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Smelling defeat, the impeachment Democrats' united front is showing signs of breaking apart
american thinker ^ | 1/26/2020 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 01/26/2020 5:10:16 PM PST by bitt

Like week-old meat left in a hot car, the stench of defeat is starting to overpower the swag pens and stifled giggles in the Democrats' impeachment project.

Axios has fresh news about how bad it is:

Officials in both parties tell me that — barring surprise new information — President Trump is on a glide path to swift acquittal at his Senate impeachment trial, despite a blizzard of evidence bolstering Democrats' accusations.

Why it matters: Trump has a decent chance of avoiding witnesses and of losing zero Republican votes on conviction. Think about that: When the news broke, did anyone think every single Republican in the House and Senate would have his back? Bill Clinton pined for such unity. A source close to House Democrats sounded morose after Trump's defense team made its opening arguments yesterday: "I think our team feels like we did everything possible and are going to lose anyway."

"It feels like maybe we’ll still get a witness, but more likely not, and even if we do it won’t matter," the source added. "The GOP gamble is always that most voters don’t care about process ... Up to us to make them pay for this." The whole thing, from Axios big Mike Allen, king of the swamp, in a column that almost always can find a silver lining for the Democrats otherwise, (and didn't this time), can be read here.

The news comes as we were watching closely for signs of peel-off from either Republicans or Democrats on the Senate floor. Signs of something happening began a couple of days ago when #NeverTrump Republican and jealous former contender Mitt Romney expressed his displeasure with the Democrats' Schiff show, and made a de facto statement of support for Trump, which we know had to be distasteful to him

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: New York; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: adamschiff; axios; california; democrats; impeachment; jerroldnadler; jerrynadler; mikeallen; mittromney; monicashowalter; nadler; newyork; scaredschiffless; schiffforbrains; schiffshow; utah
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To: bitt
"I think our team feels like we did everything possible and are going to lose anyway."

"These idiot Trump voters don't believe our lies anymore. Where did we go wrong?"

21 posted on 01/26/2020 5:29:16 PM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Boltons spokesman desputes this repirt written in hell.


22 posted on 01/26/2020 5:29:17 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: bitt

They’re just now smelling defeat?

Shoot, it was obvious they were dead meat on day one, when Mr Shif read a false version of the phone call.


23 posted on 01/26/2020 5:30:43 PM PST by lurk
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To: bitt

24 posted on 01/26/2020 5:33:09 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: cowboyusa

really it’s already disputed?


25 posted on 01/26/2020 5:33:12 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: bitt

Will it be the last of Pelosi?


26 posted on 01/26/2020 5:37:43 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Biltons peopme said he has not shared the manuacript with anyone. CNN not covering.


27 posted on 01/26/2020 5:38:16 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: cowboyusa

Sorry typed too fast, Bolton’s people.


28 posted on 01/26/2020 5:39:04 PM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: cowboyusa
NYTIMESFRAUD
29 posted on 01/26/2020 5:39:24 PM PST by timestax
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To: devane617
This is only the first attempt to impeach Trump. Dems have only just begun.

Leader McConnell already signalled what would happen if they tried this again in his speech the morning after the articles passed.

Expect McConnell to give Granny Wine Box a swirlie on the way out over this. Hope she can hold her breath...

30 posted on 01/26/2020 5:39:28 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: dp0622

Have you ever watched one of those videos where the shock wave from a nuke shatters and vaporizes buildings, cars and brick walls and sends it flying across the landscape. I guess it’s sort of a blizzard of debris.


31 posted on 01/26/2020 5:39:29 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: bitt
Regardless of what Bolton says, the inarguable reality is that Trump released the aid without getting anything in return from Ukraine.

Even if Trump said it, and even if you believe it was improper, you don't remove a sitting President because he says he'll do something, but then changes his mind.

32 posted on 01/26/2020 5:55:23 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: bitt

It is a coup. If successful this country is over.


33 posted on 01/26/2020 5:56:20 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: bitt
"barring surprise new information"

It is SOP for the 'Rats to have a late-breaking surprise.


34 posted on 01/26/2020 5:56:53 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: bitt

Mister Sciff, you’re a little man. It’s not that you’re short, you’re little in the mind and in the heart. You tried to make a man little who’s boots you couldn’t touch if you stood on tiptoe on top of the highest mountain in the world. And as it turned out, you’re even littler than you were before. - adapted from 1951 movie “People Will Talk.”


35 posted on 01/26/2020 6:02:20 PM PST by conservativeimage (A Time For War?)
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To: bitt
I remember the Clinton impeachment, most of the Democrats mouthed that "they were shocked and upset about Clinton's behavior, but they supported him anyway".

Here, NO HOUSE REPUBLICANS AND NO SENATE REPUBLICANS are trying to equivocate their support for Trump.

36 posted on 01/26/2020 6:04:09 PM PST by MuttTheHoople
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To: bitt

Pierre Delecto has been playing coy, attention wh*re that he is. He needs to think long and hard about what happened to Lil Bob Corker and Saint Jeffy Flake when those two snarky @ssholes stabbed Trump in the back.

These two NeverTrumpers GREATLY underestimated how much Trump is admired, loved and supported. Things did not end well for them. Beware, Pierre Delecto!


37 posted on 01/26/2020 6:06:38 PM PST by RooRoobird20 (“Democrats haven’t been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.”)
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To: bitt

Will run to the liberal media crying.


38 posted on 01/26/2020 6:10:10 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

39 posted on 01/26/2020 6:11:08 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: devane617
This is only the first attempt to impeach Trump

Wrong.

This is the one and only.

They crashed and burned.

40 posted on 01/26/2020 6:11:36 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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