First, I was going to comment on Fredo Cuomo, but it has pretty much already been covered. The one thing I will point out is that this morning his fellow ‘journalists’ were saying that calling an Italian Fredo is racist. Forget that Fredo is not an Italian slur. The point I noticed is that the left seemed to think Italian is a race. In whose delusional mind is this true? It was so absurd that by this afternoon the rhetoric changed to an ethnic slur.

Now let’s discuss Nadler’s lie that his committee has opened a formal impeachment inquiry. That’s a whopper. To open a formal impeachment inquiry requires a vote of approval by a majority of the House of Representatives. That didn’t happen. He has tried to get Pelosi to bring a resolution authorizing it to a vote but she correctly has refused. It has been reported recently that a majority of House Dems support it. And from the numbers I’ve seen, it is just over half of Dems — nowhere near a majority of the House. Remember that pretty much all Republicans will oppose and that there are a good number of Dems in vulnerable districts that Trump won biggly who don’t want to antagonize voters that they are going to need.

So why you ask is Nadler pretending that he has opened a formal impeachment inquiry? Maybe because when you wear your belt around your neck you restrict blood flow to the brain or maybe he just never was very bright. But the real reason he’s pretending he did something that he doesn’t have the authority to do is because he keeps subpoenaing grand jury testimony and other records that would be illegal to give him. Courts have made it clear recently that District Court judges do not have discretion to release this information outside the letter of the applicable laws.

So this brings us to the real reason that Nadler is lying. One of the exceptions to protecting grand jury transcripts is if they are needed in a judicial proceeding and impeachment proceedings have been held to be judicial proceedings and thus formal impeachment inquiries are considered to be part of a judicial proceeding. So basically he is trying to lie to a court just like like Comey and friends. The difference this time is that these proceedings aren’t secret. Thus his bs will be exposed.

The other possible reason is that he is trying to appease his base by claiming he is doing something that he is not.