Blumenthal Claims As Many As 10 GOPers Have ‘Misgivings’ About McConnell Strategy

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) claimed this week that as many as 10 Republican senators have “very severe misgivings” about how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is planning to run a pending Senate impeachment trial, according to The Hill.


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sounds like a spreading case of Collin’s flu…that will magically be cured come impeachment vote time…

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Misgivings? A nice way of saying they’re scared shitless about their extremely dubious / treasonous legacies…

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And what about that isn’t a good thing?

I think there are all kinds of good things starting to happen. Impeachment and McConnell’s stupidity have caused great big cracks to appear in Trump’s support.

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The McConnell plan is to avoid anything like a trial, and I must say I’m not at all confident, based on the record thus far, that Schumer will be able to outfox him.

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Have we removed the motherfucker yet?

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And just imagine how much this is going to send Donnie into yet another paranoid TweetRage, trying to find out who the disloyal backstabbing GOP Senator’s are, and threatening the rest…

Fun Times!

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No but he is a hot mess and nobody can avoid seeing it any longer and those who are refusing to acknowledge it are getting called on for it.

I think Pelosi’s strategy has shifted things toward getting rid of him one way or another.

@maximus - If Pelosi can keep this up he’s going to explode.

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Just think what a leak of Donnie’s tax returns right about now would do to feed that grease fire.

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God that would be awesome. He would lose it.

I don’t even know where that decision is at the moment - waiting in the SCOTUS pile to be heard?

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All the more reason Pelosi must keep the ball out of McConnell’s hands for much much longer, and only hand it over when ALL the focus and onus is on the Rs in the Senate. Now is not that time. The longer she withholds, the more news and investigative product comes out, the more articles she adds, the longer the Rs are left to twist…the better.

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the following is ‘sponsored’ by Wisey’s

Sullivan said the process the House is using is more partisan than what presidents Clinton or Nixon faced.

“And right now I don’t see that process as being viewed as fair and even-handed,” he said in an interview last week.

Sullivan added his name to the resolution on Thursday, the day Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., announced it. Graham said Sullivan was the 46th to sign on.

back to this Scarecrow and Mrs. King episode.

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Split
Fissure
Crevice
Break
Fracture
Rupture
Breach
Just a few of my favorite words, and then I don’t feel so bad.:grinning:

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Good. We’ve all been kind of down lately and I think things have turned a corner.

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Seriously, reporters need to stop asking Murkowski about this and instead ask Sullivan about impeachment.

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You forgot the phrases “bigly chasm”, “massive rend in the earth”, and “grand canyon-esque”

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I was going with someone’s favorite “one word answer”, but with options to suit your mood.

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He’s lying. There’s no reason to pay any attention to stories like this and we all know it.

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Sorry, I wasn’t trying to Castor asparagus your way…

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