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shockey80

(4,379 posts) Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:12 PM Apr 2019

Hold impeachment hearings and call them something else.

I believe we all could agree on this. Investigate, hold hearings like you would for impeachment, but don't say it. Watch how the American react to the investigation and OPEN hearings. Watch the poll numbers for, should Trump be impeached. If the poll numbers one day show the majority of people want Trump impeached. Go for it.

Time is running short. Once 2020 gets here nobody in congress will want to impeach. It will all be about the election. It has to happen this year. Just my opinion.

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Hold impeachment hearings and call them something else. (Original Post) shockey80 Apr 2019 OP

That is what I've been saying! boston bean Apr 2019 #1

Oversight hearings would be a good name for what is needed csziggy Apr 2019 #2

Constitutional oversight hearings. greymattermom Apr 2019 #3

Yes! And how can the people that call themselves "patriots" object to that? nt csziggy Apr 2019 #4

+1 CaptainTruth Apr 2019 #6

+1 mitch96 Apr 2019 #11

gotta go with "Greatness Adventures" myself 0rganism Apr 2019 #10

Agreed. House committees should stay on course, subpoena if necessary, have open testimony. CaptainTruth Apr 2019 #5

Death by a thousand cuts is what will destroy fat donnie kimbutgar Apr 2019 #7

"Impeachment" is a word abqtommy Apr 2019 #8

I'm all for this idea FakeNoose Apr 2019 #9

boston bean

(36,221 posts)

1. That is what I've been saying!

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:14 PM

Apr 2019

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

2. Oversight hearings would be a good name for what is needed

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:15 PM

Apr 2019

Especially since the Republican led House never did proper oversight and the Senate still will not.

It is getting too close to the election to impeach, as much as I would love to see Dolt45 dragged out of the Oval Office. But the best thing the House Democratic Representatives can do is to bring into the light out ALL of the information in the Mueller Report.

Open hearings, televised on all channels, cable and over the air, are the best way to bring this information to the American people before November 2020.

greymattermom

(5,754 posts)

3. Constitutional oversight hearings.

Reply to csziggy (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:21 PM

Apr 2019

As required by the constitution.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

4. Yes! And how can the people that call themselves "patriots" object to that? nt

Reply to greymattermom (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:29 PM

Apr 2019

CaptainTruth

(6,592 posts)

6. +1

Reply to greymattermom (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:47 PM

Apr 2019

mitch96

(13,907 posts)

11. +1

Reply to greymattermom (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 01:47 PM

Apr 2019

0rganism

(23,955 posts)

10. gotta go with "Greatness Adventures" myself

Reply to csziggy (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 01:09 PM

Apr 2019

we're in the endgame now...

CaptainTruth

(6,592 posts)

5. Agreed. House committees should stay on course, subpoena if necessary, have open testimony.

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:42 PM

Apr 2019

Expose all of Trump's wrongdoing, piece by piece, for months, make sure the public knows about every sordid detail.

Call them hearings on the results of the Mueller investigation, say the public deserves to know what was found, just don't give Republicans an "impeachment" talking point to use to rally their base for 2020, not at this time.

If we want to impeach Trump & win in 2020 we need more than 18% public support for impeachment.

Ipsos Poll Conducted for Reuters
Mueller Investigation Initial Reaction Poll 4.19.2019

https://tmsnrt.rs/2DjEq3R
[link:https://tmsnrt.rs/2DjEq3R|

What do you think Congress' top 3 priorities should be?

Healthcare reform 53% (#1 priority)
Impeaching Trump 18% (#7 priority)

https://ibb.co/8B5rbvc

kimbutgar

(21,155 posts)

7. Death by a thousand cuts is what will destroy fat donnie

Reply to CaptainTruth (Reply #5)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 12:59 PM

Apr 2019

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

8. "Impeachment" is a word

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 01:06 PM

Apr 2019

that will cause fear among rePIGlicons. To use any other term will mean minimizing the impact of our actions.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)

9. I'm all for this idea

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun Apr 21, 2019, 01:06 PM

Apr 2019

Oversight is what the Dems are good at, anyway. Even the GOP will admit that. We need to have open hearings, televised just like the old days of Watergate.

The Watergate hearings were not called "impeachment hearings" by the way.

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