ha ha Dems were little trouble-makers at Trey Gowdy's House Repug Comm yesterday...H. emails!!...

[riversedge]

Yes, family separation is bad. But what about Hillary Clinton’s emails?



https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-your-regular-order-is-out-of-order/2018/06/19/4eb3a586-7405-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?utm_term=.7285da2749e9&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
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Cummings: The administration's policy has created 'child internment camps'



by Dana Milbank Columnist June 19 at 7:47 PM Email the author

Babies are seized from their mothers’ arms. Photographs show their anguish. News reports describe their cages. A recording captures their wailing and a U.S. border official’s cold mockery. A defiant President Trump falsely blames others for the misery he created.

And Republican lawmakers respond as they often have: They hold another hearing about Hillary Clinton’s emails.

But they have run this play too many times before.

Just 29 seconds into Tuesday’s hearing on the defeated Democratic 2016 presidential nominee and her emails, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, interrupted to point out that something more important needs attention.

“We have seen the pictures of immigrants ripped apart from their parents at the border. These children are not animals,” he said. “They are children who have been forcibly removed from their parents in our name.”

Republicans on the committee tried to silence Nadler with calls of “order!”

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.). (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

Nadler spoke over them: “The United States should be better than this. We should not put children in cages.”

“Regular order!” called out Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee.


Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Nadler “has been given more time than would have been afforded the other side, had we pulled something like that.”

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As soon as Gowdy had silenced Nadler, two women in the back of the room, with infants in their laps, began to heckle the lawmakers about the inhumanity of Trump’s family separation policy.

Gowdy slammed the gavel to the dais and demanded that the mothers and babies be removed. (At least the Capitol Police had the good sense not to take the babies from the mothers.) “We will be in recess until the Capitol Police restore order!” Gowdy proclaimed.

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Shortly after the moms and babies were evicted from the room, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, spoke. “Are we really going to sit here, 70 members of the Congress of the United States of America, in 2018, and have a hearing .?.?. on Hillary Clinton’s emails?”

His voice rising, and at times breaking, Cummings continued: .........................................

But Republicans would not be distracted from their urgent and singular focus on Clinton’s emails. Unhappy that Clinton wasn’t charged in 2016 for mishandling her emails, they had demanded an investigation into the original investigation of Clinton..............................

[lagomorph777]

1. So effing lame. They can't possibly think that even their base can sustain interest forever

in a totally fake story.

Especially when the real story is so visceral.

[dreamland]

2. Her emails are the only thing they need to bring up

To keep their base from believing anything else more sinister is at hand. They have only one excuse for sTump to be in power and that's why they won't talk about anything else.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Kick

[Scurrilous]

4. K&R