Even the kraken lady…
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It’s the old one-two.
This is Part One He lets his jowls quiver with indignation.
Part Two he says that impeachment is not the proper response.
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That’s hilarious.
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Tomorrow afternoon, once Harris swears in the two newbies from GA.
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I don’t think anyone thinks anything else but since Trump needs to be convicted and punished - what difference doMitch’s motives make? I do not get why people go behind actions like this. Of course he isn’t in love with Democrats and will obstruct and be Mitch. Always. But that doesn’t mean his vote to convict, if he does, has no value - it does. Just as much as Cory Booker’s vote to convict.
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Local news sources are reporting the following song is being played on endless loop in the Oval Trailer…
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Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy, no more, no less.
https://www.ovalkwiki.com/index.php/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries
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(1) I do not know the reason for McConnell’s remarks
(2) I have not changed my 100% negative opinion of McConnell in the least
(3) I like it that he has said these things
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> “They were provoked by the President and other powerful people…"
Other powerful people?
Name names!
Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley should be expelled from the Senate.
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This doesn’t bode well for Trump as a private citizen. McConnell is signaling he wants Trump completely severed from the Republican Party going forward. What better way than to let a thousand lawsuits bloom? Especially if they lead to prison time.
McConnell could stand back and stand by, instead of jumping in and claiming it’s a political witch-hunt, etc.
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I’m not tempted to do an armed takeover of the Capitol and never have been, but now that I know it’s the one thing on the planet that will piss off Mitch McConnell I can see the appeal.
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As if
My First reaction
Fuck off
“Remember, you can’t confirm a Supreme Court Justice so close to the election , it’s against the rules”
Lying opportunist sack of shit
Got what he wanted from Trump and now it’s under the bus
If Trump had won he’d be full fascist by now
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And THAT, sir - is the correct answer.
If Mitch gave a tinker’s damn about Trump’s lying, he would have started calling it out 4 years ago. He only cares now because the Republican brand gets an F- worldwide after Trump’s openly inciting insurrection.
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It makes a difference because, like what happened with Bush, Republicans should not get a pass for blindly supporting an incompetent criminal for many years because that criminal enriched them. That is we do not want the media to start talking about Mitch that he is other than a cynical greedy politician unconcerned with the people’s business and only concerned with his own business. Kind of like how for years all a Republican had to do to be called a “moderate” was not support outlawing abortion to save the life of the mother.
Mitch is who he is and the fact that for political reasons after enabling Trump for years now may vote to convict only because such a move is good for Mitch and must called out or else, like what happened after Bush, the Republicans and Mitch will be back in power.
It’s the best signal I can think of that this Era is OVER!
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Nobody is giving anybody a pass. I thought I made that clear.
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Yawn. McConnell’s been tickling Trump’s naughty bits for 4.5 years, just because in the last 2 weeks and only after a terrorist insurrection does he “talk” about opposing Trump doesn’t mean he does. I’ll believe it when 2 things happen, 1) he votes to convict in the impeachment trial, and 2) he’s as vocal about every Senator who continues to support Trump for the remainder of his 6 years as a Senator.
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He’s already bound to McConnell with what where they? Oh yes, “cords of steel”.
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JHFC, I hope this public announcement was not part of a “power-sharing” deal that Schumer offered McConnell. Effing Chuck, don’t give him squat!!
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You can be sure he’ll vote to acquit if that’s better for him going forward, or vote to convict if that’s better for him going forward. The best that can be said is that he doesn’t know which right now. His “waiting to hear the arguments” isn’t about the impeachment itself, but the arguments as to what’s better for the future situation of the R party and his now greatly diminished power.
He knows Trump did it and says as much. But he could vote to acquit for reasons, mostly likely that a president can’t be impeach after he leaves office. Yet, that’s a principle he’d toss or find an excuse to abandon if it’s a D president and it served his interests.
Right now, I suspect he thinks it’s better to convict, actually, to rid the party of the stench of Trump as soon as possible. Current polling indicates that’s an even trade, especially since it looks like the “militias” already quit and aren’t coming back to the Rs to buttress their voting bloc. But a vote to convict also makes his himself and other R senators culpable as well, so who knows?
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