Breitbart: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has joined forces with 12 other Republicans to co-sponsor a resolution introduced Monday by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) to dismiss the articles of impeachment approved by House Democrats last month.
A press release issued by Hawley’s office Thursday revealed that the Senate majority leader has signed on to the resolution “to allow for the dismissal of the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump for failure to prosecute,” adding:
The Hawley rule has gained momentum since its introduction on Monday. Leader McConnell joins 12 other co-sponsors including Senators Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
In a move described as unprecedented by Republican lawmakers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is holding hostage the two articles impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — approved nearly exclusively along party lines on December 18. No Republican voted in favor of the articles.
Hawley’s resolution states:
If, following adoption of such articles, the House of Representatives does not so notify the Senate or otherwise provide for such articles to be exhibited to the Senate within 25 calendar days from the date of adoption of such articles, as recorded in the Journal of the House of Representatives, such articles shall be deemed exhibited before the Senate and it shall be in order for any Senator to offer a motion to dismiss such articles with prejudice for failure by the House of Representatives to prosecute such articles. Such motion shall be adopted by an affirmative vote of a majority of the Senators, duly chosen and sworn, without debate by the yeas and nays, which shall be entered on the record.
Asked how long she is planning to hold onto the articles of impeachment during her weekly press conference Thursday, Pelosi proclaimed, “I’m not holding them indefinitely. I’ll send them over when I’m ready. That will probably be soon.”
Senate Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY) proclaimed on Wednesday from the House floor:
There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure. We will not cede our authority to try this impeachment. The House Democrats’ turn is over. The Senate has made its decision.
Pelosi has no leverage in the Senate, he added. read more
Wow. Ol’ Mitch is using his one monthly sperm cell already and here it is only the 9th.
“You have no power here! Begone, before somebody drops a house on you!” ~ Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, 2020
Pelosi is one of the most corrupt, odious figures in American public life. She’s essentially bought and paid for by foreign powers hostile to our country, and she’s been skimming kickback money for years, as well as engaging in insider trading.
She’s an obnoxius asshole, to boot. Give her the boot, America.
This is what Pelosi wants. Although she knows that the impeachment articles are pure, undiluted bullshit, the Senate dismisses the impeachment articles, then she gets to scream about partisanship, and the evil Republicans who want to subvert justice, and make Trump into an Emperor. It’s the only way out for her. She knows damn well that the Demonrats stepped on their collective dicks by trying to impeach Trump.