Well, and despicables need to hold the majority in the house, or she's out anyway.
Shooter doesn't think despicables can hold the majority in the house, but we'll see...…...

 

LMAO!!!! The old hag caves after achieving nothing by holding the phony articles of impeachment.....


Pelosi: House will move to transmit impeachment articles next week

By Brooke Singman | Fox News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces preparations to transmit impeachment articles to the Senate; reaction and analysis on 'Outnumbered.'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that she will take steps next week to send impeachment articles to the Senate, after delaying the process since last month in a bid to extract favorable terms for a trial.

“I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate. I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further,” Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote in a letter to colleagues.


The decision to release the articles came as fellow Democrats in recent days had started to voice frustration and impatience with the speaker's approach. They stressed the urgency with which impeachment was treated at the end of 2019 and questioned why the House would then delay a trial by using articles as leverage.

Asked about Pelosi's decision to move forward on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said: “About time.”

Pelosi nevertheless defended her approach in the memo, stressing important new information on the Ukraine controversy at the heart of impeachment that emerged during the interim.

“I am very proud of the courage and patriotism exhibited by our House Democratic Caucus as we support and defend the Constitution,” she wrote. She continued to press the Senate, as she has for weeks, to conduct a "fair trial" with witnesses and documents.

“In an impeachment trial, every Senator takes an oath to ‘do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws.’ Every Senator now faces a choice: to be loyal to the President or to the Constitution,” she wrote. “No one is above the law, not even the President.”

Pelosi’s demands in recent days included calling on McConnell to reveal the resolution that would set the terms for the trial before she would transmit the articles.

Pelosi and her allies seemingly wanted a commitment to call certain Democrat-sought witnesses, and at least learn more about McConnell’s plans. But McConnell wouldn't budge, insisting that the Senate first launch the trial, and then resolve issues surrounding witnesses later, declaring that he would not haggle with Pelosi and accusing her Thursday of playing “irresponsible games.”

While Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had largely backed Pelosi in calling for commitments from McConnell, other Democratic senators began this week to pressure the House to get moving.


“I think it’s time to turn the articles over,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Wednesday on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." “Let’s see where the Senate can take it.”

Even Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called out Pelosi for the delay.

“The longer it goes on, the less urgent it becomes,” Feinstein told Politico. “So if it’s serious and urgent, send them over. If it isn’t, don’t send it over.”

Sens. Angus King, D-Maine; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; and Chris Coons, D-Del., also came out this week calling for the process to move along.

“I respect the fact that she is concerned about the fact about whether or not there will be a fair trial,” Coons told Politico this week. “But I do think it is time to get on with it.”

McConnell has repeatedly said the resolution to govern the impeachment trial in the Senate would mirror the one used for then-President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999 -- setting a timeframe for the trial to begin, with the opportunity for lawmakers to determine how to proceed on potential witness testimony and additional documents later, after both the defense and the prosecution make their opening statements.

McConnell said earlier this week he has the votes needed to pass the resolution and begin the trial, once he receives the articles. In impeachment, most resolutions can pass with a simple majority — 51 votes. To remove the president from office, though, there must be 67 votes.

After Pelosi's announcement Friday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, blasted the speaker for the delay.

"Speaker Pelosi threw the United States Congress into unnecessary chaos with this pointless delay," Grassley said in a statement. "From the beginning, it's been unclear what the goal of this hurry-up-and-wait tactic was or what the country stood to gain. We now know the answer was nothing."

"We've had three weeks of uncertainty and confusion, causing even more division," he added. "Regardless, I will take my role as a juror seriously and review the evidence presented by both sides before making any determination."

Meanwhile, the next step for Pelosi will be to determine who will serve as House managers to prosecute the case against the president in the Senate trial.

Last month, bipartisan sources told Fox News that several names have been floated to make the case for the president’s removal.

Likely candidates include Nadler, D-N.Y., whose panel drafted the articles of impeachment (abuse of power and obstruction of Congress), House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led much of the impeachment inquiry out of his committee with dramatic hearings to develop the case against the president; House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a constitutional lawyer.

Other possible candidates include Democrats who were more outspoken during the impeachment hearings, like Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.

