dianaiad
Well-Known Member
I am sorry to say that you don’t seem to understand what this vote is, or what the result of the vote will be. I am not going to try to explain this to you now, but I am sure that in the next couple days you will figure out your error.
But I say again with very near certainty, the vote will happen on Thursday just as Pelosi said it will. And it will pass.
And here is a hint. It will be the vote Pelosi has called for. Not whatever you are thinking.
the vote is to establish the rules by which the proposed impeachment inquiry (that is, an inquiry to find out if there is enough 'there' to have actual impeachment hearings). It is NOT impeachment hearings. It is certainly not a trial to see if y'all can kick Trump out of office.
But unless Pelosi is too obvious for even her side to handle, those rules will include an even handed access to evidence and witnesses; that is, each side has the same access to them as the other side does. Right now they don't. Pelosi and gang have access, the Republicans don't. Pelosi can subpoena people and call witnesses. The Republicans can't...because there is no official inquiry going on. Just claims and demands made by Democrats that Republicans aren't allowed to answer.
Do NOT tell me that I don't understand what this vote is. I very much do....and that's why I say that if anybody does something to sabotage the vote, it will be Pelosi. This...making this inquiry official, with actual rules...is not in the best interest of the Democrats, who have been calling for Trump's impeachment quite literally since the day after his election. She SHOULD have done this weeks ago.
No, if this vote happens, it will be in spite of her, not because of her. She is being forced to something she doesn't want, because right now she can do, say, subpoena and bully her way through with no opposition. AFTER the vote, if she hasn't made those rules so utterly and obviously one sided that even the most biased left winger can't swallow them, she won't have things all her own way.
And she doesn't want that.
.....and now, having read the draft of the proposal...good grief.
The first thing she does is state that the Republicans can have the right to subpoena ONLY with the concurrence of the democratic chair after submitting a request...and that the Democratic chair can say no way...., but there is no requirement that the Dems have to have the concurrence of the Republicans for subpoena power?
I wonder if any of YOU people will see the problem with that?
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