Posted on 01/08/2020 6:40:45 PM PST by Hojczyk
(CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer have been bested by Mitch McConnell yet again. The two Democrats attempted to create impeachment leverage where none existed by withholding the Articles of Impeachment passed last month against President Donald Trump.
But like your Aunt Frieda threatening not to bring her awful fruitcake to Christmas Dinner, their plan didn't work. Nobody wanted it in the first place.
And now McConnell has exposed them for what they are -- desperate partisans who aren't interested in using impeachment the way the founders intended, but rather as just another tactic to be deployed in the hopes of trapping some Republican senator in a vote that can be used in an attack ad. They failed to convince a single Republican in the House that impeachment was necessary. They failed to pressure Mitch McConnell's conference to do their homework for them
And they will fail to remove President Trump from office when all is said and done, instead delivering him to a perch of exoneration from which he will bludgeon them for weeks. This could not have gone more poorly if the Democrats had tried. Any Republican senator on the ballot this year knows it would be suicide to join Pelosi or Schumer's hapless crusade now. Better to let the people decide Trump's fate in November than allow the Washington partisans to try in January.
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Kowabunga! Turtle power!
Has CNN, even, realized that entrapment has failed?
This level of honesty from CNN is surprising.
someone slipped McConnell some moonshine, it is the only way he would be brave enough to do this. LOL
It's unpressidented!
Go Turtle!
Scott Jennings is an American writer and conservative commentator. He is an on-air contributor for CNN, and writes for CNN.com, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. President Bush appointed Jennings to the position of Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs on October 17, 2005. Wikipedia
Wait a minute... this is CNN?
McConnell hasn’t actually done anything yet. Nobody in the Senate wants witnesses and POTUS uncovering their corruption.
It is just a contributor .... So they can say that they are impartial when it is really 98:2 from a bias perspective
CNN has booted anybody who is an effective supporter of POTUS.
ZAAP!
Internal polling must be just awful they throwing everything they can media, judicial, political, sjw and president Trump gets stronger and stronger. Fund raising must be problematic with all this attention being paid to their normal kick back conduits. Now we need to take out they voting fraud systems
Did someone ‘hack’ CNN’s IP address to post this? /s
just a swainging
Does CNN even know this is on their page?
If they don’t, don’t tell them, OK?
Geez, who hacked CNN and put this article up?
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