Dear Speaker Pelosi.
There have been rallying cries correctly rising up here in the netroots and all over the country calling out the illegitimacy of Donald Trumps presidency. I’m gonna tell you right now. Most likely, you already know this. You lived through the Bush years. You lived through the Clinton impeachments. You saw republicans drag President Clinton through the mud whilst spending millions of dollars on an unpopular political witch hunt. What was Bill’s approval ratings back then? Oh yeah — over 70% while under investigation.
They went after him and we know how that all turned out. The public knew it was bullshit. Myself, a kid during that time knew it was bullshit as I tuned into Hardball instead of Power Rangers. I couldn’t understand why all these people on TV were universally going after Clinton instead of calling out the very real hypocrisy. Newt anyone? Wasn’t Kennith Star having an affair with someone as well? It was unreal. I was just relieved when the Senate decided it wasn’t worth removing President Clinton from office.
Now, given the Cabinet that Trump has put together. His selections are far more vile than the darkest days of the Bush administration; with white nationalists, the kkk, right wing domestic terrorists, anti women, anti environmental, koch brothers backed, ALEC backed, and Russian backed people being brought into the highest levels of U.S government. To say this is unprecedented is an understatement. There is only one answer.
Impeachment. Day one.
Impeachment. Day two.
Impeachment. Day three.
I didn’t believe that the Hamilton electors would stop Trump. Not with the forces at work. Not with Republicans behavior extremely predictable. Frankly, there is no serviceable reason why we still have the electors in place. They were designed at the start of our republic to keep locked in a system of racism and as a safe guard against class rebellion by voters. Well, we needed them this time to stop the rise of fascism in the U.S. They failed us.
The Republican party on the eve of President Obama’s election; colluded together to universally say no to anything that Obama wanted to accomplish. Just say no, was ironically, their mantra and they stuck to it regardless of how many olive branches that Obama offered and how much this antagonized his own party. It worked.
The debt ceiling? Hostage.
Shut down the government? No penalty.
Lie constantly? Media doesn’t report facts — just the controversy.
The republican party paid no price for distorting laws, engaging in blatant racism.
Our first black president is the only President that has ever had a Supreme Court pick denied to him since the passage of the civil rights act. The senate simply refuse to take up Merrick Garland. You know this. I’m not even to keen on Garland as I’d actually have like a raging 35 year old liberal nominated in the face of Jim Crow. I get it. We gotta meet the lying clowns half way or we won’t appear serious or something. No, actually I don’t get it.
I’m not just saying that you gotta do impeachment for the sake of impeachment. Nah. That would be silly and partisan. What I’m saying is that Trump is already in direct violation of the constitution by refusing to divest his holdings in his business shellpire. Then there is the whole, peddling cheap influence and graft with his family members taking a nice slice of the pie for themselves.
It is obvious that this family belongs no where near the presidency. They are like the Sopranos except without the charm or introspection.
On day 1 there needs to be questions on:
Why Trump is directing foreign governments to expressly direct business contracts to his personal businesses. Isn’t that a breach of ethics that a president can be impeached for? It’s happened several times already. The man is simply not willing to see the presidency as something not an extension of his own business. He is refusing to acknowledge that there was any Russian hacking of the DNC or the Clinton campaign. He is refusing to even take on his daily intelligence briefings. I don’t need to remind you the last time a president refused to stay concurrent with daily briefings what happened right? I live in NYC. I’m with Kos on this one that we have to resist Trump on day one. It’s the only way our party is going to find itself out of the wilderness is if we inspire others and say that we aren’t just going to let hate win. Please, we need to say no to Trump on day one. There is nothing that the republicans want to accomplish that will help anyone other than the millionaires, billionaires, and 1% that Trump has empowered so why meet them half way? There can be no common ground. Just do continuing resolutions. Jimmy Carter said the U.S had turned itself into an oligarchy. With the incoming cabinet and their combined worth being more than what half of U.S citizens have collectively, I’d say yes. That statement is true. What we need from you and our leaders is:
Impeach.
Impeach.
Impeach.
Let the drum beat begin.
Impeach.
Every Democrat on TV saying
Impeach.
Impeach.
It’s the only thing that will work.
Impeach.
Impeach.
Impeach.
Every Democrat writing to newspapers saying
Impeach.
Impeach.
Impeach.
From his first day to 2018
Impeach.
It will help the mid terms. Trust me. It will.
Tuesday, Dec 20, 2016 · 6:40:37 PM +00:00 · Tool
I’m guessing that I failed to effectively communicate that I don’t realistically expect articles of impeachment to automatically be filed on day one.
Speaker — as in my title — refers in a polite way to Minority leader Nancy Pelosi, because Speaker — is the highest rank she attained in the house.
My point, since republicans will refuse to investigate Trump on any level is that we use that as a rallying cry.
When the republicans went after Clinton there were hundreds of them on TV all calling for Clinton to be impeached. There was no real support for the investigation but it was allowed to drag on.
Trump is entering office with Bush’s post Katrina numbers. If Speaker Pelosi takes up the charge, and starts the drum beat of investigations and impeachment, then republicans refuse to do anything, from the house to the doj, we use that as a tool to empower our candidates who are not only going to be running on a progressive platform, but running against corruption and having a check on power gone mad.