House of Representatives: Democrats in da house!

[Smash!]

I hope not too late, but there is a delicate timing issue, I think. While they most likely have the votes in the House to bring an impeachment, it would then go to the Senate where they most definitely do not (thanks Moscow Mitch - way to be an American. Oh sorry, MURRICAN!). 
If it goes to the Senate too early and gets voted down, then Fuckface gets to run for a second term with a “victory”. “Look! I’m winning! Not guilty! Dems are failures! I know we’ve seen it before, but it does invigorate his base and depresses the Dems. If the Dems time it right though and  are mid impeachment process during the run up and election, then he has to run with the whole impeachment process hanging around his neck. New allegations dropped out strategically, hopefully dragging him and rethuglicans in general down. If they can parley the impeachment process into a loss for him in the election then it won’t matter that the Senate rethuglicans won’t confirm impeachment (and maybe some of them will go down with him), and then, as a private citizen again, we can prosecute the hell out of him.
It infuriates me that it’s all a game, but since it is, I’m hoping my side knows what they’re doing and playing it well. 
 
 

Thank you for explaining. I see now why Pelosi is/was so hesitant about impeachment. But I see it being delicate for another reason: Trump and the GOP are destroying democracy, so maybe it will be too late for impeachment because the GOP found ways to abolish the impeachment process. Of course not officially but with their shady tricks.

[Audrey2]

36 minutes ago, formergothardite said:

He could be caught watching child porn while selling our national treasures to the highest bidder and the GOP would protect him. 

Child porn? She said she was 18.

Selling national treasures? It's just good business sense.

We're just Making America Great Again and making the snowflake libs cry. 

Something... something... Hillary...lock her up... something... something... Obama... Kenyan....

My eyes are rolling so hard they hurt.

[fraurosena]

The HouseJudiciary is busy, busy, busy.

 

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[fraurosena]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

That's a big nope. "Rep. Steve King says media, GOP leaders owe him an apology after his comments on rape and incest"

Spoiler

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is demanding an apology from the media and Republican leaders after he remarked last week that humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest.

At a town hall in Buena Vista County, Iowa, on Saturday, King blamed the controversy on a misquote. He took aim at the Des Moines Register, which broke the news of King’s remarks, as well as the Associated Press, which also reported on them.

“Iowans are significantly more positive than they are negative, and they know it’s a misquote, and they know that the AP has, I’ll say, retracted the quote that they initially used because they relied on the Des Moines Register, who did the same,” King said, according to Des Moines-based station WHO-TV.

“And so, when we have a national, viral attack that comes out on a misquote, and it’s absolutely proven, all the folks that did that attack, I think they owe me an apology, including my own leadership,” King added.

The Des Moines Register did correct another quote it ran on King’s remarks. But the part about rape and incest was reported accurately. The newspaper also published video of King’s remarks, which he made last week at an event at the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa.

“What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?” King said. “Considering all the wars and all the rape and pillage that’s taken place, and whatever happened to culture after society, I know that I can’t certify that I’m not part of a product of that.”

King has a long history of making remarks widely viewed as racist, anti-Semitic or insulting to minorities. Over the years, he has claimed that “our civilization” can’t be restored with “somebody else’s babies,” supported a Toronto mayoral candidate considered to be a white nationalist and met with a far-right Austrian group with historical Nazi ties.

Earlier this year, House Republican leaders stripped King of his committee assignments after the New York Times published an interview in which the lawmaker questioned how the terms “white nationalism” and “white supremacy” had become offensive.

After reports of King’s comments last week on rape and incest, House Republican leaders as well as King’s Democratic and Republican challengers in Iowa’s 4th District condemned his remarks.

Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the third-ranking Republican in the House, responded to King’s comment by declaring in a tweet, “It’s time for him to go.”

In an interview on Fox News Channel last week, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) also said he had “a great deal of problems” with King’s remarks.

“This isn’t the first time I’ve had concerns of what Steve King has said,” McCarthy said. “Earlier in this Congress, there are things that Steve King said that I do not believe the party of Lincoln would stand for. And as a united conference, we actually removed Steve King from his committees inside Congress. And I think this just continues to show why that action was taken.”

 

[fraurosena]

So, Benghazi wasn't Hillary's fault after all.

 

Edited August 24, 2019 by fraurosena

[GreyhoundFan]

Because the first amendment is just as dangerous as the second... (in the eyes of devin)

Edited August 27, 2019 by GreyhoundFan

[Audrey2]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Because the first amendment is just as dangerous as the second... (in the eyes of devin)

Hmmm... Then by Republican logic, the parody accounts are dangerous at all because guns aren't dangerous. in fact, by their logic there should be many more parody accounts because we have the right to have parody accounts and they have the right to bear arms.

[Audrey2]

I don't even know what to say.

