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Final impeachment vote postponed to Wednesday amid internal GOP spat
The Hill ^ | january 31, 2020 | Alexander Bolton and Jordain Carney

Posted on 01/31/2020 4:38:23 PM PST by kevcol

A group of moderates, including Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), met with McConnell Friday afternoon to hash out strategy to end the trial.

In response to the concerns of moderates who want to follow the model of the 1999 Clinton impeachment trial, which set up 25 hours of closed-door deliberations, Senate GOP leaders floated the idea of having time for deliberations starting Monday. But under one proposal senators would have gotten 10 minutes each to speak on the articles of impeachment against Trump.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gop; impeachment; senate; trump
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Why do these petulant malcontents get to be called “moderates”?

Moderates?..More like traitors !!

61 posted on 01/31/2020 5:48:16 PM PST by timestax
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To: kevao
"PLEASE MR. PRESIDENT. ANNOUNCE THE SOTU WILL BE POSTPONED UNTIL THURSDAY!!! Screw Congress! Why not just give the SOTU from the Oval Office?"

Because he won't be able to turn around and look Pelosi right in nasty nasty face and say. "NOT GUILTY, NOW AND FOREVER".

62 posted on 01/31/2020 5:48:27 PM PST by precisionshootist
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To: Citizen Soldier

Some not showing up is a possibility.


63 posted on 01/31/2020 5:52:12 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

I would not be surprised if some of the Dems walked out on the President. And there will be attempts to embarrass the President in the gallery, I am guessing.

Dxxx the Dems and the “moderate” Pubs for postponing this vote.


64 posted on 01/31/2020 5:53:16 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: ldish

They’d be just as nasty then. They’re going to get nastier and nastier.


65 posted on 01/31/2020 5:53:41 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: kevcol

Well, I wonder what B.S. bombshells the Democrat media will float between now and Wednesday. These would be better prop bets than in the Super Bowl. The wilder and stupider, the more likely.


66 posted on 01/31/2020 5:54:36 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (It's the corruption, stupid)
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To: eddie willers

They only think they have screwed up the SOTU address. President Trump will make mincemeat out of them Tuesday evening. It will be awesome to watch. I may have to break Keto and eat popcorn. It will be hilarious to see Pelosi sit behind him looking like she sucked a lemon and the dems all sit in the crowd looking like the idiots that they are. Hopefully Nancy seems her polygraph so she doesnt have to keep sucking her teeth


67 posted on 01/31/2020 5:55:48 PM PST by southernindymom
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To: ldish

‘The Dems are going to be very nasty during the SOTU. Their true, ugly colors will shine.’

Postpone it till after!

I agree, I would not give the address until the cloud of
the trial was behind me. How bad it looks for an impeached
President with the best record of any President having his
record denigrated by letting him swing in the wind.

There isn’t even a crime here to deliberate. What a f—ing farce.


68 posted on 01/31/2020 5:56:47 PM PST by Zenjitsuman ( p)
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To: Hojczyk

Oh my that would be pretty dang awesome


69 posted on 01/31/2020 5:56:59 PM PST by southernindymom
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To: Sarah Barracuda

They don’t want him to be able to give the SOTU with this off his back. The GOPe is a disaster. They want more “news” to come out before Wednesday


70 posted on 01/31/2020 5:57:39 PM PST by wiseprince
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

I agree. We can put nothing past them.

They’re showing their true, ugly colors and good, decent and normal people don’t like what they’re seeing.


71 posted on 01/31/2020 5:58:50 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Fledermaus

“Mitch the Turtle sucks. Human scum. I thought he was the Senate genius.”

This is about a few Senate Republicans who demand their time in the spotlight.

Cocaine Mitch brought it to the finish line and shut the Dems down.
Some people refuse to get it, addicted to clutching pearls.


72 posted on 01/31/2020 5:59:11 PM PST by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: kevcol

Dammit McConnell, grow some balls. Tell them all to go take a leap into lake Gofnckyourself. Even if you loose them, it’s over. Piss on those rats!


73 posted on 01/31/2020 5:59:35 PM PST by Bommer (2020 - Vote all incumbent congressmen and senators out! VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!)
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To: wiseprince
They want more “news” to come out before Wednesday

And it will! There is no end to the Obama holdovers still in the Executive Branch. Don't ask me why; I'll never understand why Trump did not clean house from Day 1!

74 posted on 01/31/2020 5:59:59 PM PST by kevao (BIBLICAL JESUS: Give your money to the poor. SOCIALIST JESUS: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kevcol
As a registered Republican I have to admit that my party is certainly the STUPID party! The Democrats are Marxists, Socialists and completely corrupt but they have run circles around the Republicans for decades until Trump came along. Frustrating to say the least....😡🤬
75 posted on 01/31/2020 6:00:46 PM PST by freddy005
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To: dragnet2

Maybe but it still ticks me off


76 posted on 01/31/2020 6:00:55 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: precisionshootist

Nancy just wouldn’t invite him


77 posted on 01/31/2020 6:06:44 PM PST by wiseprince
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To: kevao

He didn’t know from day 1 AND these people are damn hard to get rid of!!! He can however start putting them in positions they don’t like!!!


78 posted on 01/31/2020 6:08:34 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: kevcol

This gives the Democrats and Never Trumpers one more Hail Mary that Trump May say something Tuesday night at the State of the Union to sway votes. It also allows the media to discuss non-stop the impeachment vote and how horrible the Republicans are before and after the State of the Union. Bet Schiff is given the role of responding to the SOTU address.


79 posted on 01/31/2020 6:11:58 PM PST by georgiarat (The most expensive thing in the world is a cheap Army and Navy. - Carl Vinson)
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To: wiseprince

Thats just a formality. Pelosi is a nobody. The President has total control over the SOTU address. I hope he delays the address and I think there is a very good chance he will.


80 posted on 01/31/2020 6:19:14 PM PST by precisionshootist
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