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Mitch McConnell's rare blunderMitch McConnell is reportedly furiously trying to whip the votes necessary to avoid calling witnesses in the Senate's impeachment trial of President Trump.
This seems like a rare case where McConnell is making a politically substantive error.
Calling witnesses, after all, could be used to legitimize the GOP's acquittal vote, in the same way the cursory "investigation" of Brett Kavanaugh was used as a shield to justify his confirmation. Plowing through this farcical trial, on the other hand, gives Democrats a permanent argument against the trial's legitimacy and, more importantly, leaves the president and all elected Republicans vulnerable to damaging, election-eve revelations.
None of this has any bearing on how Republicans will vote. Like the film version of Titanic, everyone knows how the impeachment saga will conclude. The ship sinks. The president is acquitted. And as with the film, the real question is how the audience will react.
https://theweek.com/articles/892491/mitch-mcconnells-rare-blunder
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)We had the FBI investigation ... then confirmed Kavanaugh.
We had Bolton as a witness ... then. acquitted Trump.
This time there is not fig leaf.
OnDoutside
(19,952 posts)hammering the shite out of all Republicans running for Senate, with ads. Interestingly Rick Wilson believes that the big 2020 battleground will be TV ads.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)by Trump because he already spent $10 million for an EXONERATION ad to play on the Super Bowl on Sunday?
yardwork
(61,588 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,278 posts)Not Fox News, but Fox network.
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)By the way, Fox televised games always suck too, just like their FUX NEWZ.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)CBS, ABC or NBC likely wouldn't turn down a $10 million ad buy from the TrumpGOP - only Democratic/progressive causes are "controversial" and get spiked
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Wabbajack_
(1,300 posts)The trial drags on past the SOTU and Trump doesn't want that. And they don't want that cause he'd probably say some unhinged shit instead of what is put on his teleprompter.
OnDoutside
(19,952 posts)there's no knowing where it could lead to, and where it would end. That's been his biggest concern from the beginning.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)of tRump and the gop. Can't let voters see clearly what they have been up to, now can we? An informed electorate will vote (D) except for the truly lost souls who STILL cheer on the orange ass.
OnDoutside
(19,952 posts)killing this asap i.e. "Move along, nothing to see here". This is why I'm hoping that the Democrats can hammer the truth home with a sledgehammer.....The Republicans ran from witnesses because they knew Trump was as guilty as sin.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)And it's straight to the top of the RNC, with its own trickle-down effect touching on most, if not many, Republicans in the House and the Senate.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Look what Comey's letter did to Hillary.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Moscow Mitch and his minions have miscalculated.
They've let themselves be pulled into a catch-22 :: no witnesses plus MF45 acquittal spotlights fraudulent exoneration; witnesses allowed and the repukes lose control of the outcome to ensure acquittal of MF45.
Scenario 1 = they lose
Scenario 2 = they lose
bucolic_frolic
(43,124 posts)GOP Senators are choosing or are being pushed into voting for no witnesses so they can have campaign cash and no primary challengers. They think they are stronger that way.
But revelations of the truth will continue, weekly, daily, and the electorate other than their MAGA supporters will remain outraged.
Voter anger is what drives wave elections. Kick the bums out! is all you need to know.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)Give a shit.
My guess is, most still tuned in have already made up
Their minds too.
gab13by13
(21,299 posts)There will be no witnesses. Trump will be exonerated 53-47. Republicans will continue to suppress the vote, continue to remove millions from voter rolls, will continue election fraud, rigging voting machines.
With that said, we can still prevail if we overwhelm them at the ballot box. We can overwhelm their cheating. Vote, because our democracy is in grave peril.
The Wizard
(12,541 posts)Give the voter a reason to vote.
SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)Who's to say Vladimir Putin can't overwhelm our overwhelming votes? I think democracy is already dead, and this republican impeachment bullshit is merely the writing on the headstone.
Farmer-Rick
(10,154 posts)That's how Obama did it.
All this Impeachment theater does is give voters a reason to Not vote for Dumpy. Now, in the general we have to get voters excited and determined to vote no matter what.
But, this impeachment is also hurting RepubliCONS in their home states. The State can't be gerrymandered like districts. This is where excited and determined voters can really overturn the cheat machine's applecart.
LeftTurn3623
(628 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)McConnell sets in motion the death of the Constitution. It will die with an acquittal. GOPers don't care whether the Constitution dies, so they're all killing it to glorify their Dictator King, who is already declaring victory.