Is this a dare to help Trump or is it a hint that Kennedy is in favor of impeachment?
“I hate to waste a year and a half,” he complained.
WTF does the House’s decision have to do with you? Your fucking schedule is controlled by Turtle. Go buy a brain and a soul!
Not taking advice from a KINO (Kennedy In Name Only).
The Republican senator also walked back his previous call for special counsel Robert Mueller to testify publicly in front of Congress, now saying that he doesn’t “think it will do any good.”
So someone got to him. Plain and simple. Goad the Dems into pulling the impeachment trigger and see what happens. Thanks for the warning.
ETA:
“But go hard or go home. If you’re not going to do it, then let us get back to work.”
Yertle has made it pretty clear that nothing is happening in the Senate.
Rather than saying, “Read my report,” I think it more likely that Mueller will read the relevant section aloud. Whether he reads verbatim or paraphrases is open to question.
Personally, I think that would be salutary. The hearings would be televised, the citizenry would have many (maybe most) of its questions answered. We all know that most of the electorate won’t read the report. This gets it out there directly from Mueller.
"let us get back to work.”
The Senate worked? Other than a massive tax cut for plutocrats and other corporatist entities, I hadn’t noticed that.
“Kennedy ranted that Democrats need to hurry up and make a decision on whether they want to impeach President Donald Trump or not.”
Excellent!
Senate Republicans are squirming.
Twist in the wind, GOP jackasses, twist in the wind…
Judges! Judges!
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Buy a spine (from Puerto Rico, which has some to spare)
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Pick up the phone
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Dial up Mitch McConnell
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Reserve a conference room
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Spend about a week in collection of data
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Meet with McConnell for a (non-interrupted) monologue (from YOU to HIM) on why he,
McConnell, is the Gravedigger of Democracy -
Secure a signed commitment from McConnell to fairly and conscientiously weigh the evidence presented by the people you wish to get a SPINE, once the Impeachment Trial starts
The fact that KKK-Kennedy did in no way address the recalcitrance on the part of the GOP Senate amounts to political malpractice.
Unlike Amash, Kennedy’s reasoning rests on “spine” and “manning up” as opposed to the Rule of Law. In my estimation, the number one CONTINUOUS story going forward should be Mitch McConnell as, yeah, you guessed it, The GraveDigger of Democracy. Since WHEN does the acceptance of lawlessness documented by our professional Law Enforcement Agencies depend on one’s political party?
Is INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE WE DEPEND UPON FOR OUR NATIONAL SAFETY AND SURVIVAL DEPENDENT ON POLITICAL PARTY? Maybe if Hitler and Tojo were Republican, we could have JOINED THEM??
WHY are these questions not articulated, dammit?
Pretty sure it’s that first thing. Kennedy isn’t stupid. Check his education if you think he is. Trump’s approval is twenty points positive in Lousiana–but 11 points down from the day he was inaugurated. Kennedy could benefit from a backlash vote, but not from a war of attrition. The status quo doesn’t work for the GOP and they know it. They need a game-changer.
This guy is a hard one to figure out, sure he is from a southern state and comes across as a “person of the clay”. He has made the typical right wing noises when necessary. But he also went to some prestigious schools, and graduated with honors from law school. He was the one who exposed a Trump judicial pick as being wholly unqualified.
He is slick, he knows what danger Trump poses, and what danger Trump is in, I feel he is trying to thread the needle here.
Another day, another sound bite.
Bottom line though, this is not over on their say so. They created a mess and cleaning it up is going to take a whole lot of time.
Agreed – this gonna be the GOP line: if you got the balls, do it now. They get to try and score points off the Dems as cowards while trying to push them into a no win situation.
I have to agree with Clyburn, whose interview today was reviewed in another article: it pays for the Dems to educate and mobilize the electorate so, when they go to the senate, public opinion is clearly on their side. Otherwise, the whole exercise is more than a waste of time – it assists the Reactionaries in sweeping the matter under the carpet ahead of the mid-term.
Possibility 1: He’s trying to get Dems dubious about impeachment.
Possibility 2: He’s trying to make impeachment supporters more angry at their leaders and maybe push harder for impeachment.
Can’t decide now. But I hope Dems won’t be divided no matter what.
Go back to work? Doing what? The Senate does nothing day in and day out, and that’s just the way their hopelessly corrupt megalomaniacal leader likes it.
Agreed. The only way most Americans will read any of the report is if Mueller reads it on live TV.
Repeat…
IMPEACHMENT
INQUIRIES
How about THAT, counselor?
Well, Sen. John “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy” Kennedy, why don’t you and your fellow enablers on the GOP side of the aisle go to Amazon online, buy a spine, and then make an unqualified public announcement that Trump has committed numerous crimes and should be impeached and removed from office as quickly as possible so you get back to work undoing some of his disastrous acts. Once you’re on record the House may be more willing to accommodate you.