It doesn’t seem like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement that he has the votes to start the Senate impeachment trial without witnesses was enough to break House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in their stalemate over the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
“Sadly, Leader McConnell has made clear that his loyalty is to the President and not the Constitution,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Tuesday in response to McConnell’s announcement. “Leader McConnell has insisted that the approach under consideration is identical to those of the Clinton trial and that ‘fair is fair.’ This is simply not true.”
“This process is not only unfair but designed to deprive Senators and the American people of crucial documents and testimony,” she continued.
The Democratic leader repeated her call for McConnell to release a resolution laying out the process of the impeachment trial in full.
“It is important that he immediately publish this resolution, so that, as I have said before, we can see the arena in which we will be participating, appoint managers and transmit the articles to the Senate,” she wrote.
Pelosi has been withholding the two impeachment articles from the Senate since the impeachment vote in December, saying that she wanted to make sure McConnell would arrange a fair trial.
She and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have pushed McConnell to allow witnesses in the trial, particularly after former National Security Adviser John Bolton announced he would testify in front of the Senate if he were subpoenaed.
Keep outplaying Yertle, Madam Speaker.
You’re damn good at it, and it’s fun to watch.
The minions now believe that Nancy’s bluff has been called and she is not in a position of strength any longer. Some are stupid enough to believe she should now be impeached herself (never mind that there’s no provision for that).
Any bets as to how long it takes for Nancy to prove them wrong?
Well, that’s the minions all over. Believing what they’re told without asking if that makes any sense or if there’s any evidence to support it is the main thing that makes them minions.
Keep on your steady course, Madame Speaker. Everything else is going to hell, don’t want you to concede to this corrupt dirtbag.
So he says he has the votes - let him show his hand.
Put the cards on the table Moscow Mitch. Show the world - and speaker Pelosi - EXACTLY how you plan to proceed.
Then she’ll decide how and when to move the articles forward. Nothing you claim to have, changes the dynamics of the situation.