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The Nation...Impeachment is no longer off the table... (Original Post) pbmus Jan 2019 OP
He said today that 'Nancy' (not Speaker Pelosi) said she's not impeaching him malaise Jan 2019 #1
Damn right!! Impeach the motherfucker!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2019 #2
And lock him up! StarryNite Jan 2019 #3
Yes, that too!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2019 #8
I like how Nancy didn't want to focus on the subject before yesterday BigmanPigman Jan 2019 #4
Would you expect anything less from Ms. Pelosi? DBoon Jan 2019 #6
Damn straight. WheelWalker Jan 2019 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author elocs Jan 2019 #7
Some cracks have appeared in the Senate gratuitous Jan 2019 #10
If you aren't in politics, I want to know you so I can start your campaign fund... pbmus Jan 2019 #11
What a nice thing to say gratuitous Jan 2019 #12
He must be soiling himself. CentralMass Jan 2019 #9
"Impeach the mofo"! oasis Jan 2019 #13

malaise

(267,827 posts)
1. He said today that 'Nancy' (not Speaker Pelosi) said she's not impeaching him
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 06:45 PM
Jan 2019

Of course he made that up.

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
4. I like how Nancy didn't want to focus on the subject before yesterday
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 06:51 PM
Jan 2019

and the Dems got the majority. Now she IS saying it as are other congresspeople. Good strategy!

Response to pbmus (Original post)

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
10. Some cracks have appeared in the Senate
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 07:55 PM
Jan 2019

This will be a herculean effort, but the integrity of the country really deserves a full accounting of the crimes of this administration. For all of his fuckery, the articles of impeachment against Nixon sounded pretty anodyne: obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. But there was little doubt that Peter Rodino was serious and had the evidence to back up the charges.

Republican support for Nixon was very solid in that summer of 1974. Even though the Saturday Night Massacre had happened nine months earlier, Republicans were standing by their man long after most of the country knew he had to go. Then the support disintegrated when the "smoking gun" tape was released at last that first week of August. There was nowhere else to run, no point in denying any longer. When even Senate Republicans made it clear that they couldn't dissemble anymore, Nixon got started on his resignation address.

Now, Trump is no Nixon, and there aren't many men of conscience in the Republican Senate caucus. But a lot of them are up for re-election in 2020 (though Pat Roberts of Kansas has just announced his decision not to run again in 2020), and some of them are going to be craven enough to put their own re-election ahead of the Emperor Trump's administration. We don't need every man jack of them, just about 20 of them, to go on record that Trump has overstayed his time in office. How does that happen?

Remember that up until yesterday, the discourse has been exclusively in the hands of the Republicans. A LOT of information has been squirreled away from the public that's going to come spilling out over the next weeks and months. Even Fox is going to have trouble making out a positive spin for the revelations that the Republicans have sat on for two years. It won't be easy. It won't happen overnight. But if we keep after it, it will happen, and as patriots, we owe the nation our best effort to excise this festering infection of rank corruption.

pbmus

(12,418 posts)
11. If you aren't in politics, I want to know you so I can start your campaign fund...
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 08:52 PM
Jan 2019

That is the best statement for impeachment I have ever read or heard....

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
12. What a nice thing to say
Sat Jan 5, 2019, 02:31 AM
Jan 2019

I'm not nearly diplomatic enough to be in office. People rarely take to being called buttheads.

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