Posted on 05/27/2019 5:50:41 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
GOP senators say that if the House passes articles of impeachment against President Trump they will quickly quash them in the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has broad authority to set the parameters of a trial.
While McConnell is required to act on articles of impeachment, which require 67 votes or a two-thirds majority to convict the president, he and his Republican colleagues have the power to set the rules and ensure the briefest of trials.
"I think it would be disposed of very quickly," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
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Also, 18 is a LOT of traitors. That is also assuming every one of the 49 Dems vote in favor.
T the great has changed tge aver level of testesterone among the formerly limp dicked rinos
Just wait for the trial a lot of them will not appear silly but in need of a psychiatrist
“Trump’s base has no problem. We are all 100% behind him... ...and real people who go to his rallies by the thousands”
Trump’s base needs to stand front guard. Proactive, vicious.
Trump’s base needs to go other other places by the thousands, as well.
Far cry from Trent Lott.
There are 47 RATS, including the two so-called “independents” Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
They would need 20 Republicans.
Like you said, not gonna happen.
I live in Maine.
President Trump has a LOT of supporters here in the 2nd Congressional District, 80% of the state.
If Collins voted to convict, her safety would be in extreme jeopardy by pissed off Trump supporters.
You are so right! Sorry. I was still in the past!
I agree. It is not likely that Senator Manchin the democrat from West Virginia would vote to convict, so they would need 19 Rinos, not 18.
No problem.
Graham was one of the House litigants on Clinton’s impeachment so he’s seen this from the other side. He’ll give the Dems the same careful consideration his case against Clinton was given in 1998.
A better question is what have they been doing for the last 3 years.
Nothing
But there are also several democrats from hard red states where Trump is very popular for who voting for removal would be political suicide, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Doug Jones of Alabama come to mind....
Presently, the House has not even done an investigation that would lead to charges. The longer you wait....the closer this impeachment would get into spring of 2020 and affect the primary run, and the convention. I think that’s more of the target than anything else.
“Mitch and Lindsey ... Did they actually grow a pair???”
Maybe they did, but probably not. I don’t trust either of them, no matter what they’re saying now. Graham told Jesse Watters he’s getting to know Trump, and he’s “having fun”, so I don’t know about him for sure. Mitch, OTOH, constantly turns on a dime to screw Trump whenever possible, except with the judges.
Every GOP senator needs to go on record with a statement that they will support the Trump Admin if PDJT decides to tell leftist activist judges that issue nationwide injunctions against his EOs to pound sand.
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I think what is being planned is if it ever goes to the Senate it will never come to a vote. For the future of the Republic it would be better if it didn't. Graham can be tenacious when it really counts.
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If the DemonRats in the House would wait until shortly before the 2020 election it would create a huge backlash. With the Mueller report turning out as it did, that moment has passed regardless of what the socialists say. Many polls are reporting two-thirds of the populace wants this over with, including a large share of the moderates and even 25% of Democrats.
It won’t be close. A Senate vote to remove will be taken FAR more seriously than a House vote to impeach.
Impeachment is nothing but an accusation by political adversaries - the case can be extremely weak and nothing need be proven, since there are no real consequences.
By contrast, a vote to remove by the Senate is of the utmost seriousness because the consequences are dire. Since removal of an elected President essentially constitutes the reversal of an election, even Trump-hating Democrat Senators will have to find the case for obstruction very compelling in order to justify a vote for removal.
The impeachment proceedings in the the House will be an embarrassment - and will reveal to the public just how politically motivated and baseless the charges are. As a result, I suspect that by the time the matter is taken up by the Senate, public sentiment will have shifted significantly in favor of the President.
Just how weak is their case? They have the President saying a couple times that he wanted the investigation to end - exploring what his options were for ending it - and they are calling that obstruction. That is an absurdly weak argument.
Don’t expect the removal effort to go anywhere in the Senate - the case against President Trump is FAR too weak.
Democrats will now go with the mantra “we have the goods on Trump to impeach him, but obstructionist Senate Republicans have already said it’s dead on arrival, so there’s nothing we can do in the face of this corruption!”
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