(09-13-2016 03:32 PM)philosophical_recovery Wrote: Chaffetz just went into the Assistant FBI director without lube:
Quote:You don't get to decide what I get to see. I get to see it ALL.
I was elected by some 800,000 people to come to congress and see classified information. I was elected by my colleagues here to be the chairman of this committee. That's how our constitution works. Will the FBI provide the congress with the full file without redactions?
Then I'm going to issue a subpoena, and I'm going to do it right now. So let's go. I've signed this subpoena. We want all the 302s and we would like the full file. You can accept service on behalf of the FBI?
You are hereby served.
He has started the impeachment for the IRS head for the Tea Party scandal.
Dude needs to keep this high energy and keep rolling.
If you watch Chaffetz in hearings in the past, he always tears into people like this.
I posted these hearings on the forum a while back. He even quotes Breitbart.
Rejecting amnesty proposals back in 2013.
While I like Chaffetz's subpoena he is just a second rate Trey Gowdy. Gowdy questions people in a way that boxes them into eating their own words. From the same hearing.
If I recall correctly Gowdy was a very good lawyer before coming to Congress. He is VERY good at cross examination.
Hopefully they will keep working as a team. The rest of the Republicans in Congress showed their true colors yesterday. These two need all the help they can get.
(09-14-2016 09:35 AM)TravelerKai Wrote: If I recall correctly Gowdy was a very good lawyer before coming to Congress. He is VERY good at cross examination.
Hopefully they will keep working as a team. The rest of the Republicans in Congress showed their true colors yesterday. These two need all the help they can get.
Gowdy said he is retiring after his term is done. Partly because he choked on the Hillary Clinton/Benghazi testimony, partly because I think he was threatened. That hearing was his worst performance ever, and he was sweating like a pig. His statements on it were very "FBI James Comey"
After that ended he went back to his regular attack dog self.
(09-14-2016 08:25 AM)Dr. Howard Wrote: While I like Chaffetz's subpoena he is just a second rate Trey Gowdy. Gowdy questions people in a way that boxes them into eating their own words. From the same hearing.
Fortunately we don't have to pick just one Congressman. There are dozens of them, in fact
(09-14-2016 09:46 AM)Dr. Howard Wrote: Gowdy said he is retiring after his term is done. Partly because he choked on the Hillary Clinton/Benghazi testimony, partly because I think he was threatened. That hearing was his worst performance ever, and he was sweating like a pig. His statements on it were very "FBI James Comey"
After that ended he went back to his regular attack dog self.
I agree. He was probably worried about accidentally shooting himself in the back of his head twice. Which still makes him a coward. Does he want to live forever? Is this election not a hill worth dying on?
Should have found your balls Trey. Cuck.
That's the key difference here. Chaffetz appears to have the requisite testicular fortitude to power through this investigation of FBI corruption. I hope he makes sure he has a spotter when he's benching.
Quote:There are concerns about Hillary’s health in the DNC, how this may effect debate performance, and there is talk of replacing Hillary as the Democrat party candidate with Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Tim Kaine, or even Michelle Obama.
The first problem is Hillary herself. In my opinion, Hillary would have to either go into a coma or be dead before she would willingly drop out, and since she is on the ballot in all of the states, it is technically up to her. Hillary Clinton is the person on the ballots in the states, not “the Democrat Party”.
If Hillary stays on while the Democrat Party pushes another candidate, the Democrats will have two candidates, which will split the vote and they will lose. So the Democrats MUST get Hillary OFF the ballot if they want to run another candidate.
If the states stick hard to their filing deadlines, and the replacement for Hillary cannot get on the ballots in those states, it’s over.
The “blue” states in this list add up to 84 EVs, and the “swing” states add up to 91 EVs.
Another problem is the GOP may step in and block the rule change. They wouldn’t have to ultimately win the case, all they would have to do is keep it tied up in court until mid-October, and they’d only have to do it in a few states to make a Trump win assured.
And frankly, the GOP would have a case – they had to nominate a candidate on the basis of a bloody primary that appeals to be GOP base – they didn’t get to just pick the best general election candidate. Whereas the new Democrat candidate would be skipping that whole battle and the Democrat party could just put in their best general election candidate – someone who probably wouldn’t have made it through the primary. Imagine if the Republicans just got to say, “nah, we don’t like Trump. Lets put in Rubio” – Rubio would win by 10 points, and the Democrats would rightfully say that’s unfair.
But states can bend the rules. And lets say every single blue or swing state on this list is willing to ignore the deadline rules and allow on the new Democrat candidate and the Republicans don’t intervene at all. The next problem would be, ironically, early and absentee voting.
Once early / absentee voting begins, you literally have votes already cast, i.e. the election has already started, and it seems to me that states would be unwilling to let a party change candidates once voting has already begun.
By September 27th, the “blue states” starting early voting will amount to 103 electoral votes, while the “swing states” starting early voting will amount to 97 electoral votes.
In reality though, it’s not a given that all of the blue or swing states will be willing to ignore their deadlines, and it’s likely that even less of those would be willing to let the democrats change their candidate once early / absentee voting has started.
This is ironic because democrats have normally been the big pushers for early voting, which is probably because they depend more on the low-info voter who is more easily bamboozled by “the news” and beliefs pushed at schools, and thus Republicans tend to close the gap over time. Basically Democrats want to blast you with narrative early when their big media is all you see, before you can find any alternative information sources, and then get you to make your decision immediately after being blasted.
But now this early voting, designed to shorten the time Repbulicans have to break through Democrat media dominance, might prevent states from taking Hillary off the ballot.
LOL@ Rubio winning by ten points. If Rubio was going to win by 10 points, then he would have been winning states in the primary.
What he is not saying: lets say Hillary goes into a coma or dies in the next few weeks, it would be Sanders(or whoever) running instead but the ballots simply would still say "Clinton/Kaine", but it would be well known that Clinton was dead or in a coma, and the electoral college would simply make the change when the votes are finalized if Sanders happened to win. We have checks and balances for that.
There would be an easy way to squelch Hillary's health rumors if she was indeed healthy. She could volunteer to be examined by the heads of internal medicine, neurology, and cardiovascular at the top medical schools in the nation, and give the physicians complete carte blanch to report their results.
If she was healthy she would do this and the issue would be put aside, and she'd probably win the presidency.
She of course won't do this because she is gravely ill ( probably Parkinson's).
After the Clintons die, Bill and Hillary I see many former Secret Service agents telling many stuff about the Clintons, they will wait until they both die, is to dangerous to spill th beans on them while they are still alive.