Posted on 05/03/2025 6:30:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Democrat sponsor of an unprecedented third impeachment attempt of President Donald Trump has a big problem – his own party.
Just when liberals finally felt like they were gaining some political momentum after sweeping Republican victories last November, any progress may have already been washed away. On April 28, Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) officially introduced articles of impeachment against Trump, instantly sending the Washington media into a frenzy and the House Democrat caucus into chaos.
While Democrats’ first two impeachment cases were thin, bordering on nonexistent, they at least revolved around specific allegations against Trump. This time, however, Thanedar couldn’t come up with anything more than vague, wildly hyperbolic claims about the president “obstructing justice,” “violating the Constitution,” and engaging in “tyrannical overreach.”
The move is clearly an effort to appease Democrats’ left-wing base – the articles stand virtually zero chance of ever even coming to a vote in the House. It’s also likely no coincidence that Thanedar announced the impeachment effort the same day news broke that Justice Democrats, the left-wing group that fueled Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset victory in 2018, had launched a primary challenge against him.
Even Democrat House leaders recognize what most Americans do – that this impeachment effort will go nowhere and will only serve as a massive distraction that will further divide the party. For swing-district Democrat incumbents, refusing to support an impeachment effort against Trump, no matter how ridiculous it is, puts them in the crosshairs of groups like Justice Democrats. But if they choose to back impeachment, which is clearly just a personal political vendetta against Trump, that likely won’t sit well with independent and moderate Democrat voters.
This predicament that Thanedar has placed his vulnerable colleagues in perhaps helps explain reports coming out of the Capitol detailing “internal furor” within the caucus – furor that is now leaking out into full public view.
One anonymous Democrat told Axios that Thanedar’s actions were “a self-own that… fundamentally undermines our capacity to continue to have a conversation with people we need to win over.” Another asked, “Why would we do something that has failed twice as a strategy and yielded no electoral win? The guy got impeached twice, how did it work out for us?” A third said, “It seems self-serving and not a genuine effort to rein in the president.”
But Thanedar didn’t appear to get the message from his disgruntled colleagues. The congressman’s office allegedly added one fellow Democrat as a co-sponsor “based on a vague one-on-one conversation without notifying their staff.”
At least four House Democrats initially listed as cosponsors have since withdrawn their names, including Res. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), and Janice Schakowsky (D-IL). There are currently no active cosponsors of the impeachment resolution.
Nonetheless, this PR debacle highlights persistent divides within the party and underscores Democrats’ desperation to find any sort of footing in their opposition to Trump.
By weaponizing impeachment as a political messaging stunt, Thanedar has said the quiet part out loud: if Democrats win back the House majority in 2026, they will spend all their time reviving the left’s crusade to “get Trump” rather than delivering anything substantive for the American people. It’s a gift Republicans will unwrap next year in attack ads — proof Democrats are obsessed with ousting Trump, not governing.
While Thanedar’s impeachment push hasn’t gained much support among Democrat Party leadership (yet) it has been immensely popular with the liberal activist class, once again revealing that the left’s primary goal is revenge. After all, impeachment theater is easier than winning elections on actual ideas that will improve lives.
But the fallout goes deeper, shining a harsh spotlight on Democrats’ internal civil war. In the wake of last year’s drubbing, a wing of the party pleaded for moderation — urging focus on pocketbook issues, swing-district outreach, a return to the center. Instead, the progressives doubled down, insisting the problem was that the party was not far enough left.
The resulting image is of a ship without a captain – or rather, a ship with two captains working against one another. When one freshman congressman can spring an impeachment ambush without looping in party leaders, you know the chain of command is broken. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, supposedly the helmsman of the House Democrats, is reduced to scrambling to contain the firestorm – he hadn’t even spoken with Thanedar by the time reporters asked him about it.
The mainstream narrative is that this incident is just a political sideshow in Washington. But it may be something more than that. In addition to Jeffries being unable to corral his own members, the Democrat Party now appears so consumed by internecine feuds that it may undermine voters’ confidence in their ability to effectively legislate.
If they don’t course-correct fast, Democrats will find their Trump Derangement Syndrome has cost them more than political capital — it may well cost them seats. And after this debacle, convincing voters that they’re serious about anything else will require a miracle far more impressive than a third impeachment.
Shane Harris is the Editor-in-Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
And Republicans could not file articles of impeachment for real crimes committed by Joe Biden.
That’s because they’re assistant demonrats.
I think if these maggots start their goofyass “impeachment” BS agains to steal another election, Americans need to start dancing the Beetlejuice conga, carrying signs, dropping the “F” bombs and calling for the assassination of DemonRATS.
Look at those pompous retarded idiots in that picture. A bunch of maggotized clowns.
Focus is now shifting to Hakeem Jeffries’ leader status.
Who’s likely to replace him ?
Personally, I like the job he’s doing
What’s with that goofy old Soviet Union “Workers of the World Unite” pose. Looks dumber than crap. I didn’t know they could get pigs to pose like that.
Dude is a dead ringer for Valerie Jarrett.
Poor little clown couldn’t get any co-sponsors to impeach because Schiff is a Senator now.
Useless exercise in futility.
They would be defeated in Senate.
And Harris was Biden best insurance against being removed anyway. I think that’s why he selected her.
Commies gonna Commie.
Make the label stick.
A couple of “truth comes out” statements in those comments by other dems.
First of all, since when is impeachment supposed to be a “strategy?” Impeachment is meant to be part of a punishment process to rein in an out-of-control president, judge, or member of the Executive. But in using this one word in that question, they have admitted (finally) that the impeachments of Trump are purely political strategy that they had hoped would give a favorable outcome to their side, and nothing more.
Again, they admit as much with this second quote: “It seems self-serving and not a genuine effort to rein in the president.” Everything they do is self-serving. There is not one single action that the left takes to serve the people. Every move is made to either enrich themselves, cover up some misdeed, or tear down and destroy their opponents (physically, mentally, and spiritually if they can).
I try to post every day that Trump won ninety per cent of the counties.
As long as the Democrats keep playing to the ten per cent, they will never win a national election.
Sadly, it is the local congressional races that worry me.
Those “Republican” candidates are trying to integrate traditional vanilla uniparty positions with America First and by doing so they take little advantage of Trump’s overwhelming support in ninety per cent of the counties.
Trump’s two major issues were illegal immigration and thanks to those great Kamala fully embracing perverts commercials made transgender lunacy second.
Where I live the so-called Republicans running for the house didn’t have the balls to put those same issues first and foremost as did Trump.
Both wings of the uniparty are nothing but pathetic losers.
When all else fails, blame, blame, blame. Never, ever, expose your own faults and failures, blame someone else for your stupidity.
I’ll say it again. There are only two parties in this nation, MAGA and those who are trying to stop it.
Watched Thanedare on Fox News yesterday,and it looked like his bottom teeth were either false or implants that had no connection to any other teeth in his lower jaw.
Made me wonder if someone more disgusted with him than I was had once planted a fist into his face.
I thought the pimp with the golden handled pimp cane was next up for filing for impeaching of the President. He threatened the president first.
Focus is now shifting to Hakeem Jeffries’ leadership status.
Who’s likely to replace him ? Personally, I like the job he’s doing.
LOL......a great put-down of Democrats as any I’ve seen posted.
I would bet a dozen doughnuts that this clown has something to hide.
Of course he loves the H1B program b/c it brings in mostly Indians.
Must cater to his financial interests....he gets a cut of every Indian paycheck?
He needs to be ostracized since he has no compunction
about putting India’s interests over America’s interests.
He supports India over America.....he needs to
be ejected from congress and hustled back to India.
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