Posted on 01/14/2020 7:21:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
How imbecilic are those Republicans trying to make a name for themselves by supporting the unconstitutional Schiff/Pelosi articles of impeachment? Beyond polite description.
Susan Collins, Rob Portman, probably the self-serving Mitt Romney, are each trying to be the biggest monkey wrenches in an already ridiculous endeavor to remove President Trump from office. Each of them should just admit they are Democrats at heart and switch parties. How else to explain their betrayal of their own party? Poor judgment is one thing, like Matt Gaetz voting for Pelosi's meaningless resolution to limit Trump's ability to counteract Iran. That was just dumb, a hopefully momentary lapse. As for the rest of them, they are idiotic, masters of their own demise. If they fail to realize that Donald Trump is the most successful, most popular president in decades, perhaps ever, they do not have the requisite brains to hold public office.
If they do not realize by now that the impeachment over a boring phone conversation with the president of Ukraine is as big a hoax as the Russia-collusion story rom the outset, they are too dim to have any political power in the Republican Party. Send them over to the Democrats where they belong. While Republicans are often the stupid party, Democrats are the evil party; they support terrorists like Qassem Soleimani, and brutal tyrannies like those in Iran and Venezuela. Trump has trolled them into defending the indefensible.
Who among us knows what Mitch McConnell has up his sleeve? Let us hope he has a plan to demolish the Dems' specious plan to impeach, a plan that was hatched before Donald Trump was even inaugurated.
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They do they just have to go through the motions.
“Susan Collins is simply being Susan Collins. In the end, she tends to vote with the rest of the party.”
Which she needs to do in order to survive in Maine.
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“Whoa! GOP does not have 51 votes to dismiss?
American Thinker ^ | 01/14/2020 | Patricia McCarthy”
Portman is being Portman again.
Let him know what you think.
https://www.portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form
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https://twitter.com/SenRobPortman
Don't really want this to occur, would turn the Senate over to the Democrats, and then...
Don’t let the GOP Senate fob this off this betrayal of a GOP POTUS on a particular Senator not up for reelection. This is a failure of leadership and the party. McConnell must go if he can not whip votes in support of a GOP POTUS under impeachment.
Each of them should just admit they are Democrats at heart and switch parties.
That is wildly premature, and almost certainly wrong. The author is equating a vote to proceed to trial — which is what a somewhat squishy Republican might do — with a vote to convict, which is where the dividing line for GOP v. Rat is really going to matter.
It’s hardly premature. It’s been 3 full years of non support of POTUS from the GOP Senate. Low lights of GOP Senate obstruction and coup collusion include the Mueller coup protection act and the threats not to fire Sessions.
How long should we plan on waiting for substantive support? If not now then when?
Not as it stands now, no. It’s better for Trump to go through the farce of a trial and have them vote to acquit. That ends it.
End it? Not a chance. The Dems are already promoting the idea of more articles.
... in their yachts knowing the conservatives keyboard commandos will dutifully bend over yet again.
Yep. They GOP are no doubt looking at Sleepy Sessions poll numbers and know with certainty they having nothing to fear from the base.
-PJ
The question is do We actually have 53 GOPe/Rep senators! We don’t call Dem RINOs for nothing!
The key vote will be whether to convict or acquit. That will be the moment we know who is a Dem at heart.
Probably true but they still count towards the majority. We need them.
I am pretty sure he sang a different tune last week. Change is telling.
Public grilling of the whistleblower, Adam Schiff, the tin soldier Venman and the State Department harpies will quickly make it clear that all of their revelations are hearsay or outright distortions. The link between Adam Schiff and the whistleblower and ties to Joe Biden will finish it.
It is the House Impeachment Managers that decided which charges to bring.
Starr conducted the investigation and submitted the report to the House.
Which charges to bring was a political decision.
It is said that there is NO TIE BREAKING VOTE on an impeachment vote. It’s been covered here before...
Someone asked what senators are up for reelection in 2020 and I can’t find the post now so I’m piggybacking this to your post; Democrats (12) and Republicans (32) up 2020....
Democrats up for reelection in 2020:
Alabama: Doug Jones (Running) Current age: 64
Delaware: Chris Coons (Running) Current age: 54
Illinois: Dick Durbin (Intent unknown) Current age: 73
Massachusetts: Ed Markey (Running) Current age: 71
Michigan: Gary Peters (Intent unknown) Current age: 59
Minnesota: Tina Smith (Running) Current age: 60
New Hampshire: Jeanne Shaheen (Intent unknown) Current age: 71
New Jersey: Cory Booker (Intent Unknown) Current age: 48
New Mexico: Tom Udall (Running) Current age: 69
Oregon: Jeff Merkley (Intent unknown) Current age: 61
Rhode Island: Jack Reed (Intent unknown) Current age: 68
Virginia: Mark Warner (Intent unknown) Current age: 63
Republicans up for reelection in 2020:
Alaska: Dan Sullivan (Intent unknown) Current age: 53
Arizona: Martha McSally (Running) Current age: 52
Arkansas: Tom Cotton (Running) Current age: 40
Colorado: Cory Gardner (Running) Current age: 43
Georgia: David Perdue (Running) Current age: 68
Idaho: John Risch (Intent unknown) Current age: 74
Iowa: Joni Ernst (Running) Current age: 47
Kansas: Pat Roberts (Retiring) Current age: 81
Kentucky: Mitch McConnell (Running) Current age: 75
Louisiana: Bill Cassidy (Intent unknown) Current age: 60
Maine: Susan Collins (Running) Current age: 66
Mississippi: Cindy Hyde-Smith (Intent unknown) Current age: 59
Montana: Steve Daines (Intent unknown) Current age: 55
Nebraska: Ben Sasse (Intent unknown) Current age: 45
North Carolina: Thom Tillis (Running) Current age: 57
Oklahoma: Jim Inhofe (Intent unknown) Current age: 83
South Carolina: Lindsey Graham (Running) Current age: 63
South Dakota: Mike Rounds (Intent unknown) Current age: 63
Tennessee: Lamar Alexander (Retiring) Current age: 77
Texas: John Cornyn (Running) Current age: 65
West Virginia: Shelley Moore Capito (Intent unknown) Current age: 64
Wyoming: Mike Enzi (Intent unknown) Current age: 73
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