Impeach!
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With such a slim majority in the House, what's the likelihood that this'll pass?
I put it at something like 100%. Maybe 50% chance we’ll see up to a small handful of GOP votes.
Several senior House Republicans join efforts.
The push for an unprecedented second impeachment of President Trump took a dramatic bipartisan turn Tuesday, as several senior House Republicans joined the Democratic effort to remove Trump for his role in inciting an angry mob to storm the Capitol last week and the White House braced for more defections.
Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the third-ranking House Republican, and Rep. John Katko (N.Y.), the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, both held Trump responsible for Wednesday’s violence. They were joined by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a frequent Trump critic.
“The president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” Cheney said in a statement, adding, “There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
And this:
A senior administration official said the White House expects at least a dozen House Republicans to support impeachment.
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Mitch McConnell, with nothing to lose, is pleased with impeachment:
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, has told associates that he believes President Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he is pleased that Democrats are moving to impeach him, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party, according to people familiar with his thinking. The House is voting on Wednesday to formally charge Mr. Trump with inciting violence against the country.
At the same time, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader and one of Mr. Trump’s most steadfast allies in Congress, has asked other Republicans whether he should call on Mr. Trump to resign in the aftermath of the riot at the Capitol last week, according to three Republican officials briefed on the conversations.
While Mr. McCarthy has said he is personally opposed to impeachment, he and other party leaders have decided not to formally lobby Republicans to vote “no,” and an aide to Mr. McCarthy said he was open to a measure censuring Mr. Trump for his conduct. In private, Mr. McCarthy reached out to a leading House Democrat to see if the chamber would be willing to pursue a censure vote, though Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ruled it out.
Taken together, the stances of Congress’s two top Republicans — neither of whom has said publicly that Mr. Trump should resign or be impeached — reflected the politically challenging and fast-moving nature of the crisis that the party faces after the assault by a pro-Trump mob during a session to formalize President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s electoral victory.
I'm not sure Mitch knows exactly what he is doing.
I understand he's feeling heat from the money people, but all the money in the world won't do you any good if your ground troops walk away.
wrote on 13 Jan 2021, 01:08 last edited byMitch McConnell, with nothing to lose, is pleased with impeachment:
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, has told associates that he believes President Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he is pleased that Democrats are moving to impeach him, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party, according to people familiar with his thinking. The House is voting on Wednesday to formally charge Mr. Trump with inciting violence against the country.
At the same time, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader and one of Mr. Trump’s most steadfast allies in Congress, has asked other Republicans whether he should call on Mr. Trump to resign in the aftermath of the riot at the Capitol last week, according to three Republican officials briefed on the conversations.
While Mr. McCarthy has said he is personally opposed to impeachment, he and other party leaders have decided not to formally lobby Republicans to vote “no,” and an aide to Mr. McCarthy said he was open to a measure censuring Mr. Trump for his conduct. In private, Mr. McCarthy reached out to a leading House Democrat to see if the chamber would be willing to pursue a censure vote, though Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ruled it out.
Taken together, the stances of Congress’s two top Republicans — neither of whom has said publicly that Mr. Trump should resign or be impeached — reflected the politically challenging and fast-moving nature of the crisis that the party faces after the assault by a pro-Trump mob during a session to formalize President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s electoral victory.
I'm not sure Mitch knows exactly what he is doing.
I understand he's feeling heat from the money people, but all the money in the world won't do you any good if your ground troops walk away.
Mitch is a human calculator. Usually a pretty good one. The example that always sticks in my mind is when he literally filibustered his own bill when the Dems unexpectedly went for it.
TBD. Maybe he knows more than we know.
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Impeachment is 100% appropriate. But for him, Wednesday would not have happened.
The moral hazard problem is real.
We must impose real costs on Hawley and Cruz. We can’t be doing this every 4 years.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2021, 04:04 last edited by Jolly
All guaranteed by the three Boxes.
The soap Box, the ballot Box and the cartridge Box.
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the people you don't agree with,
That's the problem. You seem to want to frame this as a disagreement. Disagreements don't end with a police officer beaten to death. A woman shot. Another officer killing himself.
This wan't a disagreement and it wasn't the blitzkrieg. Quite obviously it's something in the middle and it has yet to be determined how to properly label what happened. This binary horseshit is how we stay on the road you keep talking about.
wrote on 13 Jan 2021, 04:06 last edited by@aqua-letifer said in Impeach!:
Another officer killing himself.
Wow, what did he ever do to the Clintons?
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@aqua-letifer said in Impeach!:
So is this another liberal conspiracy against Trump again, or what?
5% of republicans? Sounds low before partisanship ruled the say.
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@aqua-letifer said in Impeach!:
So is this another liberal conspiracy against Trump again, or what?
Cheney might as well pack her bags.
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In the Senate the number of GOP that vote to impeach would be the equivalent of 1/2 of 1 person.
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@aqua-letifer said in Impeach!:
So is this another liberal conspiracy against Trump again, or what?
5% of republicans? Sounds low before partisanship ruled the say.
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I'm glad that the (2nd) greatest deliberative body in the world took two hours to discuss this!
ETA: I'm not saying it was, or was not, justified. However, the rushed push for impeachment, with no discussion, no evidence, etc reeks of nothing but partisanship and hatred.
What, other than preventing the unlikely possibility of him holding federal office again (and, c'mon, how likely was that?) what is the point of this exercise other than being a demonstration of a temper tantrum?
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@aqua-letifer said in Impeach!:
partisanship
Yes, everything against Trump is partisanship.
5% is now being pumped all over the media as historic bipartisanship. Explain that to me please. Seriously.
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@aqua-letifer said in Impeach!:
partisanship
Yes, everything against Trump is partisanship.
5% is now being pumped all over the media as historic bipartisanship. Explain that to me please. Seriously.
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@aqua-letifer said in Impeach!:
5% is now being pumped all over the media as historic bipartisanship. Explain that to me please. Seriously.
It is. Partisanship is a huge issue.
My point was that a democrat voting for impeachment is not necessarily due to partisanship.
I agree, I would have been much more supportive if not for the first impeachment.
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@aqua-letifer said in Impeach!:
partisanship
Yes, everything against Trump is partisanship.
5% is now being pumped all over the media as historic bipartisanship. Explain that to me please. Seriously.
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I'm glad that the (2nd) greatest deliberative body in the world took two hours to discuss this!
ETA: I'm not saying it was, or was not, justified. However, the rushed push for impeachment, with no discussion, no evidence, etc reeks of nothing but partisanship and hatred.
What, other than preventing the unlikely possibility of him holding federal office again (and, c'mon, how likely was that?) what is the point of this exercise other than being a demonstration of a temper tantrum?