GOP Weakness in first Impeachment led to second Impeachment
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Posted on 01/14/2021 10:37:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The GOPe hates us more than the Democrats hate us.
Fake news
I think it’s pretty clear you have Pence, Mcconnell and others.
Pence will never hold another political office.
There should be a petition to oust McConnell now.
The Turtle has zero integrity - THAT'S his real legacy.
The author reads a New York Times story and tries to analyze it as if the reporting is accurate.
When I see a NYT headline I assume the story is false -- and in fact deliberately planted there to mislead the readers.
“Announced the eve of the House impeachment vote in the pages of The New York Times”
And there you have it.
Fake news.
1 reason this article is a blunder.
The author believes what the new york times told him.
RE: When I see a NYT headline I assume the story is false — and in fact deliberately planted there to mislead the readers.
So, you’re saying that the report that says McConnell is FOR impeachment and will himself vote to convict Trump is FALSE?
My personal feeling is this — if Mitch were so keen on removing Trump from office, why doesn’t he convene Senate ASAP? Why wait till after Biden is inaugurated making the entire process moot?
My question is, can a former president have a trial in a new Senate session after he has left office?
Wasn’t just the NYT reporting this, gang.
FNC and FBC (Lou Dobbs) also reported the exact same thing.
And even if you think it was “fake news”, ask yourselves honestly - do you for ONE SECOND doubt it’s true?
I sure don’t. The Turtle HATES Trump. He HATES Conservatives.
Imminently more than plausible The Turtle wants to “purge” that party of Trump AND his 74M followers.
That said, he apparently isn’t very good at math - because a Republican won’t ever elected as County Dog Catcher if Mitch is successful “purging” even a small fraction of the MAGA voters.
China Mitch handed off impeachment to Schumer. He’s doing POTUS no favors here.
Fake news?
How did you come to that conclusion?
“I don’t care how horrifying the next four years is, and I don’t care how much the moderators at FR harangue us to vote for whoever the Republican candidate is, if that candidate is GOPe then I will vote third party.”
I’m with you. What’s that saying: Doing the same thing and expecting a different result? Insanity.
It's about our ethics.
Republicans resent that their base holds them to higher standards than the Democrats are held to by their voters.
That puts Republicans in the position of actually having to work for their votes, make promises, and then defend their actions against those promises. These are things their Democrat counterparts don't have to do, and the Republicans hate it.
To them, the double standard is not that the MSM let's the Democrats get away with everything, it's their own voters do not.
-PJ
1. McConnell didn't want to be the guy who convened the Senate trial and presided over the Senate while it voted to acquit Trump but with a majority voting to convict (including 3-4 Republicans). In this scenario, Republicans who might have voted to convict Trump (including sh!tbags like Romney and Murkowski) can play the role of martyrs by simply refusing to convict on the grounds that the President is no longer in office.
2. McConnell wanted a trial but knew he didn't have enough time to do it the right way.
“My question is, can a former president have a trial in a new Senate session after he has left office?”
The scholars say no.
They're trying to paint this as a cross between Benghazi and Fort Sumter because they're humiliated at the optics of having Hagar the Horrible and a bunch of overgrown adolescents take over the Capitol.
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