Natalie Keshing for Nats.news
You can bet that Democrats are constantly checking the temperatures of those Democrats who’s fever isn’t high enough with delusional aspirations to vote yes on impeachment and survive their own votes in the 2020 election. More than likely that’s the reason why Chairman Jerry Nadler said, “ It is now very late at night. I want the members on both sides of aisle to think about what has happened over these last two days, and to search their consciences before we cast their final votes. Therefore, the committee will now stand in recess until tomorrow morning at 10 a.m., at which point I will move to divide the question so that each of us may have the opportunity to cast up-or-down votes on each of the articles of impeachment, and let history be our judge.” And we might add, letting the pressure mount and in those extreme cases, even blackmailing Democrats to make a hasty and unwise decision.
“Ranking Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., raised an immediate objection as Nadler began leaving, saying it was “the most bush-league stunt” he had ever seen.”
“Mr. Chairman, there was no consulting with the ranking member on your schedule for tomorrow — you just blew up schedules for everyone?” Collins asked incredulously. “You chose not to consult the ranking member on a scheduling issue of this magnitude? This is the kangaroo court we’re talking about. Not even consult? Not even consult? 10. am. tomorrow? You can see what just happened.”
Representative Collins told reporters: “This is why people don’t like us. This crap like this is why people are having such a terrible opinion of Congress. What Chairman Nadler just did, and his staff, and the rest of the majority who sat there quietly and said nothing, this is why they don’t like us. They know it’s all about games. It’s all about the TV screens. They want the primetime hit. This is Speaker Pelosi and Adam Schiff and the others directing this committee. I don’t have a chairman anymore. I guess I need to just go straight to Ms. Pelosi and say, what TV hit does this committee need to do? This committee has lost all relevance. I’ll see y’all tomorrow.”
The whole impeachment charade has been wearing thin on House Republican’s sensibilities and patience just as the whole Trump-Russia hoax wore on American’s hope and faith in the judicial process to protect a successful President and a country that is finally on more solid ground economically and on foreign policy.