Impeachment is closing in on Trump, so Republicans are throwing a tantrum

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When the going gets tough, Republicans throw tantrums.

Please, America, don't believe for a second that Republicans — led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) — were committing some kind of principled civil disobedience on Wednesday when they stormed a closed-door hearing of the House Intelligence Committee. Gaetz and his colleagues talked about demanding transparency, but they didn't need to break into the meeting to get it: They could have just asked the GOP members of the committee for an update.

The point of this charade wasn't transparency or due process. It was disruption.

President Trump and his allies have never had much use for America's laws and institutions. As impeachment draws near, though, it is increasingly clear that for Trumpist members of the Republican Party, we have now entered the "that's a nice Congress you have there — be a shame if anything happened to it" phase of the proceedings.

Republicans say they are just trying to protect the sanctity of the 2016 election result, positioning themselves as democratic heroes for their actions. But in emphasizing that election, they implicitly discount the idea that Congress has a Constitutional role to play in holding presidents accountable — and that Democrats won elections of their own in order to carry out that responsibility.

"Their attempt to act like Freedom Riders is really an attack on the committee system in Congress." Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) pointed out afterwards.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/impeachment-is-closing-in-on-trump-so-republicans-are-throwing-a-tantrum/ar-AAJh49G?ocid=msn360

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1. It bears repeating:

they implicitly discount the idea that Congress has a Constitutional role to play in holding presidents accountable — and that Democrats won elections of their own in order to carry out that responsibility.