Alabama Republicans are urging Rep. Ilhan Omar's expulsion from Congress

https://www.yahoo.com/news/alabama-republicans-urging-rep-ilhan-001655560.html

Spoiler

WASHINGTON – Alabama's Republican Party is calling for its congressional delegation to have Rep. Ilhan Omar, a freshman lawmaker, prominent progressive and one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to Congress, removed from the House of Representatives.

A resolution calling for the launch of expulsion proceedings got the stamp of approval from the state's Republican party at a retreat over the weekend in Auburn, according to AL.com. The resolution citesa number of comments Omar has made about terrorists and Israel that sparked controversy throughout the last several months, including remarks that were denounced by even some Democrats as playing into anti-Semitic tropes.

So in other words, behaving inappropriately toward teenage girls and women is totally appropriate. Taking away people's healthcare and racism are appropriate. Serving as a Muslim immigrant is grounds for expulsion? Really?

[RosyDaisy]

It no longer shocks me when my state does awful shit like this. I hate it, but I'm not shocked.

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I adore Ted Lieu:

 

[fraurosena]

House Judiciary is amping up the volume.

 

[JMarie]

I didn't know Sean Duffy was resigning.

people.com/parents/sean-duffy-rachel-campos-duffy-pregnant-baby-developmental-challenges-holes-heart/

[fraurosena]

Ms. Pelosi is angry!

(And rightfully so.)

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Repug hate for AOC knows no bounds: "Republican PAC runs debate ad comparing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to genocidal Khmer Rouge"

Spoiler

The clip opens with ominous music and a portrait of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) bursting into flames to reveal a pile of skulls.

“This is the face of socialism and ignorance,” the narrator intones. “Does Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez know the horror of socialism?”

The jarring ad, which aired on ABC during Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate in Houston, compares the freshman Democrat’s support of democratic socialism to the communist Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia that killed nearly 2 million people in the 1970s.

The spot, funded by a newly formed Republican PAC and narrated by a recently defeated California GOP candidate, prompted Ocasio-Cortez to accuse its producers of racism and critics to question why ABC approved the ad. (The network didn’t immediately respond to messages on Thursday night.)

“Know that this wasn’t an ad for young conservatives of color — that was the pretense,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “What you just watched was a love letter to the GOP’s white supremacist case.”

The ad was produced by New Faces GOP, a PAC that aims to bring “candidate [sic] from all races, ethnicities, gender, or geography” to the Republican Party. The Fresno-based organization is fronted by Elizabeth Heng, who lost in November to Rep. Jim Costa (D-Calif.) in a 16th Congressional District race; he received 54 percent of the vote to her 46 percent.

Heng narrates the ad by highlighting her family’s story. Her parents, Chieu Heng and Siv Khoeu, survived the Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot, during which roughly a quarter of the country’s population died from summary executions, famine, disease and overwork from 1975 to 1979. Her parents eventually made their way to Fresno, where they have operated a market for 25 years, the Fresno Bee reported.

In the ad that aired on Thursday, Heng draws a direct line from her parents’ traumatic story to the policies supported by Ocasio-Cortez.

“My father was minutes away from death in Cambodia,” Heng says. “That’s socialism. Forced obedience, starvation.”

Heng also suggests her story shows the room for diversity in a GOP increasingly defined by President Trump’s white identity politics.

“Mine is a face of freedom. My skin is not white. I’m not outrageous, racist, or socialist,” she says. “I’m a Republican.”

Ocasio-Cortez, though, argued that by marrying her portrait with such violent imagery, the ad actually made the opposite point.

Heng quickly responded by taking full responsibility for the video, rather than national Republican figures.

As Ocasio-Cortez and other left-wing voices have gained prominence in the Democratic Party, Trump and the GOP have sought to tie their views to the Nazis and Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuelan government, among others. As The Washington Post’s Fact Checker noted in March, these are often “facile comparisons, ignorant of history.”

Heng, whose PAC has raised about $170,000 to date, is no stranger to confrontational ads. She was criticized during her campaign against Costa for running an ad depicting a look-alike of the Democratic congressman walking the street in high heels, suggesting he was walking in the shoes of House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the Bee reported.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Not just no...

I hope it was just Gaetz drunk tweeting.

[GreyhoundFan]

Gee, who'd have thought Meadows is shady?  /saracasm

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I love Ted:

 

[fraurosena]

Well, well, well...

 

[formergothardite]

He is the first, hopefully more will come. Sometimes it just takes one person and more will follow. 

[Audrey2]

It actually makes me uncomfortable when Republicans who support Trump speak out against him. While I agree with them that they FINALLY need to speak out (too late, if you ask me), that lets Trump know to send his minions after them for some "reeducation". I'd much rather see him blindsided.

[fraurosena]

 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

The saddest thing here is that Brian Mast (R-of course) was in the Army and seriously wounded in Afghanistan. You would think he and his staff would be more careful of the image: