Posted on 01/12/2021 8:35:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I must say, I’m gonna miss all those great Cocaine Mitch memes, but I doubt they will have the same flare after the coming intra-party battle is over.
Reports are flying around this afternoon that Senate Majority Leader (for a little while longer) Mitch McConnell has pointedly said that impeaching Trump is preferable as a way to purge him from the party.
ALSO: Biden called McConnell yesterday and asked if Senate could dual track impeachment trial and cabinet confirmations.
Far from telling Biden he would not discuss the impeachment, McConnell said he would check with the parliamentarian and get back to Biden.
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) January 12, 2021
McConnell cordially telling Biden that he’ll check on still confirming all of his radical cabinet, while they try to convict Trump in an impeachment trial, is certainly a change of disposition. For the past several years, all we’ve heard about is how hard-nosed McConnell is, how he “gets things done,” and how he’d never give in to liberal pressure when push comes to shove. Yet, this feels a lot like doing just that.
The reports do say that McConnell did refuse to confirm whether he would personally convict Trump in such a trial, though it would seem rather odd for him to brag about purging Trump and then not vote to purge Trump. Trying to figure out the thought process of these Washington politicians is a bit like asking a ten-year-old to do quantum physics. I mean, they can try, but it’s probably not gonna work out.
There’s also the question of when such a trial would take place. Is McConnell really going get behind impeachment after Trump has already left office? That would rub most of the party’s voting base as nakedly political, i.e. an attempt to bar them from voting for who they want to vote for via technicality. If Trump is convicted, he can’t hold public office again. That’s what many Republican establishment figures want.
I suggest it’d be much smarter for them to trust the voters, and trust that a new generation of leadership (almost all of whom don’t currently reside in D.C.) can take the mantle, versus completely splitting the party apart with a silly impeachment gambit. Seeking to ban Trump from public office will only make his influence more powerful. That’s obviously not what McConnell wants, but I think a lot of Republicans are thinking short-term right now, ignoring all the long-term impacts on the party doing this could bring. Besides, as I explained in my early afternoon article, there is simply no real basis for impeachment (see First GOP House Member Says He’s a Yes on Impeachment, Others Likely to Follow). Facts should matter, and no Republican should be pursuing impeachment just to try to gain a political advantage over Trump. Supposition over vague statements is not suitable to remove a president, nor ban him from future office after the fact.
McConnell does have a support base, though. Many in right-wing news see him as a cult figure. He’s obviously got a lot of power in political circles as well. Maybe he’s thought all this out? I kind of doubt it, though.
Mitch still hasn’t realized he’s in the minority of his own party?
What a coincidence! It’s also a way to purge the Republican Party from America. Go ahead and try Mitch. See what happens.
Turtles... Not good for much, other than serving as the base for a good broth.
I see most of Trump’s supporters as purging themselves from the Republican party. I bet even if China Mitch were to change parties, he’d still lose the next election.
Not stupid, when the goal is sovereign global governance, and the US electorate just won’t get out of the way for global totalitarianism.
McTurtle has already been rewarded very handsomely.
His family has received hundreds of millions from their Chinese friends.
The decision for a GOP was already made.
They don’t care.
They got their tens of millions or more.
Many Republicans today are globalists and socialists.
RE: I bet even if China Mitch were to change parties, he’d still lose the next election.
My friend, you are STILL assuming you can trust the results of our elections from here on. After what happened last November, without any major fixes/changes, this assumption no longer applies I am afraid.
[[Hey, Mitch! How is giving the Presidency, The House and your beloved Senate over to the democrats helping your party?
Are you really that stupid?]]
They must have offered mitch plenty of money to betray the republican party
No amount of verbal anything is going to touch the evil in the hearts of our American enemies.
If anything, negative phone calls make them laugh.
Hey can, and now will, force evil onto the conservatives and our children like no other time in history.
We are now slaves.
Our decades long compromise with the evil left, and now our societal passivism test with CV19 suspension of the Bill of Rights, communicated to the left wing socialists, society was now docile, fearful, gullible, and dependent enough, there was literally nothing they couldn’t do to us. Including killingany who didn’t actually have CV19.
THEY DID ALL OF THIS DESPITE TRUMP, AND DESPITE GUN OWNERSHIP, because they know at the end of the day, we won’t organize, or won’t be able to organize against them, and we are surely not willing to give up our paychecks.
It’s a joke.
On the contrary, it’s Mitch and his ilk that have long needed purging.
I wish God would smite Democrat City as He did with Sodom and Gomorrah.
That Satanic shitfire of a town is long overdue for its Divine response.
Fixed it.
ummm — Huh?
Is that photo getting more exposure in conservative media or in Democrat media?
That piece doesn’t make any sense. It’s illogical.
I’m not sure..One of my pro trump friends in facebook warned me about it...
I saw the original article. They seem to piece together quotes e.g. McConnell is furious. Looks fake. Says (anonymous) sources say....
The only thing Mitch wants to keep hidden is his part and collusion with the CIA (Gina Haspel) in rigging the 2020 Presidential Election.
Life is good.
Fear not.
Kinsinger is a YGL of the world economic forum in Davos. That’s who he represents!
The only one purged was you a hole and your wife
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