Posted on 01/27/2021 11:08:56 PM PST by JME_FAN
RESOLUTION OF CENSURE AGAINST SENATOR BENJAMIN ERIC SASSE
Whereas, on 26 January 2021, 55 U.S. Senators voted to reject a Point of Order, raised by Senator Rand Paul – that impeachment of a private citizen is unconstitutional; and that among those senators objecting were five Republicans, including: Senator Susan Collins (ME), Senator Lisa Murkowski (AK), Senator Mitt Romney (UT), Senator Ben Sasse (NE), and Senator Pat Toomey (PA);
Whereas, on 8 January 2021, as reported by Grant Schulte, of the Associated Press (‘Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says Trump incited Capitol Riot’) – in response to President Donald J. Trump’s speech, given 6 January 2021 at the ‘Save America’ rally, at Ellipse Park in Washington, D.C – Senator Sasse publicly declared that the president incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol building, accusing him of “pouring gasoline on these fires of division,” and further asserted that the president deserves some blame;
Whereas, on 8 January 2021, as reported by Lexi Lonas, of The Hill (‘Sasse says Trump was “delighted” and “excited” by reports of Capitol riot’), during an on-air radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, Senator Sasse stated: “As this was unfolding on television, Donald Trump was walking around the White House confused about why other people on his team weren’t as excited as he was, as you had rioters pushing against Capitol Police trying to get into the building,” Sasse further asserted of President Trump “He was delighted” [about the riot.] Senator Sasse continued: “I’m sure you’ve also had conversations with other senior White House officials, as I have” – but the senator did not name which officials said Trump was “delighted;”
Whereas, on 8 January 2021, as reported by Lexi Lonas, of The Hill (‘Sasse says Trump was “delighted” and “excited” by reports of Capitol riot’), during the interview with Hugh Hewitt, Senator Sasse attacked the integrity of Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), the first senator to announce he would object to the Electoral College results. Senator Sasse called it “a really dumbass stunt, based on lies that the election was fraudulent;”
Whereas, on 8 January 2021, in an interview with CBS This Morning, Senator Sasse stated: “The American people have been lied to, chiefly by Donald Trump, and lies have consequences, and those consequences are now found in five dead Americans, and a Capital building that's in shambles. Legislators should not be aiding and abetting those kinds of lies. The president has disregarded his oath of office … The House, if they come together and have a process, I will definitely consider whatever articles they might move; because, as I've told you, I believe the president has disregarded his oath of office. He swore an oath to the American people to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. He acted against that. What he did was wicked;”
Whereas, on 15 October 2020, in a Washington Post story – ‘GOP Sen. Sasse says Trump mistreats women, flirts with white supremacy and secretly mocks evangelicals’ – WP reporter Colby Itkowitz wrote the following: Sen. Ben Sasse eviscerated President Trump during a phone call with constituents, in which the Nebraska Republican accused the president of cozying up to dictators, mistreating women, flirting with white supremacists and irresponsibly handling the corona virus pandemic.
Sasse’s comments were disclosed by the Washington Examiner, which obtained an audio recording of the call, a campaign telephone townhall with Nebraska voters. Sasse’s spokesman verified that the reporting was accurate, but declined to answer more specific questions such as when the call happened. … In the call, Sasse unleashed a torrent of criticisms at Trump:
“The way he kisses dictators’ butts. I mean, the way he ignores the Uighurs, our literal concentration camps in Xinjiang. Right now, he hasn’t lifted a finger on behalf of the Hong-Kongers. The United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership, the way he treats women, spends like a drunken sailor. The ways I criticize President Obama for that kind of spending; I’ve criticized President Trump for as well. He mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. His family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. He’s flirted with white supremacists.”
The senator also criticized the president’s handling of the corona virus pandemic on the call… Sasse said Trump mishandled it from the beginning. “But the reality is that he careened from curb to curb. First, he ignored covid. And then he went into full economic shutdown mode. He was the one who said 10 to 14 days of shutdown would fix this. And that was always wrong. I mean, and so I don’t think the way he’s led through covid has been reasonable or responsible, or right;”
Whereas, Senator Ben Sasse has persistently engaged in public acts of ridicule and calumny against President Donald J. Trump, through both the spoken and written word, questioning the president’s agenda, decisions, motives, and competency;
Whereas Senator Ben Sasse has publically shown contempt for Donald J. Trump, and likewise he has made disparaging remarks towards the Trump family;
Whereas Senator Ben Sasse has repeatedly, through imprudent public remarks, demonstrated a general disrespect for the Office of the President, and likewise for the reputation of his fellow Republican senators, mocking their integrity;
Whereas, Senator Ben Sasse shows indifference to the factual evidence of illicit acts, as were committed during the 3 November 2020 election, including: affidavits from individuals who witnessed intimidation, irregularities and fraud in the submission and counting of ballots; election malfeasance, committed by elected and appointed officials within the executive and judiciary branches of state governments – as occurred in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan – in violation of state election laws and / or constitutions, thus usurping the plenary power granted solely to state legislatures by the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Sec. 4, Clause 1, and Article 2, Clause 2) in determining the manner, time and place of elections, and the manner in choosing electors.