Sources told Fox News that other names being floated include Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.; Val Demings, D-Fla., who served as the first female police chief in Orlando; and Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., who was involved in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton and was a staffer during the congressional investigation into former President Richard Nixon.

During Clinton’s impeachment in 1999, there were 13 House impeachment managers. A source familiar with the planning told Fox News that Pelosi is expected to appoint fewer than that

 

Going back through @shootersa old posts I always feel encouraged when he predicts Democrats losing because I don't think I have seen one of his predictions turn out fucking right yet.

 

That's good that you think that.
It exposes your delusional condition.

Seen your doctor yet?

 

Here’s Just How Dumb Nancy Pelosi’s Gambit of Roadblocking Impeachment Was
Posted at 8:00 pm on January 10, 2020 by Bonchie





Sometimes real life mirrors parody, and in the case of Nancy Pelosi’s gambit of refusing to hand over the articles of impeachment she pushed to pass, it certainly does.

In fact, while many of us had been under the impression that Pelosi had gotten the idea from Lawrence Tribe, a deranged Twitter Harvard professor who spouted off about not giving the articles to the Senate early on, where she really got the idea from is even more laughable.


Apparently, Pelosi decided to blow up her own charade after watching a felon on CNN. That’s how dumb her move of roadblocking impeachment was.


Byron York

✔@ByronYork

In new @TIME profile: Speaker Pelosi got idea to withhold impeachment articles from watching John Dean on CNN. http://ow.ly/GLPp50xR5fe



Who’s John Dean? He’s the legendary grifter who planned the Nixon era watergate coverup. Once he was caught, he then proceeded to rat out everyone he talked into following his scheme in order to save his own skin, thereby parlaying his criminal actions into a career as an “impeachment expert” for the next five decades. CNN has him on regularly, because it doesn’t matter how sketchy your past is, if you are trashing Republicans, they’ve got a place for you.

Dean has coincidentally managed to write a book opining that every Republican president since Reagan should be impeached. Oddly enough, he never wrote such a book about Clinton or Obama.

For Pelosi to take Dean’s idiotic advice and follow through on it is actually surprising, as she’s always been painted as much better tactician than that. But she had lost control of the situation long ago, practically being shoved off the cliff of impeachment by her left-wing base and numerous talking heads.

Such a move to withhold the articles never made any sense at all. It allowed Trump to move past the scandal, McConnell to ignore it, and for any chance at momentum to evaporate. A prosecutor doesn’t threaten to not charge someone if they won’t plead guilty because that would be pretty stupid. But that’s essentially what Pelosi did and it has now cost her any opportunity of making further political hay out of the matter.

Sure, the news networks will foam at the mouth once the trial starts, but for all intents and purposes, this is over. The American people have moved on and Trump is enjoying one of the best stretches of his presidency. Pelosi was probably never holding a winning hand, but you’d still think she’d be smart enough not to pour gasoline on the table and toss a match. Her strategy was just monumentally dumb.

 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't usually do the Sunday shows but she was on ABC this morning talking about Trump's erratic behavior.

And she pointed out the obvious that all Trump does is psychological projection. So when he tweets out Pelosi is crazy its actually because he knows he is crazy.

And this is actually very significant because what Pelosi is really doing is addressing Trump's mental illness to a national audience.

 

Dems May Find Themselves Torn Between Newfound ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ and Acknowledging the Suffering Iranian Regime Inflicts on its Citizens
Posted at 9:30 am on January 12, 2020 by Elizabeth Vaughn



Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 23, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Iranian Olympic medalist Kimia Alizadeh announced on Saturday she has defected. Fed up with the regime’s “hypocrisy, lying, injustice and oppression of women,” the Taekwondo bronze medalist wrote (on Instagram) that she has permanently left the country to pursue “a life of security, happiness and freedom.”

Alizadeh said “she wore everything the government asked her to wear, referring to the head covering all Iranian female athletes must wear, and wrote she “repeated everything they told me to say…None of us matter to them.”



Morgan Ortagus

✔@statedeptspox

#KimiaAlizadeh, Iran’s only female Olympic medalist, has rejected the regime’s oppression of women. She has defected for a life of security, happiness, and freedom. #Iran will continue to lose more strong women unless it learns to empower and support them. https://news.yahoo.com/irans-sole-female-olympic-medallist-defects-210905911.html …


Iran's sole female Olympic medallist defects
Iran's only female Olympic medallist Kimia Alizadeh announced Saturday she has permanently left her country, citing the "hypocrisy" of a system she claims humiliates athletes while using them for...





