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leftieNanner

(15,115 posts)
2. I think it needs to be that many
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:50 PM
Jan 2020

Just because it would make the targeting more difficult for The Orange One. If we only just barely got over the threshold with four, it would be much easier for Mango Menace to be vindictive on the twitter machine.

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
3. When the wind blows the cradle will rock
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:52 PM
Jan 2020

When the bow breaks, the cradle will fall, and down will go baby.
Putin and all.

at140

(6,110 posts)
4. I thought we need 20 to remove tRump?
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 09:01 PM
Jan 2020

But it sure looks like there are enough to call Bolton as witness to spill the beans.

Botany

(70,516 posts)
7. Yes, but if the witnesses and evidence are solid with proof of Trump's crimes then just maybe ....
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 09:12 PM
Jan 2020

... enough senators will vote to remove him from office. Besides all this Ukraine stuff goes back to
Russia 2015/2016 too and Trump might be just too hot to hug for the GOP. Still a skinny chance but
it is better than no chance.

The Rude Pundit has summed it all up very nicely.

"And, frankly, Republicans are more obsessed with 2016 now than Democrats are because they know, they fucking know, that Trump's victory is illegitimate and they have to do everything in their power to not let that fact become viral."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212904164

at140

(6,110 posts)
9. I have 5 solid votes lined up in Florida
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 09:18 PM
Jan 2020

to vote the bastard out in November, regardless of what happens in senate trial.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
11. Maybe this is just the push needed to make GOP senators
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 11:56 PM
Jan 2020

feel like they're not alone if they decide to go all the way to conviction.

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