Posted on 01/08/2020 8:11:45 PM PST by karpov
Will Nancy Pelosi ever send the two House articles of impeachment to the Senate? We’re going on three weeks since the House voted, and Congress is back in session, but the House Speaker said Tuesday she wants to see what kind of trial the Senate will hold before she deigns to appoint House managers to make their case.
This is a parody of impeachment. House Democrats said they had to rush to vote before Christmas because President Trump poses a clear and present danger, but now the urgency is gone. The House didn’t subpoena John Bolton, the former national security adviser, but now the Senate must call him or the trial won’t be fair. The House refused to call witnesses requested by the GOP minority, but now the Senate GOP majority is supposed to heed every request by the Democratic minority.
This farce is being played at the expense of the Constitution, which lays out that the House has the “sole power of impeachment” while the Senate has the “sole power to try all impeachments.” It doesn’t say the Senate trial must be held according to the stipulations of the House Speaker. If she were a Republican, the media would be howling at her with derision. But because the impeachment press hates Mr. Trump, it is playing along.
Her political calculation isn’t obvious. Perhaps she really thought she could dictate to Mitch McConnell, but now the Senate Majority Leader says he has enough votes among Republicans to begin a trial with opening arguments on both sides and a decision on witnesses to come later. That’s what the Senate did for the trial of Bill Clinton.
Maybe she hopes to delay the trial past the first presidential contests in early February
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Doesn’t matter whether she does or doesn’t the Senate is going to proceed.
McConnell should refuse to accept them as “laches estoppel.”
Too much time has passed and the charges are stale.
He if botox-barbie can screw with the Constitution, so can McConnell.
That was before Senate Democrats threw in the towel.
They have no hope of getting the Turtle to cave. His rules will soon be in place.
And the last excuse House Democrats have for holding impeachment hostage will be gone.
The Turtle will happy to acquit the President it Pelosi never sends it over.
You can sit on it and rotate, Nancy.
Nancy just indicted Trump.
She’s now refusing to have her attorneys go in and face the judge, until she finds out if the judge is going to conduct a fair trial.
Is anyone buying the idea this woman isn’t a looney tune?
Pelosi’s just making an ass of herself. She and the bubble in DC can’t see it, but Americans already viewed impeachment as a shit-sandwich served to the nation for thanksgiving - and now its a 6 week-old leftover shit sandwich which they still intend to serve to us.
Pelosi is the only American citizen who has been bombed the past two days.
I talked to someone who was a senior staffer on Capitol Hill yesterday. He told me that Nancy and lots of the Dem leadership are certifiably insane!! He also said that the impeachment of Trump is going nowhere but into the trash can.
I think the Turtle has a trick up his sleeve here, he is going to rain on the Dem primaries with the senate trial. All the senators who are running for president will be in DC listening to weeks and weeks of testimony and not out on the campaign trail.
Talk about pissing on their parade lol
Post of the week! L O L !
+100!! LOL!!
I’d just ignore it.
Let her keep the articles, something to remember President Trump by.........
Pelosi is losing Senate Democrats now. It’s almost over.
This whole Democrat Party impeachment thing is a scam.
Clear out the swamp.
Agreed.
Thanks for the mention.
To push the stuff they are, it’s clear they have to have a screw loose.
A sane person couldn’t keep acting this way.
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