Dana Milbank, a regular columnist for the Washington Post, writes here about the bizarre behavior of House Republicans, who have no agenda other than impeaching Biden, censuring Adam Schiff, and punishing anyone else who doesn’t share their Trump-worship. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert got into a tiff on the House floor about whose impeachment resolution would be introduced first. Greene reportedly called Boebert a “little bitch,” for being first to offer a Biden impeachment resolution.These petty, vindictive people are our nation’s “leaders.”
Milbank wrote:
A couple of weeks before the midterm elections, Kevin McCarthy assured voters that House Republicans, if given the majority, wouldn’t be so rash as to go on an impeachment binge.
“I think the country doesn’t like impeachment used for political purposes at all,” he told Punchbowl News at the time. “I think the country wants to heal,” he added, and avowed that he didn’t think anybody in the Biden administration merited impeachment proceedings.
The voters gave Republicans a chance, awarded them narrow control of the House.
And now Republicans are starting their impeachment binge.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) rose in the House Tuesday evening after the last vote. “For what purpose does the gentlewoman from Colorado seek recognition?” asked the presiding officer, Rep. Russell Fry (R-S.C.).
The gentlewoman sought recognition to unveil a parliamentary maneuver that would force a vote within 48 hours on H. Res. 503, “Impeaching Joseph R. Biden Jr., president of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.”
No impeachment proceedings. No investigation. No evidence. No crimes. Not so much as parking ticket. Just a willy-nilly, snap vote to impeach the president, because Boebert dislikes Biden’s immigration policies. In her mind, “President Biden has intentionally facilitated a complete and total invasion at the southern border,” she charged on the House floor.
At this, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) flew into a fit of jealousy because Boebert had thought to use the maneuver (called a “privileged resolution”) to force an impeachment vote before Greene got a vote on her articles of impeachment against Biden. Boebert stole her impeachment articles, Greene whined to reporters, calling Boebert that name that every kindergartner fears: “Copycat.”
Congresswoman Jewish Space Lasers then confronted Boebert on the House floor and called her a “little b—-” who “copied my articles of impeachment,” according to a Daily Beast account that Greene confirmed.
But Boebert was unmoved — because she’s on a mission from God. She filed her impeachment resolution because “I am directed and led by Him … by the spirit of God,” she told the evangelical Victory Channel.
God could not be reached for comment…
McCarthy had tried to stall his caucus’s drive for impeachment by setting House committee chairmen loose to launch a series of overlapping probes into whatever catches their fancy. At least three committees are investigating Hunter Biden. At least three committees are auditioning impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. At least three committees are probing imagined “censorship” of social media by the administration. Multiple committees are pursuing fanciful conspiracy theories involving public health officials and the supposed “weaponization” of the FBI, the Justice Department and the rest of the government by the “deep state.” And, of course, the committees investigate anybody — Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg — who investigates Trump.
Exit polls in the midterms showed voters cared most about inflation and abortion, followed by guns, crime and immigration. Yet the House majority just passed a bill to expand access to a common mass-shooting weapon and is now moving tax cuts that would aggravate inflation.
There’s talk that House Republicans next month will take up bills further restricting abortion access — that is, if they can find time between impeachment votes.
Since any legislation to impeach the President requires a 2/3 majority in the Senate, this bill is obviously cheap grandstanding. But House Republicans choose to devote their time and energy to such displays of petty vengeance. Pathetic.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Diane Ungrounded vindictiveness knows no bounds. CBK
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I think Boebert and Greene have their talking orders from Traitor Trump —
“You will see that Biden ends up impeached in the House more than I was,” the traitor said, with his small mouth, so small, he had trouble getting the words out, as Boebert and Greene, on their knees, where licking his shoes clean.
Then the two got in a contest to see who could do a better job sucking those shoes clean.
When Boebert said she’ was doing it for god, she wasn’t talking about God, she was talking about Traitor Trump.
“I am directed and led by him (when referring to Trump, the him should not have been capitalized) … by the spirit of God,” she told the evangelical Victory Channel.
