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Even Dana Milbank

by $8 blue check mistermix|  January 15, 20209:22 am| 18 Comments

This post is in: Impeach the Motherfucker!

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He was pretty awful a few years ago but I guess a rising Trump lifts a lot of mediocre boats :

This had to be one of the most successful failures — one of the most triumphant defeats — in modern political history.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) clearly failed in the stated aim of her four-week delay in sending impeachment articles to the Senate: to withhold the articles and the naming of impeachment managers until, as she put it last month, “we see the process that is set forth in the Senate.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn’t reveal his impeachment resolution and made no commitment to bring forth witnesses or documents.

But Pelosi’s delay seems to have blunted any hope President Trump’s defenders had of dismissing the charges without a trial. Before the speaker’s gambit, McConnell pledged that “there will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this.” Trump is now calling for a dismissal, but Senate Republicans say they won’t allow that.

This is about as close as a beltway asshole who treats politics like sports talk radio — picking winners and losers for everything, focusing on personality instead of performance — is going to get to a nuanced perspective. When you only control the House, you’re “winning” if you’ve been able to leverage your power to make the Senate do more then they were otherwise going to do, and get some positive attention. Both of those goals were accomplished, even though we’re ultimately going to “lose” on conviction.

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  1. 1.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 15, 2020 at 9:23 am

    Pelosi to announce impeachment managers at 10 Eastern time.

  2. 2.

    MattF

    January 15, 2020 at 9:28 am

    This happens to be a situation where the horse-race metaphor has political weight. Now McConnell doesn’t fully control what happens in the Senate, and that was his strong point.

  3. 3.

    PsiFighter37

    January 15, 2020 at 9:29 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: Wonder if Amash gets a spot. Also, there was talk Nadler was going to be one – TBH, he wouldn’t be one of my picks, even if he is Judiciary chair. We need folks like Schiff – folks who are articulate, clear-cut in how they speak. Ted Lieu would be a great choice, but what do I know.

  4. 4.

    MattF

    January 15, 2020 at 9:31 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: I’m hoping Jamie Raskin (my rep!) gets the nod.

  5. 5.

    Kristine

    January 15, 2020 at 9:35 am

    Katie Porter

  6. 6.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    January 15, 2020 at 9:37 am

    It’s almost as if Nancy knows what she’s doing and all of her critics keep turning out to be wrong.

  7. 7.

    rikyrah

    January 15, 2020 at 9:39 am

    Did any FrontPager take on this?

     

    Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) Tweeted:
    BREAKING: Judge finds Wisconsin election officials in contempt of court, orders them to quickly remove thousands of people from the voter rolls.

    He charges three commissioners $250 a day each for defying his order.

    https://t.co/zzeLKwFeaC https://twitter.com/patrickdmarley/status/1216779425020350465?s=20

  8. 8.

    SFAW

    January 15, 2020 at 9:41 am

    I’m hoping for newly-installed Representative Hamala Karris, who looks as if she could be the identical twin sister of CA’s junior Senator. I heard she was pretty sharp.

  9. 9.

    SFAW

    January 15, 2020 at 9:43 am

    @rikyrah:

    Didn’t Appeals put a stay on that, shortly after he issued his contempt citation/ruling/whatever? Or have they lifted that stay? [I don’t know, I haven’t been following it very closely.]

  10. 10.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 15, 2020 at 9:45 am

    I was away from the screen for most of five hours last night and have about three days of catching up to do

    ETA: I think I’m gonna have breakfast now.

  11. 11.

    yellowdog

    January 15, 2020 at 9:55 am

    @MattF: Hey Matt, he’s mine too. It would be a good idea to have a Constitutional Law professor in the mix.

  12. 12.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 15, 2020 at 9:55 am

    They can NOT give Nancy credit for a victory if it is not total and complete annihilation of her opponent.

    @SFAW: As of this AM.

  13. 13.

    yellowdog

    January 15, 2020 at 9:56 am

    @Kristine: YES!

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    January 15, 2020 at 10:19 am

    @SFAW:

     

    They did put on a stay…for now…

  15. 15.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 15, 2020 at 10:21 am

    I don’t read him regularly, but enough to suspect the trump era has slapped at least some of the stupid out of Mr “Mad Bitch Beer” (wasn’t that it?). This seems like a pretty direct slap at his former sidekick– in that very video– Chris Cillizza, who was getting dragged from one end of twitter to the other for declaring Nancy Pelosi’s defeat yesterday.

  16. 16.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 15, 2020 at 10:29 am

    Don’t know if anyone is still reading this thread or if you’ve all left for the shitshow upstairs (poor John!), but here are the managers. Good group.

    Today, I have the privilege of naming the Managers of the impeachment trial of the President. #DefendOurDemocracy pic.twitter.com/Y2613Ni3pC

    — Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 15, 2020

  17. 17.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 15, 2020 at 10:36 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: Thank  you.

  18. 18.

    MattF

    January 15, 2020 at 10:39 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: Wish there was a way to vocally avoid a thread.

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