Posted on 01/28/2020 3:35:13 PM PST by a little elbow grease
Senator Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Tuesday said he doesn’t have the votes to block a resolution to allow witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial, according to multiple reports.
McConnell made the admission in talks with Senate Republicans after President Trump’s defense team concluded its arguments.
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“stupid autocorrect”
You know you can turn that off, right?
We could get a whole LOT o' mileage out'a some witnesses to burn obama and his administration, but it might be at the expense of President Trump's embarrassment.
I believe Trump CAN take it, but he shouldn't HAVE to be put through it.
Five years from now, they'd better have his face on Rushmore .... or better yet .... replace The Old Man in New Hampshire;
He broke down some years ago ...
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But Mitch, Q, and others, “we have it all.” Somehow my hopes and beliefs are going down the tubes. Guess We need to update our emergency kit and get ready for bad times ahead. I would like to see just one major thing we are supposed to have locked up come to pass.
what about obama?
So the spineless Republican Senators are going to allow new information that the Democrats demand and clueless Americans support in several polls. Okay, let’s see how many of those polled actually wahtbto hear from the Bidens, Schiff, the whistle blower CIA agent and the Intelligence Community IG. I know I do.
Turtle goes back into his shell.
If he worked for a private company, he would have been fired 20 years ago.
Yep. I suspected all along China Mitch was postponing the bad news. All the happy talk about Cocaine Mitch being in charge was just gaslighting BS. The GOP always intended to call witnesses. They just did not want to give the GOP base time to mobilize and engage their Senators about it. Frankly, we’ve been set up.
The GOP Senate is the biggest bunch of cowards on the planet. They’ve been lying to us forever. First there was “we can’t do anything until we get the House”, so they get the House and then it’s “we can’t do anything until we get the President”, so they get the House and the President and then McConnell and Paul Ryan screws us. I’m sorry for Trump. He doesn’t deserve this crap. This country deserves crazy Bernie as President. AOC as speaker; and Warren the Indian as Senate majority. Good luck America, you’re going to need it.
Oh I agree with that one but he really thinks he is a leader.
5 to 1 he wants the Senate Leadership spot
“ Will any dimoKKKRATS vote for no witnesses?”
My guess is....YES. They really don’t want witnesses. They want to b*tch about not having any and try for a Senate majority. They know they’ve lost the race against Trump.
Susan Collins is going to get destroyed in November. I cannot believe she will go down this path. TRump voters will abandon her. MaGA never forgets smh
Does anybody seriously think they’re interested in the truth about any of this???
This is far more serious than games. The GOPe want Trump out of their way and we should be looking for the candidate they intend to replace him on the 2020 ballot. McConnell is deep state.
Board has different factions obviously.
After reading everything I believe this account is more accurate than everything else. WSJ is suspect as a source.
The Dems need 4 votes. Murkowski, Gardner and Collins is 3. Anybody GOPer that is doing this out of pure spite of POTUS and the 60 million Americans who voted for him.
If a United States Senate majority leader allows a junior senator from Utah to tip such an important issue it is on him. This not a farm bill being debated. This is a Stalinist Show trial of a GOP POTUS. This 100% a failure of leadership by McConnell.
I don’t think the Senators want to give up this golden opportunity to drag this out and grandstand and make campaign speeches for themselves, solicit donations, run up a nice dinner bill.
Trump’s defense, which was excellent, was all for naught. The blurry Times leak sunk it all without a trace. Just goes to show the dull, gutless, puerile minds illuminating some GOP senators.
The democrats can out-maneuver the Republicans with a twitch of their little finger. The Republican majority is now Schiff’s bitch.
Some party.
SOOOO WHAT are we going to do about it???????
Typical of Mitch to throw in the towel without an actual vote. How can he possibly know how the Democrats will vote?
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