Truth Bombs From Cocaine Mitch

Sen. Mitch McConnell calls a charade a charade:

POLITICO Playbook: McConnell: Quit the charade, impeachment is a ‘political exercise’

By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN    12/23/2019

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL on “Fox and Friends” this morning: “Do you think Chuck Schumer is impartial? Do you think Elizabeth Warren is impartial? Bernie Sanders is impartial? So let’s quit the charade. This is a political exercise. … All I’m asking of Schumer is that we treat Trump the same way we treated Clinton.

“We had a procedure that was approved 100 to nothing -- Schumer voted for it, to go through the opening arguments, to have a written question period, and then, based upon that, deciding what witnesses to call. We haven’t ruled out witnesses. We’ve said let’s handle this case just like we did with President Clinton. Fair is fair.”

MCCONNELL was asked if he had spoken to Schumer: “Yeah, before we left town. Look, we’re at an impasse. We can’t do anything until the speaker sends the papers over, so everybody enjoy the holidays.”

“THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, if they think this is a very significant episode, can take it into account we’re voting [next] year. Most people that I run into, whether they are fans of the president or not, say, ‘Well, why don’t you just let us decide this. We’re in the middle of the election.’”

Interesting. So the door to calling witnesses remains ajar. I am confident Pelosi and Schumer believe McConnell will slam it shut with a procedural vote at the proper time so they want an upfront guarantee. As if. 

Comments

[Threadkiller]

MM, he told Bongino that he paid attention to Twitterers, he didn't specify which ones. Bongino's twitter army is on a completely different storyline that the DawsonSFields and TBeanzs. I could be wrong but I don't think Nunes was giving a shoutout to people who tweet that Comey is a White Hat.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/story/2019-12-23/attorney-general-adds-28-immigration-judges-including-two-in-california-border-courts

Total goes up to 465.

[Extraneus]

‘If they’re investigating me, they’re a–holes’: Giuliani rips Manhattan US attorney’s office

[Tom R]

Now that journalism for the most part is dead and replaced with Fake News and propaganda I for one appreciate the effort put in by the Twitter Sleuths to try and uncover the facts. I think it's a signal they must be doing something right when the Twitter Sleuths get banned, some permanently, by Twitter.

[MissMarple2]

TK,

I don't think so, either. What I think Nunes was saying is that he found them helpful because it gave them ideas on what they should look for and where to look.

That is not the same as giving an individual shout-out.

[Threadkiller]

The Sleuthers claimed all along the Nunes didn't know jack until he went to the Whitehouse and Trump's team filled him in on the actual spygate events. In that podcast Nunes clarifies exactly why he went to the Whitehouse and it completely and totally shuts down The Sleuthers claim. That leaves two choices.

A.) Nunes was giving a nod to The Sleuthers, who figured out that he has been lying for years, and continues to lie on Bongino's show.

B.) Nunes was telling the truth.

[Threadkiller]

I was typing as you posted, MM. Yes. I agree with you.

[Threadkiller]

It will be interesting to learn who Bongino's source has been. Nunes was impressed with that person's analysis.

[Tom R]

Bongino, who I like, is a very popular pundit, not a Twitter Sleuth.

[Threadkiller]

Thank God.

[Tom R]

TK @ 5:41

Can you tell me at what point in that 55 minute podcast Nunes states he was the person who notified Trump that Obama had been spying on him during the campaign? I don't have time to listen to the entire podcast so will skip straight to the pertinent part.

Thanks in advance.

[Jim Eagle]

TomR,

I put twitter sleuths, you, and other bloggers on this who post without any background in DC politics in the same category. Nothing you, or your compatriot thinkers influences one once of my thinking on what is true or false or right or wrong. I make my own decisions based on what I see as fallible and non-fallible. IOW's I discount internet discussions and look at the candidates experience, voting record compared to their pronouncements and if they are pro-2A, pro-life, and pro-Constitution. Pretty simple, actually.

[LB1901]

Who put the cocaine in Mr. McConnell's ovaltine?

[Threadkiller]

From Twitter:

Dan Bongino
‏
Verified account
 
@dbongino

Weissmann and Mueller...A Dream team of Bufoonery. - Don’t miss this clip from the Dan Bongino Show

https://twitter.com/dbongino

?