Whereas Senator Ben Sasse disregards or is otherwise inexcusably ignorant of the laws governing free speech – specifically that test established by the U.S. Supreme Court in its decision Brandenburg v. Ohio 395 U.S. 444 (1969), which set forth the elements required to judge whether a person’s words violate the criminal code against inciting violence. In light of Brandenburg, and the Court’s unchallenged and unchanged precedent thereof, President Donald J. Trump’s speech of 6 January 2021 does not meet the prescribed elements that establish, in fact and law, an act of criminal incitement;
Whereas Senator Ben Sasse, in defiance of the Constitution’s plain meaning, as to the penalty incurred by impeachment and conviction – removal from office (Article 2, Sec. 4, and Article 1, Sec. 3, Clause 7), now seeks to impeach the private citizen, Donald J. Trump – and thus we now have cause to wonder whether Senator Sasse would also willingly violate the prohibition against Bills of Attainder (Article 1, Sec. 9, Clause 3;
Therefore, be it resolved, in consideration of the remarks and actions of Senator Sasse, as stipulated above in this complaint, and following from our formal deliberation, we the undersigned, individually and corporately, agree and declare that Senator Benjamin Eric Sasse warrants and shall incur the penalty of CENSURE, and further we declare such penalty is now imposed by this lawfully convened body –The Nebraska Republican State Central Committee. CENSURE is decreed and so moved, this day, 13 February 2021.
Until she is out of office, I am not impressed. These swampers never face justice.
Agree. Those who despise Trump for his twitter etc., need to look at what he did for our America.
#neversasse. He is a pos.
Good. It needs to be. All 5 of those dip wads need this.
“for whatever reason he just doesn’t like Trump......like a family member I have who likes what Trump has done for the country but hates ‘his style’.”
And that’s fine. Not everyone has to like everyone. But what’s not fine is confusing his personal animosity toward Trump with something that would be the legitimate basis for impeachment and conviction. Telling people to go the Capitol to protest election fraud isn’t any sort of crime let alone a high crime or misdemeanor. And even if it were, the U.S. Senate isn’t the proper venue to try a private citizen. If DJT committed the crime of incitement, then charge him in the regular criminal court system. Put up or shut up.
Everybody? You know this for fact? Where were you when we last fought commies in the early 60-70’s? We had SF in Laos in the late 50’s.
Trump needed to work on his intonations: too late now...
Why haven’t they stripped those five senators of all committee assignments?
Bravo!
I want the SOB to return EVERY CENT of Republican funds he ever received.
Murky, Mittens, Collins,and especially Toomey (my PA sh1thead senator).
EVERY CENT!
Not good enough. Demand resignation. Censure is a big fat nothing.
I've seen that when "most people that hate his style" are questioned, they really revert to what they mean, "Donald Trump is a good looking billionaire that cheated on his wives" {and gets away with it}.
I've seen some of my friends gag on that fact but finally admit it.
It is not his tweets, it's his middle finger and blunt, "This is me, take it or leave it" style both in life and in politics.
It's kinda like the old Gibbs in the original NCIS, "Apologies are a sign of weakness".
Trump is an original, with all of his flaws, "Take it or leave it".
While I agree with the general concept of laying all this out for the NE GOP, the document needs some restructuring and tightening up. It would make the resolution much more powerful.
I would add the requirement for Mr. Sasse to publically state he is a Republican. Once he does so, put together a second resolution that actually states what Republicanism used to mean (read: conservatism) and that Mr. Sasse is no republican. Let him hang himself with his own words.
Send these documents to every online and print publication in the state. Prepare a press release with a Reader’s Digest of the declaration(s) and provide it to every broadcast station in the state. Show up at his town halls and publically ask him about it.
Ask the NE GOP to help you. If they do not, they are supine invertebrates. (but I bet you knew that).
Cocaine Mitch.
For some Trump is an acquired taste in his style of delivery. We all know it’s not customary, but people had problems with Reagan’s delivery as well.
I think the real issue is the politicians all wanted someone ‘like them’ and Trump wasn’t going to even try to fit into their mode. That’s not what he was there for.... Further he was “the boss” and they sure didn’t like that. We loved it!
Why is it that everyone Nebraska sends to Washington is a flaming asshole? Remember Chuck Hagel?
Cheney was a newcomer who only got on the ballot in the first place because of her daddy's name. It's not as if Wyoming gets a lot of bacon off the federal hog to begin with, and there isn't much of a Democratic party in Wyoming, so there's not much risk in switching candidates in the next election.
Sasse has a power base in Nebraska. Those supporters who have benefited from his tenure or expect to do so in the future will support him no matter what he has done. John McCain got censured by the Arizona Republican party and it never made any difference to his election prospects. Nebraska also has a viable Democratic party so a bad primary fight might put the seat at risk.
In Arizona Republican governor Ducey has been censured, and his political career is over. It is also an indication that the State party is no longer run by the likes of McCain or Flake. Sasse may have just won election, but he should not be given a position of importance in Congress. Nonetheless, he will survive, and likely thrive, because of the excremental Mitch the Turtle.
Not a Nebraskan, but this is terrific. Of course, no idea where it will go but sure does define and summarize Ben Sasse.
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