Posted on 01/22/2020 4:46:32 PM PST by yoe
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., may have successfully corralled his Republican colleagues Tuesday to defeat 11 efforts by Senate Democrats to subpoena key Trump administration witnesses and documents (and modify other rules) in the Senate impeachment trial. But these tactics have likely put Republican senators facing competitive races in an impossible bind ( two January polls show) that, in both battleground states and swing counties, more voters support Trump’s removal than approve of him. That dynamic could cost the Republicans control of the Senate after the 2020 elections — and, in that event, McConnell’s powerful post as majority leader will also be forfeited.
McConnell successfully tabled 10 of 11 Democrat-offered amendments by a party line vote of 53-47 (Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, sided with the Democrats on the eleventh), most of which sought to subpoena key Trump administration witnesses and documents to be evidence in the Senate trial. But the collateral damage could be grave.
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And the Senate is what this is all about. Power and Money
Send Mitch back to Casas Grande.
AND THE SAME THING COULD HAPPEN TO NASTY PELOSI.
SO THERE.
If this farce of an impeachment costs anyone but a Democrat a seat then this country is done for and not worth fighting for.
BS article premise.
No matter what he does this would have been written.
Oh please!
There should be a bumper sticker WHAT IF THEY IMPEACHED THE PRESIDENT AND NO ONE NOTICED.
If anyone will be losing their jobs over this it will be Democrats.
Hmmm, I wonder which one is more important, destruction of a president and the presidency, or a senate majority.
Let me think on that, ‘cuz, oh boy, what a tough decision...
Yeah, if the public really supported impeachment, I think we’d see more movement from the usual suspects in the GOP. I think the entire thing has become two sides talking past one another and are people even watching this stuff? Seems like a cure for insomnia from what I’ve seen.
Nonsense. Anyone paying close enough attention to count the Republican votes against the amendments is bound to notice the Democrats lack of a case.
The GOP needs STRONG, FIRE-BREATHING leadership that will fight the tyrannical RATS without abandon. The Turtle is not that guy. Too low key, not aggressive enough by a long shot. Old establishment does not get it...not with the America-hating RATS.
We are all in at this point. No more “Mr. Nice Guy”.
This article is astroturf. They are scared.
It’s a Jedi mind trick, Mitch. Don’t fall for it.
Not seeing it. We’ll pick up the Doug Jones seat. May lose ME and/or CO, but will still have the majority.
Agreed. The article and hand wringing is a crock of shift. Some people can’t see when they’re winning and shut up.
Prophet of Doom. Once this is over, the tide will turn.
WHAT IF THEY IMPEACHED THE PRESIDENT AND NO ONE NOTICED.
Hannity was discussing just this today with Bill O’Reilly. Apparently the ratings for day one, typically, the most watched, were in the toilet.
Missed the articles about Pelosi losing the House, wonder why?
Go away nitwit.
The continuing approval of non-leftist US Judges has me rooting for Sen. Mitch. This is a near-permanent IMPROVEMENT to the Federal Judiciary that has been a past LEFTist empowerment.
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