Comments on: The Steele dossier and the whistleblower complaint were just the pretexts for the investigations https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:38:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: stan Brown https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/#comment-2457537 Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:06:07 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90128#comment-2457537 Will even a single honest, patriotic Democrat stand up for the truth and call out this massively corrupt exercise? Does one exist in this country?

]]> By: DonS https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/#comment-2457362 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:20:24 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90128#comment-2457362 The left only cares about power. If they retain power it doesn’t matter if things “return to normal”.

]]> By: Democrats Have Been in Constant “Attempted Coup” Mode Since 12:01am 11-7-16 | The Universal Spectator https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/#comment-2457358 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:26:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90128#comment-2457358 […] NEO: The Steele dossier and the whistleblower complaint were just the pretexts for the investigations […]

]]> By: Mike K https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/#comment-2457323 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 22:23:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90128#comment-2457323 Oh yes. That’s what the two week recess is about.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/#comment-2457321 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:45:40 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90128#comment-2457321 Here’s more on Pelosi’s shenanigans. This impeachment business has been a set-up every which way from the beginning.

In December 2018, the soon-to-be Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was busy making changes in the House rules for the incoming 116th Congress. She was actually setting the stage for her anticipated impeachment of President Trump. At the time, The Conservative Treehouse’s “Sundance” wrote, “Remember when we warned [November 8th, 2018] that a convergence of left-wing groups, activists, DNC donors and specifically the Lawfare team, would align with (and meet) incoming Democrat leadership to construct a road-map for the “resistance” priorities? Well, exactly that planned and coordinated outcome is visible as incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi presents her new rules for the 116th congress.”

House Democrats are currently using those new rules to subvert historic processes and prepare the articles of impeachment.

https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/09/29/nancy-pelosis-december-2018-rule-changes-block-republicans-participating-impeachment-process/

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/#comment-2457320 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:39:42 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90128#comment-2457320 Earlier physicsguy asked:

Isn’t all these subpoenas etc all toothless until the House actually votes for an inquiry? Pelosi just saying there’s no an inquiry seems to lack any actual authority.

I seconded his question and have been on the look-out for more definitive information. Here Byron York touches on the subject. It is as I suspected. Pelosi has set up this “inquiry” in murky procedural waters.

On Tuesday, Pelosi made an “address to the nation” on the Ukraine matter. “Today, I’m announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry,” the speaker said, adding that she has directed six House committees to go forward with investigations under the “umbrella” of the just-announced inquiry.

Nowhere in Pelosi’s remarks was any indication that she would have the House vote to begin a formal inquiry. That was a break from past presidential impeachments. On Oct. 9, 1998, the House voted 258 to 176 to begin a “broad, open-ended impeachment inquiry,” in the words of a New York Times headline. The vote forced lawmakers to make a big decision, even though it was only to start an inquiry, and not to approve any particular articles of impeachment.

Now, there’s been no vote. That might become a problem in coming days when the House seeks to enforce subpoenas in the impeachment investigation. If lawmakers seek to get grand jury information, or to pierce executive privilege, they will be in a stronger position if they are conducting what courts recognize as a “judicial proceeding” — in this case, an impeachment inquiry. But it’s not clear whether judges will recognize Pelosi’s because-I-say-so inquiry as having the same standing as an inquiry voted on by the entire House.

–Byron York, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/eight-keys-to-the-coming-trump-impeachment-fight

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/#comment-2457298 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:52:25 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90128#comment-2457298 I think trump is done, the deep state has check mated him, he will be impeached and eventually convicted.

I guess our population of barroom fantasists cancel each other out.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/#comment-2457297 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:50:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90128#comment-2457297 The Clinton Machine is planning for a rematch, and it is succeeding.

Only in the space between your ears.

]]> By: Dick Illyes https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/#comment-2457296 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:33:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90128#comment-2457296 After finishing the previous comment I saw this link on Drudge: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/with-biden-damaged-and-warren-surging-could-hillary-clinton-still-enter-the-presidential-race

I think there will be a pump of one or more male Democratic Governors as the next step. Hillary needs a VP with some supporters.

She will never enter any primaries but will keep the world in suspenseful anticipation until the weeks before the Convention. At the proper time she will announce that she is willing if the Party demands it.

Not sure which governors but I am sure some hard working Clinton strategists have it scoped out.

]]> By: Dick Illyes https://thenewneo.com/2019/09/28/the-steele-dossier-and-the-whistleblower-complaint-were-just-the-pretexts-for-the-investigations/#comment-2457292 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 09:44:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=90128#comment-2457292 Horowitz, Huber, and Durham will come up with a lot but it will only be covered properly by some of Fox. WAPO and NYT and CNN will ridicule it and explain it away. It unfortunately will not be a game changer, and it will be slow moving.

There is a Deep State, created during decades of Cold War with an actual enemy determined to rule the world. It now has nothing to do. It does what all bureaucracies do, expands and protects itself.

I am optimistic about the eventual outcome. I think all this is necessary to have true reform, which I think will come when Trump takes both houses against the second coming of Hillary, and takes them after running on a true drain The swamp platform.

I believe the Clinton Machine is the organizing force. They created Mueller, and when that didn’t work created Ukraine. They have a clear goal, power, while the other Dems are mostly just trying to handle the problems that they see in society, although not in ways I would recommend.

The Clinton Machine is planning for a rematch, and it is succeeding. Next will come a surge by one or more Democratic Governors driven by non-stop MSM glorification. This will block Warren and provide a VP for Hillary. There will be praise of Hillary from prominent Democrats and GOP Never Trumpers, also publicized endlessly. She won’t actually campaign but will take the Convention.

IMO she will fail big, and she is the only one who can do it right. Trump will run on a platform of let him have a chance to govern, and drain the swamp, and take both houses with a clear reform mandate. All the crap we will have to live through for that to happen is necessary for reform to happen.

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