{"id":178188,"date":"2019-02-12T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/12\/inside-baseball-dc-politics-editions\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T01:43:00","slug":"inside-baseball-dc-politics-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/12\/inside-baseball-dc-politics-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Baseball, DC Politics Editions"},"content":{"rendered":"
It appears that the inside-the-beltway crowd is completely losing their sh%$ over the fact that the House Judiciary Committee has hired high powered attorneys Norman Eisen and Barry Berke<\/a>.<\/div>\n

It appears that by hiring some white shoe lawyers the Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (R-NY), some people are convinced that impeachment is just around the corner.<\/p>\n

I don’t fault Nadler, he’s doing his job, or for the lawyers for giving up what are doubtless very well remunerated positions for public, but the breathless coverage is a bit much.<\/p>\n

This is just basic, though laudable, due diligence.<\/p>\n

Chill the F%$# out:<\/p>\n

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday that they had retained two elite white-collar litigators and prominent legal critics of President Trump to help begin inquiries into some of the most sensitive allegations involving the president, including ethics violations, corruption and possible obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n

The committee\u2019s chairman, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, has not committed to opening a formal impeachment inquiry. But the addition of the two lawyers, Norman L. Eisen and Barry H. Berke, indicates that the Democrats do not intend to wait for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to finish his work to begin weighing issues that could ultimately be wrapped up in such a proceeding.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Retaining two counsels of Mr. Eisen and Mr. Berke\u2019s caliber is relatively unusual for a congressional committee, and it underscores the new legal and political jeopardy the president faces in a House controlled by Democrats. Just in the last week, Democrats in the chamber have begun laying the groundwork<\/a> to try to obtain Mr. Trump\u2019s long-concealed tax returns and restarted a broad investigation<\/a> into his ties not only to Russia but also to other foreign entities that could have financial or other leverage over the president or his associates. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I expect there to be investigations, and I expect them to find a lot, because there is a f%$# load of sh%$ to find, but if the rest of us spend the next 23 months waiting with baited breath for its results, there is a lot of evil that Trump and his Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup> will accomplish.<\/p>\n

There are Nazis to punch while Representative Nadler does his job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It appears that the inside-the-beltway crowd is completely losing their sh%$ over the fact that the House Judiciary Committee has hired high powered attorneys Norman Eisen and Barry Berke. It appears that by hiring some white shoe lawyers the Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (R-NY), some people are convinced that impeachment is just around the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,368,407,374],"class_list":["post-178188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-justice","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}