MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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On Eve of House Vote, McConnell Is Said to Be Pleased About Effort to Impeach Trump
By artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:05pm |Senator Mitch McConnell is said to believe that the impeachment effort will make it easier to purge President Trump from the party. And Representative Kevin McCarthy has asked other Republicans whether he should call on Mr. Trump to resign in the aftermath of the Capitol siege.
By Jonathan Martin & Maggie Haberman @ NYTimes.com/live coverage, 7 min.ago
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, has told associates that he believes President Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he is pleased that Democrats are moving to impeach him, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party, according to people familiar with his thinking. The House is voting on Wednesday to formally charge Mr. Trump with inciting violence against the country.
At the same time, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the minority leader and one of Mr. Trump’s most steadfast allies in Congress, has asked other Republicans whether he should call on Mr. Trump to resign in the aftermath of the riot at the Capitol last week, according to three Republican officials briefed on the conversations.
While Mr. McCarthy has said he is personally opposed to impeachment, he and other party leaders have decided not to formally lobby Republicans to vote “no,” and an aide to Mr. McCarthy said he was open to a measure censuring Mr. Trump for his conduct. In private, Mr. McCarthy reached out to a leading House Democrat to see if the chamber would be willing to pursue a censure vote, though Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ruled it out.
Taken together, the stances of Congress’s two top Republicans — neither of whom has said publicly that Mr. Trump should resign or be impeached — reflected the politically challenging and fast-moving nature of the crisis that the party faces after the assault by a pro-Trump mob during a session to formalize President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s electoral victory. [....]
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/us/mitch-mcconnell-trump-impeachment.html
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Dan Rather sez:
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:07pm
CNN team led by Manu Raju confirmations:
comments by Rob Reiner, Charlie Sykes & Rick Wilson that I ran across:
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:23pm
But WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, KENNETH at Qanon? "The State" goes a heckuva lot "Deeper" than they thought? Where in the world is
WaldoJFK Jr. now that he's needed?(and finally this enquiring mind wants to know: is "Peter Unverified" stuck in a hoosegow somewhere without bail? or busy getting re-training in St. Petersburg?)
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:42pm
oh:
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:58pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:21pm
Geraldo making up yet another of the many romantic narratives of his career:
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:26pm
She's sayin': I hinted to you all last April:
She also retweeted these two items today:
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 10:06pm
Worth considering how much Kompromat might have kept these guys in Trump's side, so when there's a crack in the blackmail/someone leaves the cellar door open, they're gonna take it.
You remember that Republican hack in 2016, where nothing was released publicly? Let's see if anything drops out after Jan 21.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 12:24am
current popular Twitter meme: "He's 78" (i.e., basically term limited!)
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 10:03pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 10:51pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:12pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:48pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 3:33pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 3:35pm
adds important interpretation of the above, some no doubt just don't support doing impeachment right before his exit from office:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 3:37pm
text of speech
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 3:45pm
YES! Too little noted! Quite amazing in historic context, to me seems like it's how it would be in a much simpler ideological time, like the early 19th century:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 3:51pm
Bill Scher on the House vote and history of others
ALSO Jack Tapper on CNN just said something that I found very striking as I had actually never checked the past impeachments against each other:
This was the most bipartisan impeachment vote ever in American history, that he previous were all more partisan.
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 4:52pm
I haven't seen anything about the abstainers/non voters yet.
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 5:16pm
Question, just came to my mind: does being Minority Leader rather than Majority Leader make it easier for Mitch to vote against Trump as he would probably like to do to start an attempt at de-Trumping the GOP? Is that's what going on here?
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 4:56pm
Reed Galen of Lincoln Project:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 5:48pm
RadioFreeTom's op-ed just published in USA Today:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 7:09pm
on statement from SD Senator Mike Rounds:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 6:53pm
James Comey (I noted only because his name was trending on Twitter):
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 7:13pm
Rudy: way past the time to "lock him up" at some dementia institution, or is he playing 4-dimensional mobster chess with an idiot client who recently threatened not to pay?
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 10:04pm
Ken White:
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 10:08pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 10:05pm
Rudy makes the most sensible legal statement he's made in ages:
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/18/2021 - 2:28am