[Jim Eagle]

Devin Nunes told Dan Bongino in his interview that he and his staff paid attention to those sleuths, because it gave them ideas on where to search.

Why believe anything on the internet. Perfect platform for misdirectsion.

[Threadkiller]

Listen to it played in reverse, Tom. You will hear "red herring, red herring." It is right after that.

You can then superimpose it over your recording of Trump saying that Nunes is a pawn who needed spygate spoon-fed to him.

Your assumptions will really run high then. Good luck!

On the other hand, if you want to review the Nunes interview and point out his deception, that would probably fit the etiquette of Spygate Debate that you dismissed JohnH over.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

-- This is going to piss off a hell of a lot of Chinese.--

If you want to sap Christianity's strength make your country fabulously wealthy. If you want to strengthen Christianity try to suppress it.
When the first route falters they always fall back to the second.
There are north of 100 million Christians in China. Small as a percentage of the population but a whole lot of people and it continues to spread.

[MissMarple2]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/23/virginia-house-zoning-environment/

The idea is to get rid of single-family housing zoning. A war on suburbs.

[anonamom]

Not from the Babylon Bee! VA legislator wants to outlaw single family housing:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/23/virginia-house-zoning-environment/

[henry]

New license plates? “Virginia is for Pod People”

[Another Bob]

“Not from the Babylon Bee!”

They really are trying to turn the place into another Soviet Union aren’t they?

[Jim Eagle]

You should follow all the racism rows in the UK and Europe in general at the soccer games. And we are the racists per the Dems. BS.

[Barbara]

The Chicoms are now rounding up Bibles and demanding that all faiths re-write their holy texts to conform to the party line.

Matt @5:00 pm

Somewhat like the student on the last thread who wants to rewrite Puccini.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Sorry for the language but this story is too bizarre not to keep track of. This lunatic lawyer, Hook, with the lunatic client trying to shake down Allstate with a ludicrous claim was in the news a while back for the crazy demand letters he sent Allstate's lawyers;
Lawyer Who Told ‘Cumstain’ Opposing Counsel to ‘Pay Up Fuckface’ Is Off the Case.
So he was supposed to show up at a hearing to show cause this week but apparently didn't show. Or did he?

Hook’s clients have new lawyers now, and all parties had gathered in a California courtroom of U.S. District Judge Otis Wright to discuss Hook’s behavior, but the lawyer was nowhere to be seen. As the proceedings dragged on, Judge Wright told Hook’s former clients that he wouldn’t dismiss their case. That’s when Hook jumped up from the courtroom audience.

Judge Wright was pissed. “Were you hiding?” he said, according to ABA Journal. “Were you waiting to make a fashionable entrance?” According to law.com, Judge Wright and Hook traded words and Wright demanded Hook give up his license to practice law.

“I will not do that,” Hook said.

“Shut up,” Judge Wright said. “I want you to resign from this profession.” As of this writing, Hook is still allowed to practice law in the state of California.

There is no word on whether or not he went “batshit crazy on you mother fucking cock suckers,” as he promised to do in a November 23 email to Allstate’s lawyers.

The more extensive ABA Journal story on the hearing.

A guy has somehow achieved the impossible and managed to give lawyers an even worse name. Hilarious.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Sorry, Hook didn't have the lunatic client.
I was thinking of the Paradise couple trying to shake down PG&E with their claim of a $300 million emerald destroyed in the Camp Fire.

[Jane]

Emeralds can get destroyed by fire? Do they melt?

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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10m
Wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume that Republicans in the Senate should handle the Impeachment Hoax in the exact same manner as Democrats in the House handled their recent partisan scam? Why would it be different for Republicans than it was for the Radical Left Democrats?

[henry]

Jane, from a wiki comment, emeralds will fracture from heat.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Emeralds can get destroyed by fire?--

Only if they exist.

PG&E should call this guy.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.lifenews.com/2019/12/23/canada-may-allow-doctors-to-euthanize-teenagers-and-mentally-disabled-people/

Based on the opinion of the Justice Minister.

This is not something I think is a good idea. While I don't want people to suffer, I think there is too much room for machinations with this.

