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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Hunter Biden thing.
Don't give up ANYTHING to the Republicans? Fight tooth-and-nail and tell them to go pound sand and see ya in court? Give them a taste of their own medicine?
-OR-
Go into the belly of the beast and show you have nothing to hide? Look bored as hell going through the motions and let the whole affair reveal a brazen political hit?
Whichever route, Republicans will twist themselves in knots to "prove" something.
I'm conflicted as I see both approaches.
What say you?
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)Circle jerks help dump I think.
pwb
(11,294 posts).
NCDem47
(2,252 posts)Let's hope a majority of voters agree with us.
Doesn't mean Republicans won't take this to the max.
I'd love for it to be a big, fat dud that no one is inetrested in or covering.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Rstrstx
(1,399 posts)Maybe agree to something like a hostage exchange where the House gets the people they're asking for in exchange for agreement to testify in the Senate. But once we start letting anyone testify without something in return we're letting them frame the narrative. They should get NOTHING until Barr and Trump allow people to testify before Congress. You have to play hardball with these people, virtue is a weakness to them.
genxlib
(5,546 posts)Express outrage that Obama investigated Trump
Meanwhile
Use the power of the Senate to investigate Biden
grumpyduck
(6,275 posts)but I agree that going thru the motions, like just responding to requests and such, and pretty much shrugging it off like there's nothing there, would pan out. If nothing else, the media will focus on this report or that report or this investigation or something else and show that nothing is coming up, instead of focusing on the Bidens refusing to give us material and covering up something. Put the focus on the prosecutors, not on the defendants.
leftieNanner
(15,180 posts)I say give them NOTHING! Make them take it to court. Drag it out.
If they get anything at all, they will make it sound completely nefarious. Kind of like Comey's BS announcement 11 days before the 2016 election.
FIGHT LIKE THEY DO!
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)DVRacer
(707 posts)Its just a baboon throwing crap at a wall.
Shermann
(7,458 posts)There's no way to stop that. It's what they do. The more smoke they can manufacture, the more fire there must be.
They really are the masters of that. In one breath they pull that off, and in the next blow off a 448-page Mueller report as a "nothing-burger". You can't beat them at their own game.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)All i see is unelected Trumps running amok in our government
hunter
(38,338 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)Court is boring and slow. Minimize the number of news cycles they can dominate with this nonsense.
I advocate maximum resistance through the judicial system.
-Laelth