Pelosi will be handing Senate the impeachment articles
Pressured by her own caucus, Pelosi says the transfer will happen next week:
I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate. I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further,” Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote in a letter to colleagues.
The decision to release the articles came as fellow Democrats in recent days had started to voice frustration and impatience with the speaker’s approach. They stressed the urgency with which impeachment was treated at the end of 2019 and questioned why the House would then delay a trial by using articles as leverage.
Impeachment was a charade from the start, and Pelosi’s decision to delay made it seem even more of one (if possible). Many Democrats in the House see that and probably wish to get the whole thing over quickly so the public can forget about it by next November.
She’s dancing as fast as she can! The whole affair can now be seen as a case of hope not being a plan.
I give McConnell credit for his intention to duplicate the Clinton Senate impeachment model. It should be hard for Democrats to argue that’s unfair. Though they already are, of course.
Also I notice that when Democrats or the media mention McConnell’s approach, they fail to note that it is the same as the one for Clinton.
What a fiasco. It’s going to be hilarious when this forces Sanders and Warren to abandon the campaign trail right before the Iowa Caucuses. No, Pelosi is not smart enough to have actually planned it that way but the Left is going to be beyond bitter about it anyway.
Mike
Also I notice that when Democrats or the media mention McConnell’s approach, they fail to note that it is the same as the one for Clinton.
Cue Glenn Reynolds: If you assume the media figures are Democratic operatives with bylines and chyrons, it all makes sense.
It might be amusing to see what idiots Jerry Nadler’s committee decides to send as “managers” for the Senate trial. Schiff? Nadler himself?
There is a problem with Sen. Susan Collins, smuggie from Maine, and several unnamed self-righteous Senate persons, in cahoots with “others” who are not Senators, per the Washington Examiner.
New Englanders’ political and moral thinking make me viscerally ill.
Theirs is always the way of the truth and the light, even when it is the voice of the oft-re-elected murderer Ted Kennedy, may he roast in Hell. Or they are moral cowards and refuse to say NO. Sorry, Neo; you live among them.
I would sooner have a grandchild attend Texas A&M than Harvard, even with a full scholarship only to H. There is a decency among the Aggies that does not exist at the H place.
New Englanders’ political and moral thinking make me viscerally ill.
Cicero: I blame Emily Dickinson!
Not really. But it is an interesting question — what makes New Englanders different? My guess is the early settlement of Puritans in Massachusetts.
It’s not hard to see the New Left and Feminism as kinds of 20th C. puritanism.
Cicero
I would sooner have a grandchild attend Texas A&M than Harvard, even with a full scholarship only to H. There is a decency among the Aggies that does not exist at the H place.
You may recall a deranged liberal, at the time a city councilwoman for the Houston suburb of West University Place, who gained her 15 minutes of fame in 2018 by yelling “Grab ’em by the pussy” at teen girls, one of whom had the effrontery to wear a Trump T-shirt. Houston Area Councilwoman Slapped With Misdemeanor for Berating Trump Shirt Wearing Teenage Girl. (Charges were later dismissed.)
Guess what? Kellye Burke is an Aggie.TDS Hits West U in Houston.
The lefty insanity has hit all universities, A&M included- though A&M is less affected than Harvard.
What she did was kind of like watching the show Cops…
But not the cops, the occasional victim, who had no record, had no parking tickets, and would have only gotten a ticket. But thought in some way, they could run, and rather than pay a little get away and pay nothing – but instead, ended up with a prison sentence for a list of offenses.
Edgar Allan Poe in his literary criticism of the 1840s (which some consider to be his finest work, and this was what he was best known for in his time) railed against the New England literary salons of the time, who preached that all literature should be “uplifting” above all else.
This notion of art having a quasi-religious purpose has persisted in America (as opposed to, say, France), translated into the push for propagandistic novels of the Left during the 1930s to today’s domination of New York publishing by female editors who only want novels with “strong female protagonists” and/or books by black or multicultural authors — who will never see a discouraging or bad review.
And so, we now have a situation in which females buy 75% of all hardcover books. Young male writers are pushed into the genres, but even there successful male writers who put out a book a year are turning to female heroines — one prime example being Michael Connelly, who now features a ridiculous female cop to largely supplant his aging Harry Bosch.
I saw the beginnings of this in the 1990s, when I was reviewing books for the L.A. Times. A novel by a lesbian had to be reviewed by another lesbian, a book by a black reviewed by another black. Which meant these were all, automatically, positive reviews. Because it was all in service of the Struggle.
Back in 1959, in his influential essay, “A Look at the Talent in the Room,” Norman Mailer surveyed all the other prominent novelists in America, and said that he couldn’t find any woman writer to include. Well, he was overlooking Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers and Mary McCarthy, all of whom were certainly as good as some of the male nonentities he included on his list.
So the pendulum has swung. Hard.
huxley, there’s a great book called Albion’s Seed that discusses the four original settlements here — including, of course, New England. Explains a whole lot about our different social perspectives!
Sarah Rolph: I’ll check the libraries for the book.
It must have been astonishing (not to mention hard) to be among the first English settlers in the New World.
Every five or ten years I check if there has been any news on the “Croatoan” mystery in which the entire colony on Roanoke Island (North Carolina) had disappeared the next time a ship came to check on them.
They still don’t know whether the colonists were massacred or the colony failed and they were absorbed into the Algonquin tribes or a giant UFO came and took them away.
huxley, there’s a great book called Albion’s Seed that discusses the four original settlements here — including, of course, New England.
Very good book. The four English groups are: Puritan, Cavalier (Va.), Midlands/Quaker, Scots-Irish. I have ancestors from all four groups. The Puritan ancestors turned Quaker while still in Massachusetts, and got out of Mass. when William Penn established the Pennsylvania colony. Instead of “I wasn’t born in TX but got there as soon as I can,” my ancestors had this bumpersticker: “I was born in Mass. but got out as soon as I could.”
I was born and raised in New England. My parents were from flyover country, but moved to New England for my father’s job. I disliked the racism of my flyover grandmother (who had no problem with her daughter-in-laws’ mixed race -part Indian- background). While still in high school I concluded that I similarly disliked the “our shit doesn’t stink” attitude of many in New England. Many in New England believed that racism was something confined to the South, but courtesy of a lifelong friend whose father was a Tuskegee airman, I was quite aware at an early age that racism was found everywhere- not just in the South.
I recommend Joseph Bottum’s An Anxious Age: the Post-Protestant Ethic and Spirit of America. He points out that many secular Americans have retained from their religious grandparents the desire to belong to the elect. Instead of a religious creed, the secular today define belonging to the elect by adherence to the social narratives of the day- call it wokeness. The Depolorables are the damned, because they don’t believe the wokeness creed- nor do they change their beliefs according to the “wokeness” narrative de jour.