AFP reported:

Iranian MP Abdolkarim Hosseinzadeh, meanwhile, demanded answers, accusing those he described as the “incompetent officials” of allowing Iran’s “human capital to flee” the country.

He drew a comparison between Alizadeh and Iranian chess prodigy Alireza Firouzja who won the grandmaster title at age 14, two years after winning the Iranian chess championship, and who now lives in France.

Most Iranians who have a choice to flee the country, meaning the money and the opportunity, do so. Few citizens would choose to endure the increasingly miserable living conditions and Iran’s repressive political climate, if given the choice.

A June 2019 Gallup poll found that, “a record-low 12% of Iranians rated their lives positively enough to be considered “thriving,” and a record-high 34% rated their lives poorly enough to be considered “suffering.”

The U.S. strike on Soleimani has suddenly thrust Iran onto the international stage, shining a light on living conditions inside the Islamic Republic. Although the world has long understood that the Iranian government’s unrelenting repression of their citizens has led to a pretty miserable quality of life, the recent hostilities with the U.S. have forced the country’s humanitarian crisis onto the front page.

All of this may present a dilemma for Democrats who will find themselves torn between their newfound support for the clerical regime’s leaders and their ability to recognize the suffering these “sympathetic” figures have inflicted on the Iranian people.

The left has overwhelmingly condemned President Trump’s decision to kill terrorist Qassem Soleimani. Unanimously, Democrats claim that he had no right to order the strike. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi herself said that killing Soleimani would be like killing the second most important person in the USA.

Because the same ruthless men whom the Democrats have legitimized over the last week murdered 1,500 (according to Reuters) of their own citizens during the November protests. And refused to release the bodies of the dead unless the families promised not to hold funerals. And shut down the internet for five days afterward.

They also forced their citizens to take to the streets to “mourn” the death of the country’s beloved martyr, Qassem Soleimani. The media was collectively “moved” by the crowds who showed up for the funeral of a “man revered by many here.” ABC’s Martha Raddatz, reporting from Iran, donning a headscarf, described the scene: “Soleimani’s image everywhere. The impact of his death profound. The crowds are massive and emotional. There are many tears here, many signs with Soleimani’s picture on them, but the message is also very clear. These people want revenge…Inside the funeral service, the emotion just as powerful.”

That’s just beautiful Martha. He was cut down too soon, wasn’t he?

The Iranian people, who live the reality of the mullah’s cruelty and repression every day, are growing restless. After new protests broke out on Saturday night, President Trump tweeted (in Farsi) a message of encouragement and support to the protestor’s. According to The Washington Examiner, it was the “most liked Persian tweet’ in the history of Twitter.


Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

به مردم شجاع و رنج کشیده ایران: من از ابتدای دوره ریاست جمهوریم با شما ایستاده‌ام و دولت من همچنان با شما خواهد ایستاد. ما اعتراضات شما را از نزدیک دنبال می کنیم. شجاعت شما الهام بخش است.




His message read: “To the brave and suffering Iranian people: I have stood with you since the beginning of my presidency and my government will continue to stand with you. We are following your protests closely. Your courage is inspiring,”

The Democrats have a choice to make. Who will they support, the murderous leaders whom they tell us have been dealt with unfairly? Or the long-suffering people of Iran who have lived without freedom for over 40 years?

 

And Pelosi wasn't the only one commenting on Trump's mental illness. Trump's ghost writer also said the way Trump is slurring his words looks like dementia to him

 

One thing about it, in order to suffer from dementia, one needs a brain, fortunately for this Country, none of the leftists will ever suffer such a disease.

 

Mighty weak tea.

 

Wait... silky tea bags are plastic tea bags?

 

Pelosi's impeachment delay opens cracks in Democratic caucus

Cracks 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.

 

Nancy Pelosi’s Response to the Iranian Protests Is Absolutely Disgusting
Posted at 4:30 pm on January 12, 2020 by Bonchie




This may seem distant to many people, but there was a time when Nancy Pelosi held onto some sense of responsibility as a leader in the Democrat party. Sure, she’s always been a left-winger from San Francisco, but when it came to issues like war and freedom, she could at least look past partisanship in those moments.

