BURDIZO
Posted on 12/28/2019 2:51:44 PM PST by bitt
Over the coming weeks, one question will be paramount in the wake of the Democrats’ disastrous impeachment fail. Should President Trump wage a pitched and protracted battle in the upcoming Senate trial? Or will cooler heads--like Senator Lindsey Graham’s--prevail upon him to accept a perfunctory hearing or outright dismissal?
Fox News host Laura Ingraham posited a paraphrase of that question to Ken Starr before Christmas. She asked the former Clinton scandal independent prosecutor whether Trump should simply “declare victory” in light of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s passive-aggressive call to sit on the House articles like a distraught hen sits on an egg sucked dry by a barnyard viper. Starr opined that the president should move on, sparing the nation the continued sociopolitical angst and division this travesty has wrought.
Not so fast. Graham, fresh from a White House meeting, declared that the president was “mad as hell.” That may indicate that Trump will aggressively move to obtain the exoneration he believes he so richly deserves. But Graham has also said that he doesn’t want to give the Schiff/Nadler impeachment senatorial credibility that it does not deserve.
The 2019 impeachment saga remains extremely fluid. This piece could be rendered obsolete before it is ever published. But it seems we have a temporary status quo. Democrat impeachers have left the building, gone home to face the damage they’ve done to themselves. GOP point men like Rep. Matt Gaetz (for future president?) have done irreparable damage to the flimsy impeachment cause, relentlessly characterizing the debacle for the partisan and pseudo-constitutional circus it is.
Now it’s the Senate’s turn, and Majority Leader McConnell is waiting. But something happened on the way to the upper chamber. Pelosi is hanging fast to the last shred of her party’s denuded credibility. There’s no two ways about it—she has
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They never look at themselves,ever.
Looks like a tenderizer
What is it?
If true, they’ll never win anything again and they’re slowly going to go extinct.
BURDIZO
You can’t have a trial if the Articles of Impeachment are not delivered to the Senate.
Pelosi’s hanging a chad.
Very well-written and descriptive article. Time for Trump to have his say and I hope it will thoroughly humiliate the worthless Dims. I suppose that’s expecting too much from the Dims; they are too stupid to be humiliated by their own incompetence.
If there’s no paperwork, it never even happened.
>>>start “hearings” on Schiff and Pelosi’s knowledge of corruption within the demonicRAT Party.<<<
That sounds like an outstanding idea.
HOLLYWOOD would have starved based upon my attendance at a movie theater.
They would have in the last decade with my family, wife, and adult children and even most grand kids into or past being teens.
Zhukov Trump is about to launch his counteroffensive. Like the Romanians, Italians, and Hungarians, the Antifa and Never-Trump Cucks will be overwhelmed and the Democrat Wehrmacht has seriously underestimated the scale of the attack.
Yeah, sure. Any day now. "Trust the plan" indeed.
It’s not his call, it’s McConnell’s.
Seem clear to me there will be no witnesses. They’ll let the impeachment managers state their case, offer a token rebuttal, and vote not guilty.
Graham has nothing to say about it. He’s a wuss who becomes increasingly exposed every time he promises something and doesn’t deliver, which is every time he says something.
I’m guessing the dems really don’t want witnesses either. If they get there’s Trump should rightly get his, like Biden and Schitt.
It’ll all be done before the Iowa caucus.
Take the perfunctory hearing and win...
Dismissal, no trial.
The “impeachment” has done its intended job as a campaign tool. The a-hole media and the typical stupid American libtard think and say he is impeached. Anything else is bonus.
Kursk followed Stalingrad.
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