One of his best lines of thought that should resonate with Senators:
if there were no rules that had been adopted by the Senate, would you think that the majority leader himself could simply decide that he would have a committee receive evidence, handle that, submit a recommendation to the Senate, and that would be the way that the trial would occur without a vote from the Senate to give authority to that committee? I don’t think so...Because impeachment is delegated solely to the House of Representatives by the Constitution, the full House of Representatives should be involved in critical decision making regarding various stages of impeachment.” Here the House Democrats skipped over that step completely. What they had instead was simply a press conference from Speaker Pelosi announcing that she was directing committees to proceed with an impeachment inquiry against the President of the United States. Speaker Pelosi didn’t have the authority to delegate the power of the House to those committees on her own…
Maybe McConnell should say to reporters that he's going to consider running the Senate the way that Pelosi ran impeachment in the House, just make decisions unilaterally, and see how it goes over with the other Senators and the media.
"If it's good enough for the Speaker and House Democrats, why wouldn't it be good enough for the Senate, too?" he should ask.
-PJ