How Long Can Nancy Pelosi Hold Back These Articles of Impeachment? Longer Than You Think

[applegrove]

How Long Can Nancy Pelosi Hold Back These Articles of Impeachment? Longer Than You Think

CANNY

Eleanor Clift at the Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-long-can-nancy-pelosi-can-hold-back-these-articles-of-impeachment-longer-than-you-think?ref=home

"SNIP......


After what Republicans like to characterize as a rush to impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now getting grief from the GOP for slowing down the process. It’s driving President Trump and his allies a bit batty trying to figure out what she’s up to by holding back the articles of impeachment. 

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Democrats would like the Senate to pass the USMCA trade agreement, and maybe even vote on a House-passed prescription cost containment bill before a Senate trial gets underway. Holding onto the articles is the only leverage Pelosi has on McConnell, who says he won’t take up USMCA until after any impeachment trial. 

“This is working beautifully for her, and for the country,” says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. “In the weeks since the House voted for Impeachment, there have been more damning emails, and there’s no reason to believe we have seen the end of it.” 

Delaying the trial allows more evidence of wrongdoing by the president and his allies to surface and potentially sway public opinion and perhaps even some Senate Republicans. 

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[tableturner]

1. She can wait as long as necessary, just like the govt. shutdown, the public will back HER!

She will eventually get the four GOP votes necessary to approve the calling of witnesses. It all depends on the public, and 70% of them ALREADY want witnesses. It will only get worse.

[George II]

6. That was going to be my answer - as long as she wants. She's holding all the cards....

....and for each day she waits he gets crazier and crazier.

[forgotmylogin]

22. Nancy actually knows how to leverage a deal.

She makes an offer McConnell won't agree to. I45 wants trial done, so Pelosi can point to McConnell as the holdup. Trump likes simple solutions so he may lean on the Senate majority leader. And we shall laugh and laugh when the turtle shell breaks.

[DownriverDem]

16. The State of the Union Speech

Pelosi invited trump to give the speech in early January. I can see him going off the rails about impeachment and the Dems.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

20. This SOTU is going to be one for the record books.

I expect it to exceed an hour in length, with IMPOTUS raging about hoax investigations, do-nothing Democrats, sham impeachment and how he really hasn't been impeached, the stock market, the Wall, hoax investigations, Deep State, hoax investigations, perfect telephone calls, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, hoax investigations, etc. For the Congress, it will like being trapped in a Trump rally. For those of you at home, make sure you have two bags of popcorn.

"Hey kids -- want to watch a guy have a nervous breakdown on television?"

[sprinkleeninow]

29. The ungluing of the wannabe emperor 🍄 on nationwide teevee.

💃🎶🕺🎉🤸?♀️🤸?♂️🥂

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

19. February 4th, 2020

[Phoenix61]

2. Wonder how many folks are going to

decide after spending time with their family for the holidays the realize how much they have missed them and have decided to resign so they can return home.

[Martin Eden]

3. Don't let the Republican Senate "exonerate" Trump before he delivers his SOTU on Feb 5

Meanwhile, keep turning up the heat on McConnell to conduct a fair trial -- while more damning evidence surfaces.

[Tiggeroshii]

4. No secret vote, no sending to senate

Imho

[cstanleytech]

5. Moscow Mitch made a serious blunder when he came out

saying he was not going to uphold his oath of office but rather he was going to act as one of Trump's defense attorneys.
That alone gave Pelosi all the reason she needed to withhold submitting the impeachment to the Senate for trial right away.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread applegrove.

[applegrove]

10. Bonne annee a tous Oncle Joe.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Happy New Year!

[DallasNE]

8. July Would Be Perfect

Right after the Supreme Court decision and right before the Republican convention.

[safeinOhio]

9. I don't think should it any longer

that Mitch held up a SC nomination.

[applegrove]

13. Or held up Merrick Garland.

[James48]

23. Bingo!

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Donald Trump, if you're listening, Nancy will release the Articles of your Impeachment

after you release your tax returns, the babies your administration is holding in cages, and the full unredacted Mueller Report.

Until then, you know what you can do with it.

[FailureToCommunicate]

21. +1!

[empedocles]

14. The Speaker has a very clear view of her options.

[StarfishSaver]

24. And she is aware of many more options we haven't even thought of

[empedocles]

30. Yes. She also has a tracking board of state AG's, int'l intelligence, etc., etc.

[dalton99a]

15. She can wait as long as she damn well pleases.

The motherfucker is already impeached.

[Shoonra]

17. Presumably the Senate cannot act until the House makes a formal presentation of the Articles ....

... But the text of the Articles - as well as a 600 page book detailing the evidence and accusations - are already available to the public, senators included.

It seems to me that, while waiting for the formality of a House presentation, the entire Senate can read up and prepare every argument for the actual trial.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Haha, that's funny!

You think Republican Senators are going to read? LOL

They're too privileged, reading is beneath them.

[Volaris]

26. Lol ya that's what interns are for!

[Azathoth]

25. She can hold back until Moscow Mitch decides to exercise the Senate's constitutional power

Right now, McConnell seems to think it benefits Republicans to let Pelosi keep this whole thing in limbo.

The instant he decides otherwise, that limbo ends.

[underthematrix]

27. She's waiting on the SCOTUS rulling on #TraitorTrump's

claim of absolute immunity for himself and all those in the executive branch. I believe they will hear the case around March 20.

[FBaggins]

31. They expect to rule on that in June

It's highly unlikely that Pelosi will be able to hold out that long.

[sprinkleeninow]

28. "...driving dump and his allies a bit batty...."

Correction: More like extreme battiness than they pathologically and organically are to start off with.