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If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Isn’t Lying, We Kind Of Get Where He’s Coming From…
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One of the first things McConnell felt compelled to say when taking to the floor of the Senate this week was:
“Nobody. Nobody will dictate Senate procedure to United States Senators.”
To see a clip of that, click here or on the photo at the top of the piece.
In other words: the House of Representatives ain’t going to tell the Senate how to conduct its business. That seems fair: we wouldn’t want people coming into our house and telling us how to do our business either.
And that gives us some hope — faint hope, but hope — that we might get some witnesses. Even though Republicans have held completely firm against that so far.
A lot of what’s made it easy for fence-sitting Republicans to side with their more blindly Trump-boosting party mates thus far, is that they can hide behind the argument that they don’t take their marching orders from Nancy Pelosi. On-the-fence Senate Republicans like Mitt Romney (UT), and Susan Collins (ME), have echoed McConnell’s point: they want to make their own decisions, as Senators, after hearing arguments for themselves. Not just doing what the Democrat-controlled House says they should do.
