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We are in deep trouble: Morning Joe guest sounds the alarm on GOP letting Trump seize dictatorial powersbeachbum bob
(10,437 posts)in 2020 and 2022.
Pelosi will be well in her bounds to discuss Articles of Impeachment based on the abuse of emergency power by a president on an issue that is NOT an emergency what so ever. The constitution does not not limit the number of times Articles of Impeachment can be voted on and passed to the senate for trial.
I hope to hear democrats in the house to start saying this in next week or 2.
lark
(23,156 posts)We are in the middle of a constitutional crisis when the president usurps the power of the pocketbook from Congress and Repugs are totally ok with this.
I think it's also a constitutional crisis when a traitor selects 2 people for SCOTUS, along with a gun crisis, a voting safety crisis, a climate change crisis and a traitorous so-called president who stole the office with the help of Russia. Those are the real crisis, not the drumpf has to buy Russian steel to please his master pretend crisis.
Huin
(92 posts)Of course, the president with his megalomaniac tendencies cannot pass up a power that is handed to him on a platter by the senate majority leader. It is he, in the senate, who denied President Obama the right to appoint a supreme court justice. It is he, in the senate, who caused the shutdown by failing to pass a bipartisan bill to vote because the president would not sign it. He thereby protected the president from vetoing a bill that would have allowed the people's absolute right to keep our government functioning. Then the president would have been the culprit. The constitution provides for presenting a bill voted on by both houses for his signature. By running to the president and asking him if he would sign the bill, and then not passing it to a vote, the leader of the senate, the way I see it, violated the doctrine of separation of powers. Not only does this man in the senate forsake the majority of the people, he shames the United State before the rest of the world.
Why is there no effort to impeach the real culprit?
OnDoutside
(19,972 posts)Howdya like her now, Eddie ????
I am not voting for Hillary Clinton, regardless of her endorsement by Bernie Sanders. My decision isnt because of the scandal around her emails or because of some concern over her character. My reasons are pretty straightforward. I dont agree with her ideologically.
Democratic values centered on economic and racial justice shape my own politics. Im not convinced those values shape hers. Nothing Clinton says or intends to do if elected will fundamentally transform the circumstances of the most vulnerable in this countryeven with her concessions to the Sanders campaign. Like the majority of Democratic politicians these days, she is a corporate Democrat intent on maintaining the status quo. And I have had enough of all of them.
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I am not suggesting that anti-racism or anti-sexism (or identity politics generally) dont matter. But they cant provide cover for business as usuala version of neoliberalism dressed in multicultural Chanel.
Perhaps the most persuasive reason to vote for Hillary Clinton is Donald Trump. Trump is worse. I know that. The prospects of a Trump presidencywhat would be a deadly combination of arrogance and ignoranceought to frighten anyone. It frightens me. But my daddy, a gruff man who has lived all of his life on the coast of Mississippi, taught me that fear should never be the primary motivation of my actions. It clouds your thinking, and all too often sends you running to either safe ground when something more daring is required, or smack into the danger itself. (I learned a similar lesson after reading William Faulkners The Bear in Go Down Moses.)
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In the end, Donald Trump is just an exaggerated indication of the rot that is at the heart of this country. That fact of Trump alone, and the democratic anguish that goes with it, cannot be the only rationale to support Hillary Clinton. Something more substantive is required of usof her.
Many, despite what Ive written, will still vote for Clinton. I do not fault themespecially if they live in a hotly contested state like Ohio or Florida. Vote for Clinton to keep Trump out of office. I completely understand that. But I cant vote for her.
http://time.com/4402823/glaude-hillary-clinton/