Posted on 02/01/2020 5:37:59 AM PST by EyesOfTX
A thread on Twitter by Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio is revealing on many levels for all of us impeachment watchers. It reveals a fairly conservative Senator who is aware of much that has been going on around him, but unaware of so much more.
The thread reveals an awareness of the deceitful nature of his Democrat opponents, but a lack of awareness of exactly how deceitful they truly are. It reveals a generally well-meaning guy who will do the right thing on this impeachment scam in the end, but who has been making his decisions based on woefully incomplete information.
In the end, Rubio’s thread provides us strong insight about the information level and thought processes by most of the Senate Republican caucus members, and why they so naively and dangerously agreed to allow the mendacious Democrats to extend the national pain of this trial all the way through next Wednesday when they could have forced a just end to it last night or today.
Below follows the text of each of Rubio’s tweets, along with my analysis of them. Watch and learn how your Republican senators are by and large trying to make the right decisions in this trial, albeit based on woefully incomplete information about the true nature of the enemy. This is all important to know, because the fact that most GOP members of congress remain so naive about the Democrats’ real nature means President Trump remains vulnerable to future Democrat scams that will inevitably arise.
Rubio Tweet #1:
Final arguments 11am Monday. Final vote Wednesday at 4pm. Last March Rep. Schiff said there was “little to be gained by putting the country through” the “wrenching experience” of a partisan impeachment. But then they decided to do it anyway.
Sen. Rubio’s statement here reveals his naive thinking about Schiff. It indicates Rubio actually believes Schiff was sincere when he made the statement Rubio quotes. It indicates that Rubio, despite having been inside the DC Swamp for all these years, still doesn’t understand that leaders in the Democrat Party never utter a sincere statement in public – all they do is parrot poll-tested talking points written for them by staff and lawyers. Honestly, how can any Republican think Adam Schiff, of all people, says anything that is actually true? It’s maddening.
Rubio Tweet #2:
The House admitted they didn’t try to enforce testimony of witnesses in court because it would tie them up in litigation for a year. But then spent weeks demanding the Senate do it now. We were never going to play this stupid game with them.
Here Sen. Rubio reveals that he has no understanding about the Democrats’ strategy in this entire play, as dictated to them by the Lawfare lawyers Nancy Pelosi spent millions of dollars on during 2019, and will spend millions more on during 2020. The Democrats’ entire strategy hinged on their belief that they could pressure four RINO senators to join them in issuing legitimate subpoenas for witnesses.
To review, the House Democrats intentionally rigged the House process to proceed without a formal impeachment vote that would have given their own subpoenas the force of law. Because they refused to hold such a formal vote, they knew their own subpoenas were nothing more than form letters requesting witness appearances.
They took this route for two reasons: 1) to deny the Republicans and President Trump any of the process rights that a legitimate impeachment action would have afforded them; and 2) to speed the process along in their zeal to get the House process finished before Christmas.
In this Tweet, Sen. Rubio reveals his lack of understanding about any of these obvious, transparent machinations by the House Dems.
Rubio Tweet #3
The same people to say “how dare Trump disagree with our intelligence professionals” are also the ones doubting the “intelligence professionals” on Soleimani planning an imminent attack.
Well, yeah, the Democrats are raging hypocrites. At least the Senate Republicans understand that much. Cool.
Rubio Tweet #4
The poll tested “stealing the election” line was also a joke. Was Trump trying to tamper with voting equipment or something? I wanted to laugh every time they said it but I think laughing was against the Senate impeachment rules
This is actually pretty funny and spot on. Plus, it shows the proper level of cynicism that every GOP Senator should have held towards Schiff, Nadler and the other House Manager circus clowns.
Rubio Tweet #5
most obnoxious argument was the “I have secret information that’s damning,but I can’t divulge it” Total crap. We have access to the same information & you don’t have squat. If you did it would be leaked. Just like the mole at NSC illegally leaking portions of Bolton’s book.
This is another good tweet, one that shows Sen. Rubio, and presumably most other Republicans, weren’t buying most of the smelly Schiff the Democrats were shoveling. It also demonstrates Rubio’s clear understanding of the mole issue that lingers inside the NSC. Very encouraging.
Rubio Tweet #6
Bottom line is despite not initially wanting to do it they were bullied into impeachment by radical far left voices they are afraid of. Then they fell in love with the case & the cameras & the adoration of the media & forgot the damage impeachment inflicts on the country.
But here, Rubio falls completely apart. Pelosi/Schiff/Nadler were not “bullied into impeachment” by anyone. They did a fine job of lying about that part of it throughout most of September, but that was all rank, smelly horse manure, shoveled purely for public consumption.
This impeachment scam was a part of the master plan the House Democrat leadership developed in concert with their Lawfare lawyers and members of the corrupt news media immediately following the 2018 election, in which they secured their illegitimate House majority. This is obvious to anyone who has really been paying attention for the last 14 months.
