Posted on 12/02/2019 1:21:29 PM PST by a little elbow grease
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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump has openly cheered for the impeachment process to move to the friendlier confines of the GOP-led Senate, but there may be some surprises in store for him on the way to a likely acquittal.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said it’s “inconceivable” at this point that the Senate will convict Trump on any articles of impeachment sent over from the House. It would take at least 20 Republican votes -- along with all Democrats -- to form the two-thirds majority required to remove Trump, and at present there are exactly zero.
McConnell and Trump, though, do have a different math problem. Call it the Rule of Four: it would take only four Republican defections to give Democrats an advantage in setting the rules for who testifies, how long the process goes on and other procedural steps that will set the tone and tempo for the trial.
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Maybe we won't get to the Senate part of the Swamp.
"BREAKING: Trump Campaign Will No Longer Credential Bloomberg News Reporters"
.... how fitting.
You can count on Romney, Collins, Murkowski, and Burr to hand over setting the rules for a trial to Schumer. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see the senate go to a secret vote on impeachment, justifying it by saying “it’s the way juries always do it”.
Zero? Mutt Magicpants will definitely vote to convict. I am sure there are plenty enough Vichy rethuglicans to pose a viable threat
Just because R jerseys are a majority in the Senate does not mean they side with Trump.
Fantasies about GOP Senators using the trial to expose Democrat wrongdoing are mistaken in my view.
The Obama Machine is saying to the Obamabots: Put the screws to any GOP Senator.
Meanwhile Turtle works to get more moderates in the Senate to protect his job.
Bloomberg “News”: the ultimate anti-Trump totally fake “news” outlet ...
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Well I guess I'm not going to sleep for a few days .....
Or vote in secret to impeach and carry on with bread and circuses as the people's business?
One way or another regardless of successes by Trump as a president, they will have to take him out by Memorial Day.
The senate is full of RINO SNAKES who despise trump..including McConnell..he HATES Trump with a passion!! Don’t be surprised if some tomfoolery will be in the mix!!
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"Rethuglicans" --- there's one I never heard before.
There ae plenty of them.
Nope. More wishful thinking from the Democrat Fascist Party press.
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God .... what an unbearable nightmare (for this country).
Trump goes or it's a circular legislative firing squad. They'll throw Trump under that bus any day.
Even if you gave Schumer 60 votes and he does create the rules, you still need 67 to convict and that will not happen.
This is a non-starter.
Yes .... Graham sure talks a tough game.
A secret vote? Don’t you need a roll call vote, to verify if the required 2/3 for removal of the president has been reached?
I must say I am constantly amazed by the weak-kneed pissing your pants scared to death alleging conservatives on this site. You have got to be one of the people who are so sure Trump had no chance and the Liberals were going to steal the election and when that didn’t happen then you were one of the people who said they will buy the electors and they will change their boats and on and on and on you are puke Worthy
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yes, see post # 2
50 have all ready signed on that the current Impeachment farce is DOA in the US Senate. Just more of the usual loser Never Trumper political consultants fantasizing to the tame media whores their current wishful thinking.
GOP is setting records with campaign donations of this impeachment scam. The polling is swining way their way for 2020.
Even the gutless scum wing of the GOP can see which way the wind is blowing here. That why Romney suddenly went silent. His polling data went under water in Utah due to his Never Trump-er bombast.
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