Democrats Slam McConnell For Coordinating With WH On Impeachment – They Did The Same Thing With Clinton In 1998

A week after the official impeachment vote, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi has refused to hand over the recently adopted articles of impeachment to the Senate to continue the impeachment process.

The Hypocrisy Of The Democratic Party

While their leader holds the documents hostage, other Democrats have not passed up the opportunity to slam Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his decision to coordinate with the White House during impeachment procedure. A bold move, as it was the exact same thing they did with Clinton’s impeachment in 1998.

There are no set rules on the legality or allowances of coordination between the White House and Senate Leaders in an impeachment inquiry situation, so it seems natural for McConnell to simply take the very road that was carved out by a Democratic led Senate during the Clinton impeachment in 1999.  Leading senators began behind-the-scenes coordination with the White House regarding multiple impeachment-related issues.

Furthermore, the two parties shared a “secret signal” that triggered prearranged questions for the White House, allowing the Senate to avoid direct questioning from House representatives during the trial.

Democrats Have Been Hypocrites For A Long Time

Wielding veiled hypocrisy is hardly a new tactic for the House-dominating party.  In May, Democrats slammed the Senate Majority Leader for his past stranglehold on Obama’s supreme court nominee in 2016 while totally willing to fill a current vacancy at the end of the sitting president’s term.

However, a steadfast McConnell pointed out a distinct and historical difference between the 2016 and 2020 vacancies — the correlation of the president’s party with that of the Senate control. In both cases, he maintained that the GOP decisions were consistent with that of the last 20 presidents’ administrations — all the way back to Grover Cleveland.

“You’d have to go back to 1888 to find the last time a vacancy created in the Supreme Court in a presidential year was confirmed by a Senate of a different party than the president,” McConnell says.

Democrats have been consistent as well; their party leaders loudly proclaimed that “no one is above the law, not even the president,” during the impeachment inquiry hearings. Apparently the party conveniently forgot their stance on the roughly 12-million immigrants who have permeated the country illegally.

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