdd4dddda&ei=15
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Post by goldenvalley on Mar 24, 2024 0:08:11 GMT
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" I find it hard to believe (<< satire) there has been almost no news about this. The only ones saying anything are Fox News. I like the word "shambolic". The House GOP’s shambolic Biden impeachment is dead — and Fox News dealt the fatal blowIt’s time to call it: The House GOP’s shambolic inquiry into the impeachment of President Joe Biden expired on Wednesday night at 9:01 p.m. That’s when Sean Hannity opened his Fox News show by promising “highlights” from the day’s “explosive” hearing with Hunter Biden’s former business partners — and then immediately pivoted to a monologue not about its revelations, but about the president’s poll numbers. Hannity did more than perhaps any other single figure to will the impeachment probe into existence. Since 2018, he has led a Fox propaganda campaign aimed at using lies about the younger Biden’s foreign business interests to damage his father’s political standing. The resulting House Republican impeachment effort has both followed Fox’s lead and played out in large part on its airwaves. But it has utterly failed to produce evidence of wrongdoing by the president that would convince anyone other than the network’s most fervent fans. If even Hannity can no longer feign enthusiasm about the impeachment effort, it is truly toast — and Fox itself deserves a big share of the blame for leading Republicans into this debacle.www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-house-gop-s-shambolic-biden-impeachment-is-dead-and-fox-news-dealt-the-fatal-blow/ar-BB1kldlY?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=a82258a769df4cf3872a780bdd4dddda&ei=15 I think Comer hasn’t officially declared it dead yet which he will never do. Trump needs it to be ongoing as part of his campaign as do the Reps on that committee. They are all up for re-election. They get to be on Fox and other media talking about it. The mainstream media has never found it too interesting and wrote it off a long time ago. |
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Post by andydp on Apr 6, 2024 15:10:29 GMT
Bring out your dead (horse) ! And the beating of (dead) meat continues: CIA says whistleblower allegation touted by GOP in Joe Biden impeachment probe is 'false'House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter to the CIA in March saying a whistleblower informed them the CIA blocked the Department of Justice and IRS investigators from interviewing a benefactor of Hunter Biden. BUT... The CIA called the allegation “false” in a letter obtained by USA TODAY and sent to the chairs on Thursday. “Without confirming or denying the existence of any associations for communications, CIA did not prevent or seek to prevent IRS or DOJ from conducting any such interview. The allegation is false,” CIA director of congressional affairs James Catella wrote. www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cia-says-whistleblower-allegation-touted-by-gop-in-joe-biden-impeachment-probe-is-false/ar-BB1l9b3k?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=2d77595b7c194ed3b937d974603862c9&ei=15 |
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Post by goldenvalley on Apr 7, 2024 15:33:10 GMT
Bring out your dead (horse) ! And the beating of (dead) meat continues: It keeps the claim that the Biden Crime Family is just as bad as the Trump Crime Family alive. The proponents get quoted on Twit-X and get tv hits from Fox and the other so called networks. It's all they want. Flood the zone with s*%t as Bannon said. Speaking of Bannon why isn't he doing time for refusing to appear...Navaroo is in prison now. |
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Post by Bact PhD on Apr 17, 2024 21:38:30 GMT
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Post by andydp on Apr 27, 2024 11:37:22 GMT
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Post by goldenvalley on Apr 29, 2024 15:53:22 GMT
Yes they should have stopped "covering" it when it fizzled out. But they should have reported that it fizzled instead of remaining silent. Viewers of Fox have to be like readers of Soviet Pravda who figured out the harvest was bad in any given year because Pravda didn't run stories on how bountiful and record breaking the harvest was. But I doubt Fox viewers noticed the absence of stories about a Biden impeachment...there is so much else that is repeated. And so most viewers think it's still ongoing and/or that Biden's people throttled the investigation. |
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