They'll kill this. Trump killing the Iranian General worked because it persuaded a couple Senators not to oppose him. Sickening.

and will vote for witnesses after the Republicans have completed their whitewash and cover-up for Mr Trump.

Regardless of how they vote, Donald Trump has been impeached.

We do not know Pelosi's strategy going forward? Will she continue to hold the Articles for a few days more?

but not weeks.

As much as the rules were always going to be against the Dems, I think Speaker Pelosi understood that and has already game planned for this scenario.

bastard, this is not going to sit well with those of us who are paying attention.

Damn them the party of tRump.

He's using that power to do the job they elected him to.

Not everyone agrees he's the worst thing to happen to congress since the Civil War. Sanders' wife even tweeted to all on election day that it didn't matter who they voted for, just vote. The choices were Trump/Republicans or us.

And we know what that collective wisdom has wrought.

now the question will become how much time will be allotted for each side to argue their case. I kind of remember hearing or reading that during the Clinton Impeachment, 15 hours we allotted. Not sure though.

i.e. say that they will hold on sending the impeachment to the Senate because "Wait, there's more!"?

she does not have a guarantee of witnesses up front.

But it will be interesting to see what the Speaker does next if this happens.

personally, I'm not totally sure any motion to acquit after the opening arguments will pass. I still think that some of the at risk Republicans don't want to go into a re-election campaign with this hanging over their head.

They need at least the appearance of a fair trial. Schumer plans to request witnesses and documents. The Rs will have to vote each request down seperately.

Yesterday on her show, Nicolle Wallace said she was looking a very recent polling and "impeach and remove" was now at 56%. IIRC, she also said hearing from witnesses has 71% approval - that must include a good chunk of Rs.

the only way for McConnell to give any semblence of fairness is to have the opening arguments, vote for dismissal (and I apologize for saying acquital earlier, meant to say dismissal) then go from there.

He has to count on the fact that the incumbants (including himself) will be able to withstand the backlash.

dismiss the charges. McConnell will lose his majority - the ONLY thing he really cares about - if he does that.

passing a rule that doesn't allow for argument - total lack of any appearance of fairness

passing a rule that allows for limited argument - gives the appearance of fairness at the risk of evidence showing the impeachable offenses

passing a rule that allows for witnesses - guarantee of impeachable offenses being committed by the President.

They are grifting a fortune from her being Secretary of Transportation. Her family is in the shipping business.

They can say, "oh yeah? Watch me do just that!"

They can dismiss everything, call zero witnesses, say, "what's done is done, nobody cares except libbruls anyhow," and act like nothing ever happened. Fox and Frauds will act like nothing ever happened. Trump will say he's been exonerated because he was never removed from office, and except for MSNBC, the whole thing will become a media non-event.

Don't think Moscow Mitch won't do it? He doesn't care about any appearances at all. Just ask Merrick Garland.

My understanding is that she won’t send the articles and name the managers unless the rules are fair.

show trial so turning up only gives it legitimacy.

fuck the republicans...

Then Democrats can get serious about taking back the Senate and defeating a few of these fake Republican allies.

he is willing to testify in front of the Senate knowing that McConnell and friends won't call him to testify, so it's easy for him to say that. Bolton is in on it too. They are all a bunch of rat bastards.

Never a doubt! Dangling the game in front of us for weeks is their sadistic pleasure.

those pointy white hoods really make a person stand out.

Not one of them deserves re-election and all part of the problem.
NOTHING will ever get better in this country until the GOP* is gone.

take six years to accomplish it, but we need to start in 2020.

... A GOP*-free government begins with one vote.

...America would be a much better country without Republicans. That's only my opinion.

...

live with themselves.

What more can anyone ask for?

the party of tRump must go. And if I hear one of bastards mention they have to get on to the Peoples' business I will do this

Then more tax cuts will come for the rich. Or never mind there's a war on the horizon.

congress was recessed, new evidence against Trump-Ukraine has come out, a court decision results in Bolton declaring himself able and willing to testify, and Trump has committed war crimes, is possibly starting a war, and is promising more war crimes.

What would be the political advantage to the Democratic Party of not giving him more time to make it increasingly blatantly revelatory -- before all America -- for the Republicans to protect him?

I don't know what Pelosi and team know, but I won't be surprised if they wait (noting they can't stop Trump's actions as president) while they tighten what rope they have around the senate's neck.

Fwiw, yesterday Republican senator Hawley introduced a resolution requiring us to provide the articles within 25 days. He had 10 cosigners when I read about it. Of course, the only one who matters these days is McConnell.

John Bolton will not be subpoenaed by the Senate. He needs to tell the public what he knows now. And where is General Mattis after this assassination? He, too, should be willing to come forward and share what he knows about Trump’s craziness. When good people do nothing, they’re enabling the bad guys, and Trump is one of the worst. How can you be patriotic and watch someone destroy your democratic form of government as Trump and Republicans are doing? I honestly think that Republicans have latched onto Trump because they’ve lost some gerrymandering cases and he is a way to fulfill Karl Rove’s dream of a permanent Republican government with Democrats always a minority party. They’ll be cheating as never before this November and with the help of Putin’s hackers, they may keep Trump going another four—or more—years, because we won’t have a federal government left by then.

Do NOT send the articles into this corruption, for any reason.

is Putin's must be elated that he is taking down the American government down through his puppet.

There's going to be protests coming. Many of us will not go down without a fight.

or souls. They wouldn't need both hands for that.

Public opinion will move further against them, and patriots will work 10 times harder. By Election Day 2020, 2018 will look like a squeaker.

Watch out Wednesday, incoming.