Posted on 01/13/2020 6:52:24 AM PST by deplorableindc
President Trump’s Senate trial may have witnesses after all.
Sen. Susan Collins on Friday confirmed she is working with a “fairly small group” of fellow Republican senators to ensure witnesses can be called.
“We should be completely open to calling witnesses,” Collins (R-Maine) said Friday, the Bangor Daily News reported.
“I am hopeful that we can reach an agreement on how to proceed with the trial that will allow the opportunity for both the House and the president’s counsel if they choose to do so.”
Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has also had recent conversations with the Senate’s minority Democratic leadership, one source familiar with the negotiations told The Post on Thursday.
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Trump only needs 3 witnesses. Ukraine president, the former and present prosecutors from Ukraine. A whole lot of Senaturds would be implemented.
I think your scenario would bite them - bigly.
Collins is a house boy. He turned down the chance to be a Senator.
The GOP betrayed Nixon after he gave the party the greatest electoral win in the 20th century. So I don't trust the GOP establishment. I don't trust any establishment party also.
I fear you are correct - the GOP establishment wants to return to being the neocon party that favors free trade deals and open borders to get more illegal labor that drives down wages.
You need 51 votes to set the impeachment rules.
No one anywhere cares about any of this unfortunately.
Time and time and time again we bring up points that are valid but we Forget that we don’t have a team voting for us.
We have Rs.
And all will be buried on the dem side.
The usual scummy suspects.
Well, who didn’t see this coming...?
Thanks.
DISMISS, DISMISS, DISMISS!!!!!!!
The Dems and Rinos are setting this up!
Turns out morning joe wasn’t kidding when she said it was the “news” media’s job to tell people how to think:
POLITICO Playbook: How to think about impeachment this week
By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMER 01/13/2020 06:09 AM EST
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2020/01/13/how-to-think-about-impeachment-this-week-488053
I fear you are correct - the GOP establishment wants to return to being the neocon party that favors free trade deals and open borders to get more illegal labor that drives down wages.
The GOPe wants to move to the left. Basically a US version of the toothless Conservative Party of GB. Easiest way to do that is import a bunch of Democrats and shift the elecorate hard left. Then the GOP only has to be one inch to the right of the radical Dems to pick up every moderate and right vote. At least that is the theory. They all but admired it in Romney’s “autopsy report.” In reality if people want Democrat policies they will just vote for Democrats leaving the GOP out of power.
“51 votes for what? What do they need 51 votes for?”
With 51 votes Republicans set the rules.
Do you think it would work if he did like Pelosi and made crime syndicate style somber, deadly threats in private like she did to get miraculous changes of mind overnight to agreement with her on House impeachment?
Maybe not.
You mean “Morning Joke?”
Had a nightmare Romney and Collins were colluding with other RINO traitors to undercut the President and voters.
Woke up and it's true.
One huge problem: what would their minority bloc within a minority party with a Dem president in 2021 (God forbid) be able to do? Symbolic votes? The good fight for a lost cause every few weeks? Then voted out for a true Dem or Socialist?
Leftist younger voters are already chafing at old coots like Bernie, befuddled jerks like Biden or hags like Pelosi impeding their Socialist America dreams. And illegals will vote for the one who gives them the most goodies. Unlikely to be a GOPe.
Thank you.
Tucker Carlson’s ideology is the winning future formula for the GOP if they ever embrace it - which is why Democrats fear him - and the GOPe fears him also - because he is anti-neocon and free trade globalism.
They only need 4 to give the rats control of the rules. They have at least 3.
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