The curtain is finally being brought down on Schitt’s Shampeachment Schow.
The Senate voted 51-49 on a motion to support prior constitutional precedent and avoid further witness testimony in the Senate. Republican Senators Susan Collins and Mitt Romney voted with Democrats to break constitutional framework and support witness testimony in the Senate that did not originate from House impeachment process.
Because OF COURSE they did, the dirty, treacherous scum.
Senators are now recessed for dinner while holding meetings within their caucus to debate next steps. A disagreement within the republican caucus seems to be framed around Senators wishing to have debate time to present their own personal positions on the Senate floor prior to a final vote to remove or acquit President Trump.
One likely scenario is a vote on a resolution tonight outlining next steps, open to amendment and voting; then recess for the evening around 9pm, and a return at 11:00am Monday. That would position a final acquittal vote for Wednesday.
Hoft ain’t happy with that.
This is a travesty.
The US Senate is purposely pushing the President’s acquittal until after the SOTU Address!
This also gives Democrats plenty of time to make up more fake news Ukrainian stories.
How awful!
Meh, it ain’t like they weren’t gonna do it anyway—that, and worse. But there’s another angle to consider here:
McConnell has the votes to end this today.
But he's apparently going to let it stretch out until Wednesday which means Bernie, Warren, and Klobuchar will need to be in DC during the Iowa Caucuses.
That's so savage.
— RBe (@RBPundit) January 31, 2020
I like it. Then too, there’s this:
Don’t forget that Trump will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday, in front of a crowd half-consisting of fully humiliated Democrats. Presumably, that’ll be one night before Cocaine Mitch has his chamber vote to acquit, but it’s SOTU so all the Democrats present will have to feign civility.
Savage, indeed.
“Feign civility”? What, you mean like they did last time, the time before that, and every other damned time? I’d strongly recommend you not hold your breath waiting for any “civility” from the swinish, grubby asstards, Steve. Your odds are way, WAY better with buying Powerball tickets.
Moreover, this won’t be the end of anything at all, when you get right down to it. If there’s one thing the Commiecrat slime NEVER does, it’s give up and admit defeat. Mention has already been made of follow-on rounds of Shampeachment after this one, and once Trump is safely re-elected we should expect the long knives to REALLY come out for him…and us. Hard to see how they can possibly double-down from this new low, but count on it: they will.
As I always say: They won’t stop. They will NEVER stop. They will have to BE stopped. Which looks more and more like requiring a, shall we say, more permanent solution if we ever hope to smell the last of such garbage from them.
Schadenboner update! Schampeachment flops; Backstabbin’ Bolton hardest hit?
During his four decades as an accumulator of power in the nation’s capital, a holder of high offices in the State Department, and finally a stint as President Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton has been well known for his scrupulous attention to the hiring and firing of his staff.
He always has demanded unwavering personal loyalty as well as fealty to his own—not his president’s—policy agenda. He has performed the most rigorous vetting on all who have been selected to serve on his various staffs, both the small number of political appointees a political appointee such as himself is allowed to have as well as the more numerous personnel selected from the foreign service, civil service, military services, and intelligence agencies.
This incident illumined in high relief that Bolton’s loyalties are never to his superiors but always to himself and to others only so long as they remain his sycophants.
The strange case of the Vindman twins (Alexander and Yevgeny) should be examined in the light of Bolton’s Roi du Soleil management style.
Bolton is totally responsible for this pair of unusual hires. There is no explaining this strange duo of appointments as something that the bureaucracy simply slipped over on Bolton. That is not Bolton’s way.
The American people have John Bolton, and only John Bolton, to blame for the presence of the self-serving Vindman twins on the NSC staff. We have only Bolton to blame for empowering this gossipy pair and their confidants who have made a mockery of the common-sense security precept of “need to know.”
Ahh, but we have Trump to blame for keeping them on, and not giving them the Bolton bum’s rush instead. Still, it’s most satisfying to see the flimsy house of cards he constructed come crashing down on his monstrously swollen head.
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That worthless Mitt would jump the fence, except he would have to carpetbag to yet another state to get elected as a Dem. And we in Tennessee will finally see the back of weak-ass Auntie Lamar soon.
Mittens is the prototypical Koch-sucking Rove Republican swill. He has no reason to “jump the fence”. Hopefully he will soon move to a warmer climate with Songbird McShame!
How can a person possibly live, knowing that everyone thinks of them as a gutless ‘swing vote’?? Knowing that EVERYone on BOTH sides knows you have no principles and despises you as a whore??