Posted on 01/09/2020 9:26:42 AM PST by Olog-hai
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing rising pressure to transmit articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate, as members of her own party signal they are losing patience with her delay tactics.
Pelosi, D-Calif., indicated to Democratic colleagues — first on Tuesday in a memo, and again on Thursday during a press conference — that she plans to continue to hold onto articles of impeachment, at least until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., releases a resolution outlining the terms for a Senate trial.
“We need to see the arena in which we are sending our [impeachment] managers. Is that too much to ask?” Pelosi said Thursday, adding she first wants to know the “terms of engagement” for a Senate trial and voicing concern that senators won’t be impartial.
Still, Pelosi said she won’t hold the articles indefinitely, and suggested she could send them soon.
This comes as Democrats on both sides of Capitol Hill are saying it’s time for the trial — on allegations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — to proceed in the Senate. …
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Man, I hate my reflexes; still putting last year in the date.
Her Catholic name is “Our Lady of Perpetual Impeachment.”
IF she delivers them at all, she will send them the DAY OF THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS.........................
Remind me again where ‘transmit’ or any variation thereof appears in the Constitution?
Pelosi:
“See! I told you that sooner or later they would come graveling to ME to get their agenda completed! I love the smell of sniveling congresscritters in the morning! Sweet, sweet power.”
I’ve always seen the house as the JV team. The varsity team is getting ticked at the “head amateur”.
Send the articles over and then the vote for acquittal will take 5 minutes.
She can hold them forever for what I care.
“IF she delivers them at all, she will send them the DAY OF THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS.........................”
Yes she will.
Apparently Speaker Pelosi is now choking on the partisan impeachment albatross she decided to hang around her neck for the benefit of the extremist progressive wing in her party as she stumbles through the hall of Congress trying to figure a way of getting it off of her.
I don’t care if she plants them in her garden and waits for flowers to pop up.
Mitch is looking smarter and smarter now. Let her keep holding that hot potato.
oh...perfect!
Evidence? Did the House stupidly vote to impeach a president WITHOUT EVIDENCE?
Nancy's found a BIG pile of manure ... she's gonna spend her silly little time on this earth looking for the pony. In her case she's not an optimist, she's nuts - full blown case of Trump derangement syndrome. "Yeah, here's a pony, there's a pony - gotta be a pony in the BS somewhere"....
How stupid are they? "Genius Nanzi" and the Democraps dont even know? The Dem-things are one big joke.
The Senate is using the same rules adopted unanimously by Democrats for Clinton's impeachment.
LOL!!
I think the real issue becomes this:
If articles are sent, and they are as vague as they are, and Trump is acquitted,
by the standards of double jeopardy, do these vague standards basically preempt any other impeachment article from being written as they basically are all abuses of power?
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