spin_dry Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 God I love this country. House Democrats closing ranks behind impeachment inquiry vote https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/democrats-impeachment-vote-061735 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 10 minutes ago, spin_dry said: God I love this country. House Democrats closing ranks behind impeachment inquiry vote https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/democrats-impeachment-vote-061735 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted October 30, 2019 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 30, 2019 Done deal eh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted October 30, 2019 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 30, 2019 (edited) Now they have enough votes for an inquiry. This is you. Edited October 30, 2019 by Highmark 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Poo 850 FTMFW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 In the meeting Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated to her caucus that the measure was not a vote for impeachment. Still, she acknowledged it was a solemn moment for the caucus, and asked Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), a Methodist pastor, to lead the caucus in a prayer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted October 30, 2019 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 30, 2019 35 minutes ago, Pete said: In the meeting Wednesday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated to her caucus that the measure was not a vote for impeachment. Still, she acknowledged it was a solemn moment for the caucus, and asked Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), a Methodist pastor, to lead the caucus in a prayer. The religious left. They crack me up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 The Impeachment Farce Limps Along to Its Anticlimax National Review•October 30, 2019 You may read it here first: This sordid, contemptible impeachment ruse is finally disintegrating. It was another fraud, and I predict that this time the polls will move clearly in the president’s favor. There are limits to how often his enemies can get the public and the world to the edges of their chairs with their fantastic accusations. The Economist, a long-respected magazine in earlier times, told us a year ago that the Trump presidency was hanging on the thread of Michael Cohen’s testimony. Most of the U.S. media gave the public to understand for two years that there was a high chance that he would be thrown out once the Mueller investigation established his “treasonous” links to the Russians. Trump appalls many reasonable people by some of his antics and utterances, but his supporters are rock-solid at only slightly less than half the country, and enough to have got him elected. But the vitriolic antagonism of about 90 percent of the media, and the fear and loathing of the political class, which he assaulted in its entirety, have sustained an artificial levitation of morbid expectation that he will be overthrown and removed. My research and intuition indicate that we have reached a turning point, and that all but the outright Trump-haters are disconcerted, and in growing numbers disgusted, by the cumulative pettiness, nastiness, and dishonesty of the assault on this president. As the longest-serving occupant of the office, Franklin D. Roosevelt, said, “The president is, preeminently, the head of the American people.” This fact is frequently lost sight of in partisan skirmishing, but it is always capable of being asserted if the facts warrant. This president has only, to my recollection, addressed the whole country on a national issue from his office once, and his appearance then was unexceptionable. However ill-considered some of his comments may have seemed (and been), he has not squandered or abused his ability to ascend to that role and has endured these three years of contumely and spurious challenge somewhat equably. He has presumably believed that eventually the effort to portray and convict him as an illegitimate felon would be seen as an outrage. I believe the country is now sick of it. To be sure, Trump has exhausted even his supporters; it is hard work defending him, and that is why he generally outperforms the polls. But the country is beginning to see that it has been duped. There are a couple of almost hidden traits of the American people that are profound and imperishable and capable of being stirred, and that once aroused are invincible. One is the puritanical conscience of the country. Despite cynicism, hucksterism, all the gaucheries and inanities of banal and often craven political hacks, the plagues of bad taste, and the inundation of public life with money, often in unwholesome interests, almost all Americans fundamentally believe in America and all its legitimate institutions. For reasons as familiar to readers as they are to me, this presidency has not been the beneficiary of this inbred respect for the institutions of national public life. But the instantly confected fraud of an impeachable offense in the president’s relations with Ukraine and its president has now snapped the patience and indulgence of all but the Trump-haters so rabid they should be in straitjackets and padded cells. (There are millions of them, but they aren’t more than about a quarter of the adult population.) A shabby fraud launched by a partisan whistleblower who is acting on hearsay about an innocuous telephone call whose summary, though perhaps not entirely complete, was immediately released to the public cannot go much farther. It has been kept alive by a Star Chamber in which the president is not represented and the Republican questioning and calling of witnesses is done at the behest of the Democratic leadership. It cannot produce a serious offense that the president could actually be accused of committing, and now it is to be sustained by a dubious vote that will only slightly alter its almost totalitarian one-sidedness. This ghastly farce has been presided over by a pathological public liar, Representative Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), who has outdone even his previous fiasco of failing to produce his “conclusive evidence” of the president’s “treason” with Russia. The country will not tolerate seeing its elected leader defamed and smeared by odious little people who would strip him of his elected office. It is one thing to resent and disparage some of the president’s foibles, and it is regrettable but inevitable that many are so offended by what they take to be his garishness and bluster that they are prepared to believe negative views of Trump despite his undeniable successes in dealing with the economy, illegal immigration, nuclear non-proliferation, trade, avoidance of Green madness, and intelligent judicial appointments. But the American people will not stand for the president and his wife being booed at a baseball game; they will not stand for morally bankrupt congressmen operating a constitutional desecration of an impeachment inquiry; they will