WE ARE OFFICIALLY A BANANA REPUBLIC now....................
Posted on 01/08/2021 7:59:36 AM PST by Red Badger
After conferencing with the House Democratic caucus, Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark said that Democrats are prepared to begin proceedings for a second impeachment of President Trump "as early as mid-next week."
Calling the president a "traitor" who "incited violence," Clark told CNN that the lower chamber is reluctant to wait the remaining 12 days of Trump's term in office, claiming that his continued service poses a threat.
"Every day that Donald Trump is president of the United States is a day of grave danger," she said while explaining the tools that House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler may use to proceed.
The drastic action on the part of the House would be unlikely to succeed. An impeachment effort in the House would require the votes of 67 senators to convict, an improbable proposition given the upper chamber's current composition.
The murmurings of impeachment have cropped up as an alternative method of removing Trump from office prematurely if Vice President Mike Pence decides not to act. Under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the vice president, along with a majority of the Cabinet or "such other body as Congress," can vote to initiate an involuntary transfer of power away from the president. Pence has signaled a reluctance to take this step.
Still, the vice president has nonetheless faced mounting pressure to act. The effort has gained the support of a member of Trump's party. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, urged Pence to remove him from office, calling him "unmoored, not just from his duty or even his oath but from reality itself."
"Sadly, yesterday, it became evident that ... the president abdicated his duty to protect the American people in the 'People's House,'" Kinzinger said in recorded remarks. "It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment to end this nightmare."
One GOP senator, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, said on Friday he is open to removing Trump from office through impeachment.
Trump was impeached on two Ukraine-related articles of impeachment in the House in December 2019, but he was acquitted by the Senate.
Doesn’t there have to be some sort of trial? Or in kangaroo land do we just skip to the guilty verdict
It is apparent that the sense if illegitimacy is gnawing at the Democrats and that just can’t wash away that damned spot.
Doesn’t leave much time for Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to erase all those ‘politically incorrect’ vids featuring contrary evidence.
However, working overtime, I am sure they can manage.
Good, by that time Trump can start declassifying stuff that makes the Party of Limousine and Champagne Government members look bad.
Dadgum it, they'd probably only get 66.
No way in hell should the people put up with a 2nd impeachment.
Time for a march
Not in Beijing Biden World.
The democrats and media went feral the day the greatest president got elected the are at the point of no return.
Not in the House
They could just order a floor vote, be done in an hour, they have the math.
The Senate can wait till the Dems take over, do it next month, GOP higher ups would sign off on it to keep Trump from ever running for office again, clearing the way for 2024.
Yesp, its happening
So House Democrats believe that with all the work to be done for the transition:
They can get a set of the articles of impeachment through the House committee, -and- get the full House to approve those articles with only 8 work days left before it becomes moot.
The same people who took 6 months to agree on a $600 payment to US Citizens.
Sorry, just not seeing it.
The thing is, with Trump gone their hallucination bubble will suffer from a huge vacuum. It will implode, and what will they do? What has defined them for five years is Trump hate. Same with the media, what will they do? Will be interesting to watch.
Hysterical shrieking fools are the bed rock of the Democrat Party.
WE ARE OFFICIALLY A BANANA REPUBLIC now....................
It does not matter if they impeach and remove, or invoke the 25th at this point. It will change nothing and may even wake-up a few more people. We are in for some bad times. They will have to move fast so they can still blame Trump. The gop will back their play, but I don’t think Trump voters will buy any of it.
“No way in hell should the people put up with a 2nd impeachment.”
What do the people have to do with it? This is about political revenge and destruction of an adversary to Communist rule. The people are the last things on the minds of politicians now.
Now we can sit back and watch the Dems overplay their hand and commit suicide for the next 2 years
PERSONALLY, I truly HPE that the DIMocRAT CRAZIES of the HoR are STUPID ENOUGH to IMPEACH the POTUS again.
IMPEACHING President Trump AGAIN, & less than TWO weeks from 20JAN21, will SEAL THEIR DOOM in the election of 2022.
Yours for LIBERTY, ex-cadet
somehow or other, we have let some serious communists and nazis get into our government. in the past, they had to infiltrate moles into the Snake Department and defense and intelligence agencies. Nowadays, they manage to get “elected” (mostly by rigging the votes and vote counting and vote certification, but they still get into Congress and the White House.
To seize the White House, it is only necessary to rig the vote counting in about 5 or 6 states. Not nearly as difficult or expensive as may have been supposed in such a large country. Ask SorozNazi
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