Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly isn’t interested in dragging out the impeachment process against President Donald Trump any longer than necessary.
Politico reported on Wednesday that McConnell is preparing to get the Senate impeachment trial done before Christmas, predicting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will draw up the articles of impeachment by Thanksgiving.
“He thinks Democrats are of the same mind: let’s not drag this out for five weeks,” an unnamed source told Politico. However, McConnell and Pelosi have not yet agreed on a timeline.
McConnell also reportedly told his Senate colleagues that none of them would be allowed to talk during the trial.
What?
Edit: McConnell has vowed in a fundraising pitch that “the way impeachment stops is with a Senate majority with me as majority leader.”
Apparently, Senators were not allowed to speechify during the Clinton impeachment. Acting as mute jury.
Dear Mule de Moscow,
Horse. Cart. In that order.
Kinda surprised he felt the need to say this since it would be almost impossible for one to get a word in between “Hear ye, hear ye” and “Not guilty on all charges.”
If they can wait until after Christmas, it might be the best Feast of the Epiphany ever.
And it will annoy McConnell. Win-win.
I’m thinking that it’s better to drag this out and make it what what’s left of his time in office is all about. Make it a referendum on Trump and his rancid GOP enablers. This should be about so much more than Ukraine. The rest should appear to come out “organically”, but it should come out. This isn’t about removal or even justice. This is about political euthanasia and a viable future.