You can take your pick for the most famous liars in history - people who are willing to say anything for the sake of gaining and keeping power - but surely Rep. Adam Schiff has earned a place on that list.
I won't call Schiff a "Congenital liar" - as Fox News personality Sean Hannity does nightly - but only because the term excuses Schiff of personal responsibility for his behavior.
Since the rules of the Senate allowed Schiff to make his argument for 24 uninterrupted hours, it gave him the opportunity to frame the case against President Trump in fully partisan and factually deficient terms.
Schiff meant to castigate Trump, but the words are better directed at Schiff himself - for it is he who is "Seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity." It is he who has joined in the "Cry of danger to liberty." It is he who has taken "Every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion." It is he who has fallen in with "All the non sense of the zealots of the day."
We got plenty of sturm und drang as Schiff began to lay out the case against the president to an audience of virginal senators who were hearing only one side of the story for three straight days.
Consider for instance how Schiff conflates Hamilton's fear of "a man unprincipled in private life" with the framers' impeachment mechanism as a means to remove a president who has committed "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." They, of course, have nothing in common.
Adam Schiff has driven the country into a dark place where dissent is not allowed, where investigation of wrongdoing is abuse of power, and where self-defense is obstruction.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/27/lies_damned_lies_and_adam_schiffs_moving_lips_142233.html
I won't call Schiff a "Congenital liar" - as Fox News personality Sean Hannity does nightly - but only because the term excuses Schiff of personal responsibility for his behavior.
Since the rules of the Senate allowed Schiff to make his argument for 24 uninterrupted hours, it gave him the opportunity to frame the case against President Trump in fully partisan and factually deficient terms.
Schiff meant to castigate Trump, but the words are better directed at Schiff himself - for it is he who is "Seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity." It is he who has joined in the "Cry of danger to liberty." It is he who has taken "Every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion." It is he who has fallen in with "All the non sense of the zealots of the day."
We got plenty of sturm und drang as Schiff began to lay out the case against the president to an audience of virginal senators who were hearing only one side of the story for three straight days.
Consider for instance how Schiff conflates Hamilton's fear of "a man unprincipled in private life" with the framers' impeachment mechanism as a means to remove a president who has committed "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." They, of course, have nothing in common.
Adam Schiff has driven the country into a dark place where dissent is not allowed, where investigation of wrongdoing is abuse of power, and where self-defense is obstruction.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/27/lies_damned_lies_and_adam_schiffs_moving_lips_142233.html
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