[Said McConnell:] Such a standard “would mean the president serves at the pleasure of the Congress instead of at the pleasure of the American people.” So for 230 years, Congress “required presidential impeachment to revolve around clear, recognizable crimes.” Yet on Wednesday, the House “opened the pandora’s box of subjective political impeachments. That 230-year tradition died last night.”
Tyler O’Neil : Dec 19, 2019 PJ Media
[PJMedia.com] On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned Democrats’ “partisan crusade” of impeachment, warning that Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives crossed a political “Rubicon” and “opened the Pandora’s box of subjective political impeachments,” a move that no previous House has done in American history. Citing the Founders, he urged the Senate to fulfill its constitutional role and counter the passions of the House. (Image: AP Photo-J. Scott Applewhite /via PJ Media)
“The Senate’s duty is clear,” he declared. “Only one outcome will preserve core precedents rather than shatter them into bits in a fit of partisan rage.” McConnell urged the Senate to reject the articles of impeachment in order to “serve the stabilizing, institution-preserving, fever-breaking role for which the United States Senate was created.”
Indeed, the Founders conceived of the Senate as a check on the passions of the people as expressed by the House of Representatives. The Republican leader argued that the Senate was created for just such a time as this…