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Vanity: Why Won't Republicans Exercise Their Senate "Sole Power" And Do What They Did To Trump In The House?
1/28/2020 | Its All Over Except ...

Posted on 01/28/2020 5:16:21 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...

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” so they too will deny Senate Democrats calling witnesses “

Exactly right.

Doing anything less in this case is nothing but surrender to the mob.


21 posted on 01/28/2020 5:46:20 PM PST by Regulator
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Why Won't Republicans Exercise Their Senate "Sole Power" And Do What They Did To Trump In The House?

Not complicated. They don't have the votes.

22 posted on 01/28/2020 5:47:24 PM PST by semimojo
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To: hal ogen

They are uniparty, that’s why this is going on.


23 posted on 01/28/2020 5:47:25 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Regulator

Who in their right mind would say “Dems get to choose the witnesses in the House, Repubs there get nothing, Dems get to do the same in the Senate even though Repubs control it, and we’ll let Romney and others scuttle Biden, Hunter, Schiff, and The whistleblower being called”?


24 posted on 01/28/2020 5:54:30 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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To: hal ogen

It’s like this Trump people completely shredded the rats articles but it obviously meant nothing. So it can only go down hill. The 4 or 5 rinos just ignored everything they said and now they are saying well we need more witnesses and information. What does that tell you. So we will be subjected to a parade of rat witnesses shoving knives into the president all because Mitch refuses to do what is needed to get 2 of the 4 back in line.


25 posted on 01/28/2020 5:57:51 PM PST by gibsonguy
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They have the votes to call Biden, Schifty, the whisteblower, etc, as witnesses.

53 votes in fact.

But what kind of Republican would say it’s fine if House Democrats call whomever they want to, Republicans get nothing there in the House, and we’re going to let Democrats called who they want to in the Senate but yet we’re not going to call Biden The whistleblower, etcetera?


26 posted on 01/28/2020 5:58:37 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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Because Mitt Romney.


27 posted on 01/28/2020 5:59:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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Heck no to yes to Bolton, no to Schiff and Biden being witnesses.

All of the names together. One vote.


28 posted on 01/28/2020 6:06:57 PM PST by Its All Over Except ... (If You Haven't Realized You Are In Clown World Then You Have Spent Too Much Time At The Circus)
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Because there are the usual suspects in the Republican Senate, who are more concerned about themselves then their country. They might as well be Democrats.


29 posted on 01/28/2020 6:10:20 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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They are doing everything they can to be the minority. They are allowing the Democrats to run the senate.


30 posted on 01/28/2020 6:12:17 PM PST by Luke21
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31 posted on 01/28/2020 6:15:41 PM PST by x
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McConnell has said he wants to wrap this trial as soon as possible. He’s not the weak link here. You know who they are.


32 posted on 01/28/2020 6:20:10 PM PST by MountainWalker
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"Why Won't Republicans Exercise Their Senate "Sole Power" And Do What They Did To Trump In The House?

Because they don't want to.

More than half of them would vote to convict if it was a secret vote and they wouldn't have to pay a price at election day

33 posted on 01/28/2020 6:24:54 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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There’s another perspective to impeachment you might want to think about. President Trump, previous to the impeachment proceedings beginning, taunted Pelosi and the D’s to impeach him. It’s possible that part of Trump’s reelection strategy was to get impeached, knowing, because of his natural political instincts and his Reality TV Star experience, that impeachment would hurt the D’s and help him.

And the fact is, Impeachment is helping President Trump’s poll numbers and popularity. Also, while the D’s and the progressive left in general are focused on the bright shiney object called impeachment, they’re not able to effectively answer President Trumps successes in Foreign Policy, Mexico is paying for the wall because Mexico is now the wall; Trump and Netenyahu announced a peace plan today; The President signed the USCANMEX trade agreement that replaced NAFTA. Also, any party criticizing any President for killing three of the worlds top terrorists in rapid succession, are not doing themselves any favors. And I think the D’s are so off their game because they’re focused 100% on impeachment only. Just where President Trump wants their attention focused. In fact, President Trump is using the age old strategy of feeding his political enemies the rope with which he will hang them.

Think about it; President Trump and a few very loyal and trusted advisers are waging a political war, they’re fighting off a constan ongoing coup attempt being waged by very powerful people, organizations and thousands of people in the federal bureaucracy; somehow President Trump and his people are always a few steps ahead of them. Why? Because President Trump’s strategy has been to manipulate his enemies into positions that are not good for them, and by driving wedges between the D constituencies (the radical progressive socialists vs the moderate D’s). President Trump uses deception to manipulate the D’s and they fall for it everytime.


34 posted on 01/28/2020 6:46:01 PM PST by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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“McConnell says he doesn’t have the votes to block witnesses”

that’s nothing but fake news that’s been echoed repeatedly by the fake stream media, but all based on a single anonymously sourced NYT fake news “article” ...

multiple GOP Senators stated tonight on TV that they believe the impeachment trial will be over on or before this Saturday ...


35 posted on 01/28/2020 9:05:41 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Because of 4 traitorous RINOs.


36 posted on 01/28/2020 9:09:47 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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Because they think this approach makes the optics better for them and they can continue to pound away at the “transparency” angle theyve been promoting. They cant very well spend weeks mocking the process the House used then imitate them out of spite. Its all going to end up the same way.


37 posted on 01/29/2020 4:43:29 AM PST by MrRelevant
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