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(CNN)Let's call it the Pelosi Pause. There are no written rules governing the timetable for delivery of the House decision impeaching Donald Trump to the Senate, only custom. But then there were no written rules governing the timetable for a Senate decision on Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland, only custom. If Speaker Nancy Pelosi follows Senator Mitch McConnell's playbook, Donald Trump will never stand trial in the Senate. Joseph Ellis Joseph Ellis From a Democratic perspective that outcome would be preferable to a show trial, where the conclusion is not just foreordained, but announced beforehand by the Majority Leader...

... Mr. Rubio, seeing how Mr. Trump has activated new segments of the electorate for Republicans, is trying to devise some policy platform to retain those voters once Mr. Trump is no longer on the ballot. The solution is to copy much of the language and some of the policy views of the left so as to avoid alienating those new voters. The most telling manifestation of this, from both Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rubio, is their approach to productivity and investment. One of their insights is entirely traditional-conservative: Only by boosting productivity can an economy deliver employment and wage...

Tired of all this WINNING yet? How could you be? – It never gets old. On Friday, yet again, every major stock market index achieved record high closes, running the streak of record high closes on the NASDAQ to an astonishing eight straight days. With this week’s congressional passage of the USMCA trade deal with Mexico and Canada and the closing of a very favorable Phase 1 trade deal with China, there is no telling how high the markets might rise in the U.S. and globally. You might not like President Donald John Trump, but your 401(k) loves him. One...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was heading south to sunny Florida on Friday after his historic impeachment, while plans for his speedy trial back in Washington remained clouded. Senate leaders jockeying for leverage failed to agree on procedures and perhaps new witnesses for the trial.

Ho-hum. So, are you getting tired of all this WINNING yet? No? What’s it gonna take? – Every major stock market index – The Dow, NASDAQ and S&P 500 – once again achieved all-time record high closings on Thursday. For the NASDAQ, it was the 7th consecutive day of record closings. Not even the Democrats’ impeachment sham or the prospect of a doom and gloom Democrat debate could put this booming economy and market off the rails. This is epic, folks – we haven’t seen anything like this since the previous truly great American president – Ronald Reagan – held...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's reaction to the U.S. possible sanctions on the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline is a "clear declaration of war" on U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Bild newspaper. Previously, she noted that Germany was opposed to U.S. extraterritorial sanctions and will "hold very decisive talks" on the issue of U.S. sanctions against Nord Stream-2. According to Bild, Merkel's response to the Congress decision on sanctions was "clear". It was "a clear declaration of war" on Trump. The Chancellor "will not tolerate" the United States "continuing to undermine the gas pipeline project, which is backed by her," the...

Billy Graham explains that Christianity Today will help evangelical Christians interpret the news in a manner that reflects their faith. The impeachment of Donald Trump is a significant event in the story of our republic. It requires comment. The typical CT approach is to stay above the fray and allow Christians with different political convictions to make their arguments in the public square, to encourage all to pursue justice according to their convictions and treat their political opposition as charitably as possible. We want CT to be a place that welcomes Christians from across the political spectrum, and reminds everyone...

George Soros, the billionaire financier is under an investigation for funneling nearly 3.4 million dollars into a campaign solely aimed at taking down Boris Johnson. The conservative political party in Britain has called for an urgent Electoral Commission probe into Soro’s American organizations after The Mail revealed that it funneled a large amount of money into a campaign purposely trying to block Brexit when it came to the ballot box. New York-based Open Society Foundation sent the funds to the Best for Britain group through a London outpost, avoiding the ban of foreign donations to political organizations.

Mitch McConnell proves again that he is really with the Trump program on this impeachment sham. – The Senate Majority Leader this morning delivered what can only be described as an historic speech in the well of the Senate in response to Nancy Pelosi’s tactic of refusing to deliver her sham articles of impeachment to the Senate as required by her chamber’s own rules. Everyone should watch and/or read this speech. It is brilliantly done. We here at the Campaign Update dutifully provide our loyal audience the opportunity to do both. First, a clip of the speech followed by a...

Senator Lindsey Graham told Sean Hannity he will call in corrupt liar Adam Schiff to testify before the US Senate on his sham impeachment proceedings. Lindsey Graham is a big talker but he has no desire to discover the truth. ~~Snip~~ Lindsey Graham again on Wednesday defied President Trump and vowed to protect the Democrats and their deep state operatives. Via The Washington Examiner and Conservative Treehouse.