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Right on, Lloyd!
The REPUG-nI-CONS are totally unhinged and corrupt to the core.
Thank you.
I wonder how many RePUG-no-CONS are getting “Rubles from Russia?” There should be a song with this title.
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Why don’t these two just entertain their base with a real wrestling bout–mud wrestling. If only their antics were limited to a “sports venue”!
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Naked mud wrestling???
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EWWWWWW!!!!
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Milbank of all people should know better than to use the phrase gone. It implies that Republicans have not always or for quite a long time been “gone”. In”The Deconstructionists” he traces it back at least to the Vince Foster suicide being portrayed as a murder in spite of all the evidence, in spite of numerous committee hearings, in spite of Starr’s failure to find anything other than Suicide. Of course if you have no evidence of wrong doing than in the Republican mind the allegations must be true( !!!???? ).
No different than the cries that the Trump appointed Prosecutor covered up Hunter Biden’s wrong doing and made a sweetheart deal.
I would go back a bit further. Certainly to Nixon where there were severe regrets about his resignation in the face of horrendous crimes (as we know now including treason that cost the life of 20,000 + more boys) . I would go as far back to perhaps to Robert Taft !! Love of fascism is not new to Republicans.
https://www.salon.com/2023/01/07/making-excuses-for-dictators-is-nothing-new-mr-republican-and-the-nazis/
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Starr would later lose his job as President of Baylor over a sports/sex scandal. Ironic.
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Yeah, Kenneth was quite the piece of work. A hatchet man with the moral compass of parasitic wasp larvae.
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Bob Shepherd
Excellent
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And just what DO you know about parasitic wasp larvae’s moral compasses? Quite a specific example out of the blue, if you ask me. But then again, who’s asking?
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After Clinton won the presidency, but prior to his inauguration, Starr stopped James Carville walking through an airport and harangued him about what a disaster Clinton’s election was.
Later, of course, he was appointed Special Counsel to investigate Whitewater, but detoured when he didn’t find any wrongdoing and went on a sex hunt.
A loathsome cretin.
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The GOP is totally unhinged.
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The fallacy of your statement is in assuming republicans have hinges at all! 🥸
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lol here we go. You guys tried impeaching trump on a FAKEEEEEE russia hoax let by adam the liar. You tried impeaching over a phone call!!! yes a phone call!!!! Now there has been hard evidence of 10’s millions of bribes Hunter and Joe and that is just the tip of it and that is a problem ???? Nobody sees how compromised this scum is??? How much shelling to corrupt Ukraine? 100 billion!!!!!! Insanity! Just like when Obama gave 400 million cash to Iran.
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josh All now unread and immediately deleted. CBK
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Did you forget your Meds. snowflake.
“Myth: Mueller found “no collusion.”
Response: Mueller spent almost 200 pages describing “numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign.” He found that “a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.” He also found that “a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations” against the Clinton campaign and then released stolen documents.
While Mueller was unable to establish a conspiracy between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians involved in this activity, he made it clear that “[a] statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts.” In fact, Mueller also wrote that the “investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.”
To find conspiracy, a prosecutor must establish beyond a reasonable doubt the elements of the crime: an agreement between at least two people, to commit a criminal offense and an overt act in furtherance of that agreement. One of the underlying criminal offenses that Mueller reviewed for conspiracy was campaign-finance violations. Mueller found that Trump campaign members Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner met with Russian nationals in Trump Tower in New York June 2016 for the purpose of receiving disparaging information about Clinton as part of “Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump,” according to an email message arranging the meeting. This meeting did not amount to a criminal offense, in part, because Mueller was unable to establish “willfulness,” that is, that the participants knew that their conduct was illegal.
