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MOST INTERESTING FACTOID FROM TODAY’S IMPEACHMENT DEBATE

Rep Delahunt (D-Mass), charged that the House rushed head-long into releasing evidence without the benefit of reviewing it first — a charge not entirely without merit. But Henry Hyde made a nice point in rebuttal. He said that all Republican members of the Judiciary Committee reviewed the released papers — and their accumulated time reviewing them was just under 120 hours. Of the Democrats on the Committee, six did not visit the evidence vault at all and the combined Democratic time spent reviewing the materials was slightly more than 20 hours. If one were going to argue about reflexive partisanship it would seem the Democrats don’t have the stats on their side.

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Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg is a National Review contributing editor.

MOST INTERESTING FACTOID FROM TODAY’S IMPEACHMENT DEBATE

Rep Delahunt (D-Mass), charged that the House rushed head-long into releasing evidence without the benefit of reviewing it first — a charge not entirely without merit. But Henry Hyde made a nice point in rebuttal. He said that all Republican members of the Judiciary Committee reviewed the released papers — and their accumulated time reviewing them was just under 120 hours. Of the Democrats on the Committee, six did not visit the evidence vault at all and the combined Democratic time spent reviewing the materials was slightly more than 20 hours. If one were going to argue about reflexive partisanship it would seem the Democrats don’t have the stats on their side.