Nadler Is Incompetent?

For John, BLUF:  That would be US Representative Jerry Nadler, Democrat from New York and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The Adam Schiff Empowerment Act

From The Washington Examiner, by Columnist Byron York, 31 October 2019.

The House resolution to start an Impeachment inquiry has passed, 232 to 196, with 4 not voting.  Here is an excerpt from the column:

"It says they are authorized to disclose depositions," Meadows noted, "which means they can pick and choose which depositions they will release."  Perhaps Schiff will release them all.  But he doesn't have to.

The resolution would also give Schiff the authority to call and conduct public hearings on impeachment.  Schiff will control the witnesses.  Although there has been some discussion about whether Republicans will have the right to call witnesses, the resolution only gives the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Community, Rep. Devin Nunes, the right to ask Schiff to call a witness.

"To allow for full evaluation of minority witness requests, the ranking minority member may submit to the chair, in writing, any requests for witness testimony relevant to the investigation," the resolution says.  "Any such request shall be accompanied by a detailed written justification of the relevance of the testimony of each requested witnesses to the investigation."  Republicans will get nothing that Schiff does not approve.

"There's no guarantee we can call any witnesses," said Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, a member of the Intelligence Committee, in an interview Wednesday.

"The rules the Democrats rammed through simply confirm the absolute control Schiff has been exercising this entire time," Nunes said.  "He shouldn't be involved in impeachment at all since none of this has any intelligence component, but Pelosi obviously thinks Nadler is incompetent."

That was a reference to Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.  The Judiciary panel traditionally handles impeachments, but after disastrous hearings with Robert Mueller and Corey Lewandowski, Nadler did not inspire confidence that he could run a successful impeachment effort.  So Pelosi passed him by in favor of Schiff.

We are off to the races.  I hope there are no major miscalculations by any of the parties.

For sure, to me, this looks like an effort to undo the 2016 election, the one Ms Clinton lost, due to over confidence.  That is sad.  Andy Jackson though he was rooked out of the Presidency in 1824, but his approach was to win big in 1828.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff