Walt 1111am - The hubris of this woman and her minions is mind boggling.

Administrivia - Gentle people, I'm doing my best to have you keep your comments under the relevant commentary posts. Current impeachment comments belong under the recent Scattershots where I again raise the issue. If your comments disappear, it could be because Typepad erroneously put them into the spam folder (from which I rescue them as often as possible), or I delete them because the commenter is not paying attention to my posts. If you don't care about what I write, you're on the wrong website. RR always has an open Sandbox for topics I don't cover, but when there's proximal post with the topic of your comment, then PLEASE place it accordingly. It's a pain in the ass to take time deleting otherwise fine comments in the wrong place. Thank you.

CarlosC 751am - You missed it again. "All" we could think about was not even close to considering the illegal alien's "paperz". In fact, no apparatchik in our government bureaucracies gave it a second thought. Having illegals penetrate our borders, igonore our laws, and drive recklessly with out a license (among other such behaviors) is the new norm for America. Only on a few commentary blogs like RR is the issue of their arrivals, presence, and conduct brought up and discussed. Your side dunning such discussions beautifully illustrates 'America Askew'.

RobertC 404pm - So you seem to have missed my point again about Schiff's timing. PaulE 416pm - Re Hillary, Comey brought up and told everyone of all the evidence that over 30 prosecutors across the country signed a letter stating that they were willing to prosecute on what the FBI dug up. Why do you think Comey came up with that historical press conference to defend Hillary on the totally irrelevant assumption of intent?

CarlosC 1014am - So, as I surmised in my 915pm, you have absolutely nothing to offer that is substantive to back your TDS tirade. All you can do is repeat your fervent hope that somehow he won't make it to November and face someone from the clown car in the election. Recall, that only you of the Left equate allegations with evidence.

We did happen to be watching and were more than surprised when suddenly Schiff read Trump's tweet about Yovaonvitch while she was still testifying and not checking her phone. In short, no matter how you assess the president's tweet, she would not have known of it until after her testimony. Schiff's reading it to her seemed to be a purposeful political ploy to unsettle the witness and get more lamestream media points on the air in real time. It's funny that we seen no one, save Walt, to have noticed, mentioned, nor understood that little interlude. Did I miss it on FN?

PaulE 932pm - Paul, please stop digging; this is getting too embarrassing.

CarlosC 812pm - Do you have any semblance of support for your conclusion, or is that just another progressive wet dream? Ask yourself why you and yours are scared shitless about running against Trump next November. Were he even a tenth of what your mouthings claim, then you could beat him at the polls, and get ten prosecutors to go after him as a civilian for all the 'evidence' of criminality that you guys claim to have against the President. You'll have him in jail in no time. But starting with Nancy and ending with you in these foothills, all of you are whistling past the graveyard of chances with the American electorate. Paul 848pm - I can't find where ToddJ said anything like that; help me out. But you can also save time if you remember that I'm a constitutionalist of the Scalia school.

PaulE 350pm - I have no idea what you are talking about.

Who’s Mark Sanford??

Gov Patrick has a snowball's chance in Hell as a latecomer, and thus will be duly ignored as an also ran in this contest.

CarlosC 420pm - You’d get a lot more traction with such comments if you or yours would just document a couple of errors or ‘fake news’ items that outlets you don’t like put out.

PaulE, then who would ever believe the results of a vanity poll that is published for public consumption? It seems that the vanity pollsters real utility is for private clients who want the (confidential) truth for their own planning purposes.

What’s a vanity poll?

Well here’s a sorely needed hit for the House; today they held a hearing the outcome of which pleased literally everyone involved with the impeachment circus. It’s not often that such contentious affairs wind up making both sides smile and asking for more of the same.

PaulE 200pm - You've done it again. You explain nothing, illuminate nothing, provide no new perspective, share no belief, ..., but are expert at changing direction and asking another disconnected question which would perhaps deliver the sought after gotcha. How would you answer those questions?

PaulE 1222pm - Of course Paul. One of the main staves of the Dems' impeach platform is to prove that Trump's Ukraine policy has been against US national interest because it weakened our ally Ukraine. The facts show that to be blatantly false. Trump is the first president to provide Ukraine with real military aid with which to counter Russian aggression. Obama did nothing of the sort, and therefore did weaken our ally in the face of the Russian onslaught. In short, that's another argument of the Dems that can't join their desperate list of impeachable offenses.

I wonder if any of the Repubs on the committee will pick up on the blankets vs tank killers aid to Ukraine.

DonJ 1127am - who in these pages are certain that fossil fuels have nothing to do with climate change? (see also 13nov19 Ruminations update)

It's good not to confuse "fools and fanatics (who) are always certain of themselves" with flaneurs (cf Taleb) who present reasoned apologetics in support of credos which remain open to revision.

Topic gentlemen.

BillT 615pm - Thank you for posting that updated datum Mr Tozer. A fundamental tenet of Rebane Doctrine has been that the Left and the Democratic Party have become the virulent anti-American political faction in the land. There is very little about our country and its history that they can tolerate, and there is nothing about its unique history and embracing culture that they want to communicate to our young. They want to change everything they see and witness in this country into some compliant second rate nation that no longer will be the dream destination of most of the world’s population.