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By all accounts, including their own, the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday are going to engage a strategy of pure Stupid, no chaser. On Wednesday, the committee will hear from a series of constitutional experts in what I believe is the vain hope of convincing our slugabed republic that the president* is worthy of being turfed out back to his Florida redoubt. What could be a very valuable civics lesson for the country is going to be conducted with a claque of Republicans determined to turn the whole exercise into a monkeyhouse.

Consider that the Republicans on the HJC include Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, and Louie Gohmert. The ranking Republican, Chris Collins of Georgia, no shrinking violet his own self, plans to torture Robertss Rules in several horrible ways to gum up the proceedings, thereby giving his more lunatic colleagues more time to screech and fling poo. And, if this account from The New York Times is to be believed, the committee warfare well may be sadly asymmetrical.

So Nadler is going to try and restrain his more enthusiastic colleagues while Collins frees up his pack of crazoids to let their freak flags fly. Gravitas, because thats worked so well in a country that elected a vulgar talking yam to its highest office. I am already dreading this.

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Meanwhile, back at the House Intelligence Committee, in an attempt to pre-empt the majority report expected to be released on Tuesday, the Republicans issued their own collection of fairy tales late Monday afternoon. As you might have expected, the Republican report represents an El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago fanzine unlike any other. From CBS News:

Here, for example, are the further adventures of the president* as international crime-buster.

And off to the zoo, we go.

They got nothing. But they can put on a show. And they will.

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The Republicans Will Let Their Freak Flags Fly. The Democrats Will Do 'Gravitas.' - Esquire.com