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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 03, 2019, 01:13:31 pm
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June 3, 2019
Impeachment Fever: Democrats whip themselves into a frenzy
By Monica Showalter
With a recent Democratic Party rally in California, and assorted statements from top congressional Democrats on Twitter and elsewhere, it's getting obvious that Democrats are going bonkers on impeaching President Trump. Five things now stand out:
In California, the rally to melt the wicked witch of the West Coast, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to be having some effect. Pelosi was barraged with loud yelling from Democrats calling for impeachment at her speech to the California Democratic Party State Convention and is now showing signs of caving in. "This is coming home for me," she said. Up until now, she's told the farthest left of the Democrats that impeachment was not worth it and they were playing into Trump's hands, because he was goading them into it. In reality, she as focused on holding her House majority with large numbers of Democrats elected as moderates from red districts who wouldn't last long if impeachment became the only item on the Dem agenda. Now, it doesn't matter, the mau-mauing has got to her. I wrote about that here.
Second, her number three man in the House, Majority Whip James Clyburn, told Jake Tapper yesterday that he thought impeachment was in the works, too. The only reason he wasn't initiating it immediately was that he wanted to make sure it would work, which doesn't sound as though he's particularly serious about balancing the donkey party's desire to overturn the 2016 election with passing actual legislation in Congress that President Trump will sign. According to the RealClearPolitics transcript:
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