The amendment is to subpoena people/docs from OMB due to what happened with the withholding funds (and the apparent signoffs for that). This would relate to what GAO recently found that it was against the law for them to do this.

I’m worn the hell out myself but man, the Democrats are doing us proud. I hope some of America is listening.

Crow brings the real.

Jay can't get his napkin doodles straight.
"Fuck it, we'll do it live."

All you ever see is the top of his head. I am thinking he has not spent much time in the courtroom.

for Faux Snooze consumption.

Was an,... “argle bargle, whistleblower”.

in a dramatic fashion as he exited.

To Egypt in 2013 is NOT the same as tRump diverting funds outside of official policy for his re-election campaign’s benefit.

in order to allow the funds to carry over into the new fiscal year because of how late it was finally released and it was only good for the current FY.

No rebuttal so had to resort to the old tropes, “Obama” and “where’s the whistleblower?”

Schiff is correcting the bullshit Suckylow lies.

Aid to Egypt held at request of McCain and Graham.

He has been unflappable, focused and absolutely on point. And against a sea of personal, unprofessional, lying bs.

... the "what-about-him (Obama)" defense, along with the "they got their money eventually" gambit, and the ever-popular "where's the whistleblower?" bullshit.

We KNOW these guys have NOTHING - it's truly pathetic that they just keep proving it over and over again.

and still NO defense of fatnixon 😡


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and said "This isn't a never-Trumper. This is a million dollar donor to the President's inauguration. He can't be someone who the President can say "Sondland? I barely knew him!!1111!!!".

;chuckle:

all amendments have been tabled ?
sigh

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But it was expected - Turtle indicated at the beginning that he planned to vote to table any Amendment that was submitted before the opening statements and questioning.

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And these yellow-bellied republicans won’t even vote for this amendment?! Are irresponsible and lost, disgraceful toadies.

in a diplomatic way!

is in recess. So Turtle is putting things on the table, is Turtle going to keep this going until 1 am and keeping us in the dark.

I hate McConnell.

all these amendments can be resubmitted after they go through their initial opening statements/questioning.

This is why the Democrats are pretty much laying out for the public, pretty much everything they have during the debate arguments in case they never get a chance to resubmit if those 4 Senators backslide in allowing witnesses, etc., later.

so hopefully the public got what they could out of the earlier arguments.

arguments toward WITNESSES now, for the American audience. Because the major complaint of Repubs during House impeachment proceedings was that their witnesses were NOT direct witnesses who SPOKE TO THE PRESIDENT.

Gotta love the House managers.

This upcoming vote might be a break in the trial. IF Republican leadership is "logical" or "logically consistent."

and i'm going to watch my socks dry
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I've had about as much of this shit as I can take for one day. Singing the same song over and over--Dems eloquently present their amendments, McConnell immediately says, we'll be tabling that.

I'm wrung out. Gonna watch a movie and eat dinner.

If you're not signed up it will ask you where you live so it knows which members of Congress to contact. Then it'll ask you if you want to fax or call. Then just follow the prompts.

Couldn't be any easier. You don't even have to dial.

'cause I needed to close my Firefox to upgrade it and that took awhile for it to close out, upgrade, and come back up.

(am back on the laptop again )

Luckily whenever I have babysat my sister's cat, she hasn't hopped up to join in on posting on DU.

bopping around and am probably the opposite at the moment!

A good thing for my blood pressure probably. Maybe I should double up on the dosage of my prescription this week.

There’s sarcasm there folks, I just hate the emojis, don’t warn me about the danger of prescription misuse.

To subpoena Mick Mulvaney.

knocking it out of the park. ...time after time. I don't think I've ever seen such mastery. I hope, hope, hope people are watching.

because it is up in the air whether they will be allowed to bring in witnesses or subpoena anyone or anything "later".

The obstruction "Makes Nixon look like a choir boy!

Jeffries says as he lays out the broad powers of inquiry in the Senate, especially in regards to impeachment, and that their power to compel testimony is comparable to that wielded in a court of law.

Excellent presentation from him - just as I’ve come to expect.

democracy is being trashed the networks keep the masses distracted in total BS shows.

The masses need to be educated in what is happening on the Hill, esp. in the dark of night. McConnell can not be trusted.

Video clip from the unparalleled, Dr. Fiona Hill

With the holding up of aid. (Looked like he was in the WH press room).

Then showed an email between him and Robert Blair - then questions whether Blair was acting at mulvaney’s behest.

"Get over it".

their statements. It makes Republicans look unprepared.

To testify.

... Look, get over it, there’s going to be political influence in foreign policy.” — clip of mulvaney in the press room.


Jeffries setup the playing of the video by calling out the CT of Ukraine interfering in the 2016 elections as being promoted by that “great purveyor of democracy, vladmir putin.” (so he said with an air of sarcasm).

on

What a cynical worm.

...... about this unprecedented procession of bought-for-a-buck, lying lawyers on behalf of MF45.

Given the more typical competence of legal beagles that appear before Roberts' court ...... what is he thinking???? What is he concluding?
Is it dismay? Is it disgust? Is it even possibly revulsion - seeing first hand the reckless, willful, wanton destruction of our Constitution before the unique institution of our Senate.

STFU AND KMA YOU BASTARD

TRAITOR TO OUR NATION AND HYPOCRITICAL SOB... 2.8 MILLION HAVE GIVEN LIFE AND LIMB TO PROTECT AND DEFEND WHAT YOU SO NONCHALANTLY FLUSH DOWN THE TOILET... OUR CONSTITUTION.