The Impeachment of President Donald J Trump

Started by FunkMonk, September 24, 2019, 02:10:43 PM

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Sophie Scholl

#270
October 06, 2019, 01:20:05 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 06, 2019, 12:54:23 PM
McConnell says he will prevent impeachment to make it through the Senate.
We'll see if it lasts.  Moscow Mitch only cares about Moscow Mitch.  If the winds start to change, he'll turn on Trump in a heartbeat and try to pin it all on the Democrats for not acting fast enough or with enough strength.  ...and his base will eat it up.
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FunkMonk

#271
October 06, 2019, 01:28:09 PM
I agree with BA. Mitch knows he can end the Trump presidency any time he wants. He's just positioning right now.
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Syt

#272
October 06, 2019, 01:35:48 PM
That said - is Mitch McConnell the most harmful US politician of the last decade?
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Sophie Scholl

#273
October 06, 2019, 02:07:08 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 06, 2019, 01:35:48 PM
That said - is Mitch McConnell the most harmful US politician of the last decade?
Why stop at the last decade?  He's the most harmful in quite some time.  Certainly the 21st century in my opinion.
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Razgovory

#274
October 06, 2019, 07:20:07 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 06, 2019, 12:54:23 PM
McConnell says he will prevent impeachment to make it through the Senate.


That would not be a wise move.  Or at least it would not be a move that benefits Trump.  It would mean that Trump would go into the election with an impeachment and no acquittal.
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Eddie Teach

#275
October 06, 2019, 07:28:21 PM
I'd guess he cares less about Trump than vulnerable GOP senators having votes for acquittal on their records.
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DGuller

#276
October 06, 2019, 08:13:16 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 06, 2019, 01:35:48 PM
That said - is Mitch McConnell the most harmful US politician of the last decade?
I would go back a lot further than a decade.  If American democracy goes the way of Russian democracy, Mitch will deserve to take most of the credit.

Eddie Teach

#277
October 06, 2019, 08:40:02 PM
If American democracy goes the way of Russian democracy, future actors will deserve most of the credit.
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Legbiter

#278
October 06, 2019, 08:57:24 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on October 06, 2019, 01:28:09 PM
I agree with BA. Mitch knows he can end the Trump presidency any time he wants. He's just positioning right now.

It's fanfic to speculate about Republicans ditching Trump. It would implode the party on the eve of the election.  :hmm:

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dps

#279
October 06, 2019, 08:57:56 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 06, 2019, 12:29:49 PM
Romney can easily run circles around Trump intellectually

High school drop-out meth addicts can run circles around Trump intellectually.

Eddie Teach

#280
October 06, 2019, 09:26:36 PM
Quote from: dps on October 06, 2019, 08:57:56 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 06, 2019, 12:29:49 PM
Romney can easily run circles around Trump intellectually

High school drop-out meth addicts can run circles around Trump intellectually.

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DontSayBanana

#281
October 06, 2019, 09:39:09 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 06, 2019, 07:20:07 PM
That would not be a wise move.  Or at least it would not be a move that benefits Trump.  It would mean that Trump would go into the election with an impeachment and no acquittal.

The key thing we're forgetting is that 2020 is an election year for McConnell, too- this would give McGrath so much anti-corruption ammunition that it would effectively be self-immolation. McConnell puts party before country, but McConnell before party. And when we factor in his own name-dropping misadventures in China (vis a vis Chao), McConnell has a lot riding on re-election in 2020.
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jimmy olsen

#282
October 07, 2019, 07:54:35 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 06, 2019, 01:35:48 PM
That said - is Mitch McConnell the most harmful US politician of the last decade?

Aside from Trump, he's the worst domestic political actor since McCarthy.
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HVC

#283
October 07, 2019, 08:34:24 PM
Say what you will of McCarthy, he'd have kept a Russian appeasing trump out of office :P
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#284
October 08, 2019, 07:08:39 AM
Quote from: dps on October 06, 2019, 08:57:56 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 06, 2019, 12:29:49 PM
Romney can easily run circles around Trump intellectually

High school drop-out meth addicts can run circles around Trump intellectually.

that's his base
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