Because there was absolutely nothing to be gained from testifying. Conservatives were going to go after her regardless of what she said, so why talk at all?
It's the ultimate "don't talk to cops", nothing you can say can ever help you and everything you say can hurt you, except Congressional Republicans don't even have to adhere to the very low standards that cops do. They can literally just say whatever, so there is flatly no upside in talking to them at all.
Pretty Ironic that this is the excuse you’re going with after all the times your party lambasted Trump for doing similar things. Your belief in the ends justifying the means is the root of all your hypocrisy. People are sick of hearing why it’s ok for you but not for them. You will lose badly this year as a result. For god sakes you have Bloomberg running after half your party was just outside occupying wall street no less than 3 years ago.
> For god sakes you have Bloomberg running after half your party was just outside occupying wall street no less than 3 years ago.
Independent of all the other points under discussion, I'm not sure how this is a fair a critique? It's not like there's a vote to decide who gets to run in a primary; the whole point of a primary is to vote to see who gets to run, and that isn't anywhere near being decided yet. If five months from now he gets nominated, that's another story, but there's not much evidence to suggest that will be the case.
It's a fair critique when he went from 4% to 19% in two weeks after spending 400 million on TV ads. I mean we all know the DNC will choose whomever they want because of their superdelegates, but don't act like democrats aren't starting to view him as their best option.
You aren't the victim of division, you are the creator of it.
> It's a fair critique when he went from 4% to 19% in two weeks after spending 400 million on TV ads
It's a testament to the power of completely controlling messaging people have about you because you are buying so much airtime to send your message and most of the country is at best vaguely aware of you otherwise, but I suspect as post-debate polling rolls in we're going to see Bloomberg, as many others have before, is going to realize the sharp limitations that often runs into in campaigns (Trump's 2016 performance notwithstanding.)
> I mean we all know the DNC will choose whomever they want because of their superdelegates.
Superdelegates have no first-ballot voting rights[0], as a result of reforms pushed successfully by the Sanders faction after the 2016 election.
> but don't act like democrats aren't starting to view him as their best option
Sanders is the one with a wide and widening lead, so, no, your description isn't accurate (and despite claims that this is just because there are more centrist candidates, in the few primary head to head polls he clears an absolute majority head-to-head against each of the other major candidates.) Sanders is who the Democrats are increasingly seeing as their best choice.
[0] well, unless the outcome is certain because of a pledged-delegatr majority, in which case they can vote though it won't change the outcome.
I'm not sure why your comment is stated in the second person; I have not voted in any primary, participated in any caucus, responded to any survey, or joined any sort of political association with regards to the 2020 election. I understand (and happen to disagree with) the point you're trying to make, but I don't understand why you're implying that myself or other commenters on Hacker News are personally responsible for who is running in the primary.
> For god sakes you have Bloomberg running after half your party was just outside occupying wall street no less than 3 years ago.
OWS movement peaked about 8 years ago, wasn't anywhere close to half the size of the Democratic Party, and mostly consisted of people not in the mainstream of either major party.
But, in any case, Bloomberg is free to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to allow the other candidates to preview how they’ll go after a candidate like Trump, though it's weird to see someone volunteer to be a tackling dummy, much less pay for the privilege.
Then why did lois lerner plead the 5th?