Nancy Pelosi Just Made a Major Impeachment Power Play

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10:32p, 12/18/19
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Minutes after the House voted to impeach President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) dropped a bombshell: She won't send the articles of impeachment to the Senate until she feels they'll get a fair hearing on the other side of Capitol Hill.

"We have legislation approved by the Rules Committee that will enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment," Pelosi announced in a Wednesday night press conference. "We cannot name [impeachment] managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side."

The move could delay a Senate trial and is a move by House Democratic leaders to try to leverage their power to force Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to make concessions on how the trial will be run


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8z5w/nancy-pelosi-just-made-a-major-impeachment-power-play
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10:34p, 12/18/19
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Pfft. Concessions my &*$%. Let it sit.

I thought it was so damn important it had to be done. Now it's so damn important we can't do it?

Nutjobs.
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10:35p, 12/18/19
Where does it say in the Constitution that she has to physically send them over for the trial to begin?

Democrats are dumb as fck and evil as Satan.
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10:36p, 12/18/19
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This sounds great and all but McConnell is going to set the terms and wait on Pelosi. If Pelosi decides not to send the impeachment the GOP will ridicule her daily and make her look like a complete idiot because she has no leverage and her argument is beyond stupid. This is pure desperation and is doomed to fail.
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In reply to Cassius • 10:37p, 12/18/19
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Cassius said:
Where does it say in the Constitution that she has to physically send them over for the trial to begin?

Democrats are dumb as fck and evil as Satan.
Agreed. The Senate needs to take this up immediately and acquit Trump. There is absolutely nothing the House can do to stop them.
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In reply to _mpaul • 10:37p, 12/18/19
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Pfft. Concessions my &*$%. Let it sit.

I thought it was so damn important it had to be done. Now it's so damn important we can do it?

Nutjobs.


Nah man, "we would send them over but we are concerned the Senate is biased and will allow Trump to walk"

OK then dumb btch, let the country decide after the trial.
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10:37p, 12/18/19
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If by power play you mean a feeble attempt at circumventing checks and balances. Yes, yes she did. It actually goes right along with impeaching a sitting president over hearsay and feelings.
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10:38p, 12/18/19
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If the senate gives any concessions to the house on this after the manner in which the house dems conducted this proceeding, i will be absolutely flummoxed and the republicans will deserve to never have a majority again.
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10:38p, 12/18/19
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It might be in the Senate rules, but you're right. If it's not, just consider it anyway. I wouldn't change the rules, though.

It's probably the same process for sending a bill to the Senate.
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10:38p, 12/18/19
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And why does the Senate give a **** whether she delays it or not ?

The longer she delays, the more it will interfere with the Dem presidential candidates efforts.
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10:39p, 12/18/19
In other words, impeachment ends with Congress and the Senate never sees it.

I do not know who is advising the Democrats but to keep reminding the public of Trumps impeachment without due process in the Senate is just putting more logs on the fire.

Thank God for TDS.
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10:41p, 12/18/19
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Sounds like obstruction of the senate. We must impeach Nancy.
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10:42p, 12/18/19
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What happens if the House never sends the Articles? Will the public lose interest (more than they already have) and this fades away? How will the public respond to the Dems campaigning on this for the next 11 months? Will the public be turned off by the apparent lack of fairness? What if the Articles have not been sent by the end of this Congress? Do they expire?
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10:46p, 12/18/19
If by "leverage their power", they mean "***** and moan on the sidelines"...

Then by all means. Go for it.

Idiots.
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10:49p, 12/18/19
I hope the senate spends an entire day dropping a virtual deuce on pelosi then essentially drops the mic in a dismissal at end of day
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10:55p, 12/18/19
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She is going to try to help Schumer get leverage on McConnell in order to try to get witnesses like Mulvaney, Bolton etc to testify at a Senate trial as they think they hold the smoking gun in all this.
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10:55p, 12/18/19
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already floating the implied suggestion that some of the senate Republicans should recuse themselves because they are not impartial.

You can't make this stuff up...
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10:57p, 12/18/19
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How is that a power play? Its a no power play
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10:58p, 12/18/19
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Elections are when people find out what politicians stand for, and politicians find out what people will fall for.
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10:58p, 12/18/19
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In other words the American public will decide whether or not to remove the president in about 11 months. Novel idea.

