Posted on 10/29/2019 6:07:42 AM PDT by george76
Speaker Pelosi is playing word games, trying to pull a fast one on the Republicans, the American people, and the Constitution by appearing to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry, while not actually passing an impeachment resolution that would trigger rights for Republican House members to call witnesses and issue subpoenas.
That is why, when ambushed by NBC News, she was careful to make a distinction and say It is not an impeachment resolution. It was a walk-by comment:
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Speaker Pelosi is holding a vote, a resolution, to affirm her previous declaration of a House inquiry . Pelosi is not delivering a House Resolution on Impeachment for a vote, because if she did hold a vote on an impeachment resolution, the minority and the Executive branch would gain rights therein.
Note that the final wording of the resolution is not yet available
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The rules for an impeachment investigation would provide rights for the minority and also rights for the Executive branch.
So instead of having a House vote to authorize an impeachment investigation, with subsequent rights for the minority; they are having a House vote to affirm the impeachment inquiry with an entirely different set of House rules that do not include rights for the minority.
Nice trick huh?
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the vote is a bluff, done in desperation
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“In the vernacular, the Speaker doesnt know whether to s@#t or go blind”
You are obviously correct but I stand ready, in my unofficial capacity as “Bull of the Woods”, to advise her and I suggest that she should do both immediately.
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