more information coming out that in fact t-rump created a horrible and dangerous situation in order to promote and secure his cult member Republicans to acquit him . . .

Vote them out!

and trump saying to mc c 'admit nothing].

Saw on MSNBC this morning a former McConnell staffter wryly saying, [as I remember], 'these negotiations are in the discussion stage.
This process has more to play out.'

[In the meantime, the Speaker seems to be allowing trump more time to screw up for the 'cons, evidence to build, and trump's support continue to weaken].

of Impeachment. She's playing this for November.

No "exoneration" to brag about.

Getting Trump stable and able to deliver it is one thing.

Where he goes off script is another. He might think it a campaign rally, and really trash Pelosi or anyone else.

SOTU could prove the point of unsuitability for office. Be a shame not to have Articles on the shelf.

He'll spend half the time directly attacking the Democrats in Congress, the other half bragging about economic gains that happened in spite of him.

It will be cringe-worthy, no doubt. I don't like to feel Schadenfreude, but I think it will be unavoidable.

Let them squirm as long as possible. Their strategy is to quickly put an end to the whole impeachment business. The longer Speaker Pelosi holds out, the more difficult it becomes as 1) More information about Trumps corruption comes out 2) Trump commits more impeachable acts 3) support for impeachment continues to rise.

Maybe I heard wrong?

so assume if they do transmit next week, it might not be until the end of the week. And based on the House schedule, the week after next (week of 1/20/20) they will be off the whole week (MLK birthday is a federal holiday on 1/20/19) and I'll assume the Senate will be off that week as well. So that's 2 weeks "down".

That leaves one week left in January and the SOTU is scheduled for 2/4/20 I believe (1st week of February). So just based on these events and the congressional schedules, it could be that they will force the Senate to not really "start" until after the SOTU (meaning no "rah rah I'm exonerated by the Senate" stuff during the SOTU).

Some nuance -

The nuance being (outside of the ridiculous simplistic media headlines and characterization by assuming that something like that would instantly get transmitted Monday) that there would be a process needed to draft "the resolution" in the Judiciary Committee and then have all the amendments and debate and whatnot happen - where the GOP will once more make moves to scuttle the thing but would also most likely need to appoint people from "their side", and then have the final markup get voted out of that Committee... afterwhich it will need to go to the Rules Committee to have the companion legislation drafted on how the Articles Transmission Resolution will be debated (amendments/amount of time for debate, etc), and then finally it'll hit the House floor for a final debate by the full House and a vote.

So if they do vote on the final resolution, that would most likely happen Thursday and I expect they'll be off on Friday ahead of the long weekend and "district work period" that following week (so it'll get sent over when "no one", other than the local reps, is left in D.C. ).

I am fully on board with Pelosi, whatever course she takes.