Dem Fantasy Fades. Senate GOP Won’t Rescue Them on Impeachments

[DennisTate]

This is what I suspected.

The Senate will not back up the Democrats on this utterly silly act but at least this is good news because this will almost certainly give President Trump a massive majority in November but perhaps more importantly........

... Americans will be praying and repenting at the sad state of affairs that America is in at this time that Congress could do such an obviously biased sham of an impeachment trial.



Dem Fantasy Fades. Senate GOP Won’t Rescue Them on Impeachments

The historic impeachment vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday has become a foregone conclusion: all but a few Democrats, most likely joined by zero Republicans, will vote to impeach President Trump.

For a time, House Democrats had hoped that the vote in the GOP-controlled Senate would not be a foregone conclusion in the president’s favor. There was some optimism that moderate Republicans might vote to convict Trump after a trial—perhaps not in the numbers required to remove him, but at least enough to render him a damaging, bipartisan judgment.

But those hopes took a hit in the past week, and now those same Democrats are figuring out ways to cope with a cold, bitter January of disappointment.

As recently as last week, some House Democrats were still theorizing how the GOP majority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), could be pressured by moderate members of his conference to conduct a longer trial in the Senate, opening up the possibility of new, game-changing documents and testimony.

But as the Senate begins preparing in earnest for a January impeachment trial, the hope has collapsed among Democrats as the president, McConnell, and other key Republicans have coalesced around the idea of a short trial that would feature no new witnesses. Not only that, the GOP leader has dismissed the notion that senators are impartial jurors, calling the trial a “political process,” and openly talking about coordinating the chamber’s proceedings with the White House.

For the House Democrats who have led the impeachment investigation for months, it’s been a deflating, albeit predictable, turn of events as they slowly realize the impeachment trial is increasingly unlikely to yield any kind of surprises or 11th-hour bombshells.

In preparation for the disappointment, some top Democratic lawmakers are already downplaying the role the Senate will play. “At the end of the day, the most important jury will not be Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and the Republican-controlled Senate, but it will be the American people,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the fourth-ranking House Democrat.

 

[Ricky M]

Red or blue the cool aid is poisoned.

 

[paul1149]

Americans will be praying and repenting at the sad state of affairs that America is in at this time that Congress could do such an obviously biased sham of an impeachment trial.

This partisan vote is going to prove as popular as obamacare.

 

[creslaw]

This shampeachment will probably give Trump the boost he needs to win in 2020.

 

[thecolorsblend]

At the end of the day, the most important jury will not be Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and the Republican-controlled Senate, but it will be the American people

If the House had stopped short of full impeachment and merely censured the President a few weeks ago, that would probably be true. And President Trump probably wouldn't have liked the outcome of that. That is what the Democrats would have done if they truly thought President Trump was beatable in 2020. Why impeach someone whom you sincerely believe won't be in office much longer?

To a lot of people, impeachment only makes sense because Democrats suspect there's no way to win in 2020.

But public opinion is turning more and more against impeachment all the time. Moderate Democrats were sent to Washington in 2018 to get things accomplished. Impeachment is a betrayal of those constituents. Whether or not this genuinely is political theater, it looks like political theater. The Democrats will pay a price for this in November.

 

[DennisTate]

Red or blue the cool aid is poisoned.

True.... and rumour has it that G. H. W. Bush was dealt with for his cooperation with stuff that he should have fought against with his whole heart.

This partisan vote is going to prove as popular as obamacare.

Yes...... but I am thinking that Americans are going to begin to become more informed of certain events from their history and how they relate to what can be accomplished over the next two decades.

At this time I would guess that less than five percent of Americans know about how President Lincoln saved American taxpayers over four billion dollars in interest payments:

"In 1972, the United States Treasury Department was asked to compute the amount of interest that would have been paid if that 400 million dollars would have been borrowed at interest instead of being issued by Abraham Lincoln. They did some computations, and a few weeks later, the United States Treasury Department said the United States Government saved 4 billion dollars in interest because Lincoln had created his own money. So you can about imagine how much the Government has paid and how much we owe solely on the basis of interest." (Melvin Sickler, Lincoln, Kennedy)

I would guess that less than one percent of Americans catch onto the connection between this historical fact and a prediction made by Pastor David Wilkerson in 1973:

"There will be a sudden rush to buy farms, ranches, and homes in the country.

Thousands will attempt to flee from cities, hoping that a return to the land and

nature will provide security. There will be a growing urge to "get away from it

all"---and much money will be invested in land and acreage in rural areas by

people who have secret dreams of raising their own food and cattle and of

becoming self-supporting. The price of open rural land will continue to soar.

Acreage within 100 miles of most major cities will skyrocket out of reach to

all but syndicates." (David Wilkerson, The Vision, page 18,19).

Here is how I would explain a possible connection. If you wade through this many of you will be shocked and because the Canadian economy is so tiny in comparison to the USA it is easier to cut through the confusion and get to the heart of the matter:

Could a Basic Minimum Income for all Americans decrease abortions?

 

[DennisTate]

If the House had stopped short of full impeachment and merely censured the President a few weeks ago, that would probably be true. And President Trump probably wouldn't have liked the outcome of that. That is what the Democrats would have done if they truly thought President Trump was beatable in 2020. Why impeach someone whom you sincerely believe won't be in office much longer?

To a lot of people, impeachment only makes sense because Democrats suspect there's no way to win in 2020.

But public opinion is turning more and more against impeachment all the time. Moderate Democrats were sent to Washington in 2018 to get things accomplished. Impeachment is a betrayal of those constituents. Whether or not this genuinely is political theater, it looks like political theater. The Democrats will pay a price for this in November.

This is a BRILLIANT ANALYSIS of why they probably did what they did! I have to admit that I was really scratching my head wondering what in the world they were thinking?????

I so thank you for this!!!!!!!

I turned your comment into a whole new discussion:

Why would the Dems Impeach?