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To: Fishtalk

My favorite: She’s the dog who loves chasing cars, but what to do with one when she catches it?

I think she’s trying to drag the whole “impeachment” process out because as soon as it goes to the Senate, it’s going to be a quick acquittal. It’s all ‘down side’ & she knows it so keep the news media talking, speculating, etc. Except ... ‘normal’ people are pissed already with the DemonRat clown show & getting even madder - myself included. Trumps “impeachment” is already ‘politicized’ on steroids, which is something the Founders were concerned about .... the delay further proves the point that it’s all political. It’s not a ‘good look’ for the DemonRats.

Robert Ray, former independent counsel & who seems like a reasonable guy, said Mitch needs to set a trial date in the Senate. If the Articles/House Managers are there by then, fine ... they can proceed. If Nancy is still not sending the Articles over, then the whole shebang should be dismissed. It’s that simple (so he says - sounds about right to me).


12 posted on 12/22/2019 5:10:47 AM PST by Qiviut (I love the smell of covfefe in the morning - coffee or napalm, depending on the day.)
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To: Qiviut
that will work but we have to be careful about dismissing impeachment before she sends over that docs.not that it can't be done because it can.
As Republican leaders target the legitimacy of the Democrats’ impeachment drive, Washington watchdog Judicial Watch is calling on citizens to urge their senators to reject any articles of impeachment against President Trump sent by House Democrats and not conduct a trial.

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https://www.wnd.com/2019/11/senate-urged-dismiss-impeachment-without-trial/
Below excerpted from WND:
“I would suggest you call your senators at 202-224-3121 to shut down [the impeachment]. They can dismiss it out of hand. They should be telling the House right now that they’re not going to buy into an abusive coup attack on @realDonaldTrump,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wrote Monday in a Twitter post accompanied by a video.

Author and talk-radio host Hugh Hewitt agreed in an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the Senate can dismiss articles of impeachment and not hold a trial.

TRENDING: Pelosi gives slurring, incoherent answer to impeachment question

“There will be an impeachment. They're going to send an article over, purely partisan vote,” he said. “I don't think the Senate should take it up. I think they should reject the motion to proceed and never touch it.

“Otherwise, we will have this done again and again, secret tryings, secret hearings, ex parte contact, just a bad precedent,” he said.

Hewitt said that by refusing to approve a “Motion to Proceed,” the Senate can “flush articles of impeachment from the record as it stands today.”

“Invite the House to begin again if it wants to, but using due process if it does, and backed by a bipartisan majority,” he said.

Hewitt expanded on his case in a Washington Post column Sunday that cited research by former secretary of the Senate Kelly D. Johnston.

“Under the standing rules of the Senate, the Senate must approve a ‘Motion to Proceed’ to consider the articles. And it is at that moment that senators — even and especially those critical of Trump for other reasons — should think of a future littered with partisan impeachments born of secret proceedings and abuse of the House minority’s rights, as well as the rights of future presidents,” Hewitt wrote.

He noted that because only 51 votes are required to block a filibuster, under the “Reid rule,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., could move to dismiss any article of impeachment, with Republicans holding 53 Senate seats.

Sen. Graham: ‘Dead on arrival’

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that if the whistleblower does not testify before the House, articles of impeachment would be “invalid” and “dead on arrival” in the Senate.

“I consider any impeachment in the House that doesn't allow us to know who the whistleblower is to be invalid because without the whistleblower complaint we wouldn’t be talking about any of this,” Graham told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo.

Over the weekend, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., charged the Democrats are engaged in a “calculated coup, that is being orchestrated by Rep. Adam Schiff.”
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Looks like tom Fitton of judicial watch is saying get rid of it or be prepared for lots more in the future.
He may be right.
I dont know how many of you watched tit but Kevin McCarthy our minority house leader and soon to be speaker next year gave a brilliant press conference Friday just before noon.I happened to be home and got the opportuinityh to watch it.it was so well done the hard left stopped asking quesitons after about 20 minutes since they were getting their ass kicked so bad they had to stand up.
Hers some of it from WND:
“Over the weekend, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., charged the Democrats are engaged in a “calculated coup, that is being orchestrated by Rep. Adam Schiff.”

“We are here watching him orchestrate a taking down of a president, after we just celebrated the 30 years of taking down of Berlin wall,” McCarthy said in a Fox News interview.”

20 posted on 12/22/2019 5:30:18 AM PST by rodguy911
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