Posted on 08/09/2018 4:08:05 AM PDT by gattaca
"Do you want them [the Senate] to drop everything and not confirm the Supreme Court justice?" Rep. Devin Nunes said at a recent fundraiser.
Hard-line conservative Republicans in the House recently hit a roadblock in their effort to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein when Speaker Paul Ryan opposed the move. But one of those conservatives, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., gave a different explanation to donors recently when asked why the impeachment effort had stalled.
He said it's because an impeachment would delay the Senate's confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, made the statement in an audio recording surreptitiously made by a member of a progressive group who attended a Republican fundraiser on July 30 in Spokane, Washington. The recording was obtained by The Rachel Maddow Show and was played on MSNBC on Wednesday night.
Asked about the the impeachment plans, Nunes told a questioner that "it's a bit complicated" because "we only have so many months left."
"So if we actually vote to impeach, OK, what that does is that triggers the Senate then has to take it up," he said on the recording. "Well, and you have to decide what you want right now because the Senate only has so much time.”
Not so secret
What is really interesting is Trump meets with or speaks with RR several times a week and he comes to the WH almost weekly.
And why doesn’t the head of the DOJ come for a visit?
This is all too weird.
...Not so secret...
More grasping at plastic straws.
Is this NBC’s attempt to make Nunes look bad in our eyes?
The RR impeachment threat wasn’t a great idea in the first place, but only because there are enough gutless RINOs in the house that it was a certain to fail, if brought up for a vote. Maybe the 11 who submitted the articles thought it was an effective measure, maybe they were just exercising their consciences out of frustration. Whatever. It wasn’t going to work.
In the end, Nunes is correct: if they measure had passed and went on to the Senate, the Dems - who were certain vote as a block against impeachment, would have dragged out the procedure as long as possible, delaying the SC confirmation. Maybe even until after the midterm election. Those a**holes know how to play the game the way the ‘repubicans’ don’t.
Why impeachment.?? Just fire the SBO..!
NBC is so full of $#%t!
Where’s Captain Obvious?
The tape was made by progressive group Fuse Washington. They need to vet who they allow to attend these dinners.
Note to all conservatives, assume everything you say will be recorded and played on a left wing cable channel.
Why are we paying these senatorial swamp rats if they would do their sworn duties.
Impeach Rosenstein and confirm Kavanaugh you gutless coward slackers!!
This is a Nothing Burger.
How many Senatorial committee hearings have you scheduled?
funny - I can’t find a single word from NBC on the explosive Bruce Ohr/Christopher Steele revelations of the past 2 days!
Didn’t Newt Gingrich have his conversation recorded back in 1990s by some Democrat? I seem to recall him talking about Medicare and a withering on the vine comment taken out of context.
Is anyone else sick to death of secret recordings and leaks?
Right, between their extended vacations and their rigorous schedule of not passing anything they are just swamped. And I do mean swamped.
So what, Nunes was probably telling the truth!
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