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McConnell rips Pelosi for impeachment delay, says Dems ‘afraid’ to transmit ‘shoddy’ articles
Fox News ^ | Dec. 19, 2019 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 12/19/2019 8:18:17 AM PST by libstripper

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set the stage Thursday for a potentially bruising fight between the leadership of the two chambers over impeachment, as he tore into Nancy Pelosi for “shoddy work” and said Democrats may be “too afraid” to send the articles to the Senate after the House speaker abruptly held off on transmitting them.

“This particular House of Representatives has let its partisan rage at this particular president create a toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future,” McConnell said on the floor, accusing Democrats of giving in to "temptation" with their impeachment vote while challenging their handling of the articles in the aftermath.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 116th; cocainemitch; congress; delay; impeachment; leadermcconnell; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; pelosi; trump; ukraine
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To: RummyChick

How is “not transmitting” even an option?

McConnell needs to shut this shite down NOW

The House does not have the right the hold a permanent pocket impeachment of a President and dangle it every time it wants to make a point

THIS is absolutely unconstitutional and Mitch needs to end this now


41 posted on 12/19/2019 8:35:39 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: libstripper

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave an excellent presentation with this speech.


42 posted on 12/19/2019 8:36:39 AM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020 and again in 2024. EPSTEIN WAS MURDERED. "Seditious conspiracy" is everywhere.)
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To: lodi90
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43 posted on 12/19/2019 8:37:03 AM PST by timestax
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To: ConservativeWarrior

On the flip side, what happens if they wait until the GOP takes over the house?”

When that happens, even if Mitch has dispensed with the “articles”, the House should still “unimpeach” Trump - something akin to a Presidential pardon as it were

for the historical record


44 posted on 12/19/2019 8:37:15 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: laplata
-- McConnell is already stating that these Articles of Impeachment are Illegitimate and Unacceptable for a senate trial. The formal language is coming. --

He's said all he needs to say for now. The ball is in the House's court. Them and their extention in the Senate, Schumer.

The Senate will formally deal with the articles when the House walks them over. A majority of the senate can modify the impeachment rules. Go nuclear, no cloture, no minority veto, etc.

It is interesting, in that both the Senate and POTUS have institutional interest in this Pelosi-triggered constitutional crisis.

45 posted on 12/19/2019 8:37:17 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: bigbob

If Nadless can delay the application of normal House rules when it suits him, why doesn’t McConnell just change the Senate rules and go ahead and dismiss the charges in advance of receiving them?

Just “deem” them as received, vote and be done with it.

BUMP!


46 posted on 12/19/2019 8:37:39 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: libstripper
The House, lead by Pelosi, are certainly making fools out of themselves. They are coming across as anarchist believers of mod rule, and our liberties be damned. It is win at all costs, rules and precedents be damned.

The VERY scary idea is that these same people make decisions that directly affect our daily lives (now and in the future). Do you want a mob rule group of people who run roughshod over liberties controlling your lives?

47 posted on 12/19/2019 8:37:47 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Cboldt

yes, excellent post


48 posted on 12/19/2019 8:38:21 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Schumer was saying that large amounts of legislation are, and have been, sitting in the Senate but McConnell has refused to move the legislation forward. What’s that about, if anyone here knows?


49 posted on 12/19/2019 8:38:51 AM PST by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: Cboldt
She is stepping out of her lane if she plays judge or appeals court. She's stepping on the Senate's toes.

I think she's proven by her past actions that she doesn't care. If Mitch doesn't hold to procedure (he doesn't need her to walk over the papers), he's just letting her run the show and do what she wants.

50 posted on 12/19/2019 8:39:28 AM PST by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! She's done and he's won!)
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To: Professional

There is no such thing as abuse of Congress. Every veto, every push back would otherwise qualify.

There are due process and Constitutional rights, which were all denied to the President

The definition of tyranny


51 posted on 12/19/2019 8:39:29 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! Hi)
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To: libstripper
Did the Dems/Nanzi/Schiffless in the house give us Premature Impeachment or

Impeachment Interuptus by Dems in the Senate, for 5 more years!

52 posted on 12/19/2019 8:39:43 AM PST by Grampa Dave (A FRIVOLOUS IMPEACHMENT VOTE is a SERIOUS SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY!!!)
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To: RummyChick

Mitch has to stay out in front of the Dems on this or he could be steamrolled, with the media running interference and narratives created. Pelosi and her goons may be waiting for favorable court rulings on certain things, or to get a look at the president’s tax returns to search for any financial improprieties.

A fishing expedition that’s been going on for three years with no end in sight. Put a stop to it NOW. They’ve passed the Articles, now start the trial in the Senate, or issue a summary acquittal if the Dems refuse to play by the rules.


53 posted on 12/19/2019 8:40:15 AM PST by Deo volente ("Paging Mr. Charles Martel. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.")
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To: libstripper

Where’s the media? I mean if our side tried to pull this crap, it would be non stop 24/7 coverage.

Isn’t there one, just one honest reporter at the NY TiMes, Post or CNN etc who can speak up on this travesty?

Man, our schools obviously don’t teach civics, and the Democratic House of Representatives are sorely in need of a class on it.

In fact, after this, I’d say anyone who enters the House or Senate must take a course on the constitution and the founding our country.


54 posted on 12/19/2019 8:40:34 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: RummyChick
She said she isn’t transmitting until she is assured of fair procedure.

Hypocrisy, Pelosi is thy name.

55 posted on 12/19/2019 8:40:57 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: laplata

One Senator who spoke on Fox this morning said it was unconstitutional for Palosi to not pass the articles of impeachment to the Senate.


56 posted on 12/19/2019 8:41:35 AM PST by V V Camp Enari 67-68 (Viet Vet)
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To: Texas Eagle

Yes, this has been enjoyable to see so many really smart, articulate gutsy GOPers out there fighting, save of course, for Romney who likes to play by the Marcus of Queensberry Rules.


57 posted on 12/19/2019 8:41:41 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: libstripper

The Senate should adopt a new rule that they will accept articles of impeachment only once during each session of Congress and that they will only accept articles within one month of passage in the House. The Senate sets its own rules. Pelosi sitting in judgement on the conduct of the Senate in its own rules is laughable, like the rest of this fiasco.


58 posted on 12/19/2019 8:41:48 AM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

not offhand, but any trash bill that the commie-run house sends over to the Senate can be ignored by the Majority Leader in the Senate. In other words, it dies, as the Senate is not obligated to take up anything it does not want to.

probably has something to do with that.


59 posted on 12/19/2019 8:42:03 AM PST by QualityMan
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To: lodi90

Well, after actually listening to what McConnell said, I think he just shot out the tires on the Demonrat’s Impeachment bus.


60 posted on 12/19/2019 8:42:22 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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