Posted on 02/02/2021 12:22:41 PM PST by Red Badger
Democrats too focused on impeachment, GOP doesn't want to bar Trump from office, senator says....
Sens. Tim Kaine and Susan Collins have set aside the bipartisan effort to censure former President Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot for lack of support from both Democrats and Republicans.
Kaine, D-Va., said Tuesday they won't file their alternative to impeachment because there's not a path for success at this time.
"We don't have enough support on the Republican side because they don't want to bar Trump from running from office, and I don't have enough support on the Democratic side because, for most of my colleagues, it's impeachment or nothing," Kaine told pool reporters at the Capitol Tuesday.
Kaine and Collins, R-Maine, proposed a censure resolution that would have condemned Trump and used the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to bar Trump from holding office again. If Trump is convicted during impeachment, he could face similar punishment.
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Is timmy morose?
I can hardly wait until these DC Swamp Republicans start sending me msgs asking for donations. Going to have some fun.
I thought they had already given up on this Censure measure. Last week.
The Left consider it too much a light tap of discipline on the former president’s wrist, when they want the full three ring circus of an impeachment, followed by conviction, followed by a bar from ever seeking future office.
Many of the Right object to the disgrace of barring him from any future office. Some fence straddlers aka RINOS are afraid of being blackballed by the GOP in case Trump retains and regains his massive influence over the Republican Party.
Timmy fell down one too many wells.......................
You knew the Democrats weren’t serious about it when they had Tim Kaine walking point. What a dweeb.
I voted for Susan Collins in November.
I voted for her because I wanted the GOP to retain control of Congress and because I wanted Collins to work with President Trump in his second term.
I was naïve, and I’m sorry I voted for this RINO b****.
I wish I had voted for the independent in the race, Max Linn, the pro-Trump guy.
Can he sing in Irish baritone?..................
I am sorry to say Kaine is my senator. He has got to be one of the dumbest persons in the senate.
Same here. I didn’t vote for Collins in 2014 but felt that keeping her in would help keep the Senate. Marking that box was painful. Never again.
It has been a long, long, long time since I thought about Crazy Guggenheim. Wow, from the remote recesses of my brain.
Your alternative was probably a full-out commie.
Call Collins local and in DC and make sure they know.
Better yet, follow up with an actual snail mail letter.
The letters get real attention.
Ha! I didn’t vote for her in 2014, either.
I wrote in the name of a local GOP/candidate / businessman instead.
Her 2020 RAT opponent in the Senate race was former Maine House speaker Sarah Gideon, a 48-year old version of AOC complete with the little girl voice.
I also voted for Collins since she voted for the Trump tax cuts and most of the president’s judicial picks, whereas the RAT would have been a “no” vote on all of the above.
Clowns, pushing this impeachment is a folly.
Creepy clown speaketh...
Oh I don't know there is a lot of competition for that title. Patty Murray, Dick Durbin, Feinstein (well, diminished capacity in her case), Mazie Hirono.... I could go on.
“lack of support”
That’s the shallowest of arguments. Not enough ‘likes’ for impeachment. A circular brainstorm.
Dumb or evil?
I'm getting three or four emails a day from the RNC and they use President Trump as the reason to give, all while they're stabbing him in the back.
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