Posted on 01/08/2020 4:25:36 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Never, never, ever underestimate the ability of Mitch McConnell to work the process in the Senate. – Mitch McConnell told a very disappointed group of corrupt reporters on Tuesday that he now has the 51 Republican votes he needs to move forward with the very same Senate rules for a Senate trial on Nancy Pelosi’s ridiculous articles of impeachment that were used to govern the Senate trail of Bill Clinton.
As reported by U.S. News and World Report:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he has the votes to start President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial as soon as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi releases the documents, winning support from GOP senators to postpone a decision on calling witnesses.
The announcement Tuesday was significant, enabling McConnell to bypass for now Democratic demands for new testimony as he launches the third impeachment trial in the nation’s history. It could begin this week if Pelosi sends the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
What this means is that no more than two of the three RINO Usual Suspect senators – Mitt Romney, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski – who have been targeted by the corrupt media for pressure campaigns designed to bully them into breaking party ranks have taken the bait.
As we cautioned you here at the Campaign Update the day after Christmas, you have to take media reports of senators going wobbly on this impeachment matter with a grain of salt. That was the day when the corrupt media went wild with a report that Murkowski had told an Anchorage, Alaska reporter that she was “disturbed” when she heard McConnell state that he would be working “hand in glove” with counsel for the President to determine how the Senate trial would be managed.
The press went crazy again last week, when Sen. Collins made a similar statement of “concern” about the process and indicated she was “open” to calling additional witnesses in the Senate. Well, at least one of those two ladies, and maybe both of them, have now indicated to the Senate Majority Leader that their concerns do not rise to the level of siding with a bunch of seditious Democrats who are attempting to execute a coup d’etat on U.S. soil.
You can say what you want to about these two ladies being “squishy” – which they both undeniably are on several specific issues – but it is a drastic error and completely unfair to them to equate their squishiness to being disloyal to the country, as the Democrats have become. One would think that the performance by Collins in supporting the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court would have schooled everyone on this regard forever where she is concerned.
Process-wise, what McConnell’s reaching this 51-vote threshold means is that, whenever San Fran Nan decides to finally release her sham articles of impeachment to the Senate, this is what will happen:
- Chief Justice John Roberts will convene the Senate trial, with all 100 senators – including the four Democrats who are still presidential candidates – required to be in attendance for 6 days every week until the trial concludes;
- The House Managers – a set of both Democrat and Republican House members – will present the case for impeachment, which will consume several days;
- The lawyers for President Trump will then present his case, which will also likely consume several days;
- Then and only then will the Senate hold a procedural vote to determine whether or not it will call additional witnesses;
- More than likely, unless there is some major development related to Ukraine between now and then, the Senate will vote to dismiss the case at that time. That assumes that McConnell, the master of Senate process, can hold his 51 votes together.
All in all, assuming McConnell holds his majority together, the trial in the Senate will consume about two weeks.
Pelosi will now come under great pressure from the Democrat presidential candidates to go ahead and release the articles so that this can all play out prior to the Iowa caucuses that will take place on February 3. However, she wants to keep them in-hand until the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rules on a pending case that would, if it goes the Democrats’ way, give them access to the Mueller Witch Hunt grand jury material and potentially allow the House Democrats to enforce their sham subpoenas. But oral arguments were just heard in that case last Friday, and it could be weeks before any decision is rendered.
So, bottom line: Mitch McConnell has completely out-maneuvered Pelosi on this. She is now in a corner, clinging to a tactic that has failed to move public opinion against the President, and utterly failed to move any GOP senators into the pro-removal column.
Somebody go make her a Bloody Mary. She’s going to need one this morning. Maybe two.
That is all.
One of the fleet of Chinese built container and freight ships owned by the family was found to have a load of cocaine.
Please someone, re-assure me that McConnell will not blink, and do what Pelosi now wants him to do, ie publish the resolution, before voting on it....or whatever she wants.
Game is over.
McConnell should basically, say send the articles over, or forget it.
Probably not at all.
Her strategy is pretty simple. Hold on as long as it takes in case Buzzi croaks, and she can say, “no impeached president should nominate a USSC justice.”
It won’t work. Yertle will move ahead anyway, but she’ll say it. She may even release at that time, though Yertle could and probably would do the USSC justice first.
Yertle is Deep State and has a lot of faults, but he sees his interest here in siding with Trump and in covering up the dirt trail that leads to Graham, McTurd, and probably most other senators.
Not hard to outflank mental midget granny Nan.
He is a stinkin’ douche...he can’t help it. That is what he is and always will be.
“...but it is a drastic error and completely unfair to them to equate their squishiness to being disloyal to the country...”
They are garbage....attention whores.
No trial! Immediate dismissal of unconstitutional articles is the ONLY proper, Constitutional response.
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