There was an anti-impeachment rally last night in Utah that got totally swarmed by pro-imoeachment -protesters.
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First the Moscow Mitch thing, now the Toddler keeps his phone ringing.
Sources say McConnell has not been able to poop for three days now…
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Not calling once, not calling twice…
he’s One…twice…three times a criminal demagogue
(Least popular Lionel Richie song ever)
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O that is a schadenfreude ballet for sure. I love it.
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Hey, what were those other Commodores? Chopped liver?
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“All the standing rules of the Senate require 67 votes to formally change,” Glassman [a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Government Affairs Institute] tells Vox. “However, the Senate can ‘reinterpret’ those rules and set new precedents via a majority vote — by appealing decisions of the chair and having the Senate vote as a majority to alter the interpretation.”
Not directly, but "XIX. If a Senator wishes a question to be put to a witness, or to a manager, or to counsel of the person impeached, . . . “it shall be reduced to writing, and put by the Presiding Officer [Roberts]. The parties or their counsel may interpose objections to witnesses answering questions propounded at the request of any Senator and the merits of any such objection may be argued by the parties or their counsel.”
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Oh, ffs. Of course, whether they stayed home during the WW2 would have had no bearing on the fact that they fought ISIS to the tune of 10K+ dead. But Trump´s ignorance makes my blood boil.
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That’s worded badly, probably by Vox.
On the same page your Glassman says this:
One-liner: The Constitution does not require a trial. Current Senate rules do require a trial. The Senate could unanimously ignore those rules. A majority could change those rules or otherwise dispose of the trial.
Vox adds:
“However, the Senate can ‘reinterpret’ those rules and set new precedents via a majority vote — by appealing decisions of the chair and having the Senate vote as a majority to alter the interpretation.”
Although Senate Republicans would [in] theory have the numbers needed to push through a possible reinterpretation of the impeachment rules, a move like this could be risky, especially for lawmakers hailing from swing states.
Which comports with what I said.
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At some point MoscowMitch will call the boss and suggest it’s time to cut trump loose.
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Move over HRC and Potus Obama, trump has a new obsession!
And then Trump will cut and run.
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It’s presented as a direct quote by Glassman, not as an interpretation of his comments by Vox.
Altering the interpretation of “Upon such articles [of Impeachment] being presented to the Senate, the Senate shall, at 1 o’clock afternoon of the day (Sunday excepted) following such presentation, or sooner if ordered by the Senate, proceed to the consideration of such articles and shall continue in session from day to day (Sundays excepted) after the trial shall commence (unless otherwise ordered by the Senate) until final judgment shall be rendered” would be, as the Vox article noted, “risky, especially for lawmakers hailing from swing states.”
As numerous comments on various TPM threads have noted, McConnell is a political animal and he is not above doing anything and everything possible to maintain GOP power, but he will carefully analyze the risk/reward before acting.
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Entirely possible.
My comments do not address that point because, at this moment, it would be speculation (and, on my part, empty speculation).
Never. McConnell has Trump right where he wants him: desperate enough to do anything Mitch demands in exchange for the protection that Mitch can provide.
Remember that impeachment will basically kill Trump: once he loses the protection of the OLC memo, half the prosecutors on the Eastern seaboard will be out for his head. Moscow Mitch is the biggest thing standing between them and Trump.
I’m sure Mitch is happy to take Trump’s calls. Every call is another confirmation that Trump is entirely at his mercy. Mitch is about to get everything he’s ever wanted.
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I was joking, apparently poorly. I honestly have not understood for years how 40% of our country could ever approve of him. I am glad the slower citizens are finally getting the message.
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Like getting Trump to change his mind about U.S. troops in northern Syria? Doesn’t seem like that’s working too well.
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Apparently his friends in the Tyrant’s Association have more juice.
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Only partially. He’s still holding on to that 41% approval so far.
Maybe they are just trying to get adjoining seats on the next Aeroflot flight out of DC.
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There’s a Utah Democratic Rep Ben McAdams, one of ten House Dems who’s trying to have it both ways, supporting but not supporting, waiting and watching, blah blah. He needs to take a stand, R Utahns don’t like 45, he has nothing to lose by doing the right thing.
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