Pelosi v McConnell
Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe and I agree, the Pelosi tactic is brilliant:
“Don’t let Mitch McConnell conduct a Potemkin impeachment trial”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-let-mitch-mcconnell-conduct-a-potemkin-impeachment-trial/2019/12/16/71a81b30-202f-11ea-a153-dce4b94e4249_story.htm
If she and McConnell were involved in a chess match, this latest ‘Pelosi tactic’ would have to be characterized as a brilliant move.
By holding on to the Articles Of Impeachment until McConnell commits to a fair and impartial trial in the Senate, she is creating the scenario in which Trump and the Republicans can win in the Senate but lose in the ‘court of public opinion’.
She is making certain that the Republicans hang themselves with an obviously predetermined and contrived acquittal…
As I said in a previous post, “In the Court of Public Opinion, the Media Must Get It Right”.
If the media gets it right, after Pelosi is through setting the Republicans up by making them attempt to defend the indefensible, they should be able to make an easy slam dunk of the Republican shit show that they will try to pass off to the public as a fair and impartial trial as required by the Constitution.
Hence, Senator McConnell should be made to look like the political bigot he is…”
My comment at:
Two Gentlemen of the Old Confederacy on the Impeachment of Trump
