GOP Counsel Steve Castor's nonsensical argument:

[madaboutharry]

Translation: "You didn't interview everyone. We obstructed the witnesses from testifying but you should have threatened them with Contempt of Congress and who knows, maybe they would have shown up."

Mr. Castor should be ashamed of himself for uttering this bullshit.

[NewJeffCT]

1. haven't they found several in contempt of congress already

like Bill Barr - twice

[dem4decades]

2. He has no shame. A republican characteristic.

[CincyDem]

3. Their fundamental argument is "just wait a while for Trump to become reasonable".

[TruckFump]

4. Circular firing squad

That seems an apt description of where he went.

Bunch of BS nonsense.

[Pachamama]

5. They admit to obstruction of justice and being in contempt and that makes Dems wrong?

Wow....

[Atticus]

6. Castor: "What is this 'shame' you speak of?" nt

[H2O Man]

7. It's all he's got.

While I don't care for Castor, I do understand that as an attorney for House republicans, he couldn't come out and say, "Trump is guilty as sin, and you've caught him!" But he knows. He is coming across as weakly as he did, because there's no alternative available.

[Johonny]

8. Nadler should call his bluff. If Castor has witnesses, produce them or shut up!

[struggle4progress]

9. "Flush early and often! Ten or fifteen times!"

[TomSlick]

10. This was Prof. Turley's argument.

The argument is that Congress can't vote to impeach until it goes through three levels of federal courts requiring each witness to appear and then goes through those three levels of federal courts again when each witness appears but refuses to answer questions.

In other words, Trump controls the pace of the impeachment process by obstruction. A truly bizarre argument.