(Jesus I think I will Rob a Bank and claim I was too stupid to know it was a criminal violation)
Mueller was also unable to conclude that the information was a “thing of value” that exceeded $25,000, the requirement for campaign finance to be a felony, as opposed to a civil violation of law. But the fact that the conduct did not technically amount to conspiracy does not mean that it was acceptable. Trump campaign members welcomed foreign influence into our election and then compromised themselves with the Russian government by covering it up.
Mueller found other contacts with Russia, such as the sharing of polling data about Midwestern states where Trump later won upset victories, conversations with the Russian ambassador to influence Russia’s response to sanctions imposed by the U.S. government in response to election interference, and communications with Wikileaks after it had received emails stolen by Russia. While none of these acts amounted to the crime of conspiracy, all could be described as “collusion.”
Duh Mueller could not prove what happened to the material in Russia nor whether Trump was informed. Then again
Mueller was the only person in America who could not prove that the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens had to have seen the Ray Rice videos. Percisely why he was chosen “to land the plane”
Ken Starr would have had Hillary hanging from the poll on the WH lawn till her corpse rotted.
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Appreciate your doing the lifting for both of us! (I’m taking undeserved credit for thinking similarly to you.)
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Mueller did what a prosecutor has to: Decide if he could make a case, knowing that before he even asked for an indictment, he had know he could prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, as well as how to anticipate every defense tactic and argument AND how to overcome them. Only then could he go to the grand jury and ask for an indictment.
Believe me, it is MUCH harder than people think.
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jsrtheta
So let us say I am inclined to believe you about the standard of proof.
“I knew we were going to win because we were taking head shots while they were fighting with pillows”
(The now pardoned fat insurrectionist SOB in Floraduh. Along with two others pardoned from all things Russia. We always pardon the innocent in advance.)
I had the misfortune of reading an article in Politico in Early June of 2017 weeks after Mueller’s appointment that predicted exactly what Mueller would do.
It tempered my expectations and spun my head for 2 years.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/07/mueller-nfl-probe-rice-goodell-239216
That said, my original comment was about Milbank’s use of the description “gone” as if it were a recent event. I will give him a little literary leeway on that because he wrote a book on the subject where he dates it back to at least the Vince Foster “WITCH HUNTS ” After several Congressional Committees investigated, finding evidence for suicide and no evidence of foul play , after a Special Council concludes it was a suicide, Ken Star is appointed as an Independent council to investigate White Water, Vince Foster and anything his heart desires. Finding nothing illegal about White Water or nothing nefarious about Vince Fosters death. He goes on to public-ally refuse to put either issue to rest. Till one day Linda Tripp is directed to his office with a story about a consensual affair between consenting adults (regardless of the inappropriateness of the circumstances, adults!) Starr then violates DOJ procedure and ruins the life of that young woman by exposing that consensual affair. Forcing Lewinsky to answer questions when Starr knows Monica is represented by council who was not present, and should not have been questioned, should have been informed she can ask her lawyers be present. Instead he threatens her with a long prison sentence if she does not describe in full the lurid details of a consensual affair between adults. (frankly one of the few things Clinton did in office that did no harm to the working class and the poor.).
Starr’s assistant Brett the rapist Kavanaugh then takes that information to the Paula Jones legal team and sets a perjury trap for the President of the United States about a consensual sexual affair completely forgetting his own HS. and College days as a RAPIST. And the now Taliban Justice submits a list of the most humiliating questions he can think of to ask Clinton when he testifies to the Grand Jury. The details of which would of course be leaked to the Public .
(All detailed by Milbank in his book)
Oh yes the Trump Tower affair was not prosecutable because ‘attorneys!!!present and seasoned campaign operatives were too stupid to know better. And what was the dollar value of that information to the campaign. $25k is chump change not a large sum of money in a Presidential race.
By the way before the public learned about the Trump Tower meeting the treasonous conspirators had months of warning from a congressional source that the meeting was known about. That is to say months for them all to get their story’s straight. All 4 !!!!! of them, one who was an untouchable Russian. With the worst case scenario a Presidential Pardon after the Special Council gets fired.
