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.
Can you back this up as there is no indication of it taking place. In fact every politician and media has stated otherwise.
Think it would be better if the Voters handled this...
The house can only charge, that alone is not impeachment.
ARTICLES of IMPEACHMENT
Future Democrat President
1. Abuse of Taxpayer
2. Obstruction of Prosperity
“Is it possible that the SCOTUS could step in and declare that the impeachment is void because it was not accomplished according to the Law?”
I think so since the Chief Justice presides on the Senate trial. As a judge, could he not proclaim there are no charges stated for which an impeachment can be held?
Since Queen Nancy hasn’t forwarded the articles of impeachment to the Senate, the articles have no meaning, there is no Senate trial, and there is no Chief Justice presiding. The House took a vote.
Interestingly, if the Republicans take back the House next year and the articles are not forwarded, there can still be another vote to abolish the previous vote and the articles voided from the record.
Nancy better get the USMCA passed quickly before the atomic Dingell Bomb drops.
She is the face of CA and its demented voters.
Really? Dems are losing ground with voters every day this goes on. They have even started losing base voters. There is utterly no leverage on the Senate Republicans. The GOP is handily winning the Public Relations war right now.
Democrats really want to keep hemorrhaging voters for Nov 2020? Let them.
The Supreme Court has already ruled that they have zero authority over the impeachment process as it is a "political" process. To me, this says that Trump could be impeached, then found guilty by the Senate and still legally refuse to leave the office and allow the political chips to fall wherever they may. In essence, since this is deemed "political" in nature, there are no legal ramifications. As a co-equal branch of government, the executive branch cannot be bullied by the judicial or legislative branch. The only legal way of removing a President from office is through the election process.
She could barely hold her laughter after the vote yesterday.
no it belongs to Justice Roberts.
How is the Supreme Court going to run away from their duty as the only authority to interpret the U.S. Constitution? I doubt the Court would avoid this clear duty to clarify the impeachment clause in the Constitution, especially since the libs are planning to continue ginning up more trashy impeachment cases. Here we have a clear case where the instant articles do not meet Constitutional muster.
Are the Articles of impeachment not available to the public?
If so it seems the Senate can retrieve the articles electronically and acquit without Pelosi formally sending them over (if they want to do so). Breaks so-called tradition but impeaching a President without any real charges would seem to break tradition as well.
The rats were talking about impeaching President Trump before he was even nominated.
Back it up? Haven’t we all seen the Articles? We have; the Senate has.
EXCELLENT POINT!
And what a great campaign promise to make in about 30 CDs.
Or she will send it over to the Senate in November 2020, after the election when the Republicans take back the House (and before the January 2021 session begins - the117th)
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