Is Adam Schiff The Right PErson To Investigate Trump?

@MistyCee Have you got someone that hasn't already mentally impeached the president?

OK - how about someone that doesn't HATE Trump?

Uhm, anybody that has gotten over Hillary's loss?

IS there anyone in your party that's honest?

Eh, maybe you're right.
Maybe Schiff is the best you could have done.

I’m not familiar with Democratic Congress people. Surely there must be at least one. @MistyCee

@Budwick I'm not sure that the first 3 ought to be disqualifying.

The role is more akin to that of a prosecutor presenting a case to a grand jury than to a judge, and Trump's abuse of office has been so blatant that a complete lack of bias could only come from ignorance, stupidity, or deliberate malfeasance.

Having said that, objectivity and respect for the process is still a concern.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of anyone better suited in the House.

Even still? @MistyCee

Maybe the public seeing a lot of a douchebag like Schiff will work to the President’s advantage. @Budwick

@jackjjackson I just looked through the house judiciary committee and I don't see any likely candidates. They either look ill equipped, or I don't know much about them.

Mrs Pelosi handled those appointments? @MistyCee

@jackjjackson I guess. The Republicans were pretty bad, too.

They didn’t name the chair people. @MistyCee

@jackjjackson Nope. I was just looking at everyone on the Judiciary Committee in both parties, and none of them looked any better suited to me.

In terms of handling the hearings, my guess is Schiff will do as good as anybody else can in terms of directing things at the committee level, but they're going to be a circus, and its going to be really interesting to see how it plays out.

My gut feeling is that the Democrats will try to make it short and sweet as possible, with a few good witnesses, and minimal court fights when Trump stonewalls in the hopes of getting it over and done with and over to the Senate as quickly as possible, since they know they have the votes to impeach already and that its not likely that they have much of a chance of prevailing in the Senate no matter what happens.

Conversely, the Republicans will likely obstruct as much as possible, raising every frivolous objection, bringing up every whatabout and irrelevant "defense" they can with an awful lot of ad hominem grandstanding to keep it going until everyone gets sick of hearing about it, its close to the election, and they can say nothing came up and McConnell should table it until after the election if they can't get him to put together a suitable show trial or figure out another way to refuse to consider it before.

Probably reasonable predictions all around. @MistyCee