This is becoming the problem now for the left and their impeachment drive. Schumer believes that suddenly he can demand things after "game changer" report that nobody has read or cares about. Even if you read it, it still doesn't actually change the game. It rehashes what people already know and provides absolutely nothing new in terms of anything relevant.
Schumer renews call for witnesses to testify in Trump impeachment trial after "game changer" report https://t.co/g4lBUQtSoN pic.twitter.com/FqAuLbzHLB— The Hill (@thehill) December 31, 2019
In a nutshell, the report tells us what process was used to temporarily delay the $400 million in aid. Apparently Schumer and many on the left must have thought what? That there wasn't a process? The report also (gasp) suggests that some people within the Administration believed that the delay might create a "backlash" from certain members of Congress. Later in the story the NY Times exposes the political bombshell that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
This whole game of wild eyed rhetoric has gone from tedious to ridiculous. Impeachment loses credibility every single day this goes on. Democrats seem content to continue to drag our their losing hand, in what now appears to be a hopeless attempt to gain any sort of momentum. In the immortal words of Kenny Rogers... you got to know when to hold em and know when to throw em. This is some advice Democrats would be wise to heed.
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It's obscure because you as a trump slurper don't like it......!!!!!!1 Another compelling reason why Moscow Mitch needs to have witnesses....how else will the american voter learn the truth??? Not that you care about the country anymore, Lil Scotty, but feel it needed to spread more BS that supports the liar in chief....I am certain that little nugget about the times was sourced from another white nationalist site that drives your bias......BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Sorry Denny...
but nobody cares because nobody cares.
A timeline of events (masquerading as a news story) that provides nothing new is not a bombshell or game changer. Pretending it is (like Schumer does) just exposes how ridiculous the scam is.
Sorry, Lil Scotty.....many care but you just don't give a shit about the country!!!!! Pretending you think your opinion is relevant is almost as amusing as schummer......BWAAAAAAA!!!!!! Because your brain has been dead for weeks now does not mean the times article is incorrect.....!!!!!! Let the facts come out!!!!! Seems to me if these guys could exonerate trump.....they would be singing their hearts out.....with trump hiding behind his kingly power....me thinks they hold the key, just like the times reports.....I doubt you have read it .....
Denny...
Nobody says that the story isn't "correct". It simply is a story that provides the process as to how you delay the aid. I guess the NY Times is still trying to "prove it happened" when nobody denies that the aid was delayed.
Do you honestly believe "anyone" disagrees with impeachment because they didn't realize that the aid (that was provided) was temporarily delayed?
Are you that clueless?
They also breathlessly point to "disagreement" within the ranks as if that actually matters. There will always be "disagreement" between cabinet members and ultimately the ONLY opinion that matters is going to be the President's opinion. It's not "impeachable" for a President to do things that people disagree with. The concept is silly and it has ZERO to do with whether or not you can remove a President for a High Crime or Misdemeanor.
And let's be "crystal clear" here Denny.
It's up to the Democrats to "PROVE" their case.
Not for Republicans to "EXONERATE" Trump.
The Republicans have ZERO incentive to chase what Democrats want.
They also have ZERO requirement to do so.
If Democrats wanted to call these witnesses, then they should have done so at the impeachment hearings when they had the power of subpoena and could have gone to court to compel testimony if they thought they had a case.
It's not McConnell's problem that Democrats wanted to stick to an artificial timeline and not do their own work.
Nobody says that the story isn't "correct".
BWAAAAAAA!!!! And you are still defending the indefensible trump!!!!! Hey asswipe......how long did it take to get the Mcgahn ruling?????? That alone is the problem you dismiss with a cavalier attitude.... IMHO.....trump forbidding the testimony alone is an impeachable offense of obstruction of justice....You are just playing your typical semantic BS games while swallowing trumps manhood whole!!!!!! Your disingenuous argument is most amusing!!!!!!
Poor Denny...
Your side is losing badly... and they already gave up in the House.
Now their only hope is that Mitch McConnell and the GOP will do "their" work for them because they were too lazy and too rushed to get it done themselves.
Why, because they were bleeding support and they knew that if they let their members go home for break without a vote, that they would come back with less support.
The worst part for you Denny.
Even if McConnell calls every witness that they want called.
None of it will matter. It still will not change the fundamental truth that there was no high crime or misdemeanor committed. Only a political move that Democrat... waah waah waah... didn't like!
geezus.
it's a maggie haberman story for fucks sake. she lies like it's her fucking job.
game changer. yeah, right.
Even if McConnell calls every witness that they want called.