It was all so transparent, in fact, that Mollie Hemingway, editor at The Federalist, actually filed a report on it all within a couple of weeks after that 2018 election. Hemingway had actually overheard Nadler loudly talking about it all when the two happened to be on the same Amtrak rail car traveling from Washington to New York City.
That was in November, 2018. How can Sen. Rubio still be blissfully unaware of all of that today, all these months later?
It is this lingering naivete among Senate Republicans about the true nature of their Democrat opponents that led the “moderates” in the GOP caucus to force this five-day delay in the conclusion of the Senate trial. These people really do still think that Chuck Schumer is someone who can be trusted to deal with them in good faith.
Thus, here we are.
That is all.
I see that the usual GOP circular firing squad is emerging...if you don’t like Rubio, who has both good moments and bad moments, primary him. But vote GOP no matter what, because it’s all a numbers game.
If we’d held our noses and gotten a few of the less desirable GOPers into the House in the last election, we wouldn’t be going through any of today’s impeachment nonsense. And if we don’t vote GOP in the next election and lose the Senate, you can bet that Trump will be impeached again and removed.
I never could understand all the hoopla of little Morco Rubio.
When he was firs elected I write to Fox News and tol them they should change their logo to “All Marco, All the time” and I reminded them that there were hundreds of other people running for office.
He has proven to be as big a disappointment as I expected.
I detest Rubio as much as the next FReeper - but this is a pile of crap with as much viability as all the “witnesses” that “presumed” to know the President’s thought processes and intentions.
If I lived in Utah, I wouldn’t be voting for Mitt either.
Marco Rubio doesn’t represent me or anything I care about.
It’s really too bad that he turned out to be as much of a jerk as he is.
Well, maybe Marco should stop being an ocean going douche supertanker then.
I really don’t know why various GOPers go out of their way to be the biggest douchebags that they could possibly be. I’m not a real big fan of this behavior.
There seems to be a never ending line of Republicans trying to be the next Maverick.
Well here’s my advice to Marco and Gaetz.
Stop douching it up, douchebags.
I can’t stand this person.
It really is.
Another false hope back in the day.
The way I see it though, YES we need the senate majority..
BUT being able to live with one’s self and their decisions is what matters most at the end of the day.
Who would have guessed that those that DIDN’T vote for romney, those people we hated so much, would be the reason for Trump being elected.
Because without four more years of obama, Trump wouldn’t have stepped up.
The four extra years of suffering were worth it.
If RINO started losing races left and right, it would hurt short term but long term we all know it would be the best thing.
But what do I know? I’m just a Staten Island WOP :)
Know as much as me, I am just a Redneck Riviera cracka’!
I cannot figure out for the life of me why a feature of the GOP is this various douchebags trying to out douchebag each other.
There seems to be an endless supply of them, and when you get rid of one, another one pops up like herpes.
This stuff has been going on since Arlen Spectre. He might have been the OG GOP douchebag.
Everyone was starved for a leader who will stand and do the right thing. Trump comes along, and look at the adoration this man has.
You might think the GOP would learn from this, but no, they can’t, they’re just a bunch of losers, idiots, morons and douchebags.
I got to give Rand Paul credit though. Nice work on the Injustice, Mr. Paul.
If we’d held our noses and gotten a few of the less desirable GOPers into the House in the last election,
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Works both ways, talk to the establishment types who not only refused to vote for Senate candidates in AL, MO, IN, DE, NV, they actually helped the Democrat win.
A pretty smart Staten Island WOP. Not all of them are. Like everybody else.
Romney would have gotten amnesty passed and none of the rest would matter because we would have lost our country.
Now that Trump has stepped up and given us this chance we MUST elect better Republicans.
Many of the worst Bush League Republicans have already quit, retired or died.
They threw the House to the Democrats intentionally.
Now we can get it back with Republicans that side with the citizens, the rule of law and the Constitution.
That’s ok. Primary them.
True. My feeling is work on the primaries to get your favored candidate in there, and if he doesn’t make it, vote for the GOP candidate anyway. It’s a numbers game, and even if your GOP candidate is perfect and gets elected, he or she can’t do anything without being in the majority, so everybody else has got to vote for their GOP candidate too.
The main thing is to keep the Dems in the minority.
Rubio is just as bad as Romney regardless of votes. We’re treading on very dangerous territory now with Mueller’s police state thuggery. Republicans like rubio couldn’t care less about it. Roger Stone is constituent of Rubio. The outrageous Stone raid obviously happened in Rubio’s state. And what action did he take regarding that? Nothing. Rubio and Republicans like him are just fine with a Democrat run police state as long as it does not target them or their supporters.
I can agree with that.
More madness with errant apostrophes in that headline.
If you don’t know how to use apostrophes, don’t use them at all.
It’s “naiveté with a diacritical mark. An apostrophe does not work. Spelling this word in America without the diacritical mark is acceptable, so “naivete” would have been just fine.
“Naivete’” however, just looks ignorant. And in the headline for crying out loud.
Just shut up and vote, Marco.
Exactly. Rubio is corrupt and compromised—not naive.
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