Posted on 01/21/2020 12:40:52 PM PST by Red Badger
Those aren’t key changes. They are absolutely minor. The second in particular is likely a good thing. Admitting automatically all the evidence introduced in the House means that it doesn’t have to be introduced separately into the Senate via testimony. It also permits GOP Senators to state that they had access to the exact same evidence as the House.
It's what the House handed him.
Impeachment process in the house was a sham... this is a sham OF a sham
The Senate will also automatically admit evidence from the House investigation into Trump last fall.
Including ICIG Atkinson’s testimony (which has not been released)?
IMO Mitch changed the rules to “look fair”.
Of course CNBC found a more “sinister” spin to put on it.
“...should he actually testify under oath, Bolton’s account would likely be damaging to the president.”
And we know this how? Oh, you only said “likely”. How likely? Why?
Could Nancy Pelosi have appointed Republican Representatives to present the case?
Why didn’t she?
I imagine Bolton is quite happy with the droning of General Salami.
She wouldn’t even appoint a flipped one.....
“After massive pressure from Senate Democrats and the public,...
What pressure from the public!?!!
I HATE Schumer and schiff and nadler and pelosi and...many of them!!
Perhaps of most importance it gives the Democrats something to claim as a win.
Give a little, gain a lot
Its beginning to look like a Woody Allen movie script.
Nancy Pelosi is terrified that McConnell will agree to the calling of witnesses. If there are witnesses Hunter Biden and Paul Pelosi will be called to testify regarding the Ukraine corruption. They were key players. Then Nancy can use her new gold pen to sign her resignation letter and the bail bond for her son.
Aaahhhh..... Droning. Verb to kill with a drone
yes
BIG mistake.
Give them an inch....
Yah they are minor. The first one is essentially nothing. There still a set number of hours but now spread out over 3 days and not 2. And it was already a given that the house “evidence” would have passed via vote. This takes away the chance that there would a bi-paritsan vote to “admit” it which the press would crow about for days.
?It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. “
Complete nonsense, not true. Many clueless Freepers believe that Schiff did this, but they are wrong also. These two changers were made by McConnell at a lunch with Republican Senators today. Senator Collins wanted the changes and she said that she had some other Senators behind her demand. McConnell needs 51 votes to pass the Resolution. He will not get any Democrat votes, so he has to persuade all the Republicans to agree to the language.
Its not anything significant, but now we have to listen to three days of propaganda instead of two before we can get down to the business of canning this whole sham. All for the news cycle BS.
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