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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: The Reason for the Season

by Anne Laurie|  December 26, 20196:16 pm| 22 Comments

This post is in: Impeachment Inquiry, NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, All Too Normal

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As Americans gather with their loved ones for Christmas, Trump couldn’t let the day pass without talking about the most important woman in his life…

Nancy Pelosi https://t.co/e39WbaeZM4

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 26, 2019

Short answer: Article I, Sec 2, Clause 5

Long answer: a coordinated effort to use the powers of the presidency for the sole purpose of getting a foreign country to act in a way that would benefit a re-election campaign is bad and apparently that’s a partisan thing now https://t.co/3GcBZvqCkW

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) December 26, 2019

As Trump questions "by what right" does Nancy Pelosi impeach him, the elected president, a reminder … https://t.co/sWpaOP5XJR

— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 26, 2019

Must be very frustrating to him

— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 26, 2019

If we spend all of 2020 working hard and working smart, Donald Trump will spend next Christmas hiding under his desk and crying, because he'll know his arrest is coming the minute the next president is inaugurated.

Here's to 2020. Now get to work!

— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) December 26, 2019

Trump is climbing in the polls… sort of. https://t.co/oVlHcyLtNf

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 26, 2019

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22Comments

  1. 1.

    TaMara (HFG)

    December 26, 2019 at 6:21 pm

    cookie

  2. 2.

    TaMara (HFG)

    December 26, 2019 at 6:22 pm

    test. sign in still not working properly.

  3. 3.

    Searcher

    December 26, 2019 at 6:24 pm

    What’s the NPV margin that translates to control of the Senate for Democrats?  +8%?  +15%?

  4. 4.

    TaMara (HFG)

    December 26, 2019 at 6:25 pm

    If we spend all of 2020 working hard and working smart, Donald Trump will spend next Christmas hiding under his desk and crying, because he’ll know his arrest is coming the minute the next president is inaugurated.

    Here’s to 2020. Now get to work!

    I’m in.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    December 26, 2019 at 6:26 pm

    Less than a year from now, we’ll have a clearer picture of our future.  Or at least a picture that is muddled in a fundamentally different way than today.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 26, 2019 at 6:27 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): This?

  7. 7.

    scav

    December 26, 2019 at 6:27 pm

    Now, that poll is a gift!

    May we collect the entire set.

  8. 8.

    Zinsky

    December 26, 2019 at 6:28 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):  Same!  Let’s go get the old pervert….

  9. 9.

    Rob

    December 26, 2019 at 6:30 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: oh my goodness that’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in a couple of days, at least!

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    December 26, 2019 at 6:32 pm

    @scav:

    If I squint I see a map of the US with as usual, Florida leading the…something.

  11. 11.

    debbie

    December 26, 2019 at 6:35 pm

    Did you hear him telling someone on Christmas Eve that he hadn’t bought his wife a present yet, that he was “still working on it,” but he had bought her a nice card? Five bucks says he ended up going through Kellyanne’s regifting box.

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 26, 2019 at 6:35 pm

    @trollhattan: Leading the Florida vote?

  13. 13.

    Geoduck

    December 26, 2019 at 6:39 pm

    I wonder if the Shaitgibbon is aware of how brittle his support in the Senate must ultimately be. I suppose he’d be totally shocked if Moscow Mitch does see a disastrous series of polls and turns on him.

  14. 14.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 26, 2019 at 7:06 pm

    @Geoduck:

    I’d certainly be shocked.

  15. 15.

    Jay C

    December 26, 2019 at 7:09 pm

    What’s interesting about that red-and-blue graph is that there is a sudden jump in opinion (significantly AGAINST Trump) on/about Dec. 17 or 18. Which I think was the date of that insane 6-page letter to Nancy Pelosi. Which I’m guessing, he released (or more likely and accurately, went against probably-universal advice NOT to release) in the hopes of boosting his “position” with the public; but, as with Most Things Trump, ended up  making it worse for himself.

    Stable genius, indeed.

  16. 16.

    Frankensteinbeck

    December 26, 2019 at 7:16 pm

    @Jay C:

    as with Most Things Trump, ended up making it worse for himself.

    Nothing the Democrats do seems to affect Trump’s polls at all.  It was the ‘transcript’ confession that hit his numbers and started the impeachment.  He can’t stop self-impeaching.  I honestly don’t know whether to give Pelosi credit for spotting he had a gun in his mouth and would pull the trigger eventually or not.

  17. 17.

    Chris T.

    December 26, 2019 at 7:19 pm

    @Jay C: That’s “stable” as in What you scrape out of the stable after the horses have been in there a while, eating and, well, doing the thing animals do after they eat.

  18. 18.

    lgerard

    December 26, 2019 at 7:24 pm

    @debbie:

    Did you hear him telling someone on Christmas Eve that he hadn’t bought his wife a present yet, that he was “still working on it,” but he had bought her a nice card? Five bucks says he ended up going through Kellyanne’s regifting box.

    There is always that painting of himself

    Some people say it is worth $10,000

  19. 19.

    columbusqueen

    December 26, 2019 at 7:27 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I wouldn’t be. If there’s one art Moscow Mitch knows it’s the art of political survival.

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    December 26, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    @lgerard: And some people say it’s good – for Triumph to poop on!

  21. 21.

    Bex

    December 26, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    @debbie: Doesn’t he have People who do that sort of gift shopping?  How about a new jacket with no writing on the back?  Maybe a make-over of Marian Robinson’s old White House rooms?  Oh, wait, a gold frame for her Einstein visa.  A knock-off pair of Manolos because he won’t spring for the real thing?  The possibilities are endless…

  22. 22.

    Ruckus

    December 26, 2019 at 10:46 pm

    If we work hard and well we should have him hiding under his desk long before next xmas.

    Either that or maybe he’ll pull a real life Mr. Creosote. He’s not quite that portly but we shouldn’t quibble about such a minor issue.

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