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How Democrats Can Hasten Trump's Departure (Grade D Science Fiction)
Real Clear Politics ^ | May 23, 2017 | Paul Bledsoe

Posted on 05/23/2017 5:05:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Washington can hardly keep up with the unprecedented pace at which Donald Trump’s presidency is cascading out of control. Ironically, the appointment last week of Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election may slow White House hemorrhaging, taking pressure off GOP congressional leaders and their weak investigations and temporarily shoring up support for Trump on Capitol Hill.

For Democrats and independents concerned about the safety and well-being of the country, however, the priority must be getting Trump out of the White House as quickly as possible. He is simply too great a threat to America’s security and integrity, and his departure from power should take precedence over all other objectives.

To help accomplish this goal, Democrats must develop and deliver such powerful political and economic messages -- and recruit enough strong candidates -- that congressional Republicans feel compelled to abandon Trump for fear of losing their majority in 2018. Unlike a normal presidency, there is a genuine possibility that Trump, who is certain to be both perpetually dogged by scandal and tired of the “harder than I thought” stresses of the job, might resign before his term is completed. A strong Democratic Party could have a key role in hastening the process. If Republicans fear going into the 2018 midterms that Trump could cost them their seats, his GOP support will start to erode. If Trump does not leave voluntarily, Democratic capture of the House and perhaps even the Senate in 2018 increases the likelihood of successful impeachment proceedings....

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2018; democrats; impeachment; trump
Paul Bledsoe is a senior fellow with the Progressive Policy Institute. He was a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate Finance Committee and served as an official in the Interior Department and at the White House under President Clinton.
1 posted on 05/23/2017 5:05:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Washington can hardly keep up with the unprecedented pace at which Donald Trump’s presidency is cascading out of control.

Now that's "laugh out loud" delusional...

2 posted on 05/23/2017 5:06:34 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: sargon

If the Never Trumpers would ever venture west of the Potomac or east of Hollywood they would find a different America.


3 posted on 05/23/2017 5:10:19 PM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Swamp,emitting a few bubbles of methane.
4 posted on 05/23/2017 5:10:38 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thinking outside the box.....

Considering the way President Trump has been treated by establishment 'pubs, who know but don't care how we feel about them, he owes them NOTHING. So if they lose majorities in the HOR and US Senate, that means the Republican Party by being disloyal to its voters, just might have made the end of the US irreversible.

So assume the dems have majorities in the HOR and US Senate for Trumps last two years. If they can pass things, he should sign them.

The Republican Party that hates me no longer has my vote!

5 posted on 05/23/2017 5:11:26 PM PDT by grania (only a pawn in their game)
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To: sargon

Ha. ....just too funny
Trump using the famed Coward - Piven strategy back at the dims
Overload their system to point of failure.


6 posted on 05/23/2017 5:13:51 PM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth)
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7 posted on 05/23/2017 5:20:57 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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But how can we hasten the Dems departure?


8 posted on 05/23/2017 5:42:22 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Democrats must develop and deliver such powerful political and economic messages”

I haven’t seen them do such a thing for half a century.


9 posted on 05/23/2017 5:45:25 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If Trump does not leave voluntarily, Democratic capture of the House and perhaps even the Senate in 2018 increases the likelihood of successful impeachment proceedings

Republicans control the House 241 to 194.
They would have to lose 24 seats to give Pelosi control.

Republicans control 52 seats in the Senate, Dems 44
R's would have to lose 3 seats to lose control. Only 8 Republicans are up for Reelection.
6 of those 8 are pretty safe.
Meanwhile, 6 of the 23 Dems are questionable.

10 posted on 05/23/2017 5:51:17 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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If Trump does not leave voluntarily, Democratic capture of the House and perhaps even the Senate in 2018 increases the likelihood of successful impeachment proceedings

Mr. Bledsoe...obviously the meanings of words
High Crimes And Misdemeanors alludes you.

11 posted on 05/23/2017 6:01:53 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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Just Think if hillary had won

Social Engineering:

The finest pursuit of Government, the creation of society. People, left to their own devices, make wrong choices and inevitably become evil. Evil people create an evil society around themselves. The Government, with its Liberal wisdom and power, must engineer a society where Evil doesn’t (and can’t) exist, where Evil is a crime. If Utopia is to is to become real, the People must be forced to do the right things. Nothing can be left to chance. Bad influences like Free Enterprise, Profits, Corporations, Special Interests, Guns, Racism and Sexism, Christians, Conservatives, and a whole host of other unhealthy Republican contaminants, must be legislated out of existence for the good of all. These malevolent forces must be replaced with the Redistribution of Wealth, Diversity, Inclusion, Homosexuality, Moral Relativism, and International Multiculturalism. Only a series of Progressive Liberal Activist Social Engineering Programs can accomplish this noble goal.

Wait ! we just had 8 years of that !


12 posted on 05/23/2017 6:02:10 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (I think therefore im Dangerous to the liberal agenda !)
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So we have little girls being blown up by nail bombs in this world, and these little pissant snowflakes are worried about fight Trump?

Good God Almighty, I f***ing hate these people.

I better leave it right there.


13 posted on 05/23/2017 6:05:20 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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Bookmark


14 posted on 05/23/2017 6:38:08 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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Won’t be long and we can all sing,”My President’s back and your going be in trouble...hey la...hey la! My President’s back.”

We know the tune.


15 posted on 05/23/2017 7:19:39 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: chris37
I f***ing hate these people.

Liberalism is their God. Death means nothing to them. One can see how liberals and Muslims are in bed with each other.

16 posted on 05/23/2017 7:24:51 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Yeah, to both groups, their ideology means more than all else.

I don’t want to be like that.


17 posted on 05/23/2017 7:56:05 PM PDT by chris37 (Donald J. Trump, Tom Brady, The Patriots... American Destiny!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL! If it was a movie, it would feature Lou Diamond Phillips or Kris Kristofferson....


18 posted on 05/24/2017 3:13:14 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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“How to get Trump” article number 1,453,098,345.

You figure by now even these brain dead twits would figure out repeating the same lies over and over don’t work.


19 posted on 05/24/2017 4:41:00 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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