Posted on 02/16/2021 7:45:53 AM PST by definitelynotaliberal
I was as outraged as any member of Congress. But senators take our own oaths. Our job wasn’t to find some way, any way, to inflict a punishment. The Senate’s first and foundational duty was to protect the Constitution.
Some brilliant scholars believe the Senate can try and convict former officers. Others don’t. The text is unclear, and I don’t begrudge my colleagues their own conclusions. But after intense study, I concluded that Article II, Section 4 limits impeachment and conviction to current officers.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
I post this because McConnell is himself the author.
what an idiot.
McConnell is past his spoil by date. His legacy will be to have sold out the Senate to both the establishment and China.
Oh, shut up, Mitch.
Mitch, you’re so “over” who cares what you have to say about anything?
“Turn out the lights;
The Party’s over...”
Mitch - you are an ass. How did you protect the Constitution by doing something that isn't in the Constitution. There is no provision for what you let happen.
You deserved to lose your job as Majority leader.
How can someone be very good at Judges be so horrible in everything else?
One of my great pleasures is watching your typical media hack trying to pee up a rope and pretending he/she/it/whatever is doing something successful.
You know Mitch is a stooge when he allows Murkowski, Collins and Romney free reign to vote Democrat.
I say he was NOT impeached a second time since impeachment includes the delivery to the Senate and Biden had been sworn in by that time.
Where is the censure of this clown Kentucky????
Forgot to add that Mitch McButthole IS a media hack - or at least when he sees the media he bends over and assumes the Dorkbama position.
What a stoopid article! Nothing was vindicated! It ended only because the rats were unprepared and decided to minimize the damage because of their lame argument, while completely ignoring the Constitution!
I suggest McConnell retire now. He’s 78 and has been in the Senate a long time. Too long. Let’s hear it for term limits and age limits.
There are a bunch of politicians that are 70+. Republicans and Democrats. Time for them to go.
IMHO, the only thing Mitch has done well is getting President Trump’s judges seated.
Hey Mitch, you might want to know that SAYING the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results is a definition of INSANITY.
“””How can someone be very good at Judges be so horrible in everything else?”””
The jury is still out as to whether or not the hundreds of Federal judges approved during Mitch’s regime will be GOOD.
A few years ago while I still believed that the GOP was a separate and distinct party, I once lauded McConnell for something. I forget what it was, but it was during the Bush presidency. And my interlocutor, joe6-pack, said something in response that has stayed with me all these years. “He gets up once in a while when his ox is gored.” That’s eminently true.
I have no use whatsoever for Mitch McConnell. I don’t even feel scorn for or disgust with McConnell or any other Republican because it is finally clear to me that they are 2 wings of the same party. Therefore, I am indifferent. Thank you, joe6-pack, for your spot-on commentary.
Dershowitz agrees with him. They’re dolts.
PDJT did nothing wrong except defy the elite and swamp.
Sour grapes Mitch.
Get a conservative life.
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