Rouge is French for red - or the stuff you put on your cheeks for color.

and a little old lady tottled up to me and said that exact thing!😄😄

I'm not sure I can see him going "rogue" since his is still an artifact (and architect) of the neocons and war-mongers.

so profoundly stupid as Trump, and try to put distance between them on HIS terms, not Trump's.

Whatever it is Bolton is, and it's not good, the one weakness he doesn't seem to indulge is looking up to anyone and it's possible the time has come to publicly rid himself of something as nasty as Trump, even though he is an unbearable All Star A-Hole himself.

I would love to see Bolton go rogue and blow up over Trump's filthy history he was forced to endure.

I think both Bolton and Trump...they are playing us.....no real intent to testify...just smoke and mirrors...I hope I am wrong...

...regime change plan.

not WILL give the articles to the Senate. Why does MSM keep insisting this point when its not what she said.

You don't need to look! We've got nothing to hide!

She said she asked {house whip - forgot name) to be ready to hold a vote next tuesday. She didn't say the vote would be on the managers, just sending over the articles.

So Tuesday they vote to send them over, then by the end of the week they arrive, but what about the managers? She will likely schedule a second vote the following week to name them.

Then the sotu happens. But unless moscow pushes to change the rules and hold an immediate vote, there is no way it will be done in time to finish before the sotu.

Which was her real goal. To have him run out of oxygen while giving the sotu and flying off in some rant.

He wouldn't be able to control himself. She would be right behind him burning a hole in his dimented ego.

Trump won't be able to set up his oxygen cannon in the podium like he does at the rallies. That's probably how he survives them - a constant blast of pure oxygen blowing in his face.

So it's more of a game of chicken, with the sotu being the train.

There really needs to be some laws defined to prevent this kind of criminal behavior in the future.

they could pass all the laws and legislation you could think of, and Trump would declare himself above them all. But of course he's "totally innocent".

It's the prosecution that has the burden of proof

Pretend there are enough votes to call Bolton I mean probably not but just pretend. The Senate called Bolton the case gets sent to the Supreme Court, it takes 6 to 8 months to decide, but meanwhile that whole time the Senate won't be able to vote to acquit Trump because they are waiting on the courts. The case will be stuck in limbo in the Senate until they get a Supreme Court ruling.


This thing could drag out all the way to the general election

The Senate can vote as they set the vote rules....Bolton irrelevant.

The trial or hearing will take a few days and be over.

All criminals would love such power

It would be the ultimate "Get Of Jail Free" card for a corrupt president.

yes you can

to a war...somewhere,,

That'll put a smile on the little brown turds face...Bolton will sing praises to the moron....War !!the republicuns wet dream...

very excited at the possibility that putin and rump can imprison or kill all non followers.

If he does, I'll buy his damned book.

will force all the Repubs in the house to vote for or against. If they vote for, it can be construed as a bipartisan impeachment. If they vote against, it can be construed as them wanting to delay. Rock and Hard Place.

His call was "Perfect", and he is completely "Clean", and he was just hoping for "Corruption Reform", and But, and But....
So, why is having any testimony, or documents released from his "Perfect and Lawful" exercise a problem for him?
He should be lining up all the big names to support his "Perfectness", right?

What a Crock of Crap! We can't be rid of this con man, mafioso, fast enough! Makes my skin crawl!

Bolton is a Bush Republican, so part of me thinks he will indeed defy Trump.

She said she had instructed House to have materials prepared by next week. She did not say when she plans to transmit them to Senate.

A Dem senator who was in office during the Clinton impeachment was on MSBNC, iirc, the other day explaining the process. He said that the presiding officer of the Senate, in this case it will be Roberts, rules on the motion for witness testimony or document requests, then there may or may not be a vote to override his decision.

Whichever way Roberts rules will be a good inidication of which way the Supreme Court will rule when these executive privilege/WH claims of total immunity cases come before it. If Roberts rules Bolton must testify, that is a sign the WH will lose all the lawsuits it has brought against Congress since Roberts is probably the 5th and deciding vote.

Another guest also explained that 50, not 51, votes are needed to have witnesses/documents and VP Pence has no role/vote whatsoever in the impeachment trial. I'm guessing this is because Roberts would be the tie-breaking vote and presumably would vote to uphold his own ruling/decision.

And so on.

The beans.