Posted on 01/25/2020 3:46:47 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
WASHINGTON — House Democrats were prepared and passionate as they laid out over three draining days in the Senate a detailed argument for impeaching and removing President Trump. What they do not appear to have been is persuasive to the critical handful of Republicans who hold the key to their immediate objective: gaining access to witnesses and documents that could cement their case.....
“The House made a decision that they didn’t want to slow things down by having to go through courts,” Ms. Murkowski said. “And yet now they’re basically saying ‘You guys — the Senate — got to go through the courts. We didn’t, but we need you to.’”...
Republicans have long argued that the Democrats’ main aim is to use impeachment to increase their chances of winning the White House, holding the House and seizing the Senate this fall by energizing their voters, independents and Republicans uncomfortable with Mr. Trump while putting endangered Senate Republicans in the hot seat. That has irritated Republicans, sharpening their determination to stick together and push back against the efforts to prolong the trial.
“There has never been a likelihood in a partisan impeachment that you would remove the president, so you have to look at what else it might be about,” said Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, a member of the Republican leadership. “And it is all about politics.”
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It’ll be forgotten in six months. Not one American can tell you who the Clinton impeachment managers were, who his lawyers were or even the trial arguments.
This will suffer an even worse fate because Ukraine is remote from every day American concerns.
Not a winning issue for the Democrats, The country has moved on.
This is the first admission of #EpicFail.
If you look at Trump’s poll numbers yesterday on FIVE different polls he was at 47% or higher and inching toward 50% on ALL polls.
This is the biggest backfire I’ve seen from Botoxic and her crew. If I had just one wish today, it would be to see Schifty the Human Lemur in a cage.
The commie traitors at the NYT continue their long march toward a date with the hangman at a new Nuremberg trial.
Yeah, they should be hoping the voters are smoking some good weed to make the circus a bit more bearable. Plus, a purple haze makes voting Dim easier.
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