[rintintin]

“ If they actually manage to pass articles of impeachment, the Senate will have their turn.”

If Trump is impeached by the House, his name gets listed with Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton as the only presidents ever impeached. That’s not a good look, and even if senate doesn’t convict and he wins re-election, media and historians will always tar him as impeached, just the way they do with Andrew Johnson

Lindsey could stop a House impeachment from happening by holding hearing to expose what a sham it is But he won’t. Hes hurting Trumps ability to govern and Trumps place in history by “waiting till the House impeaches”

[DannyTN]

Maybe. Let’s see what happens with the vote tomorrow. It might fail.

I don’t see anything seriously impacting Trump’s ability to govern. Trump knows it’s a farce, and he appears to have remained focus on the nation’s business.

If the Senate did call witnesses, we can assume they would be open hearings and the Senate will play fair. But you can’t assume the MSM will play fair. They will take Democrat questions and responses to those, in sound bites. They won’t air the whole hearing or even play the sound bites in context.

[Agamemnon]

Lindsey could stop a House impeachment from happening by holding hearing to expose what a sham it is But he won’t. Hes hurting Trumps ability to govern and Trumps place in history by “waiting till the House impeaches”

Have you considered what happens to Articles of Impeachment which the Senate declares to be illegitimately obtained and in essence renders them DOA? Graham has already obtained signatures from 50 of 53 GOP Senators which does essentially that pre-emptively. The House has been warned.

Imagine the House going down in history as having originated Articles of Impeachment deemed to be illegitimate on their face, and slapped down by the Senate with extreme prejudice?

Consider the following: If Mitch receives such articles they should be simply turned away as illegitimate until the President has his defense team and subpoena power restored by the House.

Pelosi will have to retreat for fear that discovery will out the entire complicit Obama Administration.

...Never mind the fact that Roberts presiding over an impeachment effort where he is a material fact witness (having signed each of the FISA Warrants personally) and should have to recuse himself, as a matter of process....

This brings the Constitutional crisis heretofore un-imagined, courtesy of the Deep State: will Robert's involvement in FISA force his resignation -- presenting Trump with another vacancy?

If Roberts must at the very least recuse himself, who will take his place in the impeachment process? The next most senior Justice aka Clarence Thomas? If so, do you think he'd have a thing or two to say about high tech lynchings, as he issues his condemnation of the House for its lack of standing and failure to follow traditional rights to due process of the accused at trial?

Git your popcorn, this is going to be fun!

FReegards!

[Alberta's Child]

President Trump hasn't even asserted executive privilege to prevent any of these morons from "testifying" before Schiff's witch-hunt tribunal.

Why are you expecting Lindsey Graham to take this more seriously than Trump does?