[jimmyk]

Sounds like “death panels.” Coming soon.

[Barbara]

According to gemology online, a fire that is hot enough to melt aluminium (@1200° Celsius) can damage an emerald. Emeralds are very heat sensitive and can fracture at around 850 degrees Celsius.

[James D.]

From the horrible article linked by both MM and anonamom:

“Single-family housing zones would become two-zoned,” Samirah told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Areas that would be impacted most would be the suburbs that have not done their part in helping out.”

To call that “Orwellian” would be an understatement...

[MJW]

TYK: Sundance called it.

Truly a bold prediction that the Dems wouldn't toss in the towel, and declare the issue moot.

[MissMarple2]

Yep - @Comey criminal wrongdoing on display...he knew that the Steele Dossier was "internet rumor" but used it to both 1) justify illegal collection on Team Trump and 2) lie to the President's face about the "intelligence" - pure corruption... https://t.co/pQPreOhrMx

— Tony Shaffer (@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y) December 23, 2019

Link goes to a Catherine Herridge tweet, which is less blunt and harder to understand.

[Threadkiller]

:-), MJW

I noted yesterday that he was completely wrong on the House SOTU invite. He said it wasn't going to happen.

I try to balance praise and scorn.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to video.

After the House vote, Democrats are having BUYER's REMORSE about impeachment and don't know what to do.

They know their case is falling apart in the eyes of the American people.https://t.co/NBN0fa3awV

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) December 20, 2019

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Virginia appears to be requesting California hold its beer.
We can't; according to Prop 65 it might cause cancer or birth defects.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to article (which will no doubt cause quid pro quo charges by the dems):

This is a giant step forward & great news for the Port of Charleston. I’m incredibly appreciative of President @realdonaldTrump, as well as my House and Senate colleagues.

The $138 million we secured is one of the most important milestones we have met!https://t.co/GrDwLx469S

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) December 20, 2019

[MissMarple2]

I agree 100%! https://t.co/lFUfnLefxT

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2019

Link goes to a Lindsey Graham post in support of Susan Collins.

[henry]

Thread on Nunes podcast.

https://twitter.com/mizdonna/status/1209242748336951296?s=21

Also links to the podcast.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to a thread by Lindsey Graham about Pelosi's unconstitutional behavior.

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1209130396388118528

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President. Link goes to the President's thread.

It’s time for @SpeakerPelosi, who claimed impeachment was a national imperative, to fish or cut bait.

Commit to sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate consistent with Constitutional obligations. https://t.co/QpSptWm34F

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) December 23, 2019

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
13m
NASDAQ UP 72.2% SINCE OUR GREAT 2016 ELECTION VICTORY! DOW UP 55.8%. The best is yet to come!

[MissMarple2]

Something to keep in mind if you are considering buying one of these kits:

https://www.wthr.com/article/pentagon-warns-personnel-not-use-store-bought-dna-test-kits

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
3m
STOCK MARKET CLOSES AT ALL-TIME HIGH! What a great time for the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats to Impeach your favorite President, especially since he has not done anything wrong!

[D]

McGahn and Bolton should just refuse to testify like Pagliano who set up Hillary’s server. He just never honored the subpoena.
I am sick of this whole stupid circus. Enjoy the Christmas season and ignore these morons.

[MissMarple2]

Jennifer Franco
@jennfranconews
·
1h
#NEW: The White House announces the appointment of Robert Blair— the Mulvaney aide who refused to cooperate with the House impeachment inquiry—as the Special Representative for International Telecommunications Policy, marking a notable promotion for Blair.

Tweet with screen cap of Press Secretary's statement:

https://twitter.com/jennfranconews/status/1209242807283486721

[Tom R]

JiB @ 5:51

Thank you for reminding us when it’s comes to DC politics you are the JOM #1 ranked DC Insider.

I make my own decisions based on what I see as fallible and non-fallible. IOW's I discount internet discussions and look at the candidates experience, voting record compared to their pronouncements and if they are pro-2A, pro-life, and pro-Constitution. Pretty simple, actually.

What exactly does any of that have to do with Spygate and the investigative efforts of the Twitter Sleuths?

[MissMarple2]

Yvonne Burton I'm Done Being Quiet
@_YvonneBurton
·
1h
What if all our foreign aid money is not actually going to the country, but to NGO's...what a great cover for Deep State to launder money to their favs?
========================================

Yvonne seems to be thinking along my lines.

[Threadkiller]

Donna Willett ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
From henry's link:‏

  @mizdonna 1h1 hour ago More Lee Smith

I asked Nunes what he thought about Comey
He is a conman and a liar.

Nunes - that's the PG version of what I told Smith about Comey

[D]

TomR:
Please stop insulting the people who post on this blog with sarcastic remarks.

[anonamom]

Some big news from my cousin, re: her husband, who's had four stents placed in two years to control his rapidly progressing coronary artery disease:

Hubs doc just called. His LDL went from 101 to 45 in 4 weeks, so “ keep up whatever you are doing and we’ll hold off on the $150,00 injections.” Merry Christmas to us and thanks Dr. Gundry.

Her DIL developed diabetes, and is treating it by going lectin free re Plant Paradox, and suggested her FIL give it a try.
Upside--my cousin is off her Ulcerative Colitis drugs too.

[MissMarple2]

Steve Milloy
@JunkScience
·
3h
How 'green' is the footprint of a wind turbine?

- 45 tons of rebar
- 600+ cubic yards of concrete
- Permanent foundation
- Dead birds/bats
- Eyesore
- Disposal nightmare
- Rare earth mining disasters in China

That's how green.

[Tom R]

TK @ 6:03

I’ll take your snark as confirmation Nunes didn’t say what you claimed he did and you were just making it up. You posted 4 and 10 minutes after MM linked to the 55 minute long podcast so I didn’t think you had even listened to it yet.

[MissMarple2]

CHIZ
🇺🇸
@CHIZMAGA
·
14m
If Pete Buttigieg becomes President, he’ll be the second President to have a spouse with a Penis.

[Threadkiller]

There was a Dirty Jobs episode, MM, where Mike Rowe went up into one of those wind monsters. He had to drain gallons of oil out of the transmission that converts propeller rpm to generator rpm. It is a violent environment in the gearbox trying to subdue att the torque created by the large blades. The oil gets destroyed at a rapid rate due to the heat and friction, so changing oil is a frequent operation.

Idiots.

[MissMarple2]

https://newsbreakinglive.com/2019/12/23/dozens-indicted-by-grand-jury-in-massive-atlanta-child-sex-sting/

"Police in Atlanta say that 24 people have been indicted in “Operation Interception,” which sought to crack down on child sex trafficking during this year’s Super Bowl in Atlanta."

[MissMarple2]

TK,

Sort of like those electric buses they started running here where no one realized that the batteries don't keep their charge as long when the temperature gets below 50 degrees.

It's like no one does any research. Bah!

[Threadkiller]

Once again your"take" is a ridiculous assumption that you think benefits you.. Not a surprise.

The Nunes interview was posted yesterday.

Here is my take. I find it unrealistic that a person who has dedicated years to all things Spygate can't find 55 minutes to listen to one of the top 10 names involved on either side of this scheme.

It is almost as if you thought being clever with your question would provide cover for you not doing your homework.

I am probably wrong though.

[Jane]

Amom,

I’m not sure what all that meant but Congrats to your family!

[MissMarple2]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7822229/Waitress-single-mom-23-works-two-jobs-provide-son-given-1-000-tip.html

Great Christmas story!!

[Alex]

McGahn left in October ,2018 before the Ukraine dustup, so only issue is with obstruction in regard to discussion of firing Mueller. After Horowitz report in which FBI fudged the e-mail on Carter Page in March of 2017 and before Comey's firing which now everyone can agree was justified, any Mueller grand jury testimony should be deemed fruit of the poisoned tree.All 3 dem cases, on grand jury testimony, tax returns and executive privilege should be tossed by the supreme court.

[Jim Eagle]

TomR,

Very simple to your implied insult, I know how the place works and you don’t including the so called but laughable IC community. I was once part of it when I did my 10 years reserve duty at Bolling in Air Intelligence.

Stop pretending you are reading a comic book and considering it’s reality.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.wthr.com/article/us-awards-immigration-detention-contracts-california-1

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration awarded billions of dollars in contracts for private companies to operate immigration detention centers in California —- less than two weeks before a new state law takes effect to prohibit them.

