Posted on 08/16/2017 3:45:18 PM PDT by mandaladon
WASHINGTON House Democrats are introducing a formal resolution to denounce President Donald Trump for saying that “both sides” are to blame for a violent encounter between white supremacists and neo-Nazis and the activists who showed up to protest them.
While the censure is unlikely to see traction in the GOP-led House, it serves as a rebuke to Trump and mirrors some of the Republican criticism the president has faced for his remarks.
“A president of the United States cannot support neo-Nazis. It’s just beyond the pale,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., a member of the House Judiciary Committee. “I hope Republicans who have expressed outrage with what he said put their money where their mouth is.”
Just three Democrats have signed onto the measure, but Nadler says he expects more to follow.
With this tactic, Democrats are taking a page from Republicans who frequently filed censure resolutions against President Barack Obama and members of his administration. Most died on the vine, but the Republican-controlled House of Representatives in 2012 voted to censure then-Attorney General Eric Holder for his role in the botched Fast and Furious gun-running operation into Mexico.
A number of lawmakers also introduced censures against Bill Clinton over his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and resolutions were filed against George W. Bush for authorizing a no-warrant domestic surveillance program.
One president was formally censured: President Andrew Jackson in 1834 was admonished by the Senate for refusing to turn over documents that lawmakers had requested.
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If these damn democrats don’t back away from this impeachment shit...they will regret the day they were born...
This would be political suicide for the Rats because it would come across as utterly ridiculous. Try to imagine how this would go down, how they would explain it:
“He said both sides were violent”...Uh yeah, that’s because they were.”
“He said there were good people on both sides” ...Uh, yeah, that’s because there was. Not everyone there was a neo-Nazi nor a Antifa protester.
I really hope they are stupid enough to go through with this because I am sick to death of this Democrap party and these RINO backstabbing sc*mbags as well. These Rats and RINOs in Washington are causing TREMENDOUS problems for the country and they need to be dealt with, let them hang themselves so we can get them out of the way and move the country forward. This is over half a year now we have been dealing with their baby bullsh*t, their childish attention whore garbage and I am sick of it.
Read my post #142. I say let them go forward with it because they will be committing political suicide as a result. Let them hang themselves while they come across as utterly ridiculous petulant children. Trump ain’t stupid, he is set them up for this and they took the bait, he is leading them on like the idiots they are and they are going to hang themselves.
“If these damn democrats don’t back away from this impeachment shit...they will regret the day they were born...”
I already regret the day they were born.
But both sides are to blame at Charlottesville along with a leftist mayor, governor and a police chief that were incompetent in crowd control.
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