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McConnell Says GOP Doesn’t Have Votes to Block Impeachment Witnesses
Wall Street Journal ^ | 1/28/2020 | Rebecca Ballhaus

Posted on 01/28/2020 3:21:11 PM PST by lodi90

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To: Responsibility2nd

DiFi is showing signs of acquittal.

Nonsense, that’s for the rubes, she’ll bite the head
off a chicken in the end.


221 posted on 01/28/2020 5:42:39 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: rintintin

Oh look! It’s another troll!


222 posted on 01/28/2020 5:43:10 PM PST by Prince of Space (WhereÂ’s Hunter?)
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To: dp0622

How come Pelosi gets her people in line when she needs them,McConnell brags,this is not gonna happen,this is the Senate! Oh yeah? He can’t get 4 republicans in line to end this hoax?
I think this was planned I never trusted McConnell


223 posted on 01/28/2020 5:43:14 PM PST by ballplayer (By)
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To: snippy_about_it

At least then we will have a fighting chance to right the ship. Voting isn’t going to fix a damn thing.


224 posted on 01/28/2020 5:43:30 PM PST by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: luv2ski

Your assumptions are based on thinking voting is going to change anything. It isn’t. SCOTUS is just as corrupt. Obamacare? Remember that horse crap? Letting the left take over and letting it all go to hell gives us a better chance of fighting the ship.


225 posted on 01/28/2020 5:45:44 PM PST by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: ballplayer

A vote for more witnesses validates impeachment without a crime.


226 posted on 01/28/2020 5:46:48 PM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: lodi90

Might want to look at this:

Republicans signal renewed confidence they’ll avoid witness fight 01/28/20 05:23 PM EST

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/480375-republicans-signal-renewed-confidence-theyll-skip-impeachment-witnesses


227 posted on 01/28/2020 5:47:42 PM PST by conservativepoet
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To: lodi90

The Republicans had better not screw this up or their future losses will be the thing of legends. They will never again rise from the salted earth and dust that was once the Republican Party. And that’s their best case scenario. The reality will probably be much worse for them individually.


228 posted on 01/28/2020 5:59:24 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Cboldt
There is no way a witness will be allowed, that could damage a senator.

For example Bolton, who we would not think would damage any senator. Calling the Bidens could damage that ex-senator with the same name, so that will get voted down?

229 posted on 01/28/2020 6:01:57 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: nbenyo

You hope


230 posted on 01/28/2020 6:03:41 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The senators know who has damaging info on them. Those people won’t be called. I don’t know if that’s Biden (who I wouldn’t call) or Atkinson, or Ciarmarella. I’m just saying the senate is concerned with its members and nobody else.


231 posted on 01/28/2020 6:06:16 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: blueunicorn6

Definitely trolls


232 posted on 01/28/2020 6:17:42 PM PST by HollyB
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To: CatOwner

DU misses their troll.


233 posted on 01/28/2020 6:20:19 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

uniparty


234 posted on 01/28/2020 6:23:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Bayard

Kleptocracy might be more correct, according to recent books.


235 posted on 01/28/2020 6:25:58 PM PST by JungleGoat77
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To: conservativepoet

Yep.....the pearl clutchers here need a good nights sleep. The sun will come up in the morning. Media is playing with your heads. The WSJ?? haha ha


236 posted on 01/28/2020 6:28:02 PM PST by blackberry1
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To: CatOwner

My fantasy is to see the Pencilneck crackhead Schiff get called to testify and end up with jail time


237 posted on 01/28/2020 6:34:48 PM PST by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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To: lodi90; All

I think I see it.

The three or four RINOs are sweating bullets. Don’t vote for witnesses they lose their seats. McConnell realizes that Boltons’s testimony won’t amount to a hill of beans constitutionally and Trump will be acquitted no matter what because he did nothing wrong. And neither Trump or McConnell wants to lose any of these senate seats to demoncrats, as that would cost us the senate and we get no more judges. So he’s reluctantly letting them off the hook without twisting any arms too much on the witness vote. Some or all of them will vote for acquittal anyway. Trump wins, gets reelected, we keep the senate. Now we’ve got to concentrate on taking back the house so we can really get down to the business of draining the swamp.

Taking control of the senate was the real goal of the dems impeachment effort. Trump was never in danger.

Too bad Schmuckie, Nanzi, Schiffthead, et al. You lose. Again.


238 posted on 01/28/2020 6:49:54 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Cboldt; lodi90

Yes, but if Trump uses Exec Privilege, it would unfortunately make it look like he’s trying to hide something that Bolton will say. Even if he has nothing to hide.


239 posted on 01/28/2020 7:14:01 PM PST by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: lodi90

he real question is:

Why did Mitch inform the world that he hasn’t the votes to win a procedural resolution ( 51)?

a) The let the Dems know that if they vote, then Biden, whistleblower, Adam Schiff , IG for NSA, etc. will be called as witnesses?

b) to let the Dems know that he will succumb to the latest Media leaks so they wont bring another set of leaks and then bring his majority as surprise?

c)to bring public pressure on Romney, Collins, Murkowski to get in line with the rest of the GOP?

d) to signal the Presidents legal team to prepare a witness request list?

e) to inform the public that the Senate will be tied up for months with this impeachment trial?

Its now mirrors within mirrors. Mitch is wily. To tell the truth, very few know what Mitch has up his sleeve.Not even the Dems.


240 posted on 01/28/2020 7:34:55 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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