Posted on 01/19/2021 9:44:14 PM PST by conservative98
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is fighting efforts to convict President Trump in the Senate after he was impeached for a second time by the House of Representatives, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., should do the same, Graham told Fox News’ "Hannity" Tuesday.
"What we need right now is Sen. McConnell to unequivocally say the second impeachment of Donald Trump after he leaves office is not only unconstitutional, it is bad for the country," said Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Stand up and fight back."
Graham praised McConnell for helping President Trump with "everything that he did" and referred to the majority leader as a legislative "street fighter."
The senator extended his call to all Republican members, emphasizing the alleged unconstitutionality of pursuing a conviction after Trump has left office.
"Our country needs to heal," he said. "A second impeachment of Donald Trump after he leaves office won’t heal the country, it will further divide the country.
"As to the Republican Party, if we throw in the towel, or are perceived to having thrown in the towel, and not fighting against this impeachment, the Republican Party, as Rand Paul said, will ‘crack up.’"
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Fraud lost the Senate.
“When did that become a thing?”
When did become a thing become a thing? That expression seems to have recently come up overnight like a mushroom.
>> “Graham calls on McConnell to ‘unequivocally’ denounce second Trump impeachment effort” <<
That’s good news, but you’d never know it from most of the posts in this thread.
What happened was the entrenched, corrupt establishment got so desperate that they lied brazenly and often about Trump, about the stolen election, and about the minor riot that they’re claiming was an “armed insurrection”. They will continue to lie. It’s the Goebbels way.
By a “political solution,” you probably mean a quick fix that will once and for all settle the hash of these people. No such thing exists. Their ascension didn’t happen overnight, and their eradication will take—not a single action like the collapse of the Soviet Union or the election of an uniquely talented and strong individual, but a long march on many fronts, which is how they got this much power in the first place.
First, education and the culture must be retaken, one class room at a time and one streaming series or movie at a time. Second, in the four intervening years, local politics and government must be retaken. It is impossible for one party to be in power in so many municipalities for so long, do such a lousy job of governance, and there not to be a major section of the population seething in impotent rage over it, especially when their stock response to opposition is racial demagoguery that rings ever more hollow. Rudy Giuliani showed what can be done on the municipal level in a large urban center. Most importantly, the electoral system on the local level must be retaken. Why were they able to so brazenly cheat and get away with it? Because they have a death grip on the local election precincts, counting centers, and state executive offices such as Governor and Secretary of State in highly urbanized states such as Oregon, Washington, California, and Pennsylvania, not to mention the nation’s Capitol itself, where the gap between rich, corrupt office holders and poor ghetto dwellers is beyond the pale.
This solution will take decades, and the damage that the Dems will be inflicting in the next four years, with control of both houses for at least the next two years, and the WH for the next four, has added a decade more at minimum to this long march that must be made. Our grandchildren will be continuing the struggle, on either one side or the other.
As for CW II, consider. Before the start of CW I, Missouri claim jumpers rigged the Kansas referendum on slavery, and when actual Kansans objected to the chicanery, the Missourians started a border war and burnt Lawrence to the ground. Portland is a leftard city, with government of, by and for leftardism, and leftards are steadily burning it to the ground. Likewise, Seattle, New York and even Atlanta. The states where this is taking place are far from being solid blue. The countrysides even in California and New York are largely red, but the urban areas outweigh them demographically and they have their machines that enable voter fraud in case demographics fail. But bottom line, this is not a basis for a CW II after the style of 1861. The countryside would have to secede and either invade the cities and conquer them, or the cities would have to invade the countrysides and subdue them. It’s really not doable. Cities need food and manufactured good, produced in rural America, and rural America needs manufactured goods and markets for their products, which requires capital and commodities exchanges, as well as consumers, all of which are found only in the big cities.
If cities and rural areas were to go to war against each other, the former would starve to death, and the latter would not be able to sow, let alone reap, except by mule and plow, and then only a bare subsistence. The whole idea of CW II is a pipe dream, to which sober thought will put paid.
The only solution is a political one, and that is long term. Trump coming back in 2024 will not make it all better. Resisting the leftards at every step, and marching one step at a time towards a better country founded on its original principles, however, might. In two words, retail MAGA.
Oh well. There are ways around pesky rules.
That expression has been around as long as I can remember. On a good day, that’s a long time.
Lindsey Graham
I completely support the process laid out by Leader McConnell regarding the upcoming impeachment trial. I hope my Democratic colleagues will agree.
The process being proposed is acceptable to the former Presidentas legal team and fair to the Senate, the House, and the nation.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1352393971776057349
A) McConnell: I have sent a proposed timeline for the first phases of the upcoming impeachment trial to Leader Schumer and look forward to continuing to discuss it with him.
B) McConnell: Senate Republicans are strongly united behind the principle that the institution of the Senate, the office of the presidency, and former President Trump himself all deserve a full and fair process that respects his rights
C) McConnell: Given the unprecedented speed of the House’s process, our proposed timeline for the initial phases includes a modest and reasonable amount of additional time for both sides to assemble their arguments before the Senate would begin to hear them.
D) McConnell: At this time of strong political passions, Senate Republicans believe it is absolutely imperative that we do not allow a half-baked process to short-circuit the due process that former President Trump deserves or damage the Senate or the presidency.
https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1352390879898726401
Graham is trying to secure his re-election.
For one you can enlarge the text by clicking on the "Aa" in the title bar of Safari, works on all Apple platforms. Another thing you can do is use speech to text function built into iPhone. Talk in monotone like a computer and it will be near perfect transcription.
Another thing you can do is carry an iPad set you iPhone to create a network that the iPad can share or buy an iPad that has 3G added. Another better solution is buy one of the new M1 MacBook Air laptops and take everything with you. You can still share date from iPhone. iPads can have a data account at most carriers, I have one with Sprint, really comes in handy.
You people keep arguing legal/illegal like the law still means something, it doesn't, get used to it, set down and eat your peas.
Linda comes out fighting, funny!
You can’t “heal” when the enemy is inflicting fresh wounds on the country every day. Franklin Graham is obviously a fool, reciting the same old tired pleasantries.
As for Linda “Two-Face” Graham, nice try. Everything he says is part of a pantomime.
Oh, look at the little act they’re staging for us rubes.
Dude this was a week ago.
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