Posted on 12/19/2019 3:31:46 AM PST by Kaslin
Well, the final vote in the House of Representatives was not a shocker. House Democrats' lust to impeach President Trump on some shoddy quid pro quo allegation over military aid to Ukraine passed after nearly 12 hours of debate. As Katie wrote, the vote was 229-198-1. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a 2020 Democratic candidate, voted present, while Reps. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ) and Collin Peterson (D-MN) voted with Republicans against this witch-hunt.
Today was truly a clown show, with scores of Democrats trying to make the case that Trump is an existential threat to the United States. There was a lot of hot air. The evidence against Trump is the very definition of weak sauce. It’s so thin and so nakedly partisan that swing-state voters are sour on impeachment. This move by Democrats has increased the president’s popularity. It hasn’t moved the needle. In fact, the approval numbers for impeachment are now underwater. It has done the exact opposite of what Democrats had hoped, and this could be one massive in-kind contribution to the 2020 Trump campaign. Maybe within the leadership, they know this too, but they’re at the point of no return. They promised their base impeachment and it very well could allow Trump to cruise to re-election.
Knowing that the Republican Senate will dispense of their so-called evidence for impeachment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has threatened to withhold transmitting the articles to the upper chamber. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has already rejected Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) parameters for the trial. McConnell slapped them down, along with cutting through the nonsense about his role in this Democrat-manufactured fantasy. He’s not going to be impartial.
“I'm not an impartial juror. This is a political process. There's not anything judicial about it,” he said on Tuesday.
Knowing these articles face certain death with Senate Republicans, Pelosi and House Democrats now appear to be engaging in political extortion. Just watch. This is all about Senate Republicans rejecting Democratic calls for witnesses. That’s not how this works, lady. You folks, the House Democrats, decided what’s impeachable. The Senate holds a trial based on your work. And your work is total and complete nonsense.
Nancy Pelosi won't commit to sending the House Democrats' sham articles of impeachment over to the Senate.
Basically confirming what we've known all along this impeachment is a WITCH HUNT & A SHAM! pic.twitter.com/2KGQBkIsSE— Francis Brennan (@FrancisBrennan) December 19, 2019
Pelosi indicates the House may hold the articles of impeachment and not send then to the Senate until it’s understood the Senate will conduct a fair trial— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 19, 2019
If Trump is so dangerous to the country and the world, why wait?!?!?! https://t.co/lMzqp3bw5R— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 19, 2019
“We’ll decide what that dynamic is,” Pelosi told reporters after the vote. Politico has more:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned the House may not immediately transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate out of concerns Republicans won't conduct impartial proceedings at a trial.
Pelosi refused to commit to any timeline for sending the articles, which is required to begin the impeachment trial.
"So far, we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us," Pelosi told reporters shortly after the House approved two articles of impeachment against Trump. "But right now, the president is impeached."
Well, that’s not your call, Nancy. Your party is not the majority in the senate. We’re the majority. And we’re going to end this clown show. The longer you hang onto this the more popular Trump becomes and the more key swing states Democrats need to win in 2020 fall further out of reach. So, please, keep playing this game. Oh, and removing Trump from office requires 67 Senators. This just isn’t in the works.
The irony is thick. Democrats think Trump is dangerous and must be removed because he abuses his power, and we have Democrats abusing their power to try and get Trump removed from the Oval Office, possibly sending us into a constitutional crisis with these games. To save the Constitution, we have to destroy the Constitution. We have to shred parts and go around others. That’s quite the formula there for salvation, though one that could only come from the mind of a historically illiterate and petulant Democrat. They’re just giving us this election.
Is Mrs. Pelosi running this impeachment show? It sucks ….
What exactly is she extorting? Laughter?
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Impeachment as a Means to An End, and Not The End Itself…
theconservativetreehouse.com ^ | 12/19/19 | sundance
Posted on 12/19/2019, 5:19:00 AM by a little elbow grease
It does not seem accidental the hastily defined two articles of impeachment mirror the arguments needed in two lower court cases brought by the House Judiciary Committee.
It is likely both articles of impeachment, “Abuse of Power” and “Obstruction“, are designed to support pending HJC court cases seeking: (1) former White House Counsel Don McGahn testimony; and (2) grand jury evidence from the Mueller investigation. Because the full House did not originally vote to authorize articles of impeachment the House Judiciary Committee never gained ‘judicial enforcement authority‘. The absence of judicial enforcement authority was evident in the lack of enforcement authority in House subpoenas.
The House could not hold anyone in contempt of congress for not appearing because they did not carry recognized judicial enforcement authority. Additionally downstream consequences from that original flaw have surfaced in cases working through courts.
There is an argument to be made the rushed House articles are a means to an end.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Is it not possible to start going after these DemoMarxists once they are out of Washington DC?
Maybe they are afraid of Trump’s defense and what Rudy has.
No way it can be good for primaries to drag this out.
Quid pro quo
Mitch should give her 24 hours.......hand them over........ or be charged with obstruction of justice.
(hat tip doughty one)
Nancy has balked at providing them, so she, herself, has publicly confirmed that she is
expected to formally present the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate for review....and the trial.
My thought was to get it to the Senate asap so they could vote yea/nay and go home for Christmas/NYE. The push back on RATS if they don’t vote before they leave will be harsher than if they’d done it before. She’s hanging her party Senators out to dry and the campaign ads against them will be harsh, funded by the massive piles of $$ Trump and Co are amassing.
Go scorched earth on them!
Nanzi’s words are meaningless......so blaming the Senate rules for her withholding the articles is balderdash.
She nailed votes she needed by promising her caucus huge approval numbers.....they’d sail to reelection by voting for impeachment.
That never happened.
She’s literally desperate to find a way to increase the numbers.
Pollak: Senate Can Acquit Even If House Withholds Articles of Impeachment
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/18/pollak-senate-can-acquit-even-if-house-doesnt-transmit-articles-of-impeachment-constitution/
Dumb questions:
Can the Senate Leader hold Nancy in contempt?
Nancy doesn’t run the Senate. She doesn’t get to determine what’s a fair trial. Her statements show clear intent to ‘obstruct justice.’ Do we have a way to charge her with the crime? Can she be charged with obstruction for denying a ‘speedy’ trial?
Nancy needs to have an accident
And by the way, Hillary lost.
She already wears Depends.
Mitch needs to declare Trump isn’t impeached until the senate receives the articles of impeachment.
Nancy and the rest of the Democrats seem determined to start a war. They are absolutely determined.
Exactly.
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