Congress had a mock Impeachment trial of * this week

[GetTheRightVote]

Does any one have more news on this happening/event ??

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[bahrbearian]

1. Since when was there an Impeachment TriaL?

[GetTheRightVote]

4. It was a mock hearing not a real one, it was on a political show

early in the morning, have you heard anything about it ??

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[ISUGRADIA]

2. It's probably a spin on the DSM hearings

Congress does not do mock impeachment trials.

[ISUGRADIA]

3. Here's the source: seems to be mocking the DSM hearings

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601570_pf.html

Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War

In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe.

They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole thing look official.

Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) banged a large wooden gavel and got the other lawmakers to call him "Mr. Chairman." He liked that so much that he started calling himself "the chairman" and spouted other chairmanly phrases, such as "unanimous consent" and "without objection so ordered." The dress-up game looked realistic enough on C-SPAN, so two dozen more Democrats came downstairs to play along.

The session was a mock impeachment inquiry over the Iraq war. As luck would have it, all four of the witnesses agreed that President Bush lied to the nation and was guilty of high crimes -- and that a British memo on "fixed" intelligence that surfaced last month was the smoking gun equivalent to the Watergate tapes. Conyers was having so much fun that he ignored aides' entreaties to end the session.

[GetTheRightVote]

5. Thank you for replying though I am hopeful a real impeachment trail

will happen one day soon.

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[ISUGRADIA]

6. You're welcome. We can look forward to one especially

if we can get a Dem landslide in 2006 which might cause the Repub Rats to jump ship.

[thecrow]

7. Dana Milbank's article is full of misrepresentations/mockery

That is why Conyers wrote that scathing letter to him.
Milbanks was MOCKING us.
Anything he wrote was a lot of his twisting the facts to MOCK us.
Do not believe any statements made by him in this article.

[drm604]

8. It wasn't an impeachment trial and it wasn't "mock".

This was a hearing (not a trial) on the Downing Street Minutes. The word "impeach" may have been uttered several times but it was not an "impeachment trial". The only reason it was in a small basement room with folding tables, etc. is because that room was all that the Republicans would allow. This was a real hearing by sincere dedicated Congress people. To deny them the usual trappings of a hearing and then refer to it as a "mock" hearing because of the lack of those trappings is partisan bullshit.

[geckosfeet]

9. I think Conyers called it a forum.