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With virus crisis raging, Pelosi and Schiff ramp up new Trump investigations
2020-04-03
[Washington Examiner] The team is back in action. On Thursday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the creation of the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis. The new panel will have the authority to investigate any aspect of the virus emergency and the Trump administration's handling of it.

Pelosi's announcement came a day after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff called for a 9/11-style independent commission to investigate "mistakes" in the virus response. Shortly after that, Schiff told the Washington Post that in Congress, House Democrats must investigate the Trump administration's handling of virus testing and the government's distribution of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers.

"We need to make sure there's no favoritism in terms of political allies, no discrimination against states or governors based on lack of presidential flattery," Schiff said, indicating the probe would be aimed squarely at President Trump.

Less than three months after sending to the Senate impeachment articles to remove the president from office and less than two months after the Senate trial ended in Trump's acquittal, the Pelosi-Schiff team is up and running again.
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  "Cocaine Mitch" is the nominal Senate Majority Leader and supposed badass.

Why isn't he proposing investigations into Obama era malfeasance in our prep for these events?

Oh right, because it's all kayfabe to the GOP.
Posted by: charger   2020-04-03 13:53  

#15  
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2020-04-03 12:26  

#14  Grom's comment #2 is correct. We are living in a Gods of the Copybook Headings world.
Consider all the destruction occurring, economic and otherwise. Just think how bad it would be if the Green Nude Eel were implemented.
Posted by: Spot   2020-04-03 11:41  

#13  They'll lose the house in November.

Until then, I'm certain there are lamposts in need of decorating.
Posted by: Crusader   2020-04-03 11:04  

#12  (sigh) I thought I could stop using the dread 'Shitshow' phrases - serious times, and we're all suffering now - but these people are determined to raise their Shitshow tentpoles yet again.

And again, and again.

Truly, they're deranged. These people have an obsessive-compulsive disorder that demands clinical treatment.
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-03 10:35  

#11  They should actually try to do good things so that in 2024 they'll have a chance. As is they are scorching the Earth and America won't forget.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-04-03 10:30  

#10  They should actually try to do good things so that in 2024 they'll have a chance. As is they are scorching the Earth and America won't forget.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-04-03 10:30  

#9  They don’t know what to do that Trump and the various governors haven’t done so they will either around with another phony investigation into the virus by a bunch of Ozero holdovers and try to pin that massive incompetence on Trump
First question the Republican members of those committees should ask of witnesses is “who appointed you to your position?”
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2020-04-03 09:12  

#8  Sailing a little close to the wind....
Posted by: Slavish Lumumba6243   2020-04-03 08:50  

#7  If we cannot be rid of them, they must certainly worthy of the award of Thomas Becket's three Cornish choughs Argent.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-03 07:55  

#6  I cannot wait to see Trump's tweets to Pelosi if we take back the House in November - this is breathtaking scumbaggery.
Posted by: Raj   2020-04-03 06:54  

#5  ..well, they do seem to congregate together a lot.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-03 06:53  

#4  Lord, please deliver us from these hateful, spiteful, incompetent nutjobs in the House.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-04-03 06:44  

#3  
See comment #4 in this thread.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2020-04-03 06:32  

#2  A dog returns to its vomit?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-03 05:10  

#1  ...Hell, they gotta do something - Biden is dead in the water, there's not going to be a triumphant coronation at the national convention (for that matter, Bernie hasn't given up yet) and if we pull out of this with fewer than 200K deaths, Trump will be a hero. They're prepared to say/do anything at this point.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2020-04-03 04:33  

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