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Showing Original Post only (View all)Just a thought: Calling & losing a House vote for impeachment would be catastrophic [View all]
We need a majority of the House to pass217 Democrats (plus independent Justin Amash) as of last week are on boardwhich means we must gather at least 87 more commitments by the end of the year.
Whatever one thinks about the wisdom of impeachment at any point, to demand a vote now would be demanding that we shoot ourselves in the foot, pretty much ending the process, and losing credibility with any voters who may have been undecided about impeachment.
I think this is one reason that the GOP, and their mouthpiece Moscow Mitch has kept quiet about it except to say that he won't even bring it to the Senate floor for a vote, which is what everyone expects him to do anyway.
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Just a thought: Calling & losing a House vote for impeachment would be catastrophic [View all]
ehrnst
Sep 2019
OP
EVERYONE should read your post. That's the backstory that many hotheads don't get. Democrats
OnDoutside
Sep 2019
#14
Yep, and this SCOTUS sure as HELL isn't going to invalidate executive privilege. (nt)
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#64
"Super frustrated" isn't reason enough to possibly end our chances of taking back the Senate in 2020
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#67
People remember Clinton's impeachment, and I think that's what they are thinking of. (nt)
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#58
The idea that if the opposing party can do damage to a POTUS for lying about a blow job
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#71
"I don't think there's any way that tRUMP and his minions will survive investigations utilizing
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#74
right. Impeachment is a potential solution at the end of a process. We need to enter and/or
wiggs
Sep 2019
#87
You may not think it will fail, but Pelosi does and I gotta go with her on this one
StarfishSaver
Sep 2019
#34
So there's nothing to be done other than holding a losing vote on impeachment and
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#17
Investigate now. Televised hearings now. Basically what Nadler et al are gearing up to do.
Hekate
Sep 2019
#13
Yes, I think that we forget that those in congress, even in swing districts must be responsive
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#19
The Nixon impeachment hearings weren't televised, so they didn't affect public opinion
StarfishSaver
Sep 2019
#27
You're probably thinking of the Senate hearings held in the summer of 1973
StarfishSaver
Sep 2019
#31
As I've said repeatedly, the first 20 minutes of the first impeachment hearing was televised.
StarfishSaver
Sep 2019
#70
Their job is to impeach when there is a majority that votes for it, as per the constitution.
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#35
History does not support you in the claim that Republicans were willing to remove.
Cuthbert Allgood
Sep 2019
#41
Actually history does support my claim that there were republicans willing to impeach
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#47
Well, that's not something that a lot of the public, even here on DU understands.
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#44
There is enough to vote on a resolution outlining rules for inquiry, and that's scheduled for this
ehrnst
Sep 2019
#42
Just as we would not want to see a Dem impeached on a straight, or near straight, Party line
empedocles
Sep 2019
#73