Nancy Pelosi says House will not hold formal vote on impeachment inquiry. (borders, foreign)

[bobbythegreat]

Originally Posted by cuebald

False analogy. Rape is not a matter of votes.

A majority voting in the House to stop the Impeachment Inquiry would stop it. They have no such intentions.

The idea that consent is not important is rapist logic. "They'll stop me if they don't like it" wouldn't really hold up in court as consent.

[hooligan]

Originally Posted by bobbythegreat

The idea that consent is not important is rapist logic. "They'll stop me if they don't like it" wouldn't really hold up in court as consent.

It doesn't matter, this isn't a court or a lovers' relationship and consent is needed at this point.

[bobbythegreat]

Originally Posted by hooligan

It doesn't matter, this isn't a court or a lovers' relationship and consent is needed at this point.

That's just the thing though, if the illegitimate inquiry wants to override executive privilege where do you think that's headed?

Without that consent, court won't be fun.

[jbtornado]

Originally Posted by PilgrimsProgress

Nervous Nancy will 'retire' when Repubs take back the House in 2020. Too humiliating to be demoted

How? all the retiring republicans in the house means they'll take over it now? Can I have what you are smoking?

[hbdwihdh378y9]

Originally Posted by cuebald

Trump's got Trouble in River City...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mick-mulv...172754696.html

The headline is a lie of gargantuan proportions. Aside from liars lying loudly, there is no "trouble".

[Donna-501]

Originally Posted by bobbythegreat

The evidence being the transcript of the phone call indicates that he did nothing wrong. I think Democrats were banking on him not releasing that so they could very away with lying about what was in the phone call without anyone being able to prove otherwise.... but now that it's out anyone can see that there's no wrongdoing at all.

Obviously that won't stop some from still suggesting otherwise, but that's just how partisan politics works

Mick Mulvaney's assertion was the first time a White House official has conceded Trump set up a quid quo pro scenario in which money approved by Congress for Ukraine was used as leverage, though he defended the arrangement as standard practice.
https://news.yahoo.com/mick-mulvaney...175437594.html
I am sure that you are fine with that but I would think that the majority of voters are not.

[Donna-501]

Originally Posted by zzzSnorlax

B..b..but if the investigation is done in private, how will we spin up smear machines on all the witnesses!? And how will we coordinate all our t..t..testimony!? If they wont let us coordinate our testimony people will know we are l...l...lying!

[hooligan]

Originally Posted by bobbythegreat

That's just the thing though, if the illegitimate inquiry wants to override executive privilege where do you think that's headed?

Without that consent, court won't be fun.

It's neither "illegitimate", nor "unauthorized", despite your repeated protestations.

Let's cross the executive privilege bridge when we get there, shall we?

[bobbythegreat]

Originally Posted by Donna-501

Mick Mulvaney's assertion was the first time a White House official has conceded Trump set up a quid quo pro scenario in which money approved by Congress for Ukraine was used as leverage, though he defended the arrangement as standard practice.
https://news.yahoo.com/mick-mulvaney...175437594.html
I am sure that you are fine with that but I would think that the majority of voters are not.

So then you're upset at Obama and Biden doing the exact same thing right? Don't just feign outrage when you are told to.

[bobbythegreat]

Originally Posted by hooligan

It's neither "illegitimate", nor "unauthorized", despite your repeated protestations.

Let's cross the executive privilege bridge when we get there, shall we?

That's a factually inaccurate statement, ther inquiry was not authorized. Now feel free to say that you don't think it should be, just don't lie about it when it's so easy to prove definitively that it wasn't authorized.