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.
It goes to show that the Rats have a better grasp of how stupid the average American is.
The projection is strong in this one.
“ “So far, we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us,” Pelosi told reporters ”
I agree Nancy, nothing about this process has been fair.
They have a lot of nerve, don’t they?
Dems werecounting on witnesses to dirty up Trump in the Senate before the vote. Think an avalanche of Blaisie Fords.
Without that they lose their opportunity to make the case that Trump should be impeached even though the articles are BS.
That’s why I hated the 2018 election except Florida.
It doesn’t sound like she turned them in.
You need to read the constitution.
House has the sole power of impeachment.
Senate has the power to try it.
Hence the house is who impeaches. The senate is who removes.
Someone should write a book on that.
If this is her chosen course of action, it no longer is an Impeachment.
It becomes a Super Censure.
Couple of things. First off, the sixth amendment requires a speedy trial. Seems to me this is a violation of that amendment. Could be enforced by a direct appeal to the SC by the President. I don’t think the Senate has standing to do it.
The reason this was supposedly rushed through was he was an immediate and continuing threat to the country because he remained as President. Seems to me not sending it forward undermines that argument and should become the corner stone of everyone saying this is a sham.
It’s interesting to note that in 1998, after Bill Clinton’s impeachment, the articles were handed over to the Senate within minutes.
It’s interesting to note that in 1998, after Bill Clinton’s impeachment, the articles were handed over to the Senate within minutes.
If Nancy, queen of the sh*tty city, doesn’t send it to the senate it should be declared invalid. Impeachment Interruptus.
Mitch should announce the date and time the trial begins.
If they fail to show, dismiss all charges. DONE!
As someone just posted.......Democraps have succeeded in making impeachment trivial
Just as Obama made the Nobel Prize irrelevant.
One person misrepresenting one district in one state is holding this country hostage with this unconstitutional impeachment. You can’t make this stuff up.
I blame Paul Rino for this entire mess. It is his fault the GOP lost the HOR in ‘18.
Indeed. Most astonishing. Up until the upgrades that were the Block 1A and 1B, the GAU-8 Avenger was the king of firing rate.
Just makes the dems look worse & worse.
Oh please, PLEASE Nancy, please don’t throw Impeachment into the briar patch!
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