Article by Derek Hunter in "Townhall":
The subpoenas are flying like feces in the monkey cage. If you’ve
ever had your picture taken with President Donald Trump, anyone named
Trump, or walked past a Trump property, there’s a better than even
chance House Democrats will demand answers and documents from you in the
coming weeks. Maybe it’s time to turn the tables.
Democrats are searching, desperately, for anything to validate their push for impeachment.
They’re
only missing any evidence to justify the foregone conclusion they’re
gearing everything toward. It’s amazing what a political party will do
when they lack a candidate with charisma and an agenda with support.
With that in mind, Democrats have embraced the ancient art of “making sh*t up.”
Hearings
with no questions asked to elicit any information, just political
speeches delivered one soundbite at a time. Flat-out lies and fantasy
portrayed as “parody” broadcast across the country with no
“journalistic” pushback. It’s been a joke everyone whose job it is to
know better has been ignoring. But there is one thing Republicans could
do that couldn’t be ignored – put a few of these Democrats under oath.
The
idea of mutually assured destruction is used to keep order, not only in
the Cold War but in politics in general. Dirty tricks and lies have
always had their place, but they’re now the currency and the language of
the left. Making them pay up, even a little, might be the only way to
restore some semblance of sanity.
Witnesses before congressional committees must be sworn in,
must swear to tell the truth under penalty of perjury. Members of
Congress who ask the questions take no such oath; they’re free to lie
and lie freely.
While Democrats are dragging anyone they can think
of in front of nearly every committee in the House, desperately looking
for anything to justify their political “hail Mary,” maybe the Senate
should involve itself in the “hunt for truth.”
There’s nothing
stopping Republicans in the Senate from calling someone like Congressman
Adam Schiff to testify before some relevant committee, perhaps the
Judiciary Committee.
The
House handles impeachment, but the Senate has oversight duties as well.
Democrats like Schiff have been making declarative statements about
crimes and improper activities like he has secret and firsthand
knowledge of activities the country would be well-served to know. After
all, if Schiff has, like he’s said several times, evidence of collusion
between the Trump campaign and Russia, he should be asked to produce it,
under oath.
There’s also the curious case of how Schiff was
tweeting out the Democratic Party’s latest impeachment narrative
involving Ukraine weeks before he publicly claimed to have learned about
the phone call he “parodied” in the House last week.
Wouldn’t it be fun to see him under oath, testifying
under penalty of perjury, about what he knew and when he knew it?
Democrats dragged Corey Lewandowski up to the Hill for a hearing with no
other point than to embarrass him and the president (which backfired on
them horribly), maybe that favor should be returned by Senate
Republicans.
Schiff has made many declarative, unequivocal
statements of presidential crimes, claiming to have seen evidence
himself. The American people deserve to know, under penalty of perjury,
what exactly he knows that he’s keeping to himself.
He and other
Democrats, especially those Democrats with press credentials, will
express outrage over the move, they’d even likely try to challenge it in
court. But they really shouldn’t.
President Trump has released
everything related to the phone call with the Ukrainian president
Democrats insist is somehow a high crime or misdemeanor. Democrats
wouldn’t try to obstruct an investigation seeking the proof they’ve
declared they’ve found, right?
Of course they’d fight it, of course they’d complain, of course
they’d be outraged. But they’d probably lose on the fight over the
subpoena. Members of Congress are American citizens, and both the House
and Senate can subpoena anyone. Just think of how illuminating it would
be to get him under oath, to subpoena his phone/text records and emails
for the past year to get to the bottom of what he’s been telling the
American people. If he knows of presidential crimes, as he’s claimed, we
need to know about it.
Adam Schiff is a liar, but he never opens himself up to any
interview where he’ll be asked about it; he only sits with friendly
journalists who don’t press or call him out.
Either Adam Schiff
knows something or he doesn’t, has proof or he doesn’t, the American
people deserve to find out. Someone in the Senate, a committee chairman
like Lindsey Graham, is in the perfect position to get to the bottom of
it, or expose Schiff as the fraud he is. Either way, just think of how
much fun it would all be.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2019/10/01/senate-gop-should-give-democrats-a-dose-of-their-own-medicine-n2553917
