The straightforward question House Democrats can’t answer

[This_person]

The straightforward question House Democrats can’t answer ​

Depending on whom you ask, on Thursday morning, the House Judiciary Committee will vote on procedures to investigate whether to open an impeachment inquiry or to continue an already opened impeachment inquiry.

Or maybe there is no inquiry at all. At this point, it’s hard to say, in part because House Democrats offer different, often-strained answers to a straightforward question: Has the House begun an impeachment investigation of President Trump?

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Over the past three days, House Democrats have characterized Thursday’s vote in three ways: as a procedural motion, as a formalizing of an existing impeachment inquiry and as the start of an impeachment inquiry.

“We’re holding hearings for the purpose of investigating the possibility of voting [on] articles of impeachment,” Nadler told NBC News this week.

On Monday morning, a second member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.), told CNN that it was “no secret” that the committee was conducting an impeachment investigation.

Later on Monday, a third member of the committee, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), said Thursday’s vote would “formalize having an impeachment inquiry.”

And on Wednesday, a fourth member of the committee, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), would not commit that an impeachment inquiry was underway.

“We’re in the midst of a Judiciary Committee investigation,” Jeffries said.

 

[Rommey]

They can't answer because they don't want to actually go down the impeachment route...they just want the impeachment narrative to be in the news cycle until next November.

 

[glhs837]

They can't answer because they don't want to actually go down the impeachment route...they just want the impeachment narrative to be in the news cycle until next November.

Exactly. How many headlines that use the words Trump and impeachment can be generated. Like "common sense gun laws" and "assault weapon", they know damn well these things dont actually exist, but the meme of these things, thats valuble mental space to occupy.

 

[h3mech]

because the orange man is bad !! and he's a meany

 

[Yooper]

They can't answer because they don't want to actually go down the impeachment route...they just want the impeachment narrative to be in the news cycle until next November.

Exactly. How many headlines that use the words Trump and impeachment can be generated. Like "common sense gun laws" and "assault weapon", they know damn well these things dont actually exist, but the meme of these things, thats valuble mental space to occupy.

I'm not sure Trump wins re-election, but if he doesn't this impeachment stuff will be just one of the many disruptions Dems are causing and trying to attribute to Trump (the over-arching Dem strategy: get the nation to try to buy into #TrumpFatigue).

Methinks this is a very high-risk strategy for the Dems (as there's huge potential for this to backfire). At this point in the run-up to the election I'm inclined to think the Dems are engaged more in wishful thinking than good persuasion; that this is the Dems doing Trump's reelection advertising at no cost to the Repubs.

I guess we'll know which way this fell in mid-November 2020.

--- End of line (MCP)

 

[Rommey]

I'm wondering how many people will look at what the Dems promised leading up to the 2018 elections and when they haven't delivered and any/many of the big ones, and if they will "punish" the Dems for failing to do what they promised. They have been clamoring for impeachment since Nov 9, 2016 and were essentially given the reigns to carry out that desire by the electorate. Yet here we are nine months into their term after the midterms and all they done is give contradictory explanations concerning impeachment. Remember, also, they swore they were going to start impeachment against Kavanaugh and that died off soon after he was sworn in. After a while the people are going to tire of idle threats and demand something be done (crap or get off the pot, as it were...).

 

[Yooper]

...that this is the Dems doing Trump's reelection advertising at no cost to the Repubs.

Seems the Dem debate last night showed that even if you hate Trump the alternatives are worse. Far, far worse.

Quite clear who the real fascists are.

--- End of line (MCP)

 

[vraiblonde]

By next summer Americans will have impeachment fatigue. Republicans and independents are already sick of it, and when the kiddies realize that their beloved leaders have no intention of making fools of themselves legally, they'll set their slums on fire and loot their neighborhood liquor stores.

Speaking of which, haven't heard from Mad Max in awhile. Is she still alive? Is she pissed that the white folks are stealing her impeachment thunder?

 

[RoseRed]

By next summer Americans will have impeachment fatigue. Republicans and independents are already sick of it, and when the kiddies realize that their beloved leaders have no intention of making fools of themselves legally, they'll set their slums on fire and loot their neighborhood liquor stores.

Speaking of which, haven't heard from Mad Max in awhile. Is she still alive? Is she pissed that the white folks are stealing her impeachment thunder?

Maybe she caught the leprosy and her moufs felled off.

 

[Kyle]

Speaking of which, haven't heard from Mad Max in awhile. Is she still alive? Is she pissed that the white folks are stealing her impeachment thunder?

Maybe she's saving up all her for the election cycle!

Imagine 18 months of pent-up "bat-crap crazy" released all at once!

 

[BOP]

I'm wondering how many people will look at what the Dems promised leading up to the 2018 elections and when they haven't delivered and any/many of the big ones, and if they will "punish" the Dems for failing to do what they promised. They have been clamoring for impeachment since Nov 9, 2016 and were essentially given the reigns to carry out that desire by the electorate. Yet here we are nine months into their term after the midterms and all they done is give contradictory explanations concerning impeachment. Remember, also, they swore they were going to start impeachment against Kavanaugh and that died off soon after he was sworn in. After a while the people are going to tire of idle threats and demand something be done (crap or get off the pot, as it were...).

Dim voters are like women and child-birthing.