McConnell blasts impeachment, says Senate ensures stability

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LAURIE KELLMAN and ZEKE MILLER

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Senate Republican is denouncing the “unfair” House impeachment of President Donald Trump and reassuring Trump and his supporters that “moments like this are why the United States Senate exists.”

Sen. Mitch McConnell, in remarks prepared for a Thursday floor speech, accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being afraid to send “their shoddy work product to the Senate” after she threw uncertainty into the impeachment process by refusing to say when she would send two impeachment articles to the Senate for a trial.

A trial in the Republican-controlled Senate would almost certainly result in Trump being acquitted of the charges.

McConnell described Trump’s impeachment as “the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.”



Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., flanked by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., left, and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., speaks reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on two charges, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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[Marthe48]

1. stfu

mitch. You lying hypocritical self-serving slimebag pos.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. He's gonna bitch no matter how it's handled

[cstanleytech]

18. Well he has plenty of bitch experience due to being Putin's willing one.

[rainy]

3. I just muted Mitch. I can't take listening to him lie. Who will talk after him and what is this?

Normal business day? Why isn't he taking up the over 400 bipartisan bills on his desk?

[Botany]

4. 2 words Mitch, Merrick Garland

Link to tweet

[keithbvadu2]

5. that "moments like this are why the United States Senate exists."

that “moments like this are why the United States Senate exists.”

The founding fathers did not anticipate Putin or Moscow Mitch.

[Guilded Lilly]

6. Stay the course, Madam Speaker, the unprincipled weasels are squirming. N/T

[yaesu]

7. when mcturtle speaks, nobody listens. nt

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Wait until the nation learns why Oleg Deripaska and the oligarchs luv Mitch.

https://time.com/5651345/rusal-investment-braidy-kentucky/

Dmitry Firtash luvs Moscow Mitch and Trumputin, too.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/17/lev-parnas-recieved-1m-from-embattled-ukrainian-oligarch-dmitry-firtash/

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. Good reminder. And don't forget Mitch's wife: Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/mitch-mcconnell-elaine-chao-kentucky

https://www.vox.com/2019/6/11/18659681/elaine-chao-mitch-mcconnell-transportation-secretary-trump-pruitt-zinke-price

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/elaine-chao-china-trip-foremost

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[bucolic_frolic]

9. With McConnell it's all about what he considers "privilege"

Mitch thinks Mitch has the right to plan Obama's exit from before Obama took office, but Democrats have no right to exercise their Impeachment powers.

Mitch thinks Mitch has the right to choose Supreme Court justices and to hell with custom and norms.

Mitch thinks Mitch can determine all federal judges because of who he is and where he sits.

Democrats have to crack "privilege", and whatever its origins. I have no idea where it comes from. Whiskey and Prohibition? Stokes Monkey Trial? Radical Fundamentalism?

[llmart]

10. Come on Kentucky.

Can you not rid our nation of this scourge?

He took an oath to uphold the Constitution and then shits all over it. He thinks he's judge, jury and executioner all by himself.

[Bayard]

17. We're trying

He is hated here too. But he has tons of money. Hoping the Dems get solidly behind Amy McGrath.

[llmart]

22. We all need to be pumping money into her campaign.

I want him gone almost more than the Dump. He's just as evil.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. McConnell-Putin-Trump agree wholeheartedly

THAT's the story. GOP Senate is inside out, beholden for some reason to an adversarial foreign leader.

[turbinetree]

12. When I could stomach 3 minutes of listening to what #Moscow Mitch was saying

I thought I was watching a repeat of Doug Collins show from yesterday ....................same fucking play book....................hey #Moscow Mitch................since you think Madam Speaker Pelosi and her committee chairs rushed the process without supporting evidence, did you by some strange chance see this exchange...........................did your hear the word "yes"......................

[bluestarone]

13. FUCK moscow mitch

I say start the THIRD and FOURTH articles NOW! GO Nancy GO!!!

[BlueIdaho]

14. Yeah...

Pull my other leg while you’re at it.

[DeminPennswoods]

16. This just shows McConnell's already feeling the heat not even 24 hrs later

He's trying to "shame" or pressure Dems into sending over the articles so he can get on with his preferred sham trial. Pelosi's not falling for it, though.

Schumer inviting Trump to pick up the phone and call McConnell was brilliant. You know Trump's gonna do it as sure as the sun comes up in the morning. You just know Trump's going to harrange McConnell about why he can't get "a deal" done. No amount of McConnell explaining is going to change the way Trump feels either.

[olegramps]

19. This a sad day for our nation. I take no delight in the president facing condemnation.

Trump was given an opportunity that very few have been blessed with in their life. The opportunity to provide leadership to better the lives of millions during a period of fundamental economic changes. This is not limited to the leadership that his fellow citizens look to the presidency that to puts the welfare of the citizens as paramount, but for millions who rely on our nation for guidance and inspiration. Rather than following the lead of his party’s most inspiring patriot who led the nation in its most perilous times "to bind up the nation's wounds" in the aftermath of the Civil War, Trump has chosen to sow hatred and division as his favorite weapon to desperately hold on to the power he craves.

It is not as if the citizens were not forewarned. Several members of his adopted party loudly proclaimed that he was not a suitable to lead the nation. It was glowingly evident that he had some serious flaws of character long before he captured the nomination of the Republican Party as their choice to seek the highest office in the land. Flaws that would have in more noble times have excluded him from ever being considered of worthy of their endorsement. However, the present upheaval of globalization, mass immigration of desperate people brought on by failed governments and increasing automation provided fertile ground for demagogues. The situation has many similarities to that during the post World War I environment that led to the citizens’ acceptance of what would in the end result in disastrous consequences for Germany and Italy.

It is plain for all who have eyes to see that Trump’s quest for power is insatiable. He has absolute disregard for democracy and its innate demand for transparency and collegial cooperation that put the nation’ welfare as paramount. Our democratic allies are not cherished, encouraged and supported but have come under scathing attacks is in sharp contrast to his embracement of the most vicious dictators who are accorded the highest regard. This charge is glaringly substantiated in which todays' crop of dictators return the compliment and provide him with the support of their bloody regimes. There is no doubt that if he had been given the opportunity and his admiration for unscrupulous evilness, he would have gladly got in bed with the likes of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

[Ingersollman]

24. Very

well put. It is a sad day for our nation. But it is a good day to be a patriot. The courageous Democrats in the House of Representatives stood tall in defending our Constitution, and by extension every one of us, from the predations of the thing in the White House.

[forgotmylogin]

21. Try passing some legislation, Mitch, you turtle shit.

[Ingersollman]

23. POS

I hope he gets voted out of the Senate.

[Retrograde]

25. Ensures stasis, more like it

In Moscow Mitch's case, it ensures petrification

[Faux pas]

26. Oh please

moscow mcturtle