"We have the votes."— ABC News (@ABC) January 7, 2020
JUST IN: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announces that a Senate impeachment trial of President Trump would begin without deciding the question of witnesses as Democrats are demanding. https://t.co/OAfCCkQqsG pic.twitter.com/NuSy4912QD
This is tied to the Murkowski story, as well as very recent quotes from both Collins and Romney regarding this. It's doubtful (although not impossible) that McConnell would have pulled the same move if he only had 51 votes. But a united GOP front makes this move inevitable. Now the only question is whether or not any Democrats will defect and vote to approve the same impeachment rules that were in place for Clinton. Seems like there should be at least one or two who will not want to be seen as an all out hypocrite.
This puts all the pressure on Pelosi, Schiff, and the Democrats in the House. Will they continue to withhold the articles of impeachment, hoping McConnell and the GOP will change their minds? Or perhaps the Senate will even hold a vote as to the rules, which would make them preset once the articles are handed over, leaving Democrats in the House with actually no leverage at all.
I think Democrats (once again) mistakenly believed that they had leverage and that their argument about a "fair Senate trial" would actually engage the public. But the reality is that it is extremely hard to run one-sided impeachment hearings that were (by nearly all accounts) partisan and unfair, and then attempt to dictate to the Senate how they run their side of this. People instinctively can see through this as cheap politics.
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Pelosi lost.
My offer is this: Nothing
Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann received reportedly has received a settlement from CNN after suing the far-left network for smearing him last year.
“CNN agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann,” Fox 19 reported. “The amount of the settlement was not made public during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Covington.”
Sandmann also filed lawsuits against The Washington Post and NBC Universal, each for $250 million or over, and is reportedly planning to “sue Gannett, owners of The Enquirer.”
The punk settled for a buck.....BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Yeah Paula, important for you.....no one else cares.....LOLOLOLOL
The Winning Continues.
"CNN has agreed to settle a $275 million lawsuit brought by Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann over the network’s coverage of a confrontation involving himself and his classmates and a Native American man during a school trip to Washington, D.C., last year"
Co-equal branches.
House took is shot.
Now The Senate gets its.
Game over.
did mitch just tell the democrats to go fuck themselves?
why yes, yes, i believe he did!
expect a raucous debate around the alky's dining table at the shady pines assisted living center to-night!
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