Posted on 12/19/2019 3:31:46 AM PST by Kaslin
Well, the final vote in the House of Representatives was not a shocker. House Democrats' lust to impeach President Trump on some shoddy quid pro quo allegation over military aid to Ukraine passed after nearly 12 hours of debate. As Katie wrote, the vote was 229-198-1. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a 2020 Democratic candidate, voted present, while Reps. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ) and Collin Peterson (D-MN) voted with Republicans against this witch-hunt.
Today was truly a clown show, with scores of Democrats trying to make the case that Trump is an existential threat to the United States. There was a lot of hot air. The evidence against Trump is the very definition of weak sauce. It’s so thin and so nakedly partisan that swing-state voters are sour on impeachment. This move by Democrats has increased the president’s popularity. It hasn’t moved the needle. In fact, the approval numbers for impeachment are now underwater. It has done the exact opposite of what Democrats had hoped, and this could be one massive in-kind contribution to the 2020 Trump campaign. Maybe within the leadership, they know this too, but they’re at the point of no return. They promised their base impeachment and it very well could allow Trump to cruise to re-election.
Knowing that the Republican Senate will dispense of their so-called evidence for impeachment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has threatened to withhold transmitting the articles to the upper chamber. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has already rejected Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) parameters for the trial. McConnell slapped them down, along with cutting through the nonsense about his role in this Democrat-manufactured fantasy. He’s not going to be impartial.
“I'm not an impartial juror. This is a political process. There's not anything judicial about it,” he said on Tuesday.
Knowing these articles face certain death with Senate Republicans, Pelosi and House Democrats now appear to be engaging in political extortion. Just watch. This is all about Senate Republicans rejecting Democratic calls for witnesses. That’s not how this works, lady. You folks, the House Democrats, decided what’s impeachable. The Senate holds a trial based on your work. And your work is total and complete nonsense.
Nancy Pelosi won't commit to sending the House Democrats' sham articles of impeachment over to the Senate.
Basically confirming what we've known all along this impeachment is a WITCH HUNT & A SHAM! pic.twitter.com/2KGQBkIsSE— Francis Brennan (@FrancisBrennan) December 19, 2019
Pelosi indicates the House may hold the articles of impeachment and not send then to the Senate until it’s understood the Senate will conduct a fair trial— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 19, 2019
If Trump is so dangerous to the country and the world, why wait?!?!?! https://t.co/lMzqp3bw5R— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 19, 2019
“We’ll decide what that dynamic is,” Pelosi told reporters after the vote. Politico has more:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned the House may not immediately transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate out of concerns Republicans won't conduct impartial proceedings at a trial.
Pelosi refused to commit to any timeline for sending the articles, which is required to begin the impeachment trial.
"So far, we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us," Pelosi told reporters shortly after the House approved two articles of impeachment against Trump. "But right now, the president is impeached."
Well, that’s not your call, Nancy. Your party is not the majority in the senate. We’re the majority. And we’re going to end this clown show. The longer you hang onto this the more popular Trump becomes and the more key swing states Democrats need to win in 2020 fall further out of reach. So, please, keep playing this game. Oh, and removing Trump from office requires 67 Senators. This just isn’t in the works.
The irony is thick. Democrats think Trump is dangerous and must be removed because he abuses his power, and we have Democrats abusing their power to try and get Trump removed from the Oval Office, possibly sending us into a constitutional crisis with these games. To save the Constitution, we have to destroy the Constitution. We have to shred parts and go around others. That’s quite the formula there for salvation, though one that could only come from the mind of a historically illiterate and petulant Democrat. They’re just giving us this election.
Nancy DID send/provide the Articles to the Senate — for all the world to see. She did it when they were published.
She thinks two can’t play her game?! She thinks because a small contingent of her angry thugs didn’t parade the printed documents to the Senate she didn’t provide them? That’s just theater.
The Senate has the Articles; she provided them. Now let them do their job.
President Trump should have a medal made and pin it to his suit. Anytime anybody asks about impeachment he can proudly point to it and say “I won this for making America’s enemies sad”
Read later.
Hey Nancy, There was nothing fair when we watched the Schiff Charade happenings. Now that a Republican is in charge of the Senate you should get the same treatment as Schiff gave us.
Along with Schiff, Schumer, and Nadler
This can work as an advantage. President Trump has great instincts. He has said more than once that he believes the Supreme Court should judge the articles against the wording of the Constitution’s impeachment clause. I believe he is dead on. Assemble the best names in the legal profession, those who have seasoned practice before the Court and make the case to the Court while all the Pelosi clowns are playing games. Watch, she will change her tune in a heartbeat once she realizes what is going on, but I would tell her “Too late,” the train has left for the Supreme Court.
Why wait? Send in the Marines with rat traps, get em all in one sweep!
This won’t be the end of it, the Treasonists will invent something new between now and the election. Why? Because the Republican party does absolutely nothing, so don’t be surprised if we get coup attempt #3 in 2020. Maybe they’ll get access to his financial records even though they have absolutely no right to, and maybe there’s some minor discrepancy in it, and here we go again, charge him with a “crime” and of course Republicans will be hiding under their desks in their safe spaces sucking their thumbs in fetal position while once again the Treasonist clown steams right ahead.
If McConnell an ounce of manhood, he will tell her to go to hell.
Amen. No more talk softly and carry no stick. Talk forcefully and carry a CIWS.
It's so amusing that Nancy is obsessed with a "fair trial". What she means is that she wants the Senate to railroad President Trump just like the House did. She wants it all stacked up against him.
Innocent until proven guilty? A fair trial is a trial that ensures the accused is treated fairly? Nancy has a very different view of these things. She doesn't like the American way of doing things.
Lawfare is behind it all.
So goes the insular and out of touch worlds Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
They have been so far out of touch with normal America for so long living in their own little reality that they have now totally lost touch with reality it’s self.
We are reminded
Where goes hubris, soon comes nemesis.
Too bad the “hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go” movement both San Fran Nan and Tribe helped engineer has largely erased that knowledge from our culture and collective minds.
To bad because forgotten lessons relearned the hard way are such a bitch
Ok Nancy the House unfairly and likely illegally impeached President Trump so tell us what has changed in America today worth you cringeingly crowing about? Nothing, it’s business as usual. Carry on and oh, batten down your hatches in the dumbocrat party for Karma in November is going to be a biotch. I sense a bloodbath is coming for your party.
GOP should say we will not decide on how to conduct trial until House sends it over.
“”Mitch needs to declare Trump isn’t impeached until the senate receives the articles of impeachment.””
He’s not impeached, that calls for a 2/3 rds senate majority. The house voted to try him for impeachment. The house cannot impeach.
This is more telling than a yes vote. If they do not have the balls to vote yes or no, they damn sure do not need to be president.
I think Obama (spit) held the record for "present" votes and look at what kind of _resident he was
Draft impeachment of the speaker.. "with a heavy heart".
This is retarded. She’s threatening to not send over the articles until Mitch does it her way? Ok...lol.
Her dad was mafia, she should know that in extortion the other party has to value what you are withholding.
This would be like Hillary threatening bill that she won’t have sex with him
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