IMPEACHMENT.... BESPEECHMENT..... ISN'T IT TIME FOR THIS HORROR SHOW TO END?

MC CONNELL AND COMPANY HAVE A TASTY PLAN.....

January 21, 2020..... And, here we go... the House Articles of Impeachment were delivered last week..... And, then Moscow Mitch launched the Senate Impeachment Trial. The very first MC CONNELL MOVE was the unveiling of the PROCEDURAL RULES that will be the basis of the Trial. Unlike the Clinton Impeachment Trial Rules that were adopted as agreed to by both sides of the isle 21 years ago, the debate over the McConnell Rules will be long, aggressive, and filled with verbal bombast. Initially denying any document or evidence submission for the record or the testimony of any witnesses in the presentation of the Articles Impeachment Case by the House Managers, the recommended procedure looks nothing like any "trial" in the nation.  In fact, Moscow Mitch announced that the current RULES that he proposed are fashioned on the Clinton Rules that were adopted on a 100-0 vote 20+ years ago.  A MC CONNELL LIE....NONSENSE.  

At that time, Clinton did not block or assert or hide behind "Executive Privilege", and supplied more than 90,000 pages of documents as requested.  Testimony, Senior Staff Q and A, and a mountain of documents were all provided during the Clinton Impeachment investigation, House adoption of the Articles of Impeachment, and submission during the US Senate Impeachment Trial. In this issue, Trump is hiding behind his claimed above-the-law status that prevents testimony from those in the know and/or preventing the submission of documents that will bear on the allegations contained in the Impeachment Articles. NO MAN OR WOMAN IS ABOVE THE LAW! 

LIE NUMBER 15,436......

Still, after the initial presentations - submitting the charges and then presenting the president's defense - a vote may be held to determine whether or not to subpoena witnesses and/or to submit documents as evidence that may be weighed regarding the charges alleged and defended. This procedure - exactly what Trump wanted - to sink this Impeachment Trial as quickly as possible, will come to a vote. 51 Senate votes will determine whether or not witnesses and documents will be submitted for the Senate Record and form the basis for a judgment vote of the entire body... McConnell recommended that his draft "procedure" be adopted.... and it was - on a vote of 53-47.  Several Schumer amendments to the McConnell process that would allow for subpoenas for a set of documents and witness testimony from those who have first hand knowledge of the events that form the basis of the Articles of Impeachment adopted by the House, were all defeated on the same vote 53-47 - a strict party split. 

WILL THIS RESULT IN A FAIR AND FULL IMPEACHMENT TRIAL? OR, WILL THIS BE A NARROW AND QUICK PROCEDURE TO SHORT-CIRCUIT THE PROCESS, DECLARE TRUMP "NOT GUILTY", AND RESULT IN THE SHORTEST IMPEACHMENT TRIAL IN HISTORY? 

Take your best guess...... Yet another Senate vote will be held to revisit the issue of both document and witness subpoenas - right after the presentations of the House Managers and the defense of Donald Trump by the Attorney representing the Impeached President. Time will tell......

Another Article will follow....  and focus on the presentation of the ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT by the  House Managers.....  Later, a focus on the defense of Trump by the President's Attorney's.  

Stand Up! Speak Out! Resist! Persist! March On!

tick-tock..... 2020

Bobby J