I was certainly expecting stronger oversight and better, stronger symbolic bills. If you’re going to pass a bill you know is DOA anyway, why make it tepid?
Clay
3775
Nope, but even bipartisan stuff like this would be DOA.
Timex
3776
I would really love if people running robocall services were executed.
I don’t know, these sorts of pieces are back-calculating reflections of current emotions.
2016 - Pelosi is out of touch
2018 - Pelosi is a genius
2019 - Pelosi can’t see beyond the next election
Like all these sorts, they’re light on quotes on heavy on authorial interpolation.
rowe33
3778
Will that pass the Senate and be signed by Trump? Seems against the very ideals of capitalism!
Nesrie
3779
#NotAllRoboCalls !
Screw them. If they’re going to bug me in the middle of the night it might as well be a damn human doing it. But you know, Robocalls isn’t a bad word.
And Mitch (and DJT) want more of this. They should be disgraced and in prison.
HIGHLY PARTISAN! CONSPIRACY THEORY!
That guy’s hypocrisy is going to give him colon cancer.
rowe33
3783
It’d better hurry - he’s already 77 so if we want maximum suffering, need to start that pretty quickly.
Let’s write a letter together than we can send to our Democratic representatives, if we (you) have any. I do: Anthony Brindisi, who narrowly won the 22nd district of NY last year. He currently does not favor the impeachment track.
What do you think of a letter to representatives (like Brindisi) that hits these points?
- Thank you for representing us.
- You do not currently favor impeachment. I assume that you have some strategic reasons, because there is at least one unassailable reason to impeach: Trump is profiting from being President while he is President. This behavior is criminal because (citation needed).
- Impeaching the President is not the end goal. The end goal is (whatever you think it is — for me, it’s getting rid of assholes who are blocking progress on fighting the climate emergency).
- Making sure that Trump does not win next year’s election would be great for the actual end goal (from 3).
- I think that aggressively pursuing impeachment would be great for momentum heading into next year’s election. We need the Presidency and both chambers of Congress if we are to make progress on the end goal.
- Please change your mind, and we have your back.
If anyone is interested in critiquing that, I would gratefully discuss it for a bit, and then get my pen and paper out and start writing.
FWIW, my wife and I both wrote to our state representatives this morning through this website (originally posted by @Clay):
Yours is more specific and personal though. Here’s the boilerplate text that they send, which you can modify to meet your needs:
I’m writing to thank you, as my representative in the federal government, for calling for an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.
I’m one of Common Cause’s 1.2 million members nationwide – and I believe that Congress must live up to its constitutional duty to hold the executive branch accountable.
Calling for an impeachment inquiry is the necessary response to the President’s unprecedented obstruction of justice – by giving Congress the legal standing it needs to break through his stonewalling tactics like instructing witnesses not to testify and ignoring subpoenas. And it’ll help to educate the American people about his wrongdoing through public, televised hearings like the one we just saw.
Donald Trump has repeatedly violated his oath of office: obstructing justice and abusing his pardon power, using his presidency for personal gain, and pitting us against each other by stoking racism and xenophobia. Congress has a constitutional duty to address these and other potentially impeachable offenses.
Regardless of one’s politics or what comes out of this investigation, we need an impeachment inquiry to get the full truth and ensure justice is served. An impeachment inquiry is about Congress’s solemn constitutional duty to deliver the truth to the American people – and that duty is more important than any partisan, political imperative.
I appreciate your public support for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump and want to thank you, as my representative, for helping make sure I and millions of my fellow Americans get the full truth.
rowe33
3786
Both my current rep (Ted Lieu) and my rep starting next week (Nanette Barragan) are both all aboard the impeachment train!
he’s still banging the drum
This line of rhetoric may be accurate but it implicitly elides the fact that, Russia scandal or no Russia scandal, Trump is a terrible president for too many reasons to mention. It would be nice if some slice of the American electorate could understand that, and vote accordingly independent of the impeachment process or even of any perception that House Democrats are “weak,” but as I lost all faith in said electorate in perpetuity after November 2016, I am not optimistic.
RichVR
3790
In a news report today he looks like he has lost a lot of weight. No longer a tortoise. More like a small painted turtle. I hope he is suffering.
Banzai
3791
Every now and then I hope there really is a hell and a just god.
RichVR
3792
There is just chaos and random chance. And no god. Which, as you say, is sad for us and lucky for these people. But be sure. Death gets everyone. And maybe their death will have them thinking, what did I do? Perhaps some small suffering right before the end.
My current rep is a Republican. That’s more or less the story of my adult life.