What happened to REEEE it's an emergency!!! ???
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In reply to Threadbare • 10:59p, 12/18/19
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Threadbare said:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already floating the implied suggestion that some of the senate Republicans should recuse themselves because they are not impartial.

You can't make this stuff up...

Speaking of recusing themselves.
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In reply to aggie93 • 10:59p, 12/18/19
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aggie93 said:
This sounds great and all but McConnell is going to set the terms and wait on Pelosi. If Pelosi decides not to send the impeachment the GOP will ridicule her daily and make her look like a complete idiot because she has no leverage and her argument is beyond stupid. This is pure desperation and is doomed to fail.
It is Democrats that have losses to their campaigns that will result from a long delay of this. Trump and the center and right will ignore it. If she holds things up, she will be keeping candidates from their campaign work and reps from actions supporting those same endeavors.
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11:02p, 12/18/19
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In reply to Threadbare • 11:02p, 12/18/19
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Threadbare said:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already floating the implied suggestion that some of the senate Republicans should recuse themselves because they are not impartial.

You can't make this stuff up...
At the same time though Sanders, Klobuchar, Warren, Booker, and Harris are TOTALLY objective and should still sit as jurors.
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11:02p, 12/18/19
Sounds like they are waiting on the court cases to resolve so they can get more evidence. After hearing them ***** and moan about a "clear and present danger" and how they debated that they acted so swiftly because they wanted him removed quickly, how will they justify this action?
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11:03p, 12/18/19
The clown car continues to roll.
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In reply to Threadbare • 11:03p, 12/18/19
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Threadbare said:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already floating the implied suggestion that some of the senate Republicans should recuse themselves because they are not impartial.

You can't make this stuff up...


What about Schumer, Harris, Booker, Warren, Sanders, et al who have all been on record supporting his impeachment?
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In reply to Threadbare • 11:09p, 12/18/19
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Threadbare said:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already floating the implied suggestion that some of the senate Republicans should recuse themselves because they are not impartial.

You can't make this stuff up...
RBG has some brass ones giving others advice on impartiality
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In reply to aggie93 • 11:23p, 12/18/19
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Threadbare said:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already floating the implied suggestion that some of the senate Republicans should recuse themselves because they are not impartial.

You can't make this stuff up...
At the same time though Sanders, Klobuchar, Warren, Booker, and Harris are TOTALLY objective and should still sit as jurors.
I believe that McConnell and Graham both said they are not impartial because it's so obviously a politically motivated set-up that it has no legitimacy.

For such a supposedly brilliant legal mind, Ginsburg is either not that bright or very mendacious...
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11:26p, 12/18/19
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Don't forget that she made that decision "solemnly" with "profound sadness", after careful "prayer". Has nothing to do with politics.
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11:30p, 12/18/19
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This strategy will only work because the left has the entire media on their side to keep impeachment lingering in headlines even though everyone knows it's been dead on arrival.
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11:38p, 12/18/19
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I'm not understanding how this is considered a power play or how this strategy will help Democrats in any way...

They voted to impeach, but now refuse take articles to trial

They're literally admitting to playing games at this point
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11:39p, 12/18/19
She's such a moran that she is going to lose the majority and speakership twice.
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In reply to 4stringAg • 11:39p, 12/18/19
4stringAg said:
Threadbare said:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is already floating the implied suggestion that some of the senate Republicans should recuse themselves because they are not impartial.

You can't make this stuff up...


What about Schumer, Harris, Booker, Warren, Sanders, et al who have all been on record supporting his impeachment?
They are democrat Senators.

They are the wisest, most virtuous, guileless paragons of enlightened humanity on the planet.

They are not subject to the kinds of misconceptions, prejudices, and passions that all the rest of us suffer.

I think you should go wash your hands after typing such an insolent and benighted aspersion...
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In reply to thirdcoast • 11:40p, 12/18/19
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thirdcoast said:
This strategy will only work because the left has the entire media on their side to keep impeachment lingering in headlines even though everyone knows it's been dead on arrival.
You serious clark?

Trump's approval rating is up eight points (EIGHT!) since Schiff started his kangaroo court a couple of weeks ago.

If they don't send to the Senate, Trump and the Senate are just going to clown on them for confirming it's a political sham if they won't send it over.

To quote Q, these people are dumb.
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