[Tom R]

JIB @ 7:50

You've made it clear here numerous times that you consider that your DC Insider background means you think your opinion should have more weight than others. Maybe you didn't intend to sound like a snobbish elitist but that is how your 5:51 came across.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Making A Fortune: 19 Million Public Employees Across America Cost Taxpayers Nearly $1 Trillion
Warning; some of the salaries will induce considerable anger.

[Narciso]

If youre running a scam, functionality isnt a promary concern.

Look how easily this fusion scam with steele being copied by isikoff with winer as confirmation

[MissMarple2]

“When [GS] calls, D's always answer.”@RudyGiuliani @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/YPTZE0ocZG

— S⭐️E⭐️A⭐️N (@Cordicon) December 24, 2019

Link goes to Rudy Guiliani talking to Maria Bartiromo. A little over a minute. (GS is George Soros.)

[Narciso]

Following up

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-22/trump-impeachment-why-can-t-the-senate-start-a-trial-now

[Tom R]

I am probably wrong though

TK @ 7:47

Correct. Bongino is going to repeat whatever the Team Trump narrative is. I already know what that is.

[Jim Eagle]

I am proud to be a snobbish elitist TomR because I know more about DC than you will never know unless you spend my time there as both lobbyist and reservist. You are welcome to take your shots at me but it doesn’t disprove you don’t know what you are talking about.

Keep plugging that pig guy, it deserves it.

[Narciso]

Youve been batting .333 at best tom r, i dont immediately dusmiss sources like quanon, but i do considee the totality of their insights

[Threadkiller]

From yesterday, Tom.

Bongino interviews Nunes and talks about the spying that went on before Trump by Obama. Well worth checking out.

President Nunes...sounds nice.

Posted by: Rocco | December 22, 2019 at 10:20 AM

And that led into the next page:

https://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2019/12/saturday-morning/comments/page/4/#comments

Where I make several comments about the Nunes interview as well as relink the interview.

If you asked nice questions like, "did you have time to listen to the interview, TK?" Instead of you leading questions that falter because you didn't do any research, the Spygate dialogue would improve.

But, I'm probably wrong about that too.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Interesting article on the business cycle from an Austrian perspective.

[Alex]

So Tom R what hat is Mueller wearing so why allow the 19 page executive summary and not include grand jury testimony like Barr requested. Mueller was not on Team Trump and my opinion is that neither side wants a resolution at this point since they still have to sell a narrative for the next ten and half months to keep the viewers watching.

[Threadkiller]

Ahh.. Bongino is being deceitful with his audience.

Makes sense.

[GUS]

The little turd enjoys being a freakish ass hole.
I ignore the fuckwad.

[DrJ]

sell a narrative for the next ten and half months to keep the viewers watching.

FWIW, they have lost this viewer. All of them, other than the local weather report.

[Narciso]

Actually my description, of this as shadoe boxing re a whole panoply of mattera is accurate until the summer.

[Narciso]

Portents of the future:

https://kaus.substack.com/p/the-flight-94-election?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1q1VruRtJ1SU4DDuxzWOeEYAuM3EcUUPl4K3cZLuxE2O9PtTObNcG9fNc

[Alex]

Scott Adams labels Trump as the Great Persuader but I think the Great Promoter is amore Apt title. Trump in his WWE showmanship borrowed from Linda McMahon and his association with Don King knows how to promote a product and that is Maga that America can be exceptional if we allow it to be.
This whole impeachment seems to be a Trump production and I hope the curtain rises with the imperial wizards of the IC exposed rather than falls sometime in late October.

[jim nj]

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/23/trump-campaign-compete-against-groups-money-089454

Trump campaign plagued by groups raising tens of millions in his name

Outside entities are raising huge money in Trump's name, despite disavowals from the campaign, and spending little of it on 2020.

[Tom R]

TK @ 8:11

It appears I was wrong. My apology. Back to my original question. At what point in the podcast does Nunes point out it was him who notified Trump that the Obama administration had spied on him during the campaign?

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/ernie_plumley/status/1209233149995057152

This Twitter thread has 3 videos with Rudy Guiliani and OAN about Ukraine, corruption, Adam Schiff, and Joe Biden.