Those days are long gone, as her party has been fully inundated by pure delusion surrounding the presidency of Donald Trump. For her part, Pelosi is more than happy to make the shift as well, shedding all sense of commonality with American ideals in order to parrot whatever AOC’s hand up her back mouths.


The latest example of this comes courtesy of the Sunday shows this morning, where Pelosi finally managed to give a statement about the tens of thousands risking their lives by protesting the regime in Iran. Unable to simply say she supports the demonstrations and freedom for the oppressed, the House Speaker went with this take instead.


Steve Guest

✔@SteveGuest

Nancy Pelosi dismisses protests in Iran against regime, "different reasons why people are in the street"

Sad. It shouldn’t be this difficult.






There’s only one moral, correct answer when asked about the Iranian protests – that you stand with them and their fight to cast off the Islamist regime they suffer under. But Nancy Pelosi can’t even manage that. She’s so eaten up with partisanship that she’s more concerned about giving Trump a “win” than doing what’s obviously right.

At first, she tries to spin the latest protests as only being about the plane being shot down, not that such would make them any less legitimate. But that’s obviously not true when they are chanting for the death of Khameini and protecting American flags.

Pelosi then tries to draw an equivalency between the current demonstrations and the “mourning” that took place for Soleimani. Citing that as a counter to the question about the anti-Mullah protestors is just gross. Newsflash, Iran is a dictatorship. They closed down businesses and schools and called a national period of mourning when Soleimani was killed. You know what you do in that case when you live under a murderous regime? You go mourn. That’s in no way comparable to these students risking their lives to call for the downfall of the Mullahs.

Even past all the details, the interviewer pointedly asked her if she supports the current protests. She simply dodges and refuses to do so because she’s allowed herself to become a political coward, subject to the whim of her base. This isn’t hard but Democrats can’t even pass this simple test.

Trump has broken these people and it’s all the more reason they can’t be allowed to regain power in 2020

 

Nancy has always conducted her business as if her constituents, and the rest of us, are dumb, and just nod our mellons at whatever she says.

Unfortunately, she has often been right in the past.

 

H.Res.676 - Supporting the rights of the people of Iran to free expression, condemning the Iranian regime for its crackdown on legitimate protests, and for other purposes.115th Congress (2017-2018)



Yes Pelosi supported this, yet take note at which party introduced the bill.

 

Pelosi slams Trump on election security, then asks why McConnell is an 'accomplice to all that?'

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...ks-why-McConnell-is-an-accomplice-to-all-that

 

Pelosi has 'lost control' of the House, knows she made a mistake withholding impeachment articles: Rep. Roy

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi damaged cross-party relations and ignored the needs of the American people by withholding articles of impeachment against the president from the Senate, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said Saturday.

"I think she had a strategic error, and she was trying to appease her [far] left base," he said. "... Over the last year, what has she done for the American people, other than turning over the House of Representatives to the radical left and AOC, and those who are trying to reshape this country [with] a socialist agenda?"

"She's lost control," he added.

On Friday, Pelosi announced she will take steps to send the articles to the Senate.

“I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate. I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to colleagues.

Roy said Pelosi is backtracking on her earlier decision and trying to save face. She is "hoping for a last-minute reason" to justify why she held onto the articles for so long, he said.

"What we will see when it gets over to the Senate is that the case that they presented is very weak," Roy said.

After months of listening to impeachment depositions as a member of the House Oversight Committee, Roy said he came to the conclusion that there was "nothing there" that rises to a high crime or misdemeanor under the Constitutiion.

"She wasted the time of the American people rather than focusing on what the American people care about around the kitchen table: health care costs, border security, our men and women in uniform, [and] our reckless spending," he said.

 

I’m being sensitive to the fact that this is a porn forum and magical thinking abounds but the senate will not convict Trump. So when he is re-elected then maybe the senate might be Democrat. So try again then.
Moving on...

 

You're thinking the Senate wont due to party, or due to the lack of reasoning behind the Articles?

 

Yes not a chance of conviction. The Republican Senate would not even convict Bill Clinton. All of this is just sound and fury signifying nothing