Schiff: Difference not between Nixon and Trump, it's that Congress and this one.

[kpete]

SCHIFF: "The difference between [the Nixon era] and now is not the difference between Nixon and Trump. It's the difference between that Congress and this one."

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Schiff was just spectacular!

[mobeau69]

2. Powerful statement by a patriot.

[Roland99]

3. Wow

[dragonlady]

4. That closing statement reminds me so much of Cicero's orations n/t

[Botany]

7. I was thinking more of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

It was like Adam had spent a lifetime for that moment and to be at that place.

BTW Schiff has a little ham in him too. Adjourned. Bam!

[soldierant]

9. It would not surprise me to learn

that both Cummings and Schiff had studies Cicero. Not just as part of their schooling, but independently, recognizing his greatness and learning from it.

[BootinUp]

5. A whopper of truth. Nt

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Thanks kpete.

[ancianita]

8. Exactly. The difference is in the seriousness with which these congresses take their oaths of office

Previously that oath was a commitment to all they said and did. Now that oath is more like "guidelines" that can be ignored when expedient.