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White House predicts Pelosi will cave on withholding impeachment from Senate (IMPEACHMENT HELD HOSTAGE - DAY 5)
Market Watch ^ | 12/22/19

Posted on 12/23/2019 1:47:51 AM PST by Libloather

WASHINGTON — The White House argued Sunday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position by stalling House-passed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in hopes of shaping the upcoming Senate trial.

**SNIP**

“She will yield. There’s no way she can hold this position,” said Marc Short, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence. “We think her case is going nowhere."

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Short called Pelosi’s delay unacceptable, saying she’s “trampling” Trump’s rights to “rush this through, and now we’re going to hold it up to demand a longer process in the Senate with more witnesses.”

“If her case is so air-tight ... why does she need more witnesses to make her case?" Short said.

White House officials have highlighted Democrats’ arguments that removing Trump was an “urgent” matter before the House impeachment vote, as they seek to put pressure on Pelosi to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate.

(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cave; impeach; impeachment; pelosi; senate
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She's gonna snap.
1 posted on 12/23/2019 1:47:51 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Holding for promised dirt.

If she can’t hold then the claim they can impeach over and over goes into effect when they get the dirt.

There is a promise of dirt she believes will force the senate to convict.


2 posted on 12/23/2019 1:53:59 AM PST by coaster123 (Those 40 or younger will meet horror before they meet death.)
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To: Libloather

I’m looking at that new memo that came out saying hold the aid (90 minutes after the phone call) ...and wondering why it is/was not classified? Starting to think it’s a plant because I think we know the aid was on hold a month earlier.


3 posted on 12/23/2019 1:59:34 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather

Send Nancy back to her wine cave.


4 posted on 12/23/2019 2:05:05 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Libloather

Waiting for Schiff to make up something on Pence. Found out the House also has to stay in session. Figures the Senate will not act first. Wants to drag it out in the media as long as possible. I suspect at least one of these is true.


5 posted on 12/23/2019 2:14:21 AM PST by Ingtar (Bedbugs, thy name is Democrat.)
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To: Ingtar

The longer they drag it out the better the case for the president.


6 posted on 12/23/2019 2:57:36 AM PST by riverrunner ( o the public,)
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To: Sacajaweau

When the aid was held up doesn’t. Matter because it is perfectly legal for the president to do so.

Anyone who actually. Believes foreign is handed out without conditions has not been paying attention.


7 posted on 12/23/2019 3:03:38 AM PST by billyboy15
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To: billyboy15
I totally agree with you.

The stupid part of the Dems dialogue is that we were looking for any additional "corruption" information relative to what we had....

and The call is very clear....we already had the goods on Biden...we didn't need anything else.

The Dems are trying very hard to damage our relationship with Ukraine.

8 posted on 12/23/2019 3:11:37 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather
The inquiry was the time to call the witnesses...to make their case. After the fact?? How stupid is that.

But my gut tells me they are using reverse physchology....and in fact they don't want those people called....because they DO NOT what they will produce.

All the witnesses they called were totally under their control and noticeably anti-Trump.

One thing that gets me....is that these ambassadors think that they are the ones who actually dictate policy.

9 posted on 12/23/2019 3:16:54 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather

She wants Trump to stew over it over the holidays and force McConnell to allow witnesses.


10 posted on 12/23/2019 3:17:06 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Libloather

Constitutional ABUSE OF POWER! That is the only thing that should be communicated about this sham. Not “bullying” or any other stupid meaningless words. Hammer down and focus on THEIR abuse of power. Don’t ever leave that message and stick with it until the end of time. Their historical move in the House will live in infamy!


11 posted on 12/23/2019 3:23:13 AM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: Sacajaweau

They THINK they dictate foreign policy BECAUSE they have been dictating foreign policy!!! Trump came in and blew up their apple cart it is also the aid money being laundered right back into these corrupt legislators pockets and believe me the pubbies are in on this BS too!!! They don’t become millionaires on their salary our taxpayer foreign aid dollars are making them millionaires, along with defense contractors laundering money back to them AND insider trading!!!


12 posted on 12/23/2019 3:27:17 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Libloather

“White House predicts Pelosi will cave on withholding impeachment”

So now, to prove Trump wrong, she’ll have to refrain from going forward on impeachment. That will teach him!


13 posted on 12/23/2019 4:00:26 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: coaster123

“New” transcript from omb released is old information.


14 posted on 12/23/2019 4:10:02 AM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: Sacajaweau

The Ukraine back to the Beltway money launderers have shown just a tiny part of the operation. It is massive and wide spread. The U.S. State Department is more like “”Suds-O-Cash”, with franchises in every embassy.


15 posted on 12/23/2019 4:14:05 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: Libloather

Her strategy is that she got her baby - impeachment - and she’s not giving it up.


16 posted on 12/23/2019 4:34:06 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Libloather

She already snapped - it’s only the Botox holding her plastic visage together.


17 posted on 12/23/2019 4:44:16 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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She already snapped - it’s only the Botox holding her plastic visage together.

Pelosi may have died 10 or 15 years ago. What we see now is a bag of bones and skin picked by decades of botox injections. She can only fire off random phrases etched into her neural pathways.


18 posted on 12/23/2019 5:07:00 AM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: Sacajaweau
The inquiry was the time to call the witnesses...to make their case. After the fact??

That's the 'Rat MO: they used it against Clarence Thomas and then against Kavanaugh.

19 posted on 12/23/2019 5:08:49 AM PST by Salvey
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To: Libloather

The asterisk beside Trump’s name is that he was impeached by the the democrat party, and not by the House.


20 posted on 12/23/2019 5:21:25 AM PST by odawg
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