Pelosi, Under Pressure to Send Impeachment to Senate, Declines Again

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday once again rebuffed growing calls to send the House’s articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate for trial and refused to provide a timetable for doing so, saying only that after weeks of delay, she would probably move “soon.”

Ms. Pelosi reiterated a call for Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, to detail the rules for a Senate trial so she could choose a team of lawmakers to prosecute the House’s abuse of power and obstruction of Congress case.

“I keep giving you the same answer,” the speaker said at her weekly news conference. “As I said right from the start, we need to see that the arena in which we’re sending our managers. Is that too much to ask?”

“I will send them over when I’m ready,” Ms. Pelosi added, “and that will probably be soon.”

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[guillaumeb]

1. Good. The pressure is getting to Trump and McConnell.

And as she said, is it too much to ask? Apparently, it is too much to ask of the GOP tat they put country over Party.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. I stand with our Speaker.

I'm sure she will need a unified front from her fellow Democrats.

[COLGATE4]

3. Moscow Mitch is scared shitless that the Orange Shitgibbon

will have to give his SOU 'speech' before the trial begins. He knows that, in that case the SOU will be a concoction of cray-cray unlike anything we have had to suffer from before.

[Blaukraut]

8. Which is why Nancy should hold them until after the SOU address

If only to deny Trump a victory lap.

[COLGATE4]

11. and, coincidentally make an even bigger fool of himself

when he gives his 'strum und drang' SOU.

[mitch96]

4. Could she re open the impeachment investigation b/c of the new evidence??

That would stall things and maybe convince more repubs to vote for conviction...
Just a thought YMMV
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[Wellstone ruled]

5. Last night it was the BBC

pounding this story,now today it is MSN(microsoft),Madam Speaker got this and the Media just shot their wad.

[stopbush]

6. It may be "pressure" to the media, but it isn't pressure to Pelosi.

She’s so far above and ahead of them that it’s laughable.

[HubertHeaver]

7. She will send the Articles of Impeachment to the senate

when she is damn good and ready and not a moment sooner.

[gratuitous]

9. Shouldn't the media be pressuring the Majority Leader?

Speaker Pelosi's request for the Senate to decide its rules seems eminently reasonable, but McConnell is refusing to reach across the aisle in the spirit of bipartisanship so beloved by the Ghosts of David Broder and Tip-n-Ronnie, and the media who are always clamoring for collegiality, at least from the Democrats.

Why isn't McConnell getting off his duff, and why aren't the media asking him to get it in gear?

On the other hand, the delay keeps pointing up the lag in action by McConnell, gets more people thinking that something shady is going on in the Senate (and it is), and works to the Democrats' favor. So keep stonewalling, Mitch. You're just making it worse for yourself.

[maxsolomon]

10. No way she gives that Asshole a victory lap at the SOTU.

Or lets McConnell throw it down the memory hole.