Posted on 12/19/2019 9:57:05 AM PST by Mariner
Mitch McConnell on Thursday threatened to cancel Donald Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate if 'scared' Nancy Pelosi doesn't send over the formal articles of impeachment against the president.
The speaker and the Senate Republican leader went to war over the next steps in the impeachment process as Pelosi slammed McConnell as a 'rogue leader' - and he blasted her articles as 'slapdash' and 'unfair.'
The dispute exploded into the open the morning after Democrats voted to impeach Trump, with the president bragging he was going to win the whole thing by 'default.'
'If the Do Nothing Democrats decide, in their great wisdom, not to show up, they would lose by Default!,' Trump argued on Twitter of his upcoming Senate trial, which is now in doubt.
Pelosi has to 'transmit' the articles of impeachment and appoint 'managers' to prosecute the president - but offered no timeline on when she would do that, saying she wanted to see the Senate's plan for a 'fair trial,' effectively holding the articles over McConnell and Trump's heads.
McConnell, who previously said he wanted to hold the trial in January, responded: 'It's beyond me how the Speaker and Democratic Leader in the Senate think withholding the articles of impeachment and not sending them over gives them leverage.
'Frankly, I'm not anxious to have the trial. If she thinks her case is so weak she doesn't want to send it over, throw me into that briar patch.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Welcome to the Impeachment Bowl!
It’s fourth and long and Team Donkey has the ball on their own 49. Head Coach Pelosi has called an indefinite time out until Team Rhino can be infiltrated next season with Team D players in Team R jerseys.
wouldn’t help.
the deep state is deep and coming out of the shadows.
Watch and laugh at the brainless dems and their Spamimpeachment bs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQG6liOA4wM&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCoxHqP3Gq2lxRG27DU3-TLm&index=2&t=0s
Wow have you ever let yourself be controlled by dem and media talking points.
Outing yourself as an anti-Trump asset of the left is a good move here at FR.
Your opinions ignore the facts.
Pure BS as expected from a Trump Hating troll suffering from severe DTS.
Take a couple of minutes and laugh at the Spamimpeachers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQG6liOA4wM&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCoxHqP3Gq2lxRG27DU3-TLm&index=2&t=0s
Take a couple of minutes and laugh at the Spamimpeachers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQG6liOA4wM&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCoxHqP3Gq2lxRG27DU3-TLm&index=2&t=0s
See the first word there? Rules. Congressional rules change all the time and can on the whim of the congress in power at the time.
The fact remains, there is no federal law, and nothing in the Constitution that mandates that hardcopies of the "articles" be walked over to the Senate and formally handed over.
Additionally, the "articles" have already been transmitted to not only the Senate, but to the internet connected world at large. They've been transmitted on the WWW.
Chicken Pelosi.
Just do it. I’m tired of threats that come to nothing.
Exactly, Less Talking More Doing.
Oh, please. The DIMwits have LOST. President Trump will be President for the foreseeable future. “Pull the trigger”??? DO IT! The DIMs are useless, feckless and a true paper tiger. Hopefully, President Trump will drop the hammer on these seditionists and traitors.
Yes, rules can be changed in the Senate. It just takes 51 votes to change them.
And that, FRiend, is where things fall apart. I doubt 51 Repubs would agree to change them.
After doing some intense research, it seems that the problem is with not only the left, but the deep state eGOP is quite a problem.
McConnell is an enigma wrapped in a conundrum.
He has helped get a lot of judges confirmed.
but at the same time he is working behind the scenes to hold trump back.
when push comes to shove, McConnell is deep state to the core.
(sorry about not using capitals, my “shift” button on the right side of the puter lags a bit...: > )
are you that out of touch?
grampa dave was quoting me.
and I was right.
I don’t debate with people that are stubbornly wrong on so many things and call names.
Merry Christmas!
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