The worry for Biden & Co. has NOT been the impeachment of Donald Trump…
That is a given….
Their worry has been the confirmation of Biden cabinet members and others that need the US Senate ok….
The feeling had been that if the impeachment article was sent to the US Senate right away ?
The Senate would HAVE TO stop everything and deal with the House indictment of the President…
It appears that some sort of ‘agreement’ has been reached….
McConnell will NOT seek to immediately address the House Trump action…
This would allow the Senate to resume normal business….
McConnell IS the Senate Majority leader until the two elected Democratic Senator’;s from Georgia get certified by their state and are sworn in…
That may not be on Tuesday…But could occur as late as Thursday Jan., 22nd….
On that date the US Senate is 50/50 Dem”s/GOP….
Vice President Harris would throw the majority to Democrats and Sen. Schumer will be elected to be the Majority Leader…
THAT will assure the Joe Biden people needing Senate confirmation get confirmation votes right away so they can go to work…
Biden White House officials will actually take over after Biden finishes his oath of office…
The action of a Trump self or Pence pardon has NOT been talked about recently…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) reiterated that any vote in his chamber on removing Mr. Trump from office would happen after Mr. Biden becomes president. Mr. McConnell called the office of Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York to say that he wouldn’t reconvene the Senate early to accept an article of impeachment, an aide to Mr. McConnell said. The Senate is scheduled to reconvene Jan. 19, which Mr. McConnell has said leaves no time for a vote before Mr. Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20….
Note…
The bottom line here is a conviction of Trump would NOT drop him out of office….Schumer publicly has pushed for an early Senate vote…But knows there would be 60 vote conviction margin….
But a conviction COULD enable Congress to deny Trump the ability to ever run for President and could strip him of post-Presidency benefits like lifetime Secret Service protection….
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Come On Keith….
Trump will NOT be removed for office and Biden will get his people confirmed in a timely matter….
One hopes that Schumer can somehow work deal with McConnell to lock Trump out running again and benefits….
What you just wrote has nothing to do with my comment. Nothing.
Still pretending that things will go back to normal I see.
The Senate will NOT vote to convict Trump to REMOVE him from office….
Schumer saying he’s in a rush makes NO sense for Biden……
Get past the emotional thing….
We NEED Biden to be able to hit the ground running…
Why are you addressing Keith?
james does that often. Who knows what he thought he read!
In addition, One peeve I have with James is that he replies to someones earlier comment when He wants to talk about something completely differently – instead of creating a new entry. So that when someone actually wants to reply to the origin comment, James’s unrelated comment will appear before it – which makes the conversation difficult to follow. James usually even replies to his own “Good Morning” comment,
This especially becomes a problem when you reply from your cell phone because you don’t have much space to begin with and each time someone replies you have even less space to post a reply.
Yeah he pulls that on me all the time.I checked out yesterday fairly early.
When I checked in this morning there was a comment by him beginning “Yo Jack “from last night
Hell I was a couple of brandies down the toad by then…Haha!