Whether it was technically a provable criminal conspiracy or not , if the names and party affiliations were whited out the overwhelming majority of Americans would rightly or wrongly classify that as a treason against the U.S. not being at war a mere technicality. They would not make technical determinations.
The Cigar Room a clear quid pro quo. Manafort delivers Campaign data on polling , targeted communities and strategy to a KNOWN Russian Agent ( the Republican Senate Intelligence Committee’s description not mine.) In return Kilimnik delivered future plans for Ukraine. Mysteriously those communities are targeted in the GRU interference campaign.
At this point we are entering the twilight zone without even touching on Roger Stone or Fruity Rudy.
Forget Starr how would Durham have handled this investigation. Durham who had his long term assistant resign in protest over the political witch hunt he pursued before the election. Durham who had 2 other attorneys resign in protest over the cases he did bring. Durham who spent 4 years, twice as long as Mueller and then spun a report even after he batted 0/2 in record time in Court.
Mueller neither followed the money nor did he give an assessment of the foriegn intelligence investigation and implications . Sure he could have been fired. But there was no need to. Rosenstein had appointed the only man or woman in America who could look the American people in the eye and state he could not prove that Roger Goodell had to see Ray Rice beating his Girlfriend like a rag doll on nightly news for weeks.
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(Sigh)
I have spent my career listening to people who do not know the law, how trials work (and don’t work), and/or how juries work proclaim “It’s obvious! Anyone can see it!”
Then come the what-aboutisms.
Criminal prosecution requires an understanding of what works and, more significantly, what won’t. Every prosecutor has to accept that, while everyone believes a person guilty, charges should not be brought because the charges are unprovable, or the rules of evidence will exclude certain evidence, or certain jury instructions will lead a jury to acquit. Witnesses often say “I’ll tell you, but I won’t testify in court to that”. Or “I have to live here. He did it, but you DON’T have to live here, I DO”.
Some witnesses flip on you. Most witnesses will lie to you. A lot of witnesses just aren’t credible, due to prior criminal histories of their own.
Many, many guilty people go free because of such factors. The fact you are convinced a case is obvious means nothing. Neither of us knows all the facts of a case, nor the do the witnesses.
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jsrtheta
I conceded much of what you say. There were others on the Mueller Team and outside of it with I suspect plenty of prosecutorial experience, who felt Mueller was too timid. Were they not familiar with prosecutorial diligence and the perils of losing a case .
Start here:
“Weissmann offers a damning indictment of a “lawless” president and his knowing accomplices—Attorney General William Barr (portrayed as a cynical liar), congressional Republicans, criminal flunkies, Fox News. Donald Trump, he writes, is “like an animal, clawing at the world with no concept of right and wrong.” But in telling the story of the investigation and its fallout, Weissmann reserves his most painful words for the Special Counsel’s Office itself. Where Law Ends portrays a group of talented, dedicated professionals beset with internal divisions and led by a man whose code of integrity allowed their target to defy them and escape accountability.”
And after years of working for and with Mueller, Weissmann was hesitant to attack his old boss too harshly.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/andrew-weissmann-mueller-book-where-law-ends/616395/
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Lawyers disagreeing.
Will wonders ever cease?
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over a phone call
No, he attempted to bribe a foreign head of state and withheld essential military supplies to this ally as part of that. Can you read, Josh? This was, uh, in the news. I mean, in the actual news as opposed to the stuff you listen to.
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There soon will be a coup in Russia. Bye-bye to the bloody Chekist criminal Tsar. And the people of Ukraine will soon liberate Donbas and Crimea. Slava ukrayini! Heroyam slava!
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Perhaps you can get someone to read this to you, Josh:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Const. U.S. Art II, sec 4
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This is thing with little Hitlers like you. You accuse based on no evidence. You invent “facts” you can never prove. And you tolerate an overgrown brat who tries to extort a country’s leader in exchange for doing what the law already required him to do.
Zelensky is a national hero. He takes action for the defense of his country from another bully, Putin. He walks the walk and goes to meet his troops at great risk. Can you see Trump on the front lines?
