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'When I'm ready': Pelosi won't budge on sending impeachment articles to Senate, despite calls from Democrats
NBC News ^ | January 9, 2020 | By Allan Smith

Posted on 01/09/2020 9:08:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that she will send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate "when I'm ready," rebuffing calls from top Democrats to submit them.

“No, I’m not holding them indefinitely," Pelosi told reporters during a press conference at the Capitol. "I will turn them over when I’m ready, and that will probably be soon.”

Some Democrats in the House and Senate have joined Republicans in recent days in saying it's time for Pelosi to send the articles to the Senate.

After initially saying in an interview Thursday morning that he thought Pelosi should submit the articles, Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., backtracked, tweeting that he "misspoke."

Pelosi has withheld the articles since her chamber adopted them last month, saying she will not transmit them to the Senate until the trial process is explicitly laid out. But she has suggested she could submit them soon.

"Nonetheless, at some point, we would hope that we would see from them what the terms of engagement will be," Pelosi told reporters Thursday. "We are ready, we are proud of our defense of the Constitution of the United States."

In a letter to colleagues Tuesday, Pelosi said it was important that McConnell "immediately publish this resolution, so that, as I have said before, we can see the arena in which we will be participating, appoint managers and transmit the articles to the Senate."

No trial can begin until the articles are sent.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


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1 posted on 01/09/2020 9:08:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nancy is a loose cannon...keep an eye on her.


2 posted on 01/09/2020 9:10:21 AM PST by ptsal
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Popcorn time!!!! AGAIN.


3 posted on 01/09/2020 9:12:05 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More Fake News from NBC.

The headline should state Pelosi to turnover articles, “will probably be soon.”

But they try to indicate the opposite with her previous remarks.
They can’t help showing they are rooting for the Rats.

Another headline would be, “Nancy Pelosi surrenders, says she will turn over articles... soon.”


4 posted on 01/09/2020 9:12:07 AM PST by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What an incredible week.

I’m having a winning overdose.


5 posted on 01/09/2020 9:12:39 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: ptsal

At her age and the amount of stress she’s under, she could have an aneurysm at any moment. Just sayin’.


6 posted on 01/09/2020 9:13:32 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She has a edict from the Senate to turn them over by January 12th (less than three days) or the case will be dismissed.


7 posted on 01/09/2020 9:14:17 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nazi thinks she is the Supreme Speaker, rewriting history, the Constitution and the legal system.


8 posted on 01/09/2020 9:14:40 AM PST by CMailBag
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To: ptsal

She’s praying the media’s new (Iranian) Chew toy distracts the public while she finds a way to tie it to impeachment.


9 posted on 01/09/2020 9:15:11 AM PST by jmclemore (Go Trump)
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To: All

Probably soon.

Well Mitch what does that sound like to you?


10 posted on 01/09/2020 9:15:19 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: DarthVader

In the meantime they Senate can approve another 25 Trump nominees to federal judgeships!


11 posted on 01/09/2020 9:15:31 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pelosi doesn’t want anyone to read her Farticles of Impeachment because we’ll find out what’s in them. Ignorance is bliss.


12 posted on 01/09/2020 9:16:03 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not indefinitely, but at an indefinite time.

Well, okay then, nutball Nancy.


13 posted on 01/09/2020 9:16:16 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Chattering Teeth Jihadist of the year 2019 is losing favor with some Americans?

“she’ll cut your head off and you won’t even know you are bleeding” according to her dour spawn and the enmeshed propagandists. See how effortlessly and joyfully they work together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Th4a9QhGng

(LOL...Notice the pitiful NPCers to Spawn’s left and right)

Will we have to take her head off to find out what’s in it...or does it unscrew?


14 posted on 01/09/2020 9:17:08 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: romanesq

NANCY PELOSI -- IN A FLOP SWEAT -- SURRENDERS, SAYS SHE WILL TURN OVER ARTICLES


15 posted on 01/09/2020 9:18:17 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’s coming up on the State of the Union address by POTUS.

I can’t imagine that she will put herself in the position of him HUMILIATING her, right in “her own” house, by continuing to stonewall on this.

She’s going to have to do something, IMHO, very soon. Possibly she will call off the SOTU, due to “Trump’s status is murky, since he as been impeached by the House”... or along that line.


16 posted on 01/09/2020 9:18:20 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"I will turn them over when I’m ready, and that will probably be soon.”

I, I, I. Clearly an abuse of power. The Speaker of the House has no individual discretion or power over impeachment. The House of Representatives have voted and she is abusing her power in this stupid ignorant exercise.

17 posted on 01/09/2020 9:19:01 AM PST by Religion and Politics (It is time for more than one denomination of "Political Correctness".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This fake impeachment has cost several lives. It is time to pull the fake impeachment plug before it starts WWIII.

I have been posting this meme since the terrorist, the Salami, aka Qassem Soleimani was killed as an enemy combatant while ordering more attacks in Iraq against Americans. He thought that President Trump was impeached and therefore impotent to stop the attack on our Embassy.

After my second cup of coffee that first morning, I had just about come to what was posted below:

:^) The reason our enemies and trade rivals are emboldened IS the impeachment. All Demagogic Party trash belongs at the end of a rope.

These terrorist Iranian top dogs figured, wrongly, that they could attack our embassy and worse without any reaction from an impeached president.

They planned to put impeached President Trump into a Jimmy Carter mode after they seized our embassy in Iraq.

Trump's response, panicked them and they descended into Iraq to plan more problems for our president and Iraq. That killed their #1 and #2 terrorist planners as enemy combatants not in their country.

Which top Irani dog is up next, to become sliced/diced and cooked dog food in Iraq?

It is past time to end these fake impeachment hearings.


18 posted on 01/09/2020 9:19:28 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trump defense chief: "US not seeking war with Iran but prepared to 'finish one'!")
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To: Jeff Chandler

That’s the spirit!


19 posted on 01/09/2020 9:22:05 AM PST by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: romanesq

Another headline would be, “Nancy Pelosi surrenders, says she will turn over articles... soon.”

**************

That would undoubtedly be the headline if a Republican was pulling this stunt.


20 posted on 01/09/2020 9:23:33 AM PST by Starboard
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