By far their worst day for the impeachment drive... But they will move forward anyways!

Democrats fell woefully short... again! 

Meanwhile, Pelosi announces premature plans to move forward with impeachment!

• You had one witness apology for bringing up Trump's son in her testimony (and it wasn't one of the grown up ones). Well she sort of apologized, but not really.
• You had the same witness actually testify that she crosses the street to avoid walking in front of a Trump owned building (and she was supposed to be non-biased legal witness).
• You had Democrat Al Green complain that none of the legal witnesses were black.
• One of the Law Professors provided counselling and time off to his students to "grieve" the election of Trump (yes, another non-biased legal witness).
• The only consensus in terms of the credibility of the witnesses was that Turley was the only adult in the room. 

There was a part of me that thought that this could have been an affected strategy. But it would have required them to stay on subject and not wander off into any sort of anti-Trump tirades. The problem with finding "expert witnesses" is that it isn't so much what they say, but where their credibility stacks up. People are likely to tune out an "expert witness" if they feel that witness is manufacturing their testimony, are providing cookie cutter testimony, or otherwise show a bias regarding the main subject manner.

The fact that the Democrats couldn't come up with one (much less three) legal experts to support their position who were not rabid Trump haters is an indictment of their legal argument in general. 

What IS effective is having someone who isn't a Trump support stand up and provide a well reasoned, well researched, and logically sound testament as to why this impeachment falls short of where it needed to be. Turley is no Trump fan, which makes him come across as providing honest legal testimony. Of course, much like Alan Dershowitz, Turley now finds himself at odds with the liberal powers to be.

What makes this fiasco more of a problem is the fact that the very next day the Speaker announces their plans to bring forward their articles of impeachment. This makes it crystal clear obvious that the entire hearing yesterday was a charade and that they never saw it as anything other than a step in the process.

So where are we at?

We are at a point in time where the Democrats will move forward with articles of impeachment without making any real attempt to prove their case. In fact, one of their articles will be the fact that they believe it's illegal for the President (well this President anyways) to go to court to challenge subpoenas. As Turley suggests. telling the President that it's a crime to challenge a congressional subpoena in court (which has been done by nearly every President in nearly every congressional investigation) is the real abuse of power.

This is turning out bad for Democrats.