PELOSI'S WEEKS-LONG DELAY IN HANDING OFF HOUSE IMPEACHMENT HAS CREATED CRACKS IN DEMOCRAT CAUCUSCracks began to appear Wednesday in congressional Democrats' support for Nancy Pelosi’s prolonged delay in sending articles of impeachment to the Senate, with several lawmakers saying it's time for the House speaker to get on with it.
Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn., said she voted last month to impeach President Trump over urgent concerns about his conduct and argued that handing the case over to the Senate is the right thing to do.
“I trust the speaker's judgment, but I voted on these articles when they were presented because I felt that we were at a point where it needed to happen,” said Hayes, a freshman member. “So personally, I'd like them to go forward.”
Across the Capitol, Senate Democrats began to question whether Pelosi’s delay strategy undermines their argument that Trump’s conduct warrants serious and urgent attention.
“We are reaching a point where the articles of impeachment should be sent,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told reporters Wednesday.
Other senators questioned what kind of leverage Pelosi has over the Senate.
“I respect the fact that she is concerned about the fact about whether or not there will be a fair trial. But I do think it is time to get on with it,” Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., told Politico.
Although House Democrats voted to impeach Trump on Dec. 18, Pelosi declined to promptly send the articles over to the Senate for a trial over concerns that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was coordinating with the White House and tilting the playing field -- as Democrats sought assurances that the Senate would call certain witnesses. McConnell, R-Ky., has made no such promises, insisting that the trial begin and lawmakers determine how to proceed on potential testimony later.
Coordinating the same way House and Senate Democrats were coordinating with the Clinton White House in 1998?
Man, the double-standard Democrats hold Republicans to never lets up. But meanwhile, the vindictiveness of Democrats and the abandonment of the rule of law is becoming increasingly clear, even to Democrat leaders.
I was a bit surprised when Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) even said it was time to hand over the House impeachment legislation to the Senate.
Again, the hypocrisy just screams, how urgent Democrats were to rush through impeachment, and now Pelosi is cynically manipulating and holding on to that House impeachment vote for clearly cynical political manipulation purposes.
Speculation is that Pelosi is partly delaying impeachment to aid Joe Biden's candidacy, as most of the other candidates are Senators who have to suspend their campaigns and return to Washington to attand the impeachment hearings, now delayed to occur right before the Iowa Caucus and Super Tuesday primaries.
Pelosi is also speculated to be delaaying impeachment to make a Senate trial compete with Trump's state of the union address. Steve Bannon has suggested that Trump delay his state of the union until
after the impeachment, so as to bypass that landmine.
Democrats never miss an opportunity to demonstrate they have absolutely no ethics. In this case screwing their own, to give advantage to Biden. Just as they rigged the primary for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