Your hero is cowardly empty suit, a man who has grifted his way through life, a draft dodger like his grandfather, a phony.
He is soooo screwed. Jack Smith’s got him nailed cold on the presidential papers case, because he’s too stupid to keep his damned mouth shut. The actual leaders of the world laugh at him. He’s a bad joke.
BTW, visiting hours at the pen he’s bound for are on Sunday, loser. Bring your own Vaseline.
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What is so impressive to me is the way Smith and his staff laid out the legal brief. Anyone can read it and understand it without having to refer to dictionaries or other sources. I honestly can’t remember anything similar in my life (I haven’t read nearly as many as a law student would, but much more than the average bear.)
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It was a talking indictment. It left no room for a defense. It slammed every door in the defense’s face, stifled any possible quibbles, and left no doubt of guilt.
It was masterful. Best I’ve ever seen.
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jsrtheta I can agree with you 100 percent about the quality of the Smith indictment, and still say, if it were anyone else but Trump or any ex-president, it would the slammiest dunk in history.
But even that peters off into a fiction because I doubt anyone else besides Trump would have made it as far without being carted off to jail. CBK
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I do not quite understand why people have so much trouble separating the man from the office. Trump was elected to the office of the presidency; he did not deserve nor understand the honor that was being given to him. The office is still “unblemished.” The man is not. He deserves to spend the rest of his miserable life locked away. Power should not be the lever that determines whether you are held accountable for your “sins.”
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It’s a pity that so few will read it in its entirety. The Mueller Report was masterful, but too long and it required additional thinking. Not so with this indictment. And to think, there will be at least one more to come from that office! I really hope Fulton County DA is paying attention and being informed.
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Sometimes, CBK, you just go too far! 🧐
https://pasttenses.com/slam-past-tense
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Meme of the Day
Trump in Brief: It’s as though you took everything that is bad about America, scraped it off the floor, wrapped it in an old hot dog skin, and taught it to make noises with its face.
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Idiot in Brief is not something I choose to visualize. Too much long-term psychic damage possible.
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Fear not, Greg. I have done it for you:
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Bob . . . a face that looks like it was sorry it caught that goldfish. (Did I write that?) CBK
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haaaa. You did! And it is spot on.
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I wrote this on April 19, 2019, just after the Meuller Report came out. I read it in its entirety the day that it was released. It was clear that weeks later, almost none of our Repugnican Senators and Representatives and certainly none of the usual Fox News Trumpanzee pundits had read it. Doubtless, Josh, you didn’t read it either. Here’s my note from that day:
The Mueller report says quite clearly that it does not exonerate Trump.
I am quoting here from the Conclusion of Volume II of Mueller’s report, page 182:
“Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President’s conduct. The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
Mueller and his team decided at the outset that they would simply lay out the evidence and would not make a decision, pro or con, regarding whether the President committed crimes. In concluding the report, they say that if the evidence showed that he didn’t, they would say that. They don’t say that. The last clause in the report is “it also does not exonerate him.”
So, the right-wing reporting about this report, is simply misinformed. Read the report.
And, of course, predictably, Trump is claiming that the report does exonerate him when the report clearly says that it doesn’t. But Trump lies about everything. That’s to be expected.
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Another note on the Mueller Report that I wrote on April 19, 2019:
The Mueller report looks at 10 instances of obstruction of justice on the part of President Trump and finds that in six of these, all three criteria for obstruction were met. It also says that, according to DOJ guidelines, it is not the purview of the DOJ to make a prosecutorial decision with regard to a sitting president.
Attorney General William Barr said, in presenting the report, “Special Counsel Mueller did not indicate that his purpose was to leave the decision (about whether to prosecute the President for obstruction of justice) to Congress.”
But here’s what Mueller’s report actually says: “The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.” –The Mueller Report, Volume II, p. 8.
So, the Mueller report clearly indicates that that “Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office.”
Congress, it is time for you to do precisely that.
