DEMS are debating right now whether they have Cap Police drag the HOUE GOP out of the SCIF...

[demmiblue]

DEMS are debating right now whether they have Cap Police drag the HOUE GOP out of the SCIF for shutting down the impeachment inquiry.

There is a fear that this would play right into the GOP’s hands. Maybe the resched and put Cap Police there to guard it next time

Link to tweet

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. History repeats itself.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/15/its-insanity-how-brooks-brothers-riot-killed-recount-miami/

[dalton99a]

6. Same old shit.

[demmiblue]

7. Yep (though, this time, violating U.S. security protocols). Assholes, all of them. n/t

[dchill]

8. +1

[California_Republic]

9. Bingo

[UpInArms]

10. My first thought

Am sick to death of these thugs

[Dennis Donovan]

15. Thanks for the earworm!

[True Blue American]

38. The same thing they did in Florida to stop the recount.

[calimary]

45. These were all republi-CON operatives and Congressional staffers.

This was a stunt in every sense of the word.

[Solomon]

65. Kavanaugh is in that picture somewhere.

[grumpyduck]

2. Sure, act like a bunch of spoiled brats in grammar school.

That'll get you a lot of respect at election time.

[OKNancy]

3. I read they are trying to sneak in cell phones

They are really scared of the testimony to be given

[Blue_Tires]

19. That's intentional

they're trying to get the testimony invalidated by breaching a couple dozen security protocols...

[calimary]

47. Unfortunately for this bunch, they're a day late.

The turning-point testimony was Ambassador Taylor’s presentation yesterday, that nearly everyone who’s commented on it describes as “damning.”

[JHB]

55. The only wrong part of that is the sneaking

There's video of at least one who went in holding his phone high.

Others are giving updates from inside the room on Twitter. And then following up with "all updated
by staff outside the room", without saying how they're communicating with their staffer allegedly outside the room.

[Guilded Lilly]

4. No more fear. Drag them out.

[RAB910]

5. The GOP is GUILTY of obstructing justice

don't just drag them out, drag them to prison

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

11. Hmmm...

Maybe they could vote to censure them? 🙄 😡

[Dennis Donovan]

12. Fucking WOW! Their panic perspiration must be super-funky by now

Seriously stanky... They might have to decommission that SCIF...

[58Sunliner]

13. Dirty, filthy, pukes.

[StarfishSaver]

14. MSNBC reporter just referred to this as a "stunt"

And then went on to discuss Cooper's and Taylor's testimony.

Excellent.

A few weeks ago, they would have let this distract from their coverage of the substance and would have referred to it as some kind of "both sides" situation. Instead, he called it out for what it is.

[Claritie Pixie]

16. Obstruction! Unauthorized SCIF entry, with their phones!

What on earth are they so afraid of?

[demmiblue]

17. Intel Dem @RepMikeQuigley said it would be up to leadership to consider whether to file ethics...

Intel Dem @RepMikeQuigley said it would be up to leadership to consider whether to file ethics complaints against R’s who “pushed their way in” to scif — says they took photos/filmed in the House’s secure classified spaces

“They have no respect for” the process.

Link to tweet

[Iliyah]

27. "They have no respect for" the process . . .

Isn't that the Republicans newly talking point? That Democrats are not following procedural rules for Impeachment inquiry?

If so, I think they just foot there foot in their mouths.

[Blue_Tires]

18. WHERE ARE THE GUARDS?

Some "secure" room that is...

[SCVDem]

20. Meanwhile

dump is giving another diatribe which I am not watching.

This is not what Rachel promised.

[bearsfootball516]

32. Love Rachel, but she promises a lot of things.

Her job is to get ratings.

[Delmette2.0]

21. Why is this happening when the President is about to address the nation

about Syria? Is this timing planning to minimize news coverage?

[gratuitous]

22. Tip for the Democrats: If you don't make this stunt cost them, they'll do it again

Because they did it before without consequences.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. they'll do it as long as it's a net gain for them

Lock 'em up.

[Duppers]

25. Exactly!

This IOKIYAR crap must stop. Dems need to get in front of microphones at every opportunity.
Tell the uninformed public what's going on because the news won't.

[MarcA]

60. Agreed. Record the events, speak to the public.

Maybe call a recess. If the disruptors of democracy haven't left or try
to come back in, have Cap Police remove them.

[StarfishSaver]

28. More "tips" for the Democrats ...

I'm sure they'll take it under advisement since they don't know what they're doing nearly as much as the anonymous people barking orders at them from behind their keyboards.

[coti]

33. But you, Starfish, YOU know what you're doing....right?

Driest powder on DU, and proud of it, I'm sure.

[StarfishSaver]

35. I probably know more than most people here - but I also know I don't know nearly as much

as the people actually in the ring making the decision and doing the work.

So, unlike people who know considerably less than I do, I don't perch on my keyboard second-guessing them at every turn, offering instructions and "tips" on what their next move must be.

