Posted on 01/10/2021 4:09:53 PM PST by McGruff
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Sunday called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment.
The announcement comes as a growing number of Congressmembers have called for President Donald Trump to be removed from office.
Below is the text of a letter Pelosi sent to her Democrat collogues:
Dear Democratic Colleague,
On this Sunday, as we pray that God will continue to Bless America, I write to inform you of our next actions, which will be made with the great solemnity that this moment requires.
I want to call to your immediate attention the action to be taken tomorrow morning, when Majority Leader Hoyer will request Unanimous Consent to bring up the Raskin resolution. This resolution calls on the Vice President to convene and mobilize the Cabinet to activate the 25th Amendment to declare the President incapable of executing the duties of his office, after which the Vice President would immediately exercise powers as acting President. The text of the resolution can be found here.
If we do not receive Unanimous Consent, this legislation is planned to be brought up on the Floor the following day. We are calling on the Vice President to respond within 24 hours.
Next, we will proceed with bringing impeachment legislation to the Floor.
In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both. As the days go by, the horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action.
I look forward to our Caucus call tomorrow. I am grateful to all Members for the suggestions, observations and input that you have been sending. Your views on the 25th Amendment, 14th Amendment Section 3 and impeachment are valued as we continue. I am answering your communications in chronological order and will do so into the night.
Thank you for your patriotism.
These are not the actions of someone who is confident they won. I’m not talking about just the election, but the media narrative aroudn Trump and the capitol incident.
>>> That is insurrection.
Another thing that is insurrection is reaching out to China for assistance in ensuring a smooth Biden inauguration.
Not sure who... and not verified... but it’s out there being reported.
The rise of NANZIsm in America
Some late night tv comedian
Fund-raising bait.
This is nothing.
And the headline is misleading, at best.
From a garbage source.
They are so evil they just can’t wait a week or so.
The whole idea of using the 25th Amendment is dumb. If the Democrats succeed in getting VP Pence to agree with the majority of the cabinet then VP Pence would be acting as president until President Trump tells the House and Senate leadership that he is in fact capable of acting. That would be about 10 seconds after the notice from VP Pence arrived at the capital.
In order for President Trump to not continue in power there has to be a 2/3 vote of both the House and the Senate. Does anyone except a crazed Democrat think that is possible? Assuming every Democrat votes in favor of the action they still need a number of Republicans who want to end their political careers.
It is just bloviating as you noted.
My my my! Why the desperation?
Can’t just wait out the ten days until they install their puppet?
You know how presidents sometimes just pop up in the ME for Thanksgiving with the troops? maybe on an aircraft carrier? I would LMAO if the president is at the Kremlin having tea and nice little fancy cakes with Mr Putin. It would just strike me as funny, and Nasty’s head might explode.
(Sorry I am still behind on this thread, but it is so good, with wonderful posts by everyone, I am reading it ALL!)
What a LYING B!TC}{ !!! Almost EVERY WORD USED IS A LIE !!! I DESPISE THAT thing !!!
Pelosi’s is insane. Literally.
If it is nothing more than bloviating for her base then she is utterly insane. Even the most rabid leftist Dem supporters have to be asking themselves “why do something this extreme when Trump is expected to leave in ten days?”
It should be clear to most, even the crazed moonbats, that the actions she is promoting here will blow up in D.C. like the Hindenberg and in turn blow up all across the country in the streets.
The ordinary citizen, left and right, will have to be wondering “why do this when Orange Bad Man has been defeated and is almost gone?”
Pelozi has always been shrewd when it comes to calculating the sentiments of her base. It makes no sense to do this just to throw some red meat to them. We just had an election, the next one is two years off. Red meat is what they serve before elections.
https://rumble.com/vclygj-omg-omg-yall-have-to-see-this..html?mref=1v6ax&mc=85ofo
If this is true the Ashli Babbit was most likely killed while engaged in a Special Forces operation.
Oh PLEASE GOD let it be TRUE!!!!
I am finding articles on this, the laptop of the bitch was taken....So this whole “Capital invasion” could have been a ruse just to get her damn laptop. I was telling my brother yesterday, why were the cops helping the so called “rioters” enter the building and then escorting them up the stairs? Have you see the Ashli Babbitt murder? After she gets shot, she falls backwards, and 3 or 4 cops are behind her carrying M4s and none of them are pointing them at these “rioters” nor are they threatening them! So why would this guy shoot her? This whole thing was a mini Civil war between those protecting Pelosi and those protecting the Patriots
They will, with Mittens Romney bleating the way, roll over on their backs with their tails between their legs and not put up any fight, because Orange Man Bad.
They are a spineless, disgusting, and sorry lot of cowards.
Even as an agnostic, I know this intuitively.
Yet she is still offered, and takes Holy Communion.
That speaks ill of both The Church, and of her.
Assuming Pascal was right, I see a bright future, one might say a downright incandescent, future for her and the hierarchy.
make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings,
(from the Insurrection Act)
Well, that has certainly happened.
I am so glad you reposted the video of General McInerney. Early on in the video the hostess plays a clip from Jan 6 inside the Capitol building, and again near the end. She is pointing out that one guy has something under his jacket, perhaps Pelosi’s laptop. There is no violence, but some are yelling that those guys are not with us, they are Antifa. A guy grabs one of the black-clad, face-masked guys (with laptop) while others yell “Let him go! Let him go!” which they do. What is important is what the partner of laptop guy says:
“We are not here to be Antifa. We are not here to be Antifa.”
Who talks like that? A normal person would say, “We are not Antifa” or would declare an affirmative “We are Capitol security” or something like that. The guy clearly says “not here TO BE Antifa” and that sounds like some agency’s special operators, as though they sometimes go out undercover as Antifa but not on Jan 6. I hope they belonged to the DNI and not the FBI.
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