BWAAAAAAAA!!!!1 Speaking for me again you dumb fuck......that's the best you got?????? The only thing that does not matter is you thinking your omnipotent opinions matter to anyone but yourself.....The fact remains is that trump is hiding something and you think that is fine and not a problem....To me, he is as dishonest as you are and deserved to be impeached and tossed.....You think he deserves a crown and a coronation !!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
I see CHT is Bitch Slapping the blogs Bitch Denny, Again.
The Dwarfs can't raise sorely needed cash to win within thier own ranks.
Fun to watch the back stabbing .
Maggie Lindsy Haberman is an American journalist. She is a White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for CNN. She previously worked as a political reporter for The New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. Wikipedia
and she is still a complete hack!
and she is still a complete hack!
and a little more on this hack from wikipedia -
In October 2016, one month before Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election, a document was released by WikiLeaks that showed the Clinton campaign's use of Haberman to place sympathetic stories in Politico. "[The Clinton campaign] has a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico over the last year. We have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed. While we should have a larger conversation in the near future about a broader strategy for reengaging the beat press that covers HRC, for this we think we can achieve our objective and do the most shaping by going to Maggie."[11]
A whole lot of cray cray
2019 Was the Year That Democrats Went Off the Rails
good read. if 2019 is the year the donks went off the rails, 2020 will be the year they run the train straight off a fucking cliff.
The decade that began in 2010 witnessed the gravest threats to the integrity of American democracy since the Civil War. It was the age of extreme polarization and political gerrymandering. It saw an unprecedent intervention in an American presidential election by a hostile foreign power and the advent of a dangerously self-serving president. Now it has ended with only the third impeachment of a president by the full U.S. House of Representatives in history.
In 2010, Democratic President Barack Obama achieved his greatest policy triumph when Congress passed the Affordable Care Act. It was the only major social legislation enacted without the support of a single member of the opposition party and Obama paid a political price for this victory.
Obamacare’s opponents, led by a new and vibrant conservative movement that styled itself the Tea Party, dominated public debate and drove approval of the law down to the 40 percent range. The Tea Party advocated limited government, fiscal responsibility, reduced taxes, and its version of traditional Christian values, including opposition to abortion and gay and lesbian rights. Survey data indicated that between 10 and 30 percent of Americans identified with the Tea Party.
In the 2010 midterm elections, Republicans regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives and secured unified control of state government in nearly every swing state. They used that power to gerrymander state legislative and congressional districts during the redistricting process that followed the decennial census of 2010. In Pennsylvania, for example, Democrats won 51 percent of the statewide, two-party congressional vote in 2012, but Republicans captured 72 percent of the state’s 18 congressional seats. In Wisconsin’s 2012 elections for state assembly, Democrats won 51 percent of the vote, but Republicans won 60 of 99 seats.
Legal battles over these gerrymandered maps would play out through much of the decade. When federal lawsuits challenging gerrymandered maps reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019, a 5 to 4 majority ruled that the federal courts had no role to play in adjudicating partisan gerrymandering. Legal challenges would now focus on the state courts, where, Democrats won important victories in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Despite Obama defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney to win reelection in 2012, Democrats lost control of the U.S. Senate in the midterm elections of 2014. By this time the Tea Party movement had largely merged into the Republican Party, moving the party to the right and raising political polarization to the highest levels in recent history. Today, the most liberal Republicans in Congress are still more conservative than the most conservative Democrats.
When preeminent conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly in February 2016, President Obama nominated circuit court judge Merrick Garland to replace Scalia, which would have shifted the ideological balance on the court from 5 to 4 conservative to 5 to 4 liberal. However, the Republican Senate led by Mitch McConnell of Kentucky refused even to give Garland a hearing. His nomination languished until President Donald Trump appointed circuit court judge Neil Gorsuch, which kept in place the Court’s conservative majority.
In 2016 (as I predicted, contrary to the pundits and pollsters) Donald Trump won the presidential election. The Russians, under Kremlin direction, mightily assisted Trump’s campaign by illegally hacking and releasing Democratic emails, placing ads on social media, and deploying trolls and bots to poison political discourse on Trump’s behalf.
Trump appointed right-wing judges to judicial positions and pushed through Congress a massive tax that largely favored corporations and the wealthiest Americans. With few achievements in Congress, however, Trump largely governed by autocratic fiat. He withdrew America from the nuclear weapons accord with Iran, the Paris agreement on climate change, and the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty that President Ronald Reagan had negotiated with Russia. His revamped immigration policy separated the families of undocumented immigrants, imposed a travel ban on residents of certain foreign nations, seized money from the military to build his border wall, eviscerated clean air and water regulations, and throttled back efforts to control catastrophic climate change.
