The poll released on Thursday found that 43 percent of people who identified as Democrats want impeachment to be a top priority for Congress. That goal was second in priority only to healthcare, which played a major role in Democratic campaigns’ closing arguments before Tuesday’s elections....Reuters
Newly emboldened Democrats want healthcare protected - and Trump impeached: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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If the two parties cannot reach a funding deal, there would be a partial government shutdown, with so-called “essential services,” including some at the Department of Homeland Security, likely remaining in operation....
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Battle looms in Congress over money for Trump's border wallalso
Despite the Democrat victory in the House, impeaching Trump remains practically impossible. Here’s why it should be considered anyway....
It might not necessarily have to come to that, though. An impeachment resolution may never be able to hope to muster enough votes to have any chance of passing the Republicans in the Senate, but if done right, it nonetheless would present plenty of juicy opportunities for the Democrats to make life extremely difficult for the president and his party.
There are two main reasons why. The first is the power to issue subpoenas – summonses backed by the force of law – and the second one is the power of political spectacle....
Trump has defied all the laws of political gravity so far by simply bluffing or outright lying his way out of every situation he has faced. So far, preposterously, he’s always been able to get away with it. But imagine him under oath, facing real cross-examination from a skilled lawyer – live on TV in front of the whole world. Maybe he’d find a way to slip out of it, but maybe also he would finally come apart, collapse in on himself under the weight of his lies, like a dying star.…And don't forget, lying is what caught Bill Clinton.
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Impeaching Trump won’t and can’t work. But we should try it
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The party that controls the presidency and Senate controls the judiciary, which involves lifetime appointments. All judges are "activists" in that everyone has an ideology that shapes their worldview and normative criteria.
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The Senate is a huge problem for Democrats
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The party that controls the presidency and Senate controls the judiciary, which involves lifetime appointments. All judges are "activists" in that everyone has an ideology that shapes their worldview and normative criteria.
VOX
The Senate is a huge problem for Democrats
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You can't make this up, folks. Newt Gingrich all of a sudden thinks investigating Clinton in the 90's was a mistake. Also, history is bunk.Crooks and Liars
Newt Gingrich Haz Sad About All Those Clinton Investigations
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DEMs #1 priority: impeach Trump.
ReplyDeleteDEMs #2 priority: war with Russia.
DEMs #3 priority: protecting health insurance profits.
Trump is basically a Democrat without the post modernist bent in a GOP suit.
ReplyDeletePelosi and Trump have more in common than pretty much all rest of GOP, they should get along swimmingly.
This is a terrible idea imo. There is corruption everywhere, it's brazen in-your-face at this point and no one really cares. Half the people are too busy worrying about how some utterly powerless immigrant or poor person might do ... um, I'm really not sure how completely powerless ppl are ruining American's lives but we sure like to worry about it. While the other half is too busy working multpile jobs at 8 bucks an hour just trying to make ends meet.
ReplyDeleteAmericans don't really like political rancor. If the democrats try to do this, it will be seen as partisan hackery, it'll look like they're just out to get Trump and his popularity will rise. While Trump does appear to be a life long criminal, there's no there there (yet... and probably won't be) with the Russian stuff (trump's certainly not smart enough to constantly stay one step ahead of the fbi, dhs, nsa etc. if the evidence is there, they have it) and no real crimes will be uncovered, since virtually everyone else in Congress is also a criminal.. Just Look at the benghazi hearings. Benghazi was a huge scandal, just the fact we interfered with libya at all, should have been a huge scandal, probably the biggest of the Obama admin, he should be rotting in the Hague for that crime alone. But that coup is viewed as completely legitimate, so no attention was ever brought to that aspect of the crime, and the republicans were left standing with their dick in their hands, looking like the asshats they are.. they couldn't bring up the actual crime. The serial killer can't accuse someone else of wrong doing. It'll be the same with democrats, they won't be able to bring up actual crimes.... who in Congress isn't involved with bribery, maybe a little money laundering, extrajudicial killings or how about some light treason? You know the kind, like giving weapons to jihadis in Syria or selling arms to rogue terrorist state Saudi arabia.
We've seen how stuff that would sink a democratic president just slides off trump like water off of a duck's ass (c'mon, you know as well as I do that conservative heads would have exploded had it come out that Obama was raw dogging a porn star while Michelle was pregnant. That would easily have brought down his admin.. with Trump, we'd have been disappointed had he not fucked porn stars). If we find out he cheated on his taxes, people will just like him more. The fox news talking point will be about how out of control US taxes are and how smart Trump was for avoiding them. He'll be reelected in 2020.. if the dems do this, it has to be a real, serious crime, which the dems have no credibility to do. Just move on already.