Posted on 01/28/2020 3:21:11 PM PST by lodi90
Breaking News:
*McConnell Says GOP Leaders Dont Currently Have Enough Votes to Block Impeachment Witnesses
*McConnell Made Remarks in Private Senate GOP Meeting
(Article below will update)
WASHINGTONPresident Trumps lawyers tried to cast doubts on the importance and credibility of allegations by former national security adviser John Bolton about the presidents motives for freezing aid to Ukraine, as they concluded their efforts to counter Democrats charges that Mr. Trump abused power and obstructed Congress.
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DiFi is showing signs of acquittal.
Nonsense, that’s for the rubes, she’ll bite the head
off a chicken in the end.
Oh look! Its another troll!
How come Pelosi gets her people in line when she needs them,McConnell brags,this is not gonna happen,this is the Senate! Oh yeah? He can’t get 4 republicans in line to end this hoax?
I think this was planned I never trusted McConnell
At least then we will have a fighting chance to right the ship. Voting isn’t going to fix a damn thing.
Your assumptions are based on thinking voting is going to change anything. It isn’t. SCOTUS is just as corrupt. Obamacare? Remember that horse crap? Letting the left take over and letting it all go to hell gives us a better chance of fighting the ship.
A vote for more witnesses validates impeachment without a crime.
Might want to look at this:
Republicans signal renewed confidence they’ll avoid witness fight 01/28/20 05:23 PM EST
The Republicans had better not screw this up or their future losses will be the thing of legends. They will never again rise from the salted earth and dust that was once the Republican Party. And that’s their best case scenario. The reality will probably be much worse for them individually.
For example Bolton, who we would not think would damage any senator. Calling the Bidens could damage that ex-senator with the same name, so that will get voted down?
You hope
The senators know who has damaging info on them. Those people won’t be called. I don’t know if that’s Biden (who I wouldn’t call) or Atkinson, or Ciarmarella. I’m just saying the senate is concerned with its members and nobody else.
Definitely trolls
DU misses their troll.
uniparty
Kleptocracy might be more correct, according to recent books.
Yep.....the pearl clutchers here need a good nights sleep. The sun will come up in the morning. Media is playing with your heads. The WSJ?? haha ha
My fantasy is to see the Pencilneck crackhead Schiff get called to testify and end up with jail time
I think I see it.
The three or four RINOs are sweating bullets. Don’t vote for witnesses they lose their seats. McConnell realizes that Boltons’s testimony won’t amount to a hill of beans constitutionally and Trump will be acquitted no matter what because he did nothing wrong. And neither Trump or McConnell wants to lose any of these senate seats to demoncrats, as that would cost us the senate and we get no more judges. So he’s reluctantly letting them off the hook without twisting any arms too much on the witness vote. Some or all of them will vote for acquittal anyway. Trump wins, gets reelected, we keep the senate. Now we’ve got to concentrate on taking back the house so we can really get down to the business of draining the swamp.
Taking control of the senate was the real goal of the dems impeachment effort. Trump was never in danger.
Too bad Schmuckie, Nanzi, Schiffthead, et al. You lose. Again.
Yes, but if Trump uses Exec Privilege, it would unfortunately make it look like he’s trying to hide something that Bolton will say. Even if he has nothing to hide.
he real question is:
Why did Mitch inform the world that he hasnt the votes to win a procedural resolution ( 51)?
a) The let the Dems know that if they vote, then Biden, whistleblower, Adam Schiff , IG for NSA, etc. will be called as witnesses?
b) to let the Dems know that he will succumb to the latest Media leaks so they wont bring another set of leaks and then bring his majority as surprise?
c)to bring public pressure on Romney, Collins, Murkowski to get in line with the rest of the GOP?
d) to signal the Presidents legal team to prepare a witness request list?
e) to inform the public that the Senate will be tied up for months with this impeachment trial?
Its now mirrors within mirrors. Mitch is wily. To tell the truth, very few know what Mitch has up his sleeve.Not even the Dems.
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