Here are the Senate Republicans who could vote to convict Trump

By artappraiser on Sat, 12/07/2019 - 11:58pm |

By Alexander Bolton @ TheHill.com, Dec. 7

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) caused a stir Friday when he said a “handful” of Senate Republican colleagues have privately told him they would consider voting to remove President Trump from office.

Murphy conceded “it’s a small list, on one hand,” but Democrats would consider it a major victory if they could tout a bipartisan vote in the Senate to remove Trump from office in an election year.

His remarks created buzz since no congressional Republicans have publicly said they would even consider taking such a step, and not one House GOP lawmaker voted for the resolution establishing the rules for the impeachment inquiry. But Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.), an independent who left the Republican Party in July, said Friday he would vote for articles of impeachment [....]

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More laws broken: HUD illegally withholds Congressionally allocated funds.

Impeach the motherfucker.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/house-democrats-slam-trump-admin-ill...

ETA:: Democrats really have to stop being weakass dumbfucks.

"I don’t want it to come to this," Price told NBC.

WTF? It's come to this, you moron - over and over and over again. It's been over 3 months past the deadline just on this case alone. Sue him, cut his administration appropriates, and EVERY OTHER FUCKING THING IN THE ARSENAL, AT THE SAME TIME. Trump sure as fuck won't listen to "pretty please, could you stop procrastinting?" absolute idiots. Didn't they read what happened in Ukraine? Trump withheld mandated money from a war defense effort against Russia, which people care about more than Puerto Rico so he had to give in.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/08/2019 - 6:10am

Rick Perry led Trump crony energy coup attempt over Ukrainian state gas - totally illegal. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ukra...

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/08/2019 - 6:32am

How to counter disinfo w/o amplifying

https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-schiff-report-deals-disinformation

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/08/2019 - 1:01pm

Smart young white guy, with good hair even, has good education but must also have great network and staffers, too; impressing all kinds. Yet, it's not exactly rocket science, there's just too much noise:

This is about as good a use of the five minutes allotted to members as you can get. @ericswalwell in his questioning of the D & R counsels creates a succinct: 4:41 summary of the impeachment case against @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/KNq79R2CSA
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) December 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/09/2019 - 7:58pm

1/2
The senators marked with a green dot on this chart were part of the Clinton impeachment also Those who voted 'guilty' felt that lying to Congress and having sex in the WH were impeachable crimes If these same people still in office vote 'not guilty' to admitted & witnessed pic.twitter.com/tAbqBS9n1h
— dreamwithfaith™ (@dreamwithfaith) December 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/09/2019 - 11:51pm

seeing the situation through different eyes sometimes helpful to reality check:

Republicans are united against impeachment.
Democrats still have some members who are iffy on it. https://t.co/QrwkDZ35E6
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/10/2019 - 3:06pm

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