That's what they say about exercising one's constitutional rights.
I say that the same thing applies to impeachment -- if we don't do it, they won't fear it. If they don't fear it, they will overreach to the point where impeachment no longer matters.
-PJ
Bkmk
“We elect our representatives to enunciate the principles of America. To keep the spirit of American liberty alive. To remind the public, constantly, what our country is all about.”
Our representatives engage in Parliamentary Democracy; we vote our overlords into authority so they can direct our lives and our money to their collective benefit.
Thank you for your vote. Now hand us your wallet and get on your knees.
“Republicans in Congress have a duty to work as hard as they can to expand their numbers in the next election.”
Nice sentiment. Hard to do when so many of them are Assistant Democrats.
"The Constitution sets a very high bar for the removal of an officeholder through impeachment."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
First, the bottom line...
Consider that political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because it is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
Getting back to today's impeachment difficulties, the Constitution's bar for removing someone impeached by the House from office is not as high as Mr. Di Leo is claiming imo.
More specifically, corrupt political parties have divided both houses of Congress imo. By doing so, they have not only wrongly effectively nullified the Senate's supermajority power to remove people impeached by the House from office, evidenced by desperate Democrats and RINOs twice failing to remove Trump after mock impeachments, but have also likewise nullified Congress's power to override presidential vetoes.
The bottom line is that it's up to Democratic and Republican patriots to support hopeful Trump 47 by immediately primarying ALL incumbent lawmakers in state and federal governments up for reelection this year, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company (and others?), replacing them with patriot lawmakers who will work together to support Trump to finish draining the swamp.
Again, consider that corrupt political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because the electoral college is the only thing stopping the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
“ If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the congressional record:
(Again) ”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattetive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
Impeaching Mayorkas will cause everyone who votes against conviction to defend that and to defend the open borders policy Mayorkas has overseen in direct violation of the law and enabling rampant illegal immigration. That refusal to abide by the law is impacting a lot of people, including a lot of Democrats in a strongly negative way.