The U. S. House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Trump. ABC News reports:
Splitting along party lines, the House voted on Wednesday to impeach a sitting president for just the third time in U.S. history.
In the debate leading up to the vote, Democrats accused President Donald Trump of abusing his power for personal and political gain in the 2020 election, while Republicans insisted there was no evidence of a crime.
“This has become one of the most intensely partisan episodes, I think, of our history and it’s more than just a partisan divide,” ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Mary Bruce says on “Start Here” today. “We saw this fundamental divide over right and wrong, and that led to essentially a debate where the two parties can’t even agree on the basic facts of what happened here.”
Kudos to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for keeping her caucus together. In the end all Democrats but three voted in favor of impeachment; all Republicans voted against.
I honestly thought more Democrats would break ranks. The House Democrats started holding impeachment votes against Trump in June 2017. If, indeed, the articles of impeachment are forwarded to the Senate for prosecution, as I expect them to be, I expect Trump to be acquitted, also largely along partisan lines.
“I honestly thought more Democrats would break ranks.â€
They were made an offer they don’t refuse.
Or it could be an act of foolishness. We will only know on Nov 4, 2020.
If Trump is re-elected and the Democratic House majority is either gone or so diminished it is non-functional, watch everyone blame the Democratic leadership for making those R leaning seats walk the plank.
It won’t be played that way. The media and Democratic Party leadership will be unanimous in blaming everything on rabid Republican partisanship in the face of urgent national need.
The way this is going. Trump could end up with an actual popular majority.
Here is a poll, when will Democrat’s transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate?
1). Before Congress goes on holiday
2). As soon as Congress reconvenes in the New Year?
3). After the Iowa caucus
4). After Super Tuesday
5) After the Easter break
6). After the Party conventions in Aug
7). After the election
I think it is (2), followed by (5), then (7)
“Kudos to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for keeping her caucus together†seems like a strange, somewhat inappropriate, salutation given to such a political, polarized, damaging precedent-setting adventure in humiliating and/or getting rid of an unlikable but duly elected president. IMO, it was an insipid application of the impeachment process, one that promotes nothing more than a heightened continuation of open warfare between parties.
Kudos? I would say what was accomplished yesterday was more of a shameful travesty.
Holding their caucus together is party of the Speaker’s job. I have gravely mixed feelings about the outcome since I think she has ensured Trump’s re-election but there’s no denying she kept her caucus together.
CuriousOnlooker:
Let’s promote that quiz to the front page.
Dave, I personally use “kudos†as a term demonstrating praise, along with an appreciation of a job well done, for whatever act or action the kudos was applied. For me, this impeachment deserves no kudos, having far more dire consequences than simply providing a re-election backlash for anti Trump people like yourself. More importantly, it serves as a foolish removal template which can be used, in future knee-jerk impeachment maneuvers, to mollify partisan anger, rather than addressing real bipartisan grievances or serious presidential criminal behavior.
“More importantly, it serves as a foolish removal template which can be used”
The standard has already been set. You can impeach becasue someione lied about sex. How much lower can you go?
Steve
And now Adam Schiff is claiming he has evidence proving that Pence should be impeached and removed from office. He is dangerously delusional or is squirting squid ink to hide his own wrongdoings and to claim retaliation if anything happens to him. I think it’s both.
If Trump was actually Mr. H. or even Huey Long I could see the frantic insanity of trying to get him out of office ASAP (the refusal to deliver the articles of impeachment until they can be sure of either conviction or a drawn-out process that would keep him off the 2020 ballot are evidence of ridiculousness). But there have been no political murders, no concentration camps (the infamous ‘cages’ were built during the Obama years), the jackbooted Kristallnacht-imitating thugs have all been on the Progressive side, the only news outlets that were shut down or suppressed have been by the internet moguls, and he’s exposing an incredibly diverse array of corruption and crimes committed by bureaucrats and politicians. If he and his team were as criminal or corrupt as his enemies say he is why weren’t any of the corrupt acts included in the articles of impeachment?
And as the impeachment vote was being recorded, Trump had the audacity to make light of a departed member of the chamber, John Dingell. A member of the Dingell dynasty, serving congress and Michigan’s 12th district for 86 years and counting. !3 years longer than Donald Trump has been alive. Evidence more that he doesn’t really have the pedigree to hold office at that level.