Chuck Schumer Says Public Pressure Is Getting To McConnell

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump will do everything to prevent four people from joining us in our quest for witnesses and documents. But with powerful speeches like Schiff, with Republicans hearing the whole narrative and the whole story for the first time who knows what happens?

And then just one more, there’s a second point. How did we get the few changes? Pressure, public pressure matters. And Americans who saw this presentation not just liberals but moderates and even Republicans have been moved by it. And that puts pressure on some of these Republicans. When McConnell did his resolution, the public pressure to have a fair trial and a fair resolution was so strong, that he had to make a few changes. He had to give us three days, the managers three days instead of two. He had to submit the house record of evidence. That didn’t happen because McConnell wanted to. He was pressured.....

To read more:

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/01/22/schumer-mcconnell-public-pressure.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Maybe

We'll see

[guillaumeb]

2. Agreed.

I am not at all certain that McConnell cares too much, but if he is defeated in November and Democrats control the House and the Senate, much will change.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. I want this to happen so badly

only next to seeing Trump lose as well.

[malaise]

3. We have a proverb here

Pressha does buss pipe (pressure bursts pipes)! Will MoscowMitch's pipe burst?

[guillaumeb]

8. We can hope.

We can truly hope.

[pangaia]

34. maybe his carotid artery

[malaise]

37. I was trying hard to be nice and subtle

[pangaia]

38. Not me !!!

[pennylane100]

43. It is OK. Good behavior is not mandatory (or even expected) when dealing with republicans.

[gratuitous]

4. I'd like to believe that's true

But then again, I didn't think McConnell would be able to hold up the Garland nomination for an entire year, that he'd eventually crack under the pressure to act. Well, the pressure never really came and McConnell held firm. Then Needy Amin was declared the winner of the 2016 election, and McConnell's gambit paid off bigly.

The pressure this time around is being brought, and good job citizens! Will McConnell crack? Couldn't tell you. But my long-distance reading of him makes me think of nothing so much as Slim Pickens as Major Kong riding that nuclear bomb right down to the ground at the end of Dr. Strangelove. McConnell may feel like he's strapped in, plummeting towards earth, and the only thing to do is wave his hat and yell "Yahoo!"

[guillaumeb]

9. The Garland affair was confusing for many, I feel.

But in the Ukraine matter, the Democrats have done a superb job, as polling shows.

[gratuitous]

12. It was confusing by design

But I think there was also a feeling that Clinton was going to beat Trump in the general, so if McConnell held up the Garland nomination in 2016, he'd just be back in 2017. A grave, but understandable, miscalculation.

Democrats don't seem to be leaving much room for error this time around. I've been impressed by their good work, resolve, and sustained effort. My gauge is that it's been effective because of the handful of news reports fretting that the Democrats are in danger of making too effective a presentation. (Yeah, it's a moronic argument, but apparently all some reporters have to work with.)

[guillaumeb]

13. An excellent point re 2016.

And yes, in spite of the US media, the public polling shows that the GOP is losing this fight.

[Hortensis]

5. Love to hear it. I'll tell my husband to call our senators again.

Contacting them's normally his job, except when I haul out my "patriotic" red, white, and blue stationary to send them a note. They're both Repub betrayers.

[irisblue]

7. [phone]. Senate Switchboard-- #. Call often Citizens

[BigmanPigman]

30. And call the House Managers to say Thank You!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/11002113

This link has their phone numbers in DC.

Call the Senate...it takes literally less than 5 minutes. I called 41 of them on Tues and it took little time. I finished them yesterday (I pretend I am a constituent and leave a message about insulting my intelligence by not allowing me to hear witnesses).

Keep calling since their mailboxes aren't full...why aren't people calling like they did during the ACA vote?!?

[Doremus]

10. I've been trying to reach my repuke senator Rob Portman all day

I sit through a canned message in his voice how he's working so hard for Ohioans and please leave a message. Calls placed earlier this afternoon had no 'beep' to signal the start of the message. I just tried again and this time I got the beep but I had no sooner identified myself than the message cut in and thanked me for calling and hung up.



I hate him and all his slimy friends.

[guillaumeb]

11. Are you close to his local office in Ohio?

We have visited Durbin's office in Chicago a few times.

If you can go, and the best is with a group, contact local media outlets and put it on social media.

Here is a link to his 11 local offices:

https://www.robportman.com/contact_us

[Doremus]

15. I'm at work but thanks for the info. nt

[irisblue]

26. Portman DC office # Portman DC office--1 202-224-3353

Nice lady yesterday & today took messages.

I am underwhelmed by the instate offices.

[irisblue]

27. Portman had Columbus PD dump wheelchair users out of them & arrest in '17

Source--https://www.10tv.com/article/columbus-police-release-body-cam-video-sen-portman-protest




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PUBLISHED: 07/12/17 10:17 PM EDTUPDATED: 08/14/17 03:45 PM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio
What was supposed to be a quiet demonstration, escalated to officers ordering protestors to leave the Huntington Plaza where Senator Rob Portman operates an office.

Wednesday, Columbus police released officer body camera video showing portions of the ordeal.

