Conservative radio host and commentator Hugh Hewitt urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to take a page from his own playbook in deciding which ground rules to follow as he tackles the looming prospect that the House will send impeachment articles in coming weeks.
Striking resemblance, has anyone ever seen Hugh Hewitt and Leslie Nielsen in the same room?
ANOTHER reason this mofo should never be on Meet The Press again…what a CHARMING fellow. Obstruct, deny, whine and snivel that you’re being victimized by the ones you are actually screwing over. Yep. The Republican Way…endorsed by people with a microphone. Great patriots.
An old white conservative dickhead lobbying for corruption in government? Well I never.
Hewitt ripped wings off of flies and ate them as a child. As an adult, he still does. He is Renfield.
Hugh Hewitt says ignoring the Constitution (Moscow Mitch’s blockade of the Garland nomination) is defending it. In related news, Hewitt also thinks Trump’s many impeachable offenses aren’t impeachable and his crimes not crimes.
One must be really stupid to say what Hewitt spews.
After a few weeks of live hearings from the House? That might be problematic.
Also, does McConnell have the power to do this, or would it be the Chief Justice who manages the trial?
The Garland strategy might save Trump. But it will doom at least three GOP senators (Collins, Gardner, and McSally) and possibly a fourth (Ernst).
The “snap vote” to dismiss will come immediately after the House votes impeachment (i.e., December 2019). If these Senators vote to dismiss, they will avoid getting a right wing primary challenge (note - McSally already has one), but they will be very vulnerable in the general election. If they all vote not to dismiss, then there will be a primary from the right.
Brown-nosing lickspittles like Hewitt who mention the Constitution willfully forget that there is a key word in the impeachment section. To wit: Section 4, Article 2—
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
The quid pro quo of the Ukraine Affair is more correctly named BRIBERY. QED.
I wish I knew the rules and procedures governing a Senate impeachment trial more thoroughly. One point I’m foggy on is the role and prerogatives of the Chief Justice in it all. I guess he “presides” over the trial. Does his authority supercede that of the Senate majority leader? If McConnell moved to shut down the trial in almost the same instant it was gaveled to order can the Chief Justice step in and overrule him? And assuming an actual full trial is somehow forced what other strategies McConnell may pursue could Roberts override? Is Roberts the final word on everything, every dispute, every point of order? Anyone?
@thunderclapnewman shared this the other day and I think this is another good spot for it.
The quoted portion of the tweet is DOBA but there’s more in the video that, in my opinion, is the better part.
This bold move on behalf usurpation of the Constitution will always be McConnell’s crowning achievement greatest assault on American democracy.
Fixed.
This is part of the MO of what today constitutes something calling itself the Republican party.
Time after time, when the GOP gets defeated, it immediately launches efforts to try and strip the incoming Democrats of power.
It happened in NC against Roy Cooper, it happened in WI against incoming Gov. Evers, it has happened in MI w the GOP legislature trying to hamstring formation of a voter referendum mandate to create an independent redistricting commission, and now the GOP is threatening to take the will of the voters in KY, give it to a GOP controlled legislature and dump it into the trash bin.
This, gerrymandering, dark money, massive corruption. THIS is what passes as today’s GOP. It cannot hold onto power by force of its ideas and programs which are being increasingly rejected. Instead it operates as a criminal syndicate. #GOPisRICO
The one and only thing the GOP cares about is political power. Period. An example of how The People can kick the living shit out of the criminal cabal otherwise known as the GOP is to kick John Cornyn’s ass out of office in 2020. Cornyn is a monster and a danger to democracy. He’s entirely compromised and totally willing to embrace Trump’s crimes as long as the GOP holds power. He’s up for election in 2020, and if The People of Texas have any allegiance to the Constitution, they’ll send Cornyn packing. (Just like they did to Pete Sessions).
Wonderful. Then they’ll have be plenty of time to take up HR1.
Hewitt: “Peremptory dismissal” of the charges to express Senate Republicans’ belief that the articles “do not merit the Senate’s sustained attention,”
yeah. the senate’s full attention needs to be on NOT voting on all the legislation that has passed the house. that is mcconnell’s full time job. please, no distractions.
bold move on behalf of the Constitution
The Constitution says that the President “shall nominate” Justices, but the Founders did not have the foresight to explicitly say that “by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate” does not include the Senate saying “I don’t feel like it”
McConnell’s sedition was certainly bold though, and he hasn’t paid the price for it yet.
And how much airtime is this going to get in the current news cycle? This is just one more brick in the wall of obstruction that has been HIGHLY successful and will continue to be as long as the Right controls the message.
Among the cast of repugnant characters inhabiting the current political environment there are none so odious as Hewitt. He is in every way revolting.