The “somber” impeachment became a celebration. – Prior to the start of yesterday’s impeachment debate on the House floor, the despicable, demented and depraved Pelosi admonished her troops that they must pretend – like her – that this was a “somber” occasion, a necessary decision that they come to only reluctantly and with heavy hearts. All of which is, of course, abject bullshit, but hey, these are Democrats – everything they do and say is abject bullshit. Sorry for the language, but the time for niceties with these evil people has passed and the need for painful honesty has arrive....

I could tell the way things were going when, in the last week of the election campaign, it became clear that the Conservatives were ahead in Ynys Môn and nervously confident in Newport West. Two very different seats that in their different ways told me the sort of movement that was going on. If voters on Anglesey were ignoring the selection problems of the Conservatives and criticism of the candidate from other parties, where else would they be ignoring such issues? And although the Tories didn’t win Newport West, the fact that they were actually worried about saying they were...

Facebook will not unilaterally remove a misleading ad created by a California gubernatorial candidate who is challenging the company's fact-checking policies by claiming that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., supports the impeachment of President Trump, Fox News has confirmed. Titled "#ThanksMitch," the ad by Adriel Hampton shows a series of spliced clips falsely indicating that McConnell backs the process that would prompt a Senate trial to determine whether Trump should be removed from office. McConnell has vowed to quash a removal effort and has also fiercely condemned Democratic attempts to impeach Trump. In a statement to Fox News, Facebook...

Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic caucus has been champing at the bit to throw President Trump out of office, but the House speaker on Wednesday ordered her colleagues not to gloat — and wore a black dress to what she repeatedly called the “solemn” impeachment proceedings. Pelosi and other Democratic leaders told their members not to cheer or applaud when the impeachment vote totals are announced, Axios reported, and many members described the day as sad and solemn. “Don’t cheer, keep it solemn,” a Democratic member from a district that Trump won said was the message the leadership delivered. House Democrats even...

On Tuesday, CNN reported that its own poll showed a decrease in support for impeachment and removal. Even among Democrats, the left-wing news channel saw a 13 percentage point drop in support for the attempt to get rid of America's duly elected president. However, not everybody at CNN is willing to believe that. As CNN's Jeffrey Toobin put it yesterday: the poll has to be fake news. Why? Because he doesn’t like it! Initially, the CNN crew admitted that support for impeachment (and removal) has "softened, a little bit?" The question mark apparently had to be added just to prevent...

The despicable House Democrats, led by the demented (literally) and depraved Nancy Pelosi will, like lemmings following their leader off the proverbial cliff, vote to impeach the 45th President of the United States later today. And then…what? – Our country will go on, and so will the Trump presidency, for at least another year and most likely for four more years after that. The Senate will dispose of these sham articles of impeachment quickly once they arrive at its doorstep in the new year. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made that clear on Tuesday when he suggested that, following opening...

WINNING, soooooo much WINNING. It truly never gets old. – Once again, every stock market index – the S&P 500, the NASDAQ and the Dow Jones Industrial average – closed at record high levels on Tuesday. That’s the third straight day for the Dow and the fourth straight for the S&P and NASDAQ. The Trump economy is booming along so strongly now that the recession promoters at the Washington Post gave up the ghost over the weekend and sadly admitted that we are not headed into an economic contraction anytime soon. Also in the realm of WINNING, the Democrats in...

A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's re-election and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers." The new organization, known as the Lincoln Project, represents a formal step forward for the so-called Never Trump movement, which has been limited largely to social media commentary and cable news attacks through the first three years of Trump's presidency. Organizers report fundraising commitments exceeding $1 million to begin. The group is led by a seven-person advisory council that features some of the GOP's...

Every time you get to thinking the liberal outrage mob on Twitter cannot possibly get any more stupid or insane than they already are, they go out and prove you wrong. – Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch appeared on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning to promote some new book he has written, something fellow justices like Sonya Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have also done in recent years on CNN and MSNBC. Justice Gorsuch’s appearance would have likely gone unremarked but for the fact that, as he was signing off, he wished the program’s hosts a “Merry Christmas.” Predictably, the...

It’s hard to think of anyone who defined the spirit of 2019 more than Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist who addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit, held her own against a cyberbully who just happens to be the President of the United States, and honored the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio with a visit. Now, Thunberg’s meteoric rise will be chronicled in a Hulu documentary that will air in 2020, the streaming service announced on Tuesday. Produced by Cecilia Nessen and Fredrik Heinig via B-Reel Films and directed by Stieg Larsson documentary cinematographer Nathan Grossman, the Thunberg documentary will...