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Pelosi hints at postponing the sending of articles of impeachment to the Senate.

[MAIL] House Democrats have begun pressing Speaker Nancy Pelosi to force the Senate to tailor Donald Trump's upcoming constitutional trial to their wishes‐by refusing to send the articles of impeachment they passed Wednesday night until Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agrees to their terms.

McConnell isn't amused. He plans to call her bluff in a mid-morning floor speech, saying she's afraid to hand him the baton because she knows the articles are weak.

'Pelosi suggested that House Democrats may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate,' he will say, mocking her suggesting in a post-vote press conference that she'll hold the two articles over McConnell's head until he agrees to a 'fair' trial.

The majority leader's staff began trickling out excerpts of his floor speech overnight.

Wednesday's landmark House votes put the capstone on 'the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history,' he will say, calling Democrats' final condemnation of the president 'fundamentally unlike any articles that any prior House of Representatives has ever passed.'

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-19 09:14|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Just wait... there is more.

Indeed, Schumer and his colleagues have prepared the way to characterize any move to limit the trial’s scope as an effort to hide wrongdoing from the American people. “To engage in a trial without the facts coming out is to engage in a cover-up,” he said Monday.

The bottom line is: Republicans should not believe for one minute that the campaign to remove the president will rely only on the case Democrats have built in the House. Schumer and other party leaders will scramble for new information to throw at the president, and at Republicans, until it is over. The GOP, and the White House, need to be ready.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-12-19 09:26|| 2019-12-19 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Schumer and other party leaders will scramble for new information to throw at the president,

Didn't we already see this movie? No, wait! That was the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing.

Posted by SteveS 2019-12-19 10:51|| 2019-12-19 10:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't forget that, sure. ''Twas indelibly stamped on our hippocampuses

Posted by Lex 2019-12-19 10:53|| 2019-12-19 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 2020 will be a bad year for the Donks.
Christmas 2019 will be their last bits of happiness for some time.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-12-19 11:23|| 2019-12-19 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Not that a true Dem would ever let xerself celebrate Christmas.

Posted by Angating the Wide5629 2019-12-19 11:55|| 2019-12-19 11:55|| Front Page Top

#6 But wait, Schiff-for-brains told us this was a matter of a clear and present danger to the nation. Now it’s only that if the Senate lets them have a massive new fishing expedition trial for television? One could almost think democrats are lying manipulating bastards who care only for the raw power to rule a socialist totalitarian nation, the Constitution be damned.
Gosh, if that were true wouldn’t they qualify for the “domestic enemy “ in their oath of office? What should be done if that were true?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2019-12-19 12:51|| 2019-12-19 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 What should be done if that were true?

Armed popular march to congress to tar and feather them and run them out of town on a rail would be a good start.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-12-19 13:58|| 2019-12-19 13:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Wait a short while and they will return to their communities to beg for votes. Much easier to tar & feather them locally.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-12-19 14:45|| 2019-12-19 14:45|| Front Page Top

#9 re: #7 Start with Pakistain's planned treatment of Pervez

for the Dem leaders (for a start) and then see what develops from that.

Posted by AlanC 2019-12-19 14:49|| 2019-12-19 14:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Re #8: Totally agree with rjschwarz. Totally agree with keeping all such matters as close to the people and as local as possible...

Posted by Ptah 2019-12-19 15:04|| 2019-12-19 15:04|| Front Page Top

#11 "Chuck Grassley tweet

Why is Dem house now getting cold feet abt moving ahead w impeachment trial? They want 2hijack Senate process+muck up senate/SCOTUS schedule U need some consideration abt SCOTUS since Chief Justice" presides in Senate. R they worried their articles r too weak to move fwd?
12:52 PM · Dec 19, 2019·

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-19 15:20|| 2019-12-19 15:20|| Front Page Top

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