When House Republicans Act Like Campus Leftists

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republicans complain their "messaging" on impeachment isn't working. Yesterday encapsulates why. Like a bunch of lefty college kids shouting down a campus speaker they don't like, House Republicans have resorted to trying to deplatform House impeachment investigators.

A group of GOP House members stormed impeachment inquiry testimony this week and delayed it for five hours, huffing and puffing about how attempts to gain more information are just not fair to the president.

Left with no options to deny the weird shit that President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and their cronies were doing with Ukraine (since Trump et al can't stop talking about it and new officials keep confirming things), and finding the one-note minimization (no quid pro quo) isn't impressing American voters (who increasingly back impeachment), the Trump-bootlicking wing of the GOP has started parroting the president's favorite diversion tactic: insisting (contra all evidence and the U.S. Constitution) that there's something sneaky and wrong about how House impeachment investigators are looking into things.

The bulk of them are still trying to pretend to us and themselves that their moral spines aren't rotting corncobs. So focusing on some alleged violation of procedure lets them hold up impeachment proceedings without having to say outright that they think everything Trump has done here is wonderful or legally acceptable.

Some of Trump's legislative lackeys will say it's all OK, of course, but others have been leaving room to distance themselves if this all blows up.

https://reason.com/2019/10/25/when-house-republicans-act-like-campus-leftists/

[abqtommy]

1. Aww, you coulda said that reTHUGS "act-like-campus"-nazis That's a better optic for me.

I don't see anything wrong with shouting down speakers I, a lefty, don't like. First amendment and all that. Now a campus nazi will gladly commit a felony to make their point. That's illegal, see?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. That's a garbage metaphor. But then, what might one expect from a libertarian perspective?

[WyattKansas]

3. More Like Spoiled Rich Kids Showing Everyone That They Can Do...

Whatever the fuck they want and they are above everyone else.

That is why the result was FAILURE!