McConnell Tells GOP Senators There Aren’t Enough Votes To Block Witnesses Yet

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told his GOP caucus on Tuesday that he doesn’t have the votes needed to block witnesses from the impeachment trial at the moment, according to multiple reports.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1287621

Bill Barr will have to make a few calls concerning various Senator’s taxes, maids, overseas investments, campaign committee finance audit results, etc. I’m sure this can all be explained in short order. Or else.

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Everyone just accepts that of course the Senate Majority Leader is endeavoring to prevent the complete truth about the President’s conduct from being known to the public. It’s not odd at all. On what planet would it be done any differently?

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News like this does give me a little bit of hope. Not much hope, but a little nonetheless.

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…Yet…

This is just delicious .
Moscow Mitch you disgusting piece of shit.
The chickens have come home to roost
You thought you could bamboozle your way to a quick acquittal, and now Oh My! Yer Fucked

No witnesses: Popular sentiment against you Lose the Election

Witnesses: Popular sentiment against Trump , Guilty You Lose the Election

Such are deals with the Devil

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vote on witnesses is Friday… a lot can happen twixt now and then.

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perhaps a lot of others follow Bolton’s lead as they see the returns on supporting Trump diminishing rapidly

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The electorate has a short memory, and the attention span of a Labrador. Time and again inflicted wounds are predicted to be someone’s downfall, only to be forgotten at the polls months later. If some shitstorm doesn’t happen literally within hours of the vote it seemingly turns out to be much ado about nothing in most cases.

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McConnell Tells GOP Senators There Aren’t Enough Votes To Block Witnesses Yet

Translation: McConnell Tells GOP Senators He doesn’t have enough votes to complete the cover-up yet.

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I disagree on that
It’s a stain like the Swift Boat was to Kerry and Benghazi was to Hillary
The lizard brain will remember
Untrustworthy in every situation

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Ahhhh poor little Mitchy!

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I will believe it when I see it. There is still time for the spine graft to be rejected by its host.

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The Hand Wringing Contingent is a constant source of minor trouble for the craven GOP Senate Majority and Our Thin Skinned, Weak Bowel Commander in Chief.

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Don’t worry, they’re Republicans. They will fall in line.

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Unfortunately, these are all related to Democratic Derangement Syndrome. When has any GOPper ever had the same target painted on their backs as successfully as the two you mention.

And Labradors have a pretty good attention spans. Chickens on the other hand…

In other words, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

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14%20AM

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All of them, steviedee111, all of them.

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There’s been a lot of confusion on how to properly pronounce “Sekulow” … as a public service, I called the correct people and discovered that it rhymes with “self-loathing, incompetent douchewagon.”

You’re welcome.

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Politicians fear a primary challenger more than cancer or getting a phone call their child has been kidnapped.

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