Posted on 10/29/2019 12:19:22 AM PDT by vikingrinn
Very nice trick here by the Lawfare advisory and rules committee that is handling the construct of the “Official House Inquiry” on impeachment. It is such a good trick it has everyone crossed-up and confused. Likely, that is by design.
On Thursday of this week Speaker Pelosi is bringing to the floor a resolution to affirm her previous declaration of an “Official House Inquiry”. Mrs. Pelosi is very purposefully and carefully telling reporters this is not a “House resolution on impeachment”.
Read the wording carefully.
Speaker Pelosi is holding a vote, a resolution, to affirm her previous declaration of a House “inquiry”. The resolution is currently being written by Lawfare. Pelosi is not delivering a House “Resolution on Impeachment” for a vote, because if she did hold a vote on an impeachment resolution, the minority and the Executive branch would gain rights therein.
This is a House vote to show support for Pelosi’s previous unilateral decree. Right now the rules committee is adding language to the resolution that will provide additional one-sided support for a completely partisan process.
Pelosi is careful to say “this is not an impeachment resolution”.
It is not an “impeachment resolution”, it is a resolution to support the already existing “impeachment inquiry”.
Pelosi and the Lawfare crew are playing games.
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So they are voting on a fake impeachment.
“Ready, Fire, Aim!”
They voted for Reagan over Mondale. Nixon over McGovern.
Close. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
But they are fooling themselves, so nobody else is taken in. I only hope that getting splattered on by a Trump Tower jumper will be a good luck sign in 2021. People will walk by just to ruin their clothes with leftard jumper splatter.
As soon as they give the green light to impeachment, the Trump team is free to ask every question and open every file. Including the identity of the whistleblower. Good luck with that. The Trump team may also put shif on the stand for testimony, including his clumsy paraphrase of the telephone call.
Enh. I remember LBJ saying it my way.
I would love to see all traitors hanged and, then, thrown into the shark-infested ocean off Gitmo. This, of course, after a fair trial and conviction.
I think the president will carry ALL of Maine this time.
In 2016, the president won the Second Congressional District, 80% of the state in area, 27,000 square miles.
Donald Trump won this district by 10 points. The future president and his family made a number of visits to this area during the campaign.
Her Heinous Hitlery Rotten Criminal won the more liberal First District in the Southeast corner of the state, 20% of the land area of Maine. I’ve heard people call the First District “North Massachusetts.”
Clinton won one electoral vote by carrying CD 1, Donald Trump won one electoral vote by carrying CD 2.
Madame Hillary won the statewide popular vote by 2.9% (because of the more liberal voters in CD 1). By winning the statewide vote, she received two more electoral votes.
Candidate Trump did not run anywhere near as many ads here in Maine as Hillary did in 2016, and he did not spend as much money, either.
That will not be the case in 2020, so I believe the president has a good chance at capturing the whole state.
I can not envision the situation you mentioned where the president carries New York and California but doesn’t easily win all of Maine.
The people I talk to here are livid about this so-called impeachment inquiry and the continued harassment of our president.
I remember Florida in 2000. On one side, you had the rural parts of the state and Cubans angry at the high-handedness of the Clinton administration on the Elian matter. On the other, you had liberals in the urban centers, and the usual illegal aliens masquerading as dead people still on the roles, a prodigious and growing part of the Florida voting population. But the Cubans were really really pissed. So Florida went narrowly Republican.
I hope you are right about Maine.
But as for New York, the city by that name is a Democrat fiefdom, but in that stronghold Donald Trump is a living legend, for good reason, and long before he ever got into politics.
I remember once delivering some papers to 40 Wall Street. I never saw a more beautiful, tasteful lobby in an office building. And the lobby receptionists beamed with pride when I expressed my admiration. The changes he’s wrought to the NY skyline are indelible and monumental. And then there’s his personality, which is pure New York City without the negative connotations. He is a well-loved living legend in NYC.
So never mind the traditional, reflexive liberalism of New York City. Every presidential election is a tug of war between upstate New York and The City. And right now, I would wager, if I had anything to bet, that in all five boroughs of The City and a good chunk of Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk, too, there are some seriously pissed off people, who are furious with the treatment of their personal living legend. I know I am, and I left NY about 15 years ago, but NY City has not left me, and when they slander Donald Trump they are slandering New York City and the cultural and business climate that made him, and the many people who love him. The tug of war between upstate and New York is thus likely to take an unexpected turn. Republicans have won in NYC, whenever things have gotten really bad, as they are right now, I’ve heard. The last Republican savior of the city was Rudy Giuliani, himself a living legend well remembered and highly regarded. And he’s best buds with...guess who.
As for California, the people there might have finally noticed that their life has sucked for a long time, about as long as California’s been a one-party state. I’ll throw caution to the winds and say that it will go red, despite the mass insanity and sanctuary cities.
I grew up in Suffolk County on Long Island and spent a lot of time in Manhattan when I was a kid. My father had a business a stone’s throw from Rockefeller Center....a photography business that developed large color photographs for the advertising agencies in the city.
There are still a lot of conservatives on Long Island. I have a lot of relatives there, in Nassau and Suffolk counties....and most....not all, but most....of them are Trump supporters.
I also lived in California during the 1970’s, 1980’s and the early 1990’s, mostly in Santa Barbara. The state used to be VERY conservative over all. The good old days.
nope
Looks like Lewis in that photo.
Democrats better stop now.
Then why did every borough except Staten Island overwhelmingly vote for Clinton?
That was then. This is now. Now you have a fundamental injustice being actively perpetrated against him in secret. You have sanctimonious hypocrites doing so in the name of a constitution they themselves are wiping their asses on. And from the depths of their innermost New York consciousness, that which drives us to push our way into a crowded subway car during rush hour with the door slamming on our ankles, the loudspeaker blares “Y’ALL READY FO’ DIS?!” and “It’s on now.”
Hillary was and is a fake New Yorker. But she’s a liberal puke, and the liberal pukes gravitated towards her. But now Trump is under attack, and he’s also the personification of all that in New Yorkers is not simply a bunch of liberal pukes. He’s rough-cut but generous, full of self-confidence, thinks big, never surrenders, and enjoys a good fight. Just like my former home and all that remains of it in me. So we’re under attack, too.
I think he’ll carry New York by a razor-thin margin. Because the pissed-off New Yorkers, together with the upstaters, will tip the balance. Just like in Florida the pissed off Cubans, together with the panhandlers, tipped the balance against the Roosevelt-voting retirees and the dead Roosevelt-voting retirees, by just a few hundred votes.
I got disabused of all liberal notions as a direct result of living in Brooklyn and Far Rockaway in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The city is not monolithically liberal by a long-shot. There is the mythology that Republicans are all racists, there is the free stuff that the liberals dangle. But I think that’s all becoming obsolete. If you’re a black man who got out of prison and found work through First Step in an opportunity zone in Brooklyn, the case for Trump being a racist doesn’t get very far. And he’s a cultural icon for blacks as well as whites. Then the liberal whites who claim to speak for blacks begin to sound paternalistic and condescending, and they know it, so they get crazy and scare people, and nutso plans to get rid of private insurance, raise taxes on everybody and give more aid to Ghaza is just puke frosting on a sh!t cake, with impeachment as the dingleberry cherry on top.
Democrat formula for winning elections amounts to, get 90% of minorities and 40% of white vote, and you have a majority. It will not work in NYC in 2020. If just 25% of blacks go for Trump, it’s over. It never worked upstate. I think NY will do a Florida 2000, and liberal heads will explode.
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