Dem Rep. Dingell: I Don't Want to 'Play Into Russia's Hands' by Dividing the US More...

[DonViejo]

Dem Rep. Dingell: I Don’t Want to ‘Play Into Russia’s Hands’ by Dividing the US More With a ‘Partisan Impeachment’

By Josh FeldmanMay 31st, 2019, 5:46 pm

More Democrats are coming out in favor of impeachment, but Michigan Congresswoman Debbie Dingell is supporting Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s approach and saying she doesn’t want the country torn apart.

On MSNBC this afternoon, Dingell spoke with Chuck Todd about President Donald Trump‘s tariff threat and what Robert Mueller‘s message to Congress was.

She said she wants to see Mueller testify and emphasized that she’s concerned about what his report revealed about Russia’s goals:

“There is a theme that is throughout this report about how Russia is trying to divide this country. I don’t want to play into Russia’s hands and divide this country more with a partisan impeachment. So I am totally schizophrenic right now about all of the different things that are in there. So I do think he was telling people that his report is his testimony. People can interpret that report to be what we want it to be, I guess. I have read it. I’m on my third reading now. I think we have to do this in a bipartisan way.”

At one point Todd noted the big Democratic divide over impeachment and said, “The last time I feel like your party had this divide was over the Iraq War issue where a lot of people were thinking politically and what was good politics in the moment turned out to be bad politics five years later.”

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. It would be ironic to have impeachment to save American democracy,

only to have the result of two separate countries again.

[tanyev]

2. Then just take impeachment out of the Constitution.

Because if a Russian asset with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, nepotism on steroids, and deteriorating mental faculties doesn't require impeachment, I can't think of a situation that does.

[Generic Other]

6. The last time we opposed the Iraq war

We were right. That is 100% true on DU. Sick of party leaders acting like voters know nothing. We were right about freaking Iraq.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. Did you go to the ant-war protests in DC that I spent months promoting at DU?

I did.

[Generic Other]

11. I live on the west coast

Millions protested. DU was a hive of anti war activity.

[watoos]

3. Yes, Democrats need to work with

The Putin/Trump party. I guarantee that will unite us under a new authoritarian government.
Dissent will not be allowed, dissenters will be jailed.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. You have the chain of command all wrong...

It's Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and then Trump.
And Teflon Don started a trade-war with China, thus slapping the most powerful man in the world in his face.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. If Donald Trump is NOT impeached, it will damage the country much more

...because voter turnout will be squelched in 2020, and the shitgibbon will win a 2nd term.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. Trump CANNOT be impeached with a Republican controlled Senate, but...

He can lose the 2020 election.

[Dennis Donovan]

13. He CAN be impeached - the senate has nothing to do with it.

Impeachment is a House of Representatives function. If he is NOT impeached after all of this, then impeachment will mean nothing in the future, and Congress will lose its most powerful tool per Article 1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States#Procedure

Federal impeachment
Constitutional provisions
The House of Representatives ... shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

—Article I, Section 2, Clause 5
The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present. Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States; but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

—Article I, Section 3, Clauses 6 and 7
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. How much more can it be divided? Clinton could work with Dems, why can't Trump's administration?

.

This argument holds little water, as the country is already divided.

Republicans have already dug into the trenches, Democrats have too, to the most part. The problem is that Democrats can be partially influenced by logic and fact, whereas Republicans are ignorant sheep and follow their new God.

The people we need to concern ourselves with are the Independents, who might be swayed by RW bullshit.


We're not here to convince the cultist Republicans, we're here to convince Independents that Trump is corrupt.

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[spanone]

7. dear congress critters. this country cannot get more divided.

[WePurrsevere]

8. Agree. The only way I can picture it more so is...

If another physical Civil War broke out. Trump, the 'Con party and Russia already have family members and decades long friendships broken apart mostly because of the fear mongering, ignorance, bullying and other antisocial behavior they help stir up and encourage.

[dalton99a]

14. Stockholm syndrome

[rurallib]

15. Start the hearings and they will come