Posted on 01/23/2020 1:09:32 PM PST by RummyChick
Adam Schiff rebuked Republican senators for walking out of Donald Trump's impeachment trial on the second full day of the Democratic case to remove the president – but at least 16 senators weren’t even there at the start of his remarks for the historic trial.
Just minutes later, fellow Democratic impeachment manager Rep. Jerry Nadler made a key constitutional point by playing a video clip from Sen. Lindsey Graham from the impeachment of Bill Clinton – but Graham was not even in the chamber to hear it.
The moment was noticeable inside the august Senate chamber, and was not lost on Senate GOP conference chair John Barrasso, who sits next to Graham. As other senators looked toward TV screens to see Graham – himself a former impeachment manager in 1999 – Barrasso looked sheepishly upward, placing his hand over the empty chair.
Luckily for Graham and tardy lawmakers, their absence and movements was not visible to the wider public. Senate rules prevent C-Span or other networks from photography inside the chamber, and the Senate Sergeant At Arms controls the fixed camera feet blasted out to the viewing public. It shows only the speaker, be it Schiff or Nadler, speaking in the well of the chamber with a marble background.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I have been off the booze for many years now but I think they would drive me to pick up a bottle again.
The only one missing is Pelosi herself, threatening them!
Barrasso looked sheepishly upward...
At least the article isn’t biased :)
Risking prison? What’s this? They want to mimic some third world nation?
Luckily? No one cares.
“”””I have been off the booze for many years now but I think they would drive me to pick up a bottle again. “””””””
Same here. 35 years. If I was forced to sit and listen to them all day I would need to be hammered.
DOH! I stepped in some Schiff.
Trump will be acquitted forever.
Impeachment will not stain Trump, but rather will stain Pelosi forever.
Pelosi will forever be held up as a bad example for having led the House in a partisan coup attempt with impeachment articles that did not rise to the constitutional requirement but were in fact baseless.
[Risking prison? What’s this? They want to mimic some third world nation?]
Personally, I think this is a mistake. There’s enough grousing that the pubbies aren’t up to the task of being objective, this will make the screaming louder. And when the dummies don’t show up or pay attention to the president’s team, they can rightly say that the pubbies set the tone.
Do your f’ing jobs! It doesn’t matter that this is bullcrunch, it doesn’t matter that it’s the same crap day-after-day. You have a responsibility.
Suppose they gave an impeachment and nobody came?
I agree. However, Dems aren’t showing up either. MSNBC raked Feinstein over the coals for it.
bbb….bbbbbu…...bbbbb…..bbbut George W. Bush told us that there would be SAFEGUARDS in place. You know, to protect our constitutional rights n’ stuff.
Maybe they were all in the Senate caucus room watching it on CSPAN while downing a few adult beverages and cracking jokes about Schiff-for-brains, Waddler, and the rest of the Dim crew.
This truly is a Schiff Show. And it's not just Republican Senators that are bored and/or not even there.
This is a foregone conclusion. Trump will be vindicated. Schiff for brains can go stuff it.
The Russians took them out and shot them.
Shame on the republican senators for letting this EFFIN sicko scumbag ScHIT and the rest of evil doers into their house to be threatened with jail, lied to and break their rules...SHAME!! This circus should have died long before they had a chance to soiled their house!! Spineless republicans!!
This whole thing is very Stalin like...
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