Posted on 12/05/2019 10:34:03 AM PST by Red Badger
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of overseeing a “rushed” impeachment effort against President Donald Trump.
“For weeks now, Republicans have been asking Democrats to take off their impeachment blinders and let Congress legislate for the American people. We’ve argued that American families deserve better than this partisan paralysis where Democrats literally obsess over impeachment and obstruct everything else,” McConnell said on the Senate floor on Dec. 5, shortly after Pelosi announced she’d directed House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to draft articles of impeachment.
“This very morning, the Speaker gave a speech on national television to push forward her rushed and partisan impeachment,” McConnell said.
Pelosi uttered “not one word” on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal or the National Defense Authorization Act, he said.
“Democrats are too busy hosting a panel of law professors to criticize President Trump on television instead of the things American people actually need us to address,” McConnell said.
“Now the Kentuckians I represent cannot believe that our military commanders are being denied certainty, our men and women in uniform are being denied stable funding, and 176,000 new American jobs are being held up, all because Democratic leadership thinks there’s more political advantage in obstruction than in doing their job.”
McConnell, the top Republican in Congress, will set rules for a Senate impeachment trial if the House votes to impeach Trump.
Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, expressed confusion after Pelosi’s announcement, writing that Nadler asked him for his witness list this week.
“But Pelosi’s press conference seemed to indicate we’re moving straight to articles of impeachment. Judiciary has jurisdiction over articles of impeachment, but does the chairman even know what’s going on?” Collins said in a statement.
Nadler said on Wednesday that his committee would hold a hearing on Dec. 9 to receive presentations from counsels to the committee and the House Intelligence Committee regarding the impeachment inquiry against Trump.
Pelosi told reporters on Wednesday morning: “The president is a continuing threat to our democracy and leaves us no choice but to act. I am asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment.”
In another press conference later in the morning, she said that she was working with five other chairpersons apart from Nadler to draft the articles of impeachment. She praised three Constitutional scholars that Democrats called to testify on Tuesday, saying they helped people grasp “why it is important to move forward” with the inquiry.
“This has absolutely nothing to do with politics,” she said. “It’s about the Constitution of the United States.”
“I’m really sorry that the president made this necessary with his complete disregard for the Founders,” she said. “We don’t take any glee in this at all. It’s heartbreaking. But the president gave us no choice.”
She said that she was “comfortable with the time that we have put into this,” or two-and-a-half years, starting with the appointment of former special counsel Robert Mueller. A top Democrat said this week that the articles of impeachment should include Trump’s efforts to obstruct Mueller’s team.
Oh goodie! The two-faced b!tch speaks.
Bookmarking for future linking in threads where McConnell is under attack.
I’m not saying he’s always right, but when he’s wrong we should remember things like this.
This is just the next step in draining the swamp.
We’ll have a trial so the American people will to able to see why it doesn’t hold merit.
At the end of the day, I look forward to the President’s acquittal by the Senate.
“...Mitch should tell Pelosi this is unacceptable and will be REJECTED out of hand at the Senate door................... “
Naaaaa. Let it happen so these insane communist SOBs can be subpoenaed to testify for the “unwashed masses” and indeed, the entire world to see just how vile, hateful and stupid they really are....right before the election too.
mitch is not up to the task. You don’t win a fight against gangsters by playing by their rules. The dems escalate at every down turn, and the repubs have not even moved past the strongly worded letter yet.
Trudeau?...................
They will impeach him again.
This is not going to stop until it is stopped.
Mitch should tell Pelosi this is unacceptable and will be REJECTED out of hand at the Senate door...................
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This is just the next step in draining the swamp.
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Actually, the Senate dismissing a passed (abliet partisan) impeachment finding by the House, out of hand, would make them appear just as partisan.
Also, there is a great opportunity for Senate hearings to bring forward people to testify who have been able to escape scrutiny.
Mitch waited this long to say something.
He maybe setting the table for that.
he’s stomping ass with federal judges. he got two SCOTUS nominees through sh*t storms.
It’s mystifying to me why some people want to turn every conversation about dem malfeasance into an endless, mindless denunciation of random republicans.
He called it the “rushed and partisan” impeachment. This is all on the Democrats.
The Senate will do its constitutional duty but it doesn’t make the Democrat witch-hunt against our President credible and legitimate.
the senate gets to decide how they decide on impeachment. they’ll turn the trial into an investigation of the investigators.
. . . um, no, I did not plan on that sentence turning out the way it did.
Turtle....Do your job or we will find someone who will.
I’ll predict what happens on day one in the Senate...they will go to Judge Roberts (head of the impeachment process) and ask for 5 individuals to get a subpoena and appear in front of a Senate committee (the five will be Shifty, Pelosi, the secret whistle-blower, Hunter Biden, and Joe Biden).
Roberts might allow the subpoena process go forward but the five will challenge it to the Supreme Court, and there it will sit because Roberts can’t vote or participate.
After letting the whole process play out for four weeks and subpoena ‘chatter’ delaying the process, Roberts will tell the Senate that they can’t have the five. McConnell will stand up and say the process is ended....have a vote and there it will quietly die off. End of the story. End of the impeachment.
he’s stomping ass with federal judges. he got two SCOTUS nominees through sh*t storms.
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I don’t like Mitch, but I will give him FULL credit for what he’s done regarding judges & SCOTUS.
So far, he seems behind Trump. Some call him the “Murder Turtle” .... if he lives up to that as far as “killing” what crap the House/Pelosi are sending his way ... he’ll get some leeway from me. No one is perfect & Mitch isn’t, but this is life/death for the Trump presidency & if Mitch will fight for Trump, well then I’ll ‘take’ that help rather than chucking rocks his way (for now).
Rumor is that they are considering letting this go on, and on, and on in the senate because it will cause havoc with the schedules of all the dem candidates running in the presidential race. Then they are going to subpoena Hunter Biden and anyone else connected to the actual corruption.
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