"It just went from what I think of as a peaceful protest to there were lots of police and a lot of pushing and a lot of shoving," said Dr. Julie Williams, who is a professor in Dayton and attended Friday's event.

Williams has a form of dwarfism and lives with significant hearing loss."


More at source.

That was awful to do to prople in wheelchairs

[guillaumeb]

31. Was there media coverage?

That generally helps, in my experience.

[irisblue]

36. Oh hell yes. Dumping ppl out of their power chairs is a BFD

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a56204/protester-pushed-out-of-wheelchair/


https://www.10tv.com/article/columbus-police-release-body-cam-video-sen-portman-protest


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rob-portman-protest-arrests_n_595fedcfe4b0615b9e919250


https://www.10tv.com/article/police-16-arrested-during-protest-outside-sen-portmans-office-columbus


https://radio.wosu.org/post/disability-rights-protesters-arrested-portmans-office-columbus


NationalADAPT (@NationalADAPT) Tweeted:
He had them sent to jail without their wheelchairs clearly Senator Portman doesn't care! #ADAPTandRESIST https://t.co/PkYgXzVJro

Link to tweet

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Portman & some of his staffers are dirt bags

[nature-lover]

28. I always call the most remote office location for mine. Looks rural.

[BigmanPigman]

33. I got through to his machine yesterday.I called 53 GOP senators and a few had a whole 12 seconds

to leave a message. I called back three times before my rant was able to fit in the allotted time limit. About 4 senators wouldn't even allow you the option of leaving a message after working hours (when the trial is going on...figures).

[wryter2000]

14. I'm having a hard time

Believing Republican Senators are hearing this information for the first time. Have they been on Mars? The hearings in the House went on for days.

Granted, people like Marsha Blackburn could be clueless, but the rest needed to know this stuff.

[guillaumeb]

16. These GOP Senators are, once again, lying.

They know what Trump is like.

[Wellstone ruled]

17. And we know the Rethug

defense strategy will be 100% attacking Biden's Son. That is a given,and they will start by having their Boys Hannity and Plucker Carlson start off the smear campaign.

It is going to be ugly and loud.

[guillaumeb]

18. And the GOP goal will be, has to be, to divert from what Trump did. eom

[Wellstone ruled]

24. Leningrad Lindsey and

Marsha Blackburn were the test these themes out and watch for responses. Similar to what was done after Speaker Pelosi announced the final Impeachment vote,the usual gang of Stupids did their best Stand up interviews testing future talking points.

[jalan48]

19. I had high hopes for Mueller so I'm cynically optimistic.

[guillaumeb]

20. The problem with the Mueller Report, in my view,

is that it was far too complex and that made it hard to present.

Plus, we cannot underestimate the role of a totally corrupt AG to confuse and lie to the voters.

[Takket]

21. i don't think he cares about anyone but his beloved drumpf

someone said here yesterday that he just made all these ridiculous rules so he can look like he's being reasonable by "throwing Dems a bone" on stuff like giving the managers 3 days instead of 2.

[PufPuf23]

22. McConnell and the Trump GOP are warring 0n the continance of Democracy except as a facade.

Hope Schumer is correct. (I am not seeing it from my limited perspective.

[guillaumeb]

23. The appearance of representative democracy?

Citizens United v FEC, and Buckley v Valeo before it should have settled that matter.

[PufPuf23]

41. You are correct.

I am not thinking that deep, just a gut level response.

We are way in trouble should we not win POTUS and the Senate and retain the House in 2020 elections.

Faith the good will prevail. Vote.

[bucolic_frolic]

25. Republicans live in Fox News Echo Chamber

Good luck reaching them

[Eliot Rosewater]

29. Zero chance of any repub, let alone 4 or more, doing the right thing.

They simply dont have it in them and believe they are safe as long as the traitor supports them.

[guillaumeb]

32. Do not tell anyone, but I agree.

If they lose in November, many will become lobbyists.

[uponit7771]

40. ... with his Russian money, that's how they get supported.

[Evolve Dammit]

35. I don't see Midnight, Moscow, Cocaine, Grim Reaper Mitch doing ANYTHING that Lord

Voldemort wouldn't do. As Jon Stewart said after trying to get aid for 9-11 rescue personnel with life-threatening diseases: "He has no soul." He was however subsequently shamed into it I believe, so maybe there is a SLIVER of hope. I'm putting the odds at 5:1 against. Where's Jimmy the Greek when you need him??

[Aussie105]

39. Keep up the pressure!

Keep whittling away at that Republican thinking that they are right and everyone else is wrong.

Sooner or later some are going to get some nagging doubts . . . "perhaps it isn't the rest of the world that is out of step, perhaps it is me?"

Seeds of doubt tend to grow in the darkness, in the small hours of the morning, when the human mind subjects itself to some honest self examination.
(Trump is the rare exception to this, but it seems the reptilian mind isn't capable of abstract self examination.)

[Eliot Rosewater]

44. Well said

[pansypoo53219]

42. senator stupid from wis ain't leaving the mcconnell coverup.

[guillaumeb]

45. Ron Johnson?

[pansypoo53219]

46. yes. senator stupid.

[guillaumeb]

47. Ordinarily I would suggest that this is rude.

but having listened to him.....