not stand for national political media that denounce the president of the United States for describing as a coward an infamous terrorist who murdered three children as he committed suicide. They will not abide a long-influential newspaper (the Washington Post) that headlined the violent death of the world’s leading terrorist as “Austere Religious Scholar Dies at 48.” In these wildly unjustified orgies of hate and misinformation, the country will consider Trump describing some of his enemies as “human scum” as the lesser of evils, or even excusable (and accurate). The country wants the president to address national questions with calm and reasonable displays of leadership, as when President Franklin Roosevelt called for the country to be “the great arsenal of democracy,” President Truman revealed the use of the atomic bomb, President Eisenhower deployed elite Army units to integrate schools in Little Rock, Ark., President Kennedy explained the Cuban missile crisis, President Johnson called for the enactment of civil-rights legislation, President Nixon asked the support of the “silent majority” in disengaging from Vietnam, and President Reagan spoke of the astronauts who had died. And now, finally, the majority realizes that the chief culprits for the venomous indignity of the political atmosphere are the president’s enemies. At a certain point, very late and very far down on the behavioral scale, the country demands that the president be treated with the dignity due to the person they have chosen to be not just the leader of the government but the personification of the state, the head of the people, as Roosevelt said. Whatever else he may be, Donald Trump is the rightful president, and those who don’t like it can vote against him next year. The media terror has gone too far, and the executioners of the innocent are about to be executed by the survivors; this is the pattern of revolutionary movements that frighten and revolt their former partisans. The reassuring thing is that the system is working, as the eminent lawyer Alan Dershowitz has remarked. The executive branch and part of the legislative branch are at loggerheads. I doubt that the House of Representatives can pass an article of impeachment that accuses the president of an offense worthy of his removal from office, not that there is any chance on what is now public that he will be convicted of anything by the Senate. If the Schiff sleaze-cabal can’t get a real charge adopted, there may instead be a pallid attempt at a vote of censure, which will not be taken up by the Senate. Under any scenario, the wheels are coming off this disgraceful Democratic garbage cart in all directions. Impeachment will fizzle ignominiously while the former administration is arraigned on serious charges from the Russian scandal, and the Democrats will wallow in their squalid failure to produce a feasible candidate for the White House. Normalcy, for which the country longs, is not dead; it is reawakening at last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted October 30, 2019 Gold Member Share Posted October 30, 2019 So this isn’t an impeachment vote? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold War Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Lol, what a rube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 1 minute ago, BOHICA said: So this isn’t an impeachment vote? It’s a dumb symbolic vote to show how tough the house is They have nothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 15 minutes ago, Pete said: It’s a dumb symbolic vote to show how tough the house is They have nothing Then why did repubs cry over them not having this vote???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 4 minutes ago, f7ben said: Then why did repubs cry over them not having this vote???? So they can show the world who the dumb fucks are This is helping Trump immensely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Danger Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 12 minutes ago, f7ben said: Then why did repubs cry over them not having this vote???? Because they were using the closed Door hearings to do nothing more than leak one sided dirt. The Dems would scream bloody murder if the shoe was on the other foot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted October 30, 2019 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 30, 2019 29 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said: Because they were using the closed Door hearings to do nothing more than leak one sided dirt. The Dems would scream bloody murder if the shoe was on the other foot. Scream and cry like newborn babies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bussman Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 3 hours ago, Anler said: RR Cat 800 ftw!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anler Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 14 minutes ago, bussman said: 3rd place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 4 hours ago, spin_dry said: God I love this country. House Democrats closing ranks behind impeachment inquiry vote https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/democrats-impeachment-vote-061735 lol good luck. only 5 weeks to get to a point that should have been done in the first few days . news flash this is not going to go well for your party Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Total dem shit show. Laughable guidelines by these clowns. I hope it goes to trial (which it won’t). I’d love to see Trump’s team start calling in the Obama lackeys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 3 hours ago, f7ben said: Then why did repubs cry over them not having this vote???? because now they can't hold closed door interviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtssrx Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Impeachment for what? What law was broken I’m still trying to figure that out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spin_dry Posted October 31, 2019 Author Share Posted October 31, 2019 8 minutes ago, jtssrx said: Impeachment for what? What law was broken I’m still trying to figure that out That’s cause you’re dumb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 8 minutes ago, spin_dry said: That’s cause you’re dumb almost as dumb as thinking the Russia scam was going to work and now this shit show . guess what chicken little lackey tbis will also not work but will blow up in your party's face in grand fashion come 2020 election . I think we need to pass a law alowing suicide pills in gumball machines before the election. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bussman Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 15 minutes ago, spin_dry said: That’s cause you’re dumb Trump is getting impeached because you think JT is dumb? Okay then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Just now, bussman said: Trump is getting impeached because you think JT is dumb? Okay then. As good of reason as any from what I've seen. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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