The president quickly came under suspicion for collusion with the Russians during his presidential campaign. In May 2017, Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, admitting that he was thinking about “this Russia thing” when he did so. The firing led to the appointment of Robert Mueller as a special counsel to investigate charges of coordination with the Russians and obstruction of justice.
To the disappointment of Trump’s critics, Mueller produced an unreadable, 435-page report that was filled with equivocation and double negatives. Attorney General William Barr, a political appointee of President Trump, then poisoned the public dialogue by falsely spinning the report to exonerate Trump of any wrongdoing.
Still, Mueller had documented ten acts of obstruction by President Trump that, according to a bipartisan group of more than a thousand prosecutors, constituted a clear prima facie case of the criminal obstruction. But Mueller refused to take a stand, saying only, “If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”
Mueller did not charge Trump or his associates with criminal conspiracy with the Russians, but he noted that the campaign welcomed and exploited Russia’s illegal meddling. He found that a lack of witness candor and a flawed production of documents hampered his conspiracy investigation. President Trump refused an in-person interview with the special counsel and answered written questions primarily by saying “I don’t recall.”
Although Democrats had won control of the U.S. House in the 2018 midterms, the party’s cautious leadership declined to follow-up the Mueller Report with an impeachment investigation of the president. Then Trump gratuitously forced the House to act by shaking down the new president of Ukraine, a nation dependent on the U.S., to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and the discredited Russian propaganda ploy that Russian interference in the 2016 election was a hoax concocted by the Democrats and Ukraine.
Chairman Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee has held weeks of hearings on the Ukraine scandal. He submitted a report to the Judiciary Committee which recommended articles of impeachment on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The House’s charges will now be subject to a trial in the Senate under the Constitution. It remains to be seen whether the Republican-controlled Senate will hold a real trial with relevant witnesses or short-circuit the process to exonerate the president.
Allan J. Lichtman is Distinguished Professor of History at American University
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says she's open to calling witnesses as part of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, but she says it is “premature” to decide who should be called until senators see the evidence that is presented.
Collins also said it was inappropriate for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, to pledge "total coordination" between the White House and the Senate during the impeachment trial.
"It is inappropriate, in my judgment, for senators on either side of the aisle to prejudge the evidence before they have heard what is presented to us,'' Collins told Maine Public Radio in an interview Monday.
Senators take an oath to render impartial justice during impeachment — an oath lawmakers should take seriously, Collins said.
Collins, who is running for reelection and is considered one of the nation's most vulnerable GOP senators, also faulted Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for saying Trump should be found guilty and removed from office.
The President will not be convicted because the money was eventually released.
No matter what else they say under oath in the Senate trial, not enough Republicans will finally grow some testicles.
omg, Roger you are such a stupid loser.
"good read. if 2019 is the year the donks went off the rails, 2020 will be the year they run the fucking cliff" RRB
Yep. No Doubt.
Not ONE of the Dwarfs can beat Pres. Trump.
grow testicles alky?
why can't your team grow a candidate that can beat the fucking guy?
oh, and i wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a senate trial. the smart money is betting that poli-grip pelosi NEVER sends the articles to the senate for trial. the current situation - stasis - is as good as it gets for the left. in a senate trial you lose and trump wins - AGAIN.
so the best that nancy can do is permanently abstain from sending the articles to the senate in some half-assed attempt at holding this over trump's head. the sad reality for you guys is that the remaining political capital is terribly weak tea. you guys have literally shot your wad and you're spent.
happy fucking new year, genius.
Roger, what kind of New Year Celibration does your old folks home hold?
2019 Roger said he was "Happily Married", his wife kicked his ads out to the gutter. Roger said he lived in " a million dollar home, B'S. Roger got evicted, with nothing in savings and no independent investments to stop it.
Roger , you became suicidal and clinically Depressed . And you landed in a state financially assisted living dump.
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BREITBART
U.S. EMBASSY ATTACKTRUMP WARNS IRANBIDEN: LEARN TO CODE!STOCKS BOOM 2019COREY WON’T RUN
Iranian Militia Leader Leading Iraq U.S. Embassy Raid Listed as Obama White House GuestOfficial White House Photo by Pete SouzaLUCAS NOLAN31 Dec 201910,940
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Iranian militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, one of several identified as leading an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, reportedly visited the White House in 2011 during the presidency of Barack Obama."
Well done , what a stupid monkey.
Trump hasn’t bested Pelosi once in his entire time as pr*sident. Certainly not in the midterms, where Pelosi’s strategy helped Democrats swamp Republicans
crumbled impeachy thingy
"Judge dismisses impeachment witness lawsuit after House rescinds subpoena
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 6:35 PM ET, Mon December 30, 2019"
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