Tidbits And Cat Treats: Here's To The Committee

By Zamboni

With the stuff that's coming out about Lev Parnas setting up meetings for Devin Nunes in Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Joe Biden, no one should assume that the impeachment hearings are done. But at the end of an eventful two weeks, we cats have a few thoughts about how the Intelligence Committee has fared so far.

Chairman Adam Schiff has been perfect. Perfect. There's no other word for him. Not only has he controlled the committee with a steely Zen resolve, his closing statements have been the stuff of literature. They should be published in a book, from day the first to day the last. It's a book that we cats would gladly buy — because every day, Schiff laid out the Democrats' case, clearly and succinctly and memorably. The fact that he quoted Elijah Cummings at the end sent chills up our spines. Well done, sir.

Sean Patrick Maloney surprised us with his excellent questioning and his apology to Fiona Hill for Republican Mike Turner's "epic mansplaining." We're glad Maloney didn't become New York State Attorney General (and that Tish James did) so that he would still be a member of the House and present to say this.

Val Demings — whoa, we cats are pretty fearless, but we don't think we'd want to run into Val in a dark alley. The word to describe Demings is one that's quite popular now: badass.

Jackie Speier is wonderful. Not only did she get off that great line about Trump's five Pinocchios, did you know that she survived five gunshot wounds at Jonestown in 1978? (See "badass," above.)

We loved Raj Krishnamoorthi's real-life cringe emoji after a chit-chat with our ridiculous Trumpster Congresswoman, Elise Stefanik. And we love that it went viral.

But Peter Welch probably had the best moment — and the fact that it came at the expense of the revolting Gym Jordan was doubly delicious. After Jordan bemoaned Republicans' inability to question the whistleblower ("the reason we're all sitting here," he groused), the Vermont Democrat had a ready answer. "I'd be glad to have the person who started it all come in and testify," he shot back. Benedict Donald, he said, "is welcome to take a seat right there." We cats PURR.