I gotta say their reactions are really convincing me that this is a genius move by Pelosi.
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Yeah sure, McConnel can do with house bills whatever the fuck he wants, but not Pelosi. Waaah waaah waaah.
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Gee, I dunno Linds. Its almost as if SOMEBODY has proclaimed publicly that they will not under any circumstances make this a fair trial.
Now, who could that be?
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Maybe she should use the backlog as a reason. I expect most people don’t know that the house has passed a lot of legislation.
“As urgent as the impeachment is, we want to give the do-nothing Republicans a chance to vote on some of the bills sitting on McConnell’s desk.”
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He’s wrong, it’s even simpler than that, Senate Majority Leader is a made up position and the Constitution just says “The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other Officers” so there’s nothing stopping someone from holding both positions.
The drawback of withholding the articles is that it takes the urgency argument if the table, especially if you use it as leverage for other things (that they should put much more pressure on, for sure).
It’s not urgent because the senate already indicated they will have no witnesses and it will be over in a day.
Pass on that.
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Digging through tweets from last September, working hard!
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I believe the context is “elected” president, but we award this post eighteen fleebs for being technically true
I mean, like, PERFECT.
We would like you to do Congress a favor, though.
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True. But using it to pressure the senate to work on unrelated bills seems off key.
Absolutely anything that got the Senate to actually do work would be spectacularly on key. I think a lot of us have trouble remembering that once upon a time legislation got churned out pretty constantly, and that it’s pretty much impossible to keep the government running semi functionally without the government reacting to what’s happening in the real world.
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Pivoting back to bills the Senate isn’t passing would be a pro move. Dems have to focus on that shit. The House just approved a bill restoring funding for gun control research —Dems should be bringing attention to this instead of impeachment procedural argle bargle.
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I agree they should pound that issue. Just not with this measure. They won’t act anyway.
I’m not sure. An easy counter is “We will vote on those bills as soon as you allow us to vote on Impeachment.”
And most people will think well that’s fair, let them vote on impeachment wtf.
Dems will be painted as obstructionists and things will go back to the same political theater argle bargle.
I’m sympathetic to anyone who jumps in with the usual refrain to do it anyway, the GOP will respond in bad faith no matter what. That’s a good point, but I just don’t see Dems fighting back in a sustained way that wouldn’t turn such a move against them.
The real coup that has happened is McConnell. He has taken an enormous amount of power.
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yikes 
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