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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Dem Humiliates Matt Gaetz By Fact-Checking Him In Real Time During Impeachment Hearing
From the article:
Why wont you help us move along the critical issues that are far more important than your partisan impeachment? the GOP lawmaker yelled.
Democratic Rep. David Cicilline calmly shot back, Let me begin by dispelling the claim that Mr. Gaetz just made. This has been one of the most productive Congresses in modern history.
To read more:
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/12/09/matt-gaetz-humiliated-on-live-tv-after-house-dem-fact-checks-him-during-impeachment-hearing.html
The problem with the GOP alternate news based strategy is that actual fact undercuts that strategy.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,520 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)czarjak
(11,306 posts)TryLogic
(1,723 posts)sheshe2
(83,986 posts)That was a great smackdown.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)A suggestion. He is such a smirking moron.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)if he just drank and didn't go to work.
sheshe2
(83,986 posts)He is just a loud drunk that talks and acts like the fool he is.
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Id love to see a chalk-line drawn on the floor of a committee room, or even a General Session, with another representative telling him to focus on walking it, heel-to-toe.
Wake the fuck up, FL Panhandle voters! Find someone to replace his sorry ass!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And like Trump, has an obviously high opinion of himself.
brewens
(13,637 posts)doesn't count as real legislation to these people.
Leith
(7,813 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)crickets
(25,988 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)the time I wanted. I apologize for making people slog through Gaetz's diatribe. But Cicilline's and Swalwell's parts are poetry to make up for it.
I looked to see if CSPAN broke the hearing up into pieces, but they didn't.
Maven
(10,533 posts)"They're the deadbeats blocking the hundreds of bills we've passed in this session."
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,167 posts)Gaetz et al speak to their choir and it believes them.
Ponietz
(3,050 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,356 posts)Okay he would have gotten drunk anyways but now he had an excuse.