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Was I sleeping? Or did the House not impeach Trump twice?
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That note was written in April of 2019.
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I don’t think Boebert will be returning to Congress in 2025. Colorado continues to turn blue, and I think even the red parts of the Third District have had about enough. She’s brought them nothing but embarrassment.
Meanwhile, the loonies have taken over the state party and Republicans have been getting their butts kicked consistently.
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As far as Goofballs On Parade going bonkers is concerned, that ship of state sailed a long time ago.
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It sure did.
A host of loonies, the GOP,
in a cracked bowl, went to sea.
Had the bowl been stronger,
My verse would be longer.
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Boebert should be addressed as “the mean girl from Colorado” and MTG “the mean girl from Georgia.” GENTLEWOMEN they are NOT!
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“Mean girl” is much too restrained an epithet for me.
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A lot of gay men use MTG’s epithet for Boebert as a term of humorous, chiding endearment, ofc.
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“mission from God”
Religious sects (one in particular) are given special treatment. IMO, Wikipedia provides an example.
Father McCloskey of Opus Dei converted powerful politicians and influencers to Catholicism, to name a couple- Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and Trump’s Larry Kudlow (currently leading America First Policies, an organization that promotes the Trump agenda including school choice). McCloskey was born in 1953. In the mid- 1990’s a woman received a substantial settlement (donor undisclosed) after she made “credible” allegations against McCloskey. He would have been in his mid 40’s at the time. Larry Kudlow is described as converting in 2002. Wikipedia’s McCloskey entry adds a footnote about dementia impairing judgement. It followed the un- footnoted claim that at the time of the woman’s allegation, McCloskey was suffering from dementia. Was Brownback converted during the years McCloskey was into dementia? Btw- McCloskey didn’t die until this year.
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Correction- McCloskey was 49 at the time of the woman’s allegation. It was the same year that Brownback converted.
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Charlie Sykes response to the censure of Adam Schiff: “Congress: Meet Senator Schiff”.
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Yes! The GOP is giving Adam Schiff a huge boost in fundraising and visibility.
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Greene reportedly called Boebert a “little bitch,”
As they say, it takes one to know one.
And these two obviously two know each other very well.
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I’m with Greg. This country is close to ungovernable with this many utterly loonies in it.
Here, to me, is the most astonishing stat from the last year:
AFTER a Trump-inspired mob attacked the Capitol and police, built a scaffold, and searched the place chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” 147 Republican Senators and Congressmen WENT ALONG WITH THE INSURRECTION by voting not to accept the legally certified state electoral counts.
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cx: utter loonies
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I’m not sure I’m pleased you’re starting to agree with me.
And because it’s the best thing I heard this week, got this from Olbermann’s podcast, which has reached the level of his old MSNBC show; Marjorie Taylor Greene: Barney Rubble’s body double.
That’s as spot on as it gets. Only difference is hair length:
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I always wondered what Barney did after his initial success with that show! Perfect.
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Haaa. Don’t worry, Greg. I’m sure I can find something to grouse about as well.
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I always thought of her as being more cro-magnon-like, but Barney is close enough.
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We wake to an armed insurrection in Russia. Putin cites the need to avoid another Bolshevik Revolution in an address. His mercenary opposition is on the march, like Napoleon in 1814, unopposed. Stay tuned.
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Meanwhile, while these morons in the House are going about their moronic thing, like crazed captive monkeys throwing feces, . . .
the first of what is likely to be a series of coup attempts is taking place in Russia, . . .
and legislators in the sane world are studying the unfolding events, gathering intelligence on them, discussing and debating what might happen and what these events might mean, and planning how to react to various possible scenarios. You know, the stuff that actual leader do.
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cx: actual leaders
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History’s Actors
History’s actors
Lead the way
Malefactors
Lead astray
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Real Leaders?
“when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.“
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Others study
What they do
“In the Muddy”
Me and you
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Supposed to be the end verse to History’s Actors (above)
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Would the tiff between Greene and Boebert be a “Copycatfight”?
