Posted on 12/19/2019 8:18:17 AM PST by libstripper
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set the stage Thursday for a potentially bruising fight between the leadership of the two chambers over impeachment, as he tore into Nancy Pelosi for “shoddy work” and said Democrats may be “too afraid” to send the articles to the Senate after the House speaker abruptly held off on transmitting them.
“This particular House of Representatives has let its partisan rage at this particular president create a toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future,” McConnell said on the floor, accusing Democrats of giving in to "temptation" with their impeachment vote while challenging their handling of the articles in the aftermath.
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Notice how media always amplifies Democrat strategy, never remotely questions it?
I don’t think there is anything in the Constitution that says that the Senate has to make impeachment first and stop all other legislation until it’s finished.
That’s probably precedent, but the Senate can change it’s rules at any time. Especially if the House is deemed to be abusing it’s power.
Their looney liberal “Constitutional expert,” Laura Tribe, suggested not sending it to the Senate.
“I don’t know what the procedure here is but Mitch has to find a way to wrangle this or this will give Pelosi an out. “
Nancy holds nothing but a pair of deuces. She has no hand. Old Nads even admitted the articles would be sent over to the Senate.
Once again, Nancy listened to the extremists and has herself in a pickle. That’s why she’s all prickly and angry refusing to take questions.
She knows she has nothing and Cocaine Mitch sure as hell knows and he’s letting her know it calling their actions “cowardice.”
He knows the Senate rules. This should peter out quietly by tomorrow.
He’s right but it doesn’t change what McConnell said.
“You need to impeach POTUS before you read the articles...”
She’s a depraved POS
Great point.
It was a great speech, very Statesman and will go down in history as a guide to future impeachment.
Democrats are launching flak in an attempt to impede the coming deep state trials.
She has that power.
Just like a prosecutor chooses when to indict, when to file papers in Court. She's got a public impeachment. It's hers to handle.
Once a prosecutor gets into court, control passes to the judge. At trial, the prosecutor presents the case.
Fairly close parallel to impeachment. The House presents its case to the trial venu, when the House decides to present its case.
If McConnell wanted to give the House a deadline, he could have, easily. But it's not his power to order the House what to do. All he did was teleraph what he thought of the articles, and that the Senate was not going to put up with BS articles. Pelosi can still put on her case, and plead it to the Senate and to the public. Nobody is denying her the right to make her case. But she is not entitled to any particular outcome. She knew who was in charge of the Senate when she decided to impeach. She's been complaining about the Senate all along. Same stuff, different issue.
She’s risking angering both sides with her antics.
That is IF she is speaker come next election.
I think we maybe are asking the wrong question.
Why did the democrats rush this is a more appropriate question.
They knew the outcome...so what’s going on? What are we missing?
“But if they lose the House in November, can the House GOP vote to nullify the ‘shampeachment?’”
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You asked a very good question and I would like to know the answer, too.
Listen to the speech....all of it. He stood up for the Constitution, the presidency, the rule of law, due process, the Framers’ intended roles of each branch of government, and the right of the people to decide who serves in elected office. He defended Trump, excoriated the House’s impeachment sham from the time Trump was a candidate through yesterday’s actions, called out Pelosi and Shiff for their egregious behavior that defies historical precedent and undermines the “foundations of the Republic”, and called on the Senate to remember the purpose for which they exist - long-term national interest.
I don’t know which Freeper posted it, but that person made a good point.
Pelosi and crew actually delivered the Articles when the published them for public consumption. I know that in certain case law, a notice must be published in a public venue and is considered notification to the defendant that there is a civil case pending. However the notice can be in a want ads section of a newspaper in a location than the actual litigation is taking place.
I would think that this would apply to publishing Articles of Impeachment in a public venue like the internet.
So technically the articles were delivered. IMHO
Sometimes there are Freepers who are so blind with
“Anti’” in their posts that they can’t be honest.
Mitch has stepped up to the plate and just hit a grand
slam!!!!
First you have to understand McConnell strongly believes in the constitution, and that the senate is the “adult” statesman like body. He is concerned about preserving some decorum in the government, even while the Dems in the house play childish games. He does not want those childish games to make it to the senate.
Mitch (the turtle) can be slow sometimes, but remember his book is called the “long game”. It will all work out.
Every day that goes by that Pelosi fails to advance this thing that the Democrats have done makes it look more and more like they failed to think it through. This is even more the case since we have all been forced to watch it on the news every day. Now where this hurts Trump is that it is bad news in our news feed every stinking day. The thing is though that if Pelosi won’t defecate or get off the pot, that’s going to get noticed too, and nobody likes people who do things like that. It looks shabby. They’ve given it this huge send up, people are sick of hearing about it, and then what?
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