I was even more impressed by his closing words.
I also thought that was excellent...(BTW, it's Elijah Cummings, not John Lewis) His opening statement where he declared that the days of the House Oversight Committee being used to provide cover rather than oversight for the Administration are over was also spot on...
Elsewhere in this forum I have had a fair bit of criticism for many of the Democratic Presidential candidates and some of their policy positions, but I have to say I have seen nothing whatsoever to make me regret my decision to support a Democratic takeover of the House...
A few of the junior Demo members have gotten out over their skis on occasion, but in terms of the leadership and strategic choices made by those calling the shots on the three principle committees most responsible for holding Trump and his Administration to account for their misdeeds (which was my whole reason for supporting the Dems taking back the House in the first place) The Oversight Committee, The Intelligence Committee, and the Judiciary Committee....
I think the chairmen of those committees...Elijah Cummings, Adam Schiff, and Jerry Nadler respectively...
Have thus far at least been pretty much pitch perfect in terms of their approach and level of professionalism. They're not dilly dallying, and they're not allowing the opposition to derail the investigations, but they're not rushing ahead with an irresponsible attitude of triumphalism either...
They are proceeding steadily forward in a thoughtful, methodical, and careful way...
That's
exactly the balance I had hoped for, and the approach that will ultimately have the best chance of building evidence-based public support for Trump's Impeachment and Removal, should we (hopefully) get to that point...
On the other hand, the Republican members on these committees have made quite clear by their statements where we would be if the GOP had retained control...
Yet more diversionary rabbit hole "hearings" chasing Rod Rosenstein, the Steel Dossier, Uranium One and other assorted squirrels...
Faux hearings designed to assist Trump in obstructing justice and protect him from genuine investigations; nothing
remotely resembling an honest search for the truth...
Shameful and disgraceful; since the new Congress convened they appear to have redoubled their efforts to show why they richly deserved to lose control of the House, and to demonstrate their complete unfitness to be entrusted with oversight of the Executive branch...
As a life long Republican it pains me deeply to have to say that, but facts are facts...
The good news is that now that they are in the minority all they can do is carp and whine ineffectually; they no longer set or control the agenda...
