McCarthy points out the obvious

Every time you read a media account pushing the lie that Democrats are issuing subpoenas, just remember it's more "fake news"! 

You are not to be faulted if you think a formal inquest is under way and that legal process has been issued. The misimpression is completely understandable if you have been taking in media coverage — in particular, reporting on a haughty Sept. 27 letter from House Democrats, presuming to direct Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on pain of citation for obstruction, to cooperate in their demands to depose State Department officials and review various records.

The letter is signed by not one but three committee chairmen. Remember your elementary math, though: Zero is still zero even when multiplied by three.

The House has not voted as a body to authorize an impeachment inquiry. What we have are partisan theatrics, proceeding under the ipse dixit of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). It raises the profile, but not the legitimacy, of the same “impeachment inquiry” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) previously tried to abracadabra into being without a committee vote. 

Moreover, there are no subpoenas. As Secretary Pompeo observed in his fittingly tart response on Tuesday, what the committee chairmen issued was merely a letter. Its huffing and puffing notwithstanding, the letter is nothing more than an informal request for voluntary cooperation. Legally, it has no compulsive power. If anything, it is rife with legal deficiencies.

To be clear, McCarthy is pretty much always correct. You can argue that he is partisan because he tells the truth (rather than telling the same lies pushed by the faux legal experts at CNN and MSNBC), but I would rather listen to who continues to be proven right than who CNN and MSNBC decides will provide their viewers with what they want to hear.

There is a reason why an actual impeachment probe requires the House to vote to authorize it. There are legal processes (such as Trump being able to cross-examine witnesses) that are granted under normal impeachment proceedings. By avoiding such a vote, the Democrats are free to make up the rules as they go and one of them will be no allowance for any witnesses to be cross-examined. (Heck it's unlikely Trump and his team will even know who some of the witnesses are). But that also means that this is not really a "legal" hearing, so they have no "legal" manner to "subpoena" anyone.

The President and pretty much the entire executive branch is going to all do the same thing, which is ignore these letters for what they are: bogus informal requests disguised as something real and important. They will stick to the legal process and demand that Democrats hold their vote up front before there is any cooperation from anyone.

Democrats (and their lapdog media members) will continue to bark at the moon while telling us the bald face lie that these are real subpoenas. They will tell you that the Administration and rest of the executive branch demanding that Democrats play by the rules is actually a sign that they are guilty of something.

Eventually Democrats will need to actually hold votes. One to start the process and one to actually vote to impeach. The goal (of course) would be to hold all of the so called fake hearings by their own rules (rather than the laws on impeachment) and then head straight to a vote without Trump or anyone from the GOP getting a word in edgewise.

And you know what?  They know that they will get away with it, because their supporters are brain dead morons with TDS who don't give a bigger rip about anything but getting the "bad orange man" one way or the other. Following laws certainly doesn't matter.