Posted on 08/21/2017 7:11:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Congressional Black Caucus, a formidable bloc of lawmakers with a big say in the fate of President Donald Trump and his legislation, Monday sent him a terse, clear message: We don't think you understand us at all.
The caucus' chairman Monday urged cancellation of next month's highly anticipated meeting between White House officials and leaders of the nation's historically black colleges. And he plans to have the 49-member caucus meet when Congress returns in two weeks to discuss whether to back Democratic-led efforts to impeach Trump.
Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., the caucus chairman, said the president's remarks after the deadly Aug. 12 protest in Charlottesville show he has no commitment to the schools or the African American community.
Richmond said the caucus was outraged by Trump's assertion of "blame on both sides" for the violent rally dominated by neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
"You can make an argument based on pure competency and fitness to serve, and that's the conversation the caucus will have," Richmond told reporters in a conference call Monday. The caucus includes 46 House Democrats, Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Republican Rep. Mia Love of Utah.
"Am I concerned about high crimes and misdemeanors?" Richmond asked. "Absolutely. Am I concerned about this president's fitness to serve? Absolutely."
Republicans control 52 of the Senate's 100 seats, and 240 of the House's 435 seats, and there's been no GOP talk of impeachment.
Trump has received heavy criticism both inside and outside of government for not forcefully condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the immediate aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville.....
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like they go to school....in 2017, thats “acting white” if you do that....now, everybodys Al Capone....
Reminds me of the OJ trial. A black juror was reported to say: “DNA, so what eberybody gots DNA.”
Sort of like “grounds for impeachment; who cares. Eberybody gots grounds.”
They only believe in democracy when they win. Now they want to overturn it.
I can see the flag ftom my front porch....
Why yes, yes I am calling them caca.
I am from the non-binary gender-neutral rainbow-colored mongolian eskimo caucus and I also want to impeach Trump because because well just because!
“Monday sent him a terse, clear message: We don’t think you understand us at all. “
On the contrary...
You are QUITE WELL Understood and we oppose your race based agenda.
Just because we oppose your agenda doesn’t mean we don’t understand it. Unless the term ‘understand’ is a euphemism for ‘submit to’. In which case the CBC could rephrase it more clearly to say...
“We don’t think you submit to us at all...”
We wont do that either!
LOL! They are proving that he understands them very well......they are what I refer to as "typical".....not to be confused with those who have risen above the rhetoric of the Left and have become useful to themselves and society - like Diamond and Silk....
Oh please do but understand the investigations into CBC members’ ethics will continue.
Oh please do but understand the investigations into CBC members’ ethics will continue.
I find the position held by the left to much more bigoted than anything Trump said. Trump’s position was essentially the “all lives matter” position. The left’s position is asking us to create a hierarchy of victims that changes depending on who is doing the killing. In the case of Charlottesville, favoring Anarchist- Communists over White Supremacists/Nazi’s - people who kill their fellow countrymen favored over people who kill people of another race.
What was that saying in Jerry McGuire, “Sho me the money!’ They aren’t stupid enough to line their pockets. THis BS is all about them lining their pockets off the back of whitey in charge and they know it. Its race baiting plain and simple. They wanted to kick Trump out of office before he even took the nomination back in July of last year. It wouldn’t matter which R was in the WH. This is a dress rehearsal for the next R that gets in.
This is news? The radical left black caucus has discussed impeachment since day one. They “had it” even before Trump was inaugurated.
Very, very, very old
They aren’t after that particular clause in the Constitution. They are trying to frame Trump as mentally unstable and incompetent to be President. Which was put in as an Amendment to the Constitution in case some nutjob actually gets in. The narrative is no longer collusion it is mentally unfit for office.
They mean a racist group wants to impeach Trump?
Well, they’re determined to imply blacks have a key role in this country and its future. When Hispanics passed blacks in numbers in 2000, the writing was on the wall. No amount of gerrymandering was going to prevent them from “riding in back” with Hispanics in front.
They know it, and while they futilely pretend there is a “black & brown” coalition they are fighting for the same set-asides and freebies...
What? After twice refusing to his requests for a meeting they’ve decided they’ve had enough of him?
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