Some times the process is as important as the results.
I share your pessamism and will frankly be shocked if he fails to finish his term.
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With a Repugnant-held Senate, this is a feature, not a bug.
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Is anyone else deeply disturbed at seeing the official White House iconography and typography used to explicate the ravings of a lunatic asshole?
Really, shouldn’t the whole poster have been in Comic Sans?
Or, better, written in thick Sharpie, in his childish scrawl?
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I think this is exactly her calculus, and I think she’s doing it well so far.
Do you get a medal for 50 likes? I was #50. You made my point for me. Thanks.
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While we’re on the subject of the popularity of impeachment…
Part of the process of getting the public to support it is actually laying out the (seemingly endless) litany of offenses that Congress feels are worthy of looking into. If the Democratic leadership poo-poos it, of course it’s going to be less popular.
What really drives me up the wall is the ceaseless excuse that there’s an election coming up. Guess what? In America, there’s always an election coming up! Fobbing your constitutional responsibilities off on the gormless public who elected the problem in the first place is A-1 gold star bullshit. Why would the founders have even laid out an impeachment process in the first place if “wait until the next election” was always the most sensible, reasonable option?
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One thought is that it could only lead to a better republican candidate standing in 2020.
It’s also the fact that Mitch McConnell has shown that he has no morals, will do anything to prevent the Senate from even considering impeachment, and Republicans are such craven cowards that none dare speak against Mitch.
Really, this is why more than anything we need to deliver a drubbing to the Republicans in the Senate. And preferably force the Turtle into retirement.
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You’re the President of the United States - the only meetings you should expect to be happy about walking into are the ones where you get to hand over an award to some deserving teacher or meet the winner of a National Spelling Bee or the Super Bowl.
You should expect everything else to be bloody difficult. If it were easy, it wouldn’t be on your desk.
ETA:
Also news to the various women paid large sums to cover up Trump’s infidelities and the dodgy lawyers involved in making the arrangements.
“I don’t do cover-ups”. WTF?
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It’s constantly bizarre having a President who, consistently, says exactly the opposite of the truth, blatantly. I mean, politics is politics, but when you’ve already openly admitted – both in interviews and on Twitter – that you paid women hush money during the campaign, I think most Americans would think of that as a cover up.
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The fear seems to stem from the fact that Clinton was reelected after impeachment. Well Clinton had a approval rating hovering around 60 percent, and Trump’s has been around 40 the whole time. I know we all fear Trump’s re-election because Republicans are so stubborn, but seriously you can’t win with 40 percent. He sure as hell isnt winning ANYONE over.
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A fact few know. Spread the word.
Luckily, it’s not up to him to consider impeachment or not. It’s one of the few exceptions to the Majority Leader’s discretion whether to put an action to consideration, debate, or vote on the floor.
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I’m beginning to maybe understand Pelosi’s strategy.
I was going to tweet the agnomen of Fabius to Pelosi in a sign of support. But then I thought it better to avoid calling her a Cunctator in our linguistic Idiocracy.
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I’m kinda thinking too, if they can lay out all of these investigations, continue them up to Election Day, and then say to voters, “you have the power to act on our findings”, that’s kinda powerful. A bit of a gamble, but considering the senate won’t impeach him because of republican control anyway, maybe it’s the best bet…
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The gamble is the part I do not have the stomach for … and my grumbles emanate from that weakness.
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It’s additionally frustrating how much power Mitch McConnell in the senate given that his state is middle-of-the-road at best in terms of population and population density. His priorities represent some minor plurality of the people who bother to vote in senatorial elections in Kentucky. The senate is bad enough when it comes to the proportion of power certain senators have relative to their number of constituents. When one of those low-constituent senators is running the whole fucking show?
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Colbert jabbed at Trump’s graphic with this the other night: Jefferson’s address to the Continental Congress
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Alas, he has shown little respect for such niceties, and would pull every trick in the book to keep from fulfilling his duty, and even do his best to torpedo proceedings once they stop. The man is an enemy of the rule of law, and an enemy of democracy.
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