I notice Rudy is having to give interviews to non-mainstream networks for the most part, because the mainstream is locking him out.

Worth listening to.

[Threadkiller]

The Team Trump tentacles have spread much further than I would have ever imagined. The purveyors of The Narrative are shrewd and there is no telling where they might set up shop and perform their misdirection.

Is it possible that an expert on The Narrative would be so bold as to settle amongst a bunch of contrarians just to keep them off the scent? But, then again, throwing them off the scent would have them no longer trusting the authors of The Narrative, which would put them right back on the scent, to which The Narrative would immediately misdirect them again. And so on.

There is an important goal to be achieved by utilizing misdirection amongst loyal Trump supporters that have a different opinion. But is the goal seeker really sending us towards the goal, or is that misdirection as well?

I am certain that whomever solves this riddle will almost certainly have "Smart Sicilian" and "Iocane powder" on their resume.

[Tom R]

I am proud to be a snobbish elitist TomR because I know more about DC than you will never know unless you spend my time there as both lobbyist and reservist.

Now you know why your 5:51 was perceived as an insult. Thanks for telling the truth and confirming my perception.

[MissMarple2]

jim nj,

We need to find another source for that story, because Politico is anti-Trump, and one of the sources quoted worked for Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.

That type of article makes it look like the Trump Campaign isn't good with finances, which isn't true.

I am very suspicious of stuff from Politico.

[Narciso]

So effendi samirah wants to make every city like karachi or cairo, even though they have their own more selective burgs

[Threadkiller]

Tom, do me a favor. Please quote what I said @5:45, in its entirety, and demonstrate how your question was extrapolated.

Without you attempting to listen to Nunes, I fail to see how you structured the question the way you did.

[Narciso]

The tea party was often avictim of thos parallel fundrausing which weakened the base of finding to challengers

[Threadkiller]

Dinner calls.

[Jane]

Alex,

SO WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DEAL WITH MCGAN is? (I forget how to spell is name). Who cares about a discussion between Trump and his lawyer over firing Mueller, since he didn’t fire him? That’s what lawyers are for.

[Narciso]

So if theyee unregistered how do they know how much waa raised.

[Threadkiller]

Correction. Look at my 5:41.

[Narciso]

Theyre unregistered unless they have alink the fec page, i suspect the sourcong

[Jim Eagle]

TomR,

You are welcome. I am glad you found something to bitch about. You really are the most anal commenter we have ever had here. Keep it up and GUS will give you a gold star.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I'm not so sure that article previously mentioned here claiming the Senate can dismiss or try at any time is as iron clad as the author says.
In the Nixon case she cites, the House impeached Judge Nixon and sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate. The issue in Nixon was, could a Senate committee decision voted on by the Senate satisfy the Constitutional requirement for a trial. The Court said the Senate has plenary power on how it tries an impeachment case. It did not take up the question of whether it can act prior to the House forwarding articles of impeachment.
She bases her whole argument not on the language of decision of Nixon but on her interpretation in this paragraph;

The Court also held that no separate provision of the Constitution is defeated by such a plenary construction of the Senate’s authority. Therefore, not even the sole power of the House to impeach is defeated by the Senate’s sole power to acquit or convict. Boom. Just end it now, Mitch.

I'm not sure she hasn't got the argument exactly backwards from what she intends but regardless of what she meant to say, the jump she is making is not explicit or even necessarily implicit in the Nixon decision. The Senate's plenary power to try cannot be extinguished by the House. But when that plenary power exists is obviously dependent on the House's prior actions. She may be right, but it is not nearly as cut and dried as she states, IMO.

[Alex]

Not sure why McGahn ever spoke to Mueller in first place, plus who cares since the whole Mueller report should be deemed fruit of the poisoned tree.

[MissMarple2]

This is the greatest @SarahHuckabee introduction you will ever see:

Our production team at @TPUSA worked very hard to bring our conservative culture war heroes to the stage in hype-land style at #SAS2019.

We went hard on our sizzle videos for speakers.
I'm proud of this one 🔥 pic.twitter.com/DEqlz86cVw

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) December 23, 2019

Video at the link.