[stopdiggin]

64. you got it.

and here we are .. back to "driest powder." That sure didn't take long!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

49. Bingo

[gratuitous]

37. Saw-ree!

But having seen naked Republican lawlessness overrun so many governmental forms over the last 50 years (from Nixon's "secret plan" to end the Vietnam war; the original -gate, Watergate; Ford's pardon of Nixon; the Reagan campaign's interference in Iran; Iran/contra cut short by Poppy's lame duck Christmas Eve pardon parade, the 2000 election fiasco where every Republican machination was reported as being on the up and up - including the Brooks Brothers riot - while Democrats' insistence on following Florida election law then in place was relentless reported as the height of suspicious activity; the gaslighting of the American people so that the Bush II administration could launch two invasions and occupations; to the relentless law-breaking of the Trump administration and now watching these bumbling nincompoops compromising a secure area, I thought a price should be paid at long last. But instead, let's hold hands, sing Kum Ba Yah, and hope that these bomb-throwing back-benchers will suddenly and spontaneously decide to behave themselves.

Or did you have something else in mind?

[StarfishSaver]

39. What "price" do you suggest the House make them pay that will make them "suddenly and spontaneously

decide to behave themselves"?

[gratuitous]

42. You're the one who said saying or doing anything is pointless

I suggested something be done, but now that that's been labeled as "barking orders" by my betters, I've fallen in line behind them, and realize that despite the unbroken record of perfidy from Nixon to Trump, doing nothing is best and hoping that Republicans suddenly and spontaneously decide to behave themselves is truly the way our nation needs to go. Thank you for enlightening me.

[stopdiggin]

63. read your post

the person you responded to said no such thing. AND .. beyond a long diatribe on the perfidy of the GOP, your post offered little in the way of method, actions or response. In short .. what you would DO.

"I suggested something be done .."

Yes, you did .. while offering nothing in terms of what "something" might be. And, as clearly intended, implied (once again) that "nothing is being done!" .. and that this all stems from a unconscionable lack of willpower (or backbone) on the part of our leadership.

So now we're back (in record short time) to comments on "keeping our powder driest" and "doing nothing is best" .. impugning the motives of all offering an opposing view, and getting quite huffy when they respond in disagreement.

Your tender feelings are best protected .. when not throwing brickbats at others.

[lagomorph777]

23. Cooper must have testimony that will implicate them all criminally.

Very important to get these criminals locked up ASAP.

[RandySF]

26. DO IT!!!!

[RobertDevereaux]

29. Horrendous, unacceptable, the tactics of fascist thugs.

[jayschool2013]

30. Meanwhile on Fox News

[coti]

31. If I had a dime for every time "there was fear that..." blah blah blah

They have to stop it with the second-guessing themselves. That's what's gotten us here.

[Kurt V.]

34. +1

[kacekwl]

36. Go to lunch and come back

to a REALLY secure room and continue.

[grantcart]

40. Put guards at the door and let them in one by one

[kacekwl]

52. Yup.

[George II]

41. I'd LOVE to see them all marched with their hands cuffed behind their backs like they do...

...with mass arrests at demonstrations.

Then lock them ALL in that cell in the basement of the Capitol and don't let them go until all their attorneys show up.

[muntrv]

43. Debating? Do it!

[Talitha]

44. Doesn't the SCIF have internally operated locks on the doors?

If not, I bet it will soon.

[Tarc]

46. The Capitol police should use whatever riot control means are at their discretion

I'd pay good money to see the likes of Gaetz pissing his pants and writhing on the floor after being tased a few times.

[MyNameGoesHere]

48. I would be tempted to do something the repiglicants love

Invoke Castle Law and deal with the intruders.

[NRaleighLiberal]

50. lock them all the fuck up. criminals, all

[Mr. Ected]

51. If we play this smart, and knowing Pelosi, Schiff et al., we will

All these Congressional felons will eventually see the inside of a prison cell. We need to choose our battles carefully. This is just a publicity stunt. Time for a reset and then bar the door.

[Captain Zero]

53. Lock them in it?

Works for me. The arrest them one by one as they beg to be let out.

[Midnight Writer]

54. The Republican's storm a classified meeting, and the Democrats debate whether to call the cops?

No need for debate, Democrats. This is your House. Defend it first.

If a bully is taking your lunch, they will continue to take your lunch until you deal with them.

[Arazi]

56. Lock them inside..they want to occupy it, make them stay in there

Don't play into the media circus by trying to arrest them, let them stay in there and tantrum alone.

Lock the door tho so no bathroom breaks, food or water so they don't stay all night and prevent business tomorrow

[pecosbob]

57. Rollup in a wheelchair to a hearing to protest health care policy

and the Capitol Police will have you ziptied and booked in five minutes. WTF?

[Vinca]

58. I wonder if the military could bring in a portable, secure room that would fit only

the committee and the witness. Put armed guards around the sucker and continue on.

[hotrod0808]

59. Not having them arrested

was the most cowardly thing they did. Who cares how it looks? They put national security in peril with their unsecured phones inside the facility, on and tweeting the whole time. They are traitors, pure and simple, and they need to be treated as such. I hope they find the balls to strip security clearances and remove them from committees over this...but they won't.

[ananda]

61. Why didn't they shut the room down?

How the fuck were they allowed to get pizza
in there?

!!!!!

[Hekate]

62. THUGS. Brooks Brothers Riots Redux. And how richly those original Bros were rewarded by the GOP.