Posted on 12/17/2019 5:09:41 PM PST by Hojczyk
House Democrats are highly unlikely to follow Larry Tribe’s suggestion that they decline to transmit their articles of impeachment to the Senate for a trial. Thus, Senate Democrats will need a trial strategy.
Byron York tell us that a major part of the strategy will be to demand more information. What information? Mainly testimony from past and present administration officials like Mick Mulvaney and John Bolton
The Senate Democrats mantra can be summed up in a comment by Chuck Schumer. He said:”To engage in a trial without the facts coming out is to engage in a cover-up.”
This statement can be turned around as follows: “To impeach a president before the facts have come out is a disgrace.”
Actually, that’s not what happened. An abundance of facts came out during the House proceedings. In my view, the only reasonable conclusion from those facts is that President Trump, for a brief time, withheld the release of aid to Ukraine pending announcement by that country of an investigation of Joe Biden.
House Democrats clearly agree. They argued have argued it constantly for weeks. It will be their basis approving the primary article of impeachment.
Thus, Senate Democrats undercut the House Dems and their primary impeachment article by moaning that they need more facts. What they want is a smoking gun, something that might turn public opinion around. (They wouldn’t get it from the witnesses they want to have testify at trial or from Mueller grand jury testimony).
Mitch McConnell dismissed the whining of Schumer and other Senate Democrats with this comment: “The Senate is meant to act as judge and jury, to hear a trial, not to re-run the entire fact-finding investigation because angry partisans rush sloppily through it.”
He’s right. I think the American public will agree.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Nothing Pelosi’s house has done so far has been constitutional so why should they start now? But constitutionally they can’t vote to impeach and then hold that from the senate to deny the senate a chance to acquit.
Chucky, and the political bride of Chucky, are going to need a nuclear powered toilet flusher for all the Schi@# they have to flush somewhere.
Probably going to require some high cost civil engineering.
Oh brother....a snowflake.
Actually, it was either on Rush or Hannity today, the *payment* to Ukraine was actually made ahead of schedule!
Absolute agreement.
That sentence is bullshit, and precisely where I stopped reading.
Is Chuck saying the House did a horrible job ?
IOWs "The House has no facts to send to the Senate."
There is a lot of couching, weasel words in that one sentence (my view, reasonable conclusion, brief time).
Exactly!
Is that what you believe?
Did McConnell have a transplant to implant a pair? He is showing unusual intestinal fortitude, backbone, constancy, fiber, grit, guts, pluck and spunk.
Holding his breath till he turns blue will help, too.
No, I don't. I read the article too fast.
Sorry.
I've been caught up with something else.
Mea culpa!
It seems that I'm not the only one who isn't careful.
I guess when you don’t have anything intelligent to say, you just call people names.
What is this “read the article” thing of which you speak?
The “we need to continue the impeachment to gather information and interview potential witnesses until we have enough evidence to....... impeach!”
Great article if you admire lies. One the key sentence is untrue: “In my view, the only reasonable conclusion from those facts is that President Trump, for a brief time, withheld the release of aid to Ukraine pending announcement by that country of an investigation of Joe Biden”. NOT TRUE! They got the money, and Ukraine to this day has not done an official investigation of the Bidens, unless it started in the past few days.
House Democrats clearly agree. They argued
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