Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said told Republican senators late Tuesday that there are currently not enough GOP votes to block witnesses from being called in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, the Wall Street Journal reported. McConnell reportedly made the comment in a private meeting with Republican senators. There has been a new push to hear testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton in recent days, following a New York Times report Sunday that said his upcoming book details how Trump told him security aid to Ukraine should be blocked until Ukrainian officials agreed to investigate Democrats, including the Bidens -- potentially undermining a key part of Trump's defense.
In today's news - the cult broadcast channel shunned one of its own:
The John Bolton who worked in the Reagan administration probably never saw this coming.
According to Fox Business' Lou Dobbs, Bolton, who has never drifted from Republican politics in his 40-plus years in Washington, D.C., is now "a tool for the left." That's what a graphic on Dobbs' show declared Monday night, while a zany web connected Bolton to "foreign policy RINO" Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and former FBI Director James Comey.
I don't see why the GOP doesn't just agree to let the guy testify. Trying to stonewall on the issue only looks like obstruction and they trying to hide something.
Everyone knows what he is going to say anyway and won't make much of difference in the ultimate outcome. If he does testify, the GOP senators have a choice to (1) dismiss his testimony as grandstanding by a disgruntled former official to help sell his book or (2) accept the obvious that there was a quid pro quo but take the position that it doesn't rise to level of impeachable offense.
The “moderates” up for reelection are the ones who want the trial over as quickly as possible. The longer the trial, the more damaging attacks from Democrats. To the extent there’s any wobbliness it must come from senators who are either not up for reelection this year or in safe seats.
This is not counterintuitive or surprising at all. This is what we should expect. But it helps us better understand what is happening. And it should be instructive for Democrats running against these senators, and devising messaging against them, this year.
Cory Gardner — and seemingly all of the Big Six — are the ones demanding full support for the President’s cover-up. As a narrowly political, cynical calculation I think they are right to think this way. Because they are 100% committed to acquitting the President no matter what. Hearing more incriminating evidence or having the trial go on for one minute longer than necessary just makes that all the harder.
So every GOP senator cast the deciding vote "no" other than Romney and Collins, who were careful to come out for witnesses only after they already knew the vote count..
That should be useful in campaign ads.
(Might be time to start trying to fund senate races, right Mike Bloomberg & Tom Steyer?)
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Counterpoint: Bolton will
Counterpoint: Bolton will testify.
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Can I get a witness?
Can I get a witness?
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Breaking news! https://www
Breaking news! https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mcconnell-says-gop-lacks-votes-to-bloc...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said told Republican senators late Tuesday that there are currently not enough GOP votes to block witnesses from being called in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, the Wall Street Journal reported. McConnell reportedly made the comment in a private meeting with Republican senators. There has been a new push to hear testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton in recent days, following a New York Times report Sunday that said his upcoming book details how Trump told him security aid to Ukraine should be blocked until Ukrainian officials agreed to investigate Democrats, including the Bidens -- potentially undermining a key part of Trump's defense.
Also reported in WAPO: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/impeachment-trial-live-updates/2...
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Reverse jinx worked. Get out
Reverse jinx worked. Get out the popcorn
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I'll believe it when I see it
I'll believe it when I see it...
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Testify for what?
Testify for what?
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Complicit Mitch
Complicit Mitch
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Witch Hunt! Sad!
Witch Hunt!
Sad!
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I gotta see mick mulvaney
I gotta see mick mulvaney
I gotta see mick mulvaney
I gotta see mick mulvaney
I gotta see mick mulvaney
I gotta see mick mulvaney
I was taught more than a month ago...
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In today's news - the cult
In today's news - the cult broadcast channel shunned one of its own:
The John Bolton who worked in the Reagan administration probably never saw this coming.
According to Fox Business' Lou Dobbs, Bolton, who has never drifted from Republican politics in his 40-plus years in Washington, D.C., is now "a tool for the left." That's what a graphic on Dobbs' show declared Monday night, while a zany web connected Bolton to "foreign policy RINO" Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and former FBI Director James Comey.
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I don't see why the GOP doesn
I don't see why the GOP doesn't just agree to let the guy testify. Trying to stonewall on the issue only looks like obstruction and they trying to hide something.
Everyone knows what he is going to say anyway and won't make much of difference in the ultimate outcome. If he does testify, the GOP senators have a choice to (1) dismiss his testimony as grandstanding by a disgruntled former official to help sell his book or (2) accept the obvious that there was a quid pro quo but take the position that it doesn't rise to level of impeachable offense.
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>>> I don't see why the GOP doesn't just agree to let the guy testify <<<
I don't know why really smart people would vote for trump vs hillary?
Here we are
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>>>>>>I don't know why really
>>>>>>I don't know why really smart people would vote for trump vs hillary?
I heard a lot of them voted for Obama in 08 and 12.
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I only know 1 self-admitted
I only know 1 self-admitted Jill Stein voter.
thanks for that.
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Testimony
Testimony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egi8M3fndAg
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Bry won't see the truth
Bry won't see the truth
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(No subject)
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I heard he is a back stabber
I heard he is a back stabber
wat de do
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The “moderates” up for
The “moderates” up for reelection are the ones who want the trial over as quickly as possible. The longer the trial, the more damaging attacks from Democrats. To the extent there’s any wobbliness it must come from senators who are either not up for reelection this year or in safe seats.
This is not counterintuitive or surprising at all. This is what we should expect. But it helps us better understand what is happening. And it should be instructive for Democrats running against these senators, and devising messaging against them, this year.
Cory Gardner — and seemingly all of the Big Six — are the ones demanding full support for the President’s cover-up. As a narrowly political, cynical calculation I think they are right to think this way. Because they are 100% committed to acquitting the President no matter what. Hearing more incriminating evidence or having the trial go on for one minute longer than necessary just makes that all the harder.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-the-moderates-who-want-the-cove...
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>>>>No way they get four
>>>>No way they get four votes from the party of cover up.
We will have to call you . . .psychic.
No witnesses for you, but I am sure you can hear all about what Bolton has to say in his forthcoming book tour.
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Criminal behavior
Criminal behavior
embarrassing
let our people free
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and the vote to acquit will
and the vote to acquit will be a full blown constitutional crises. Interesting times
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Whack a mole to the first
Whack a mole to the first person to defend these people
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Wow just read this from Rubio
Wow just read this from Rubio
“Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office.”
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51-49.
51-49.
So every GOP senator cast the deciding vote "no" other than Romney and Collins, who were careful to come out for witnesses only after they already knew the vote count..
That should be useful in campaign ads.
(Might be time to start trying to fund senate races, right Mike Bloomberg & Tom Steyer?)
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Win win, right?
Win win, right?
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Donald could shoot someone on
Donald could shoot someone on 5th avenue and the Senate would acquit.
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1223343967552573441
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>>>>Donald could shoot
>>>>Donald could shoot someone on 5th avenue and the Senate would acquit.
Too many of you don't know this. But give your representatives another raise. They could do more with more.
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Blue Senate in our future.
Blue Senate in our future.
It all comes out in the end (except Lindsey Graham).
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Serious question-Is Marco
Serious question-Is Marco Rubio retarded?