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By design, impeachment is a political process, not a legal one.
So, it’s actually not realistic to hope that it won’t be “politicized”.
If the Foundering Fathers didn’t anticipate that that would be the case, that just means they were engaging in wishful thinking.
What we are currently witnessing on various fronts are serious (perhaps fatal) flaws in our system of government.
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What we are currently witnessing on various fronts are serious (perhaps fatal) flaws in our system of government.
Agreed
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Did he or did he not violate his oath of office? It’s obvious that most Republicans chose to politicize their votes. His guilt was obvious. Did the Democrats seek to impeach Trump solely for political reasons? No!! The evidence was compelling. Too many ignored the fact that they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, not the man or the party.
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“Since any legislation to impeach the President requires a 2/3 majority in the Senate, this bill is obviously cheap grandstanding.”
One might have said the same thing about the tRump impeachment.
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Duane,
Back in the day when the Republican Party was led by sane moderates like Howard Baker of Tennessee, Nixon would have been impeached for Watergate. Maybe some Republicans would have been opposed, but many if not post cared more about his oath of office than his feelings.
In retrospect, Nixon’s misdeeds seem like Penny-ante theft as compared to removing top secret documents and refusing to return them.
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And penny-ante compared to
a. attempting to bribe a foreign head of state and soliciting a bribe from that head of state (calls with Zelensky)
b. committing sexual assault (attacks on E. Jean Carroll and many others)
c. running NUMEROUS parallel attempts in late 2020 and early 2021 to overthrow the elected government of the United States
d. kidnapping the children of innocent asylum seekers (carried out) and ordering that these innocent asylum seekers be shot (not carried out; refused by his own appointees)
e. using unmarked federal little green men against people exercising their rights to freedom of assembly and speech
and much more.
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“Cheap grandstanding “ is a pretty good description of most of what goes on in Congress.
Only I’d add the adverb “transparent” to cheap, because it is quite obvious to is paying attention.
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Richard Nixon had the attitude that is widely shared among presidents: “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal”
The Presidential Doctrine
None are above the law
— except the ones who are.
The presidential saw
Can really take you far
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BOB IS BONKERS!!!!!!! JEAN CAROOL IS A NUT JOB LIAR!!!!! HOW DO YOU BELIEVE THIS CRAP!!!!!!
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All caps and out-of-control exclamation marks are the signs of a very ill mind. One separated from reality.
Is there anyone we can call for you? You know, to take you away? For a nice rest?
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Jean Carroll will have trouble collecting the $5 million that she won. Trump is famous for never paying bills.
Now she is during him for another $100 million because he won’t stop defaming her.
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The only ones getting paid are the lawyers, assuming they insisted on upfront payment.
We should start a pool on when Melania leaves with a ton of his money.
Remember when there were Republicans who actually took their jobs seriously? Good times.
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Hard to get through to sheep who are brainwashed.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/06/25/stunned_anderson_cooper_cuts_to_commercial_when_trump_accuser_e_jean_carroll_calls_rape_sexy.html
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Diane, Stormy daniels and I am sure Bob was slobbering about that case , and had to pay Trump’s legal fees. Avenatti who you ALL loved and probably wanted to run for president is in jail hahahahahahahaahaha.
Mark my words, Jean Carroll will pay for Trump’s legal fees and more, the woman is sick her allegations are so false and hard to believe even a kid believing in Santa Claus can see shes a fraud and a liar.
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I went down to the basement/parking area in my condo building a few days ago to put some garbage in the dumpster. On a small platform, right by the door, I saw a paper and envelope. It was a form entitled ‘Citizens to Impeach Biden’. I picked it up and threw it in the trash.
This country is increasingly insane. I can remember when Democrats and Republicans in Congress at least would talk to each other and had some respect for the other party.
Rupert Murdock started this insane type of ‘news’ reporting when he found out that he could make a lot of money in England by publishing trashy news. Trump contributed to the nonsense by creating ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’.
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