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.
Marco Rubio is a dishonest liberal.
I will not be voting to re-elect him.
Second hand psychology evaluation.
Lumping ALL into the brain basket of one solitary individual.
I don’t believe it.
Before Trump, the whole gop showed a lack of realizing, or even caring, that the dems were up to no good. no fight.. until Trump.
Never liked the little prick.
Marco Rubio is a dishonest liberal.
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Bush League Republicans aren’t naive, they are Democrats in R jerseys.
Micro Rubio showed us that he does not side with the citizens and the rule of law when he voted for amnesty and a permanent Democrat majority in 2013.
Many elected Republicans labor under the delusion that those across the isle are their friends rather than enemies, which collectively they absolutely are. It’s like a form of Stockholm Syndrome or maybe a black man in the 1920s being personally friendly with some Klansmen.
Exactly.
Their problem communication wise, is figuring out how to walk the line, and make their constituents think they are representing them, when they are not.
And when you have someone of Rubio’s intelligence, this is even more difficult.
“Many elected Republicans labor under the delusion that those across the isle are their friends rather than enemies, which collectively they absolutely are.”
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BS. They ARE friends with those across the aisle. They’re on the same team. Republican voters have been the ones laboring under a delusion. At least until the Trump Era came along.
The Fanjul family is Big Sugar here in Florida.
They own this very little man and he supports open borders to keep labor prices down for their ever polluting agriculture.
Only reason little marco won was because his dem opponent was even worse.
“Marco Rubio is a dishonest liberal.”
I’ll second that motion. He is a member of the Uniparty. Analyzing his Tweets is a waste of time. I think he agrees completely with Schiff on everything and is only putting enough apparent opposition to him in the Tweets to cover himself come election time. Also, so he’ll be invited to CPAC.
And yet the seriousness of the charges only goes one way, and stuff like that there.
I’m not saying Republicans in Congress are on average worth the price of snot, the quislings aren’t even worth that (even Mr No Repeal Eisenhower wouldn’t save us from FDR’s high handed lawlessness), but that they are blind to the collective nature of their so-called friends.
But here, Micro falls short, although I do like how Senator Sudsy asked esteemed colleague in Congress Beto, “hell yeah we’re gonna TAKE”, O Mao to resign showing his support for us and the Bill of Rights.
Beautiful Americans, my fellow Americans:
Our sons, fathers, uncles, friends have been put in kill or be killed situations on battlefields.
Our daughters, moms, nieces, aunties have been degraded, dehumanized, raped by Hollywood and evil individuals.
Our hardwork, kindness, goodwill, honor has been destroyed by kickback/extortion schemes called “foreign aide” to further enrich evil “representatives” and their families and friends.
All the while our time of life is cut short and wasted by debt/tax slavery.
Every day Micro has choices.
535+++ vs. 330 miiion
FUMR
“but that they are blind to the collective nature of their so-called friends.”
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I don’t buy that. They know exactly what the “opposition” is about. They benefit from it. They are willing accomplices.
If you live in Florida you need to vote for whoever is the republican nominee, if the Dems gain the senate they WILL IMPEACH HIM.
The article’s premise about Rubio’s tweets is false. Nothing wrong with them.
Grrr. In 2021, we at best have 51-49 in the senate. 2022 is horrid for republicans and trump’s not on the ballot. Romney won his last election with 48 percent. Wisconsin Johnson won at 50.2 percent and trump helped both.
Bubble Boy
I don’t cast stones. I’m too out of shape :)
But losing the majority would make it Much Harder to get the judges we want passed.
But I understand standing by your convictions.
Here we all were looking to the great Lil Marco for insightful analysis...
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