{"id":38813,"date":"2020-01-29T09:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38813"},"modified":"2020-01-29T09:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:45:22","slug":"dont-get-your-hopes-too-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/29\/dont-get-your-hopes-too-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Get Your Hopes Too High"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember that Democrats were about to add a public option to the ACA, commonly known as ObamaCare.  Sen. Chuck \u201cSnake in the\u201d Grassley [R-IA], told Majority Leader Harry Reid [D-NV] that Republicans needed just a little more time to agree on their ideas to make the ACA a truly bipartisan bill.  Reid agreed to hold up until after spring break.  During spring break Republicans used Koch Brothers\u2019 money to specially train, pay and send busloads od Tea Party extremists from community to community to attend Democratic town halls nationwide.  These Tea Baggers, aka Koch Suckers, lectured on non-existent Democratic death panels, disrupted meetings with threats of violence and blindsided the Democratic attempt to educate the public about the ACA.  They combined this with a national saturation ad campaign to spread lies about the ACA.  In the end, we got the ACA, but just barely.  And we did not get the public option, because we responded kindly to Republican calls for bipartisanship.  Now Republicans want to talk about a \u201cbipartisan\u201d deal on witnesses, because Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch says he doesn\u2019t have the votes to stop witnesses.  Instead of \u201cSnake in the\u201d Grassley, Leningrad Lindsey Poo is his new side-kick.<\/font><\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment trial is shifting to questions from senators, a pivotal juncture as Republicans lack the votes to block witnesses and face a potential setback in their hope of ending the trial with a quick acquittal.<\/p>\n

After Trump\u2019s defense team rested Tuesday with a plea to \u201cend now,\u201d Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell privately told senators he doesn\u2019t yet have the votes to brush back Democratic demands for witnesses now that revelations from John Bolton, the former national security adviser, have roiled the trial.<\/p>\n

Bolton writes in a forthcoming book that Trump told him he wanted to withhold military aid from Ukraine until it helped with investigations into Democratic rival Joe Biden. That assertion, if true, would undercut a key defense argument and go to the heart of one of the two articles of impeachment against the president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Bolton probably has something to offer us,\u201d said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here are a pair of video clips for you.<\/font><\/p>\n

McConnell says votes to block witnesses aren’t there<\/a><\/p>\n