Joyce Vance, Barb McQuade and Dean have done a nice job showing Heritage Found. lacky, Malcolm

[hlthe2b]

(John Malcolm) for the bullshitter (like Barr) that he is. He comes out looking really bad, IMO.

BTW, he is responsible for Kavanagh being nominated.


For those who didn't see the hearings this afternoon, please see the FULL video below. John Dean was great, but my biggest congrats and praise has to go to Barbara McQuade and Joyce White Vance--two former Federal prosecutors (now law professors) whose experience, concise answers, preparedness and surgical dissection of the Republican's attempts at "gotcha questions" were both just phenomenal.

I thought they were a great choice (though I have great love and respect for the likes of Laurence Tribe, Norm Eisen, Neal Katyal and others), but I honestly don't think anyone could have done better than these incredibly competent women!

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

1. Malcom...

I’ve seen cleaner garbage dumps.

[hlthe2b]

2. Special kick of appreciation for Barb McQuade and Joyce White Vance!

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Yes! Two of my favorite former prosecuters.

[blue neen]

3. Dean, Vance, and McQuade were all great.

They did an amazing job of getting important info about Trump's obstruction out there.

[Volaris]

15. And they didn't let his enablers grandstand.

And not for nothing, but this is one of the reasons why the SC won't allow cameras in; audio only ...

Because they knew if they did, most of the respect, decourm, and FEAR that lawyers have for the court as in institution would be out the window, and lawyers would get up there and grandstand for the cameras. Congress should start taking seriously it's own rules of decourm and professionalism , and start slapping it's own members with censure and contempt citations for doing shit like Lindsey did during the Kavanaugh sessions...
And there SHOULD be real penalties for that nonsense ...if I get three write-ups at work, I get fired and won't be ALLOWED to com back heh...

Just my two cents, and yes, I understand that Republicans would weaponize the everliving fuck out of it for their own benefit , so please don't yell at me lol...

[stuffmatters]

4. Haughty Macolm was the perfect rep for arrogant loopholerism of The Federalist Judge Factory too.

Pedantic, obnoxious, condescending, smug throughout just like the rest of the Heritage/Federalist/Koch legal product (from Thomas to Kavanaugh)

[MontanaMama]

5. Malcolm at one point whined

that he was lonely because nobody was asking him any questions.

[hlthe2b]

6. Which was nice because it further diminshed him as an "expert"

Granted that was only possible because we hold the majority, but boy was it nice to see us use our power wisely.

[MontanaMama]

7. Agree 100%

I thought Nadler did a great job chairing and Gym Jordan, Matt Gaetz and crew looked like overwrought emotional basket cases. They didn’t even try not being assholes.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. I don't think they ever could imagine, let alone stop being complete assholes. DNA?

[Volaris]

16. That's cause they're terrified that the house will actually impeach.

If they KNOW he should go, and don't vote for it, the base won't be big enough to save them .
If they vote to remove , I guarantee Trump will mail all the dirt he has on them to the fake news as revenge.

Welp,...not my circius, not my monkey. Sorry guys, not fuckin sorry...you did this TO YOURSELVES SO WELCOME TO THE PARTY OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AHAHAHAHHAA!

[StarfishSaver]

11. So true

He was exposed as just what he was - a potted plant with nothing useful to contribute.

[StarfishSaver]

10. They were outstanding

One of the things I loved about their testimony is that they weren't there to push for or against impeachment. They just brought their expertise to analyze the very specific and narrow issue of obstruction of justice. They were substantive, poised, sharp, quick on the uptake and didn't put up with any crap.

[BigmanPigman]

12. "I'm fucked" at 2:18 in the video. Love it!

The Donald said "This is the end of my presidency" when Mueller was hired. Was this on TV?

[samnsara]

13. they were great! Loved how Dean said the phone rang in his ear...

...i need to look up his wife Maureen. I was in my very early 20s and my memory of the trial was watching Dean testify and his wife, Mo, behind him...her beautiful platinum blond bun.. so classy!

[MySideOfTown]

14. Malcolm said Dirty Don could have fired them all directly,

so why didn't he? Instead he tried to corruptly enlist his minions to do his dirty work and it came off as appearing to be obstruction to the minions. Why was that? I wish someone had asked him, as I think he presented himself pretty well, though I disagree with the ideology, it would have been a question I would have liked to hear him answer.

The ladies did well. I wonder if Dean was the correct actor for the pilot of Season One of the impeachment show. We shall see.

[Volaris]

18. 'he could have fired them directly... why didn't he?'

Because even Donald Goddamn Trump isn't stupid enough to recreate the Saturday Night Massacre.

[Ztolkins]

17. I really like Vance and McQuade

But couldn't they have gotten former attorneys not associated with MSNBC?

[samnsara]

19. Loved those two together. What a formidable force!

[HAB911]

20. Joyce Vance, Barb McQuade

ON POINT. Concise. Unbiased. Love them both