the house rules committee spent the day debating the articles of impeachment passed by the house judiciary committee. it was the kind of house committee hearing we have not seen in what feels like a very long time. there was no yelling. there were no attacks on members of the committee by other members of the committee in the opposite party, and that is thanks entirely to the good old-fashioned fully respectful working relationship of chairman jim mcgovern of massachusetts and the ranking republican member tom cole of oklahoma. sometimes old-fashioned is good, and today it was very good to see tom cole leading the republican side of the committee with flawless politeness and civility while completely disagreeing with jim mcgovern and the democrats. jim mcgovern and tom cole gave a master class today in what civility and respectful disagreement should look like in