Quite Revealing - Most Republicans on impeachment committees aren't showing up, transcripts reveal

[kpete]

Republicans have for weeks blasted the closed-door impeachment process, but transcripts released this week of private depositions show most GOP lawmakers on the three panels at the center of the probe have simply not shown up.

The low attendance for most committee Republicans paints a very different picture of a party that recently stormed the secure room where the depositions have been conducted, demanding to participate in the process. Republican questioning during these private interviews have been driven by a handful of President Donald Trump’s allies and GOP staff.

Conservative Republicans, many closely tied to Trump from the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, have led the GOP questioning, a preview of the coming tumultuous public impeachment process. What is unclear is what role, if any, other Republicans will play.

When they’ve asked questions during these depositions, the president’s allies have criticized the impeachment process, dived into witnesses’ timelines on the Ukraine scandal and resurfaced other controversies, like the so-called Steele dossier.


https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/gop-questions-private-depositions-foreshadow-public-hearings

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[spinbaby]

2. If they don't show up...

...they can pretend they don’t know what’s going on and avoid having to comment on Dump’s crimes in public.

[iluvtennis]

10. That's their game plan. nt

[democratisphere]

3. rethuglicons aren't willing to accept the reality that is in their face.

Eventually they will have NO choice.

[usaf-vet]

13. Lying for them is always the first best option.

[calimary]

14. When the hearings go public next week, those empty seats will

not only be VERY noticeable, but they won’t escape comment. LOTS of comment.

[Zoonart]

4. They are lazy and feckless... just like MF45.

All they are good for is on camera stunts. They, like their "Boss", are all about stuffing their pockets and posturing on the TEE VEE.
They are not at all about the serious job of governance.

[bdamomma]

5. I hope

they suffer the consequences of being arrogant and ignorant of the facts that are being presented. They are totally ignoring their jobs of protecting and serving the Constitution. Crap just vote them out.

[woodsprite]

6. Isn't that the equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears. nt

[yaesu]

7. If the fascist pigs get too carried away with their off topic finger pointing just shut their mics

off. They would and have done it to us plenty of times. Don't let them run the public hearings, shut them down, quick.

[infullview]

8. I think this comes under the heading of "hear no evil"...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. So, basically, they're not doing their jobs

What happens to the rest of us when we don't do our jobs is what should happen to them as well. We'll see what happens in 2020.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. That's fine. When the voting starts, go ahead and do it, like they are trying to do in one of ...

North Carolina (or South?) w/o all of the reps there. Just go ahead and do it w/o the republican reps (as long as we have a quorum). There is a roll call that's recorded and it'll show that they (the repugs) didn't bother to show up. So, if they didn't bother to show up, so what? Go ahead and vote on impeachment and pass it. Perhaps we can even do this in the Senate if they are not showing up, we can get rump impeached in both chambers if they don't show (House we're okay, the Senate . . . the numbers are a little shaky).

Perhaps both chambers can repeal the 2017 tax cut and jobs bill too, when the repugs are not showing up either?

[Hortensis]

12. Thanks for posting, KPete. Roll Call's a high quality source.

[struggle4progress]

15. "Should I act like a Congressman or just bloviate and posture? Eeny meeny miney moe ..."

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. they are NOT "conservative Republicans"

They are destructive. They do not conserve anything except power to destroy. The Republican party ceased to be conservative long ago; they simply redefined the term, through gaslighting, to cover their coalition of ideological extremists.

Failing to attend the depositions is an intentional act to preserve deniability so they can continue the destruction of government. It's the same reason Lindsey Graham denies having read the transcripts. Without facts, they can freely attack the process.