as she was well reminded in a recent private conversation on a plane with him about their grandchildren.

a "Through the Looking Glass" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass) moment, during which we libtards must needs cheer the (presumed) "knuckle-draggers" for actually trying to do the right thing, here.

Weird (drieW)? --

How many of them are entwined with the Clinton Foundation. That Cummings guy really has a bad case of whatever it is.

The world has turned upside down.

Seems as though the world has been turned upside down not only to shake any remaining small change out of our pockets, but to allow any small hope for positive change to fall off the ends of the Earth...

They lie, deny and decry, the latter regarding others they accuse of doing what they do themselves, as a distraction; the classic and long-running industry victim blame strategy so useful to them over this past century in evading attribution for the destruction of human and environmental health and life in the pursuit of ever-higher profits. Why is this permitted to work for so many pathological liars/psychopaths/polluting and other criminal industries/interests placing their own representative politicians into public office or buying them up later with the money so often drained from the public and poorer others - who then often let this behaviour and the disastrous results stand as a 'done deal'?

The Republican's focus is that HRC got some specialized justice that was "unusual" in many ways and that she should have received the same non-customized justice as Joe Shit. They asked how common was it for the husband of the supposed subject to meet with the AG on a tarmac while the investigation was ongoing, questions about lawyer/client privilege being asserted , etc.

Also zeroing in on obstruction and deletion of emails/documents which were under subpoena, timelines, etc.

They also seem to be zeroing in on how the FBI investigation was remarkably incurious in that they seemingly were not interested in determining how and by whom classified information migrated from classified to unclassified. Someone asked the FBI guy - "Did the FBI interview all senders of classified information?" and they would have to get back to them on that was the answer. Lots of back and forth about how information was being withheld from Congress that they had the right to see. Chaffetz and Gowdy and others landed lots of effective punches in that arena. Democrats basically stayed with talking points of "waste of time" political witch hunt" "case closed", etc. Although One female Dem Congresswoman landed some good pushback by saying the one keeping Chaffetz from what he wanted to see was the Republican Senator heading the Intelligence committee who already had what he wanted to see. But the Pubs pushed back on the pushback by saying that they had been denied unclassified stuff they wanted to see, not just classified because of the cherry-picking done by the FBI. Gowdy made the best points with his saying a probation officer or a defense attorney would be provided the material but the Congress was getting the stiff arm. They also said, you don't get to decide what I get to see, I get to see it all if I ask for it.

If it was a debate contest, I think the R's carried almost every point

A high point of irony for me was when a Democratic Congressman read the Newsweek article into the record about the Bush administration losing 22 millions emails and having private servers. Right. I remember that. That was pretty much taken "off the table" with everything else once the Dems gained a majority. It was a disgrace. It should have been investigated by Congress and/or the FBI but the Dems didn't have the guts to pursue the case - Conyers issued a subpoena to Rove which was ignored and Conyers did nothing when he could have had Rove arrested for contempt of Congress. Chaffetz and the Republicans play hardball while the Dems roll over. And of course Hillary Clinton decried those private servers before she evidently thought, "Hey!what a great idea! Now I see how it's done" and put the same practices into play for herself.

The Clinton aide Justin Cooper came off very well IMO. He seems like simply a poor schmuck who was tasked with being an informal IT guy by happenstance who had no particular skill in IT except what he learned on the fly. We all have someone like that in our offices, right?

The biggest losers in these hearings are Comey and the FBI who are coming off as incompetent or something worse, i.e. the fix being in for Hillary. The Democrats look like Clinton surrogates while the Republicans look like they're fighting for national security and robust investigations and Congressional oversight. And of course there's no denying a big component of this is political, but Chaffetz says, hey we didn't choose this timeline, Hillary Clinton caused this to issue to cross into the election by stonewalling for so long.

If the Dems don't retake the House, they can expect this same stuff to continue right into the first day of HRC's first term.