Fair does not necessarily mean balanced

One of the objections I've heard about the impeachment inquiry is that it's not been fair to the President.  This is bull, of course, but it's what the Republican party has to hang its hat on.  The Republican party set the rules by which the House has been operating (but they hope you don't recognize that).  The Republican party has also complained about the vote establishing the more public hearings, assailing them as partisan (because they didn't vote in favor of them in bloc). 

Here's the thing - there are Republicans on the committees hearing testimony.  These congresspeople are entitled to call witnesses.  They haven't, either because they elect not to, or because they cannot come up with witnesses who will testify under penalty of perjury that the President did nothing wrong/impeachable. 

This is the key.  The Republicans are complaining that the inquiry and the hearings are unfair, but this is a false statement.  The hearings are not unfair.  They are unbalanced.  They are not unbalanced because of anything the Democrats have done, rather they are unbalanced because the Republicans don't have a defensible position, which is why they don't bitch about the substance, instead they gripe about the process - quite the tell.

Perhaps, instead of bitching about the president the Republican candidates in the 2016 election complained was unqualified and untrustworthy not getting a fair shake, maybe they should not support a mendacious Oval Office occupant's actions.