lol

certainly not shopped at all

XD

@Shalvenay source material for your legal-procedural: docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180118/106796/…

@nitsua60 sheesh :P

It's a chess game, man. Control the center. Develop your pieces. Enforce your will on your opponent. Be a tiger.

yeah, I see where that gets into some sticky stuff

@nitsua60 the "sheesh" was more for how things got very long on politics and very short on statesmanship in there

@Shalvenay And very long on "we didn't quite line up our ducks"

@nitsua60 no kidding on that front, for that matter

Congressional Dysfunction Syndrome? :P

(Which is super-obvious if, like me, you've recently read 312pp. of senate testimony which make it clear Simpson was perfectly happy to talk about a lot, as long as he had assurances beforehand in writing that he wasn't going to be asked about his clients' confidential communications.)

@nitsua60 yeah, I can see exactly where they're going with the 1A thing there, as well as some of the attorney-client privilege stuff

@Shalvenay Once you see the couple of times the wires get tripped it all makes sense. "Do you work for Democrats a lot?" "He's not been released by any previous clients to talk about them."

@nitsua60 the House Republicans seem to be a bit...bent on making the investigation into partisan pattycake, which is where most of the problem lies

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Lets keep the party talk out of main chat, please.

:42386763 Even in settings where there's no suspicion the transcript would ever see the light of day. I mean, I'm used to Rep.s grandstanding during their 5-min on CSPAN, but here they're behind closed doors in executive session and are pushing and shoving for every little inch of posturing. Blech.

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It's not fair to ask everyone in the chat to be nice about these subjects at the drop of a hat.

@BESW That's fair. I was thinking more about process than politics, but I can see it inviting meandering.

@nitsua60 no doubt.

@BESW yeah, I can see where folks who are less wonkish would get worked up

@trogdor I asked you something in Skype, did you see it?

yes

just a sec

2d6

:')

@doppelgreener wait, which category?

category of show?

@trogdor GLAAD is an LGBT advocacy group, and they've added that ^ category this year because there's enough stuff to actually get awards for it. And that feels really amazing.

wow