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It reads like the ordinary mundane language of Congressional bureaucracy. But the letter Speaker Pelosi sent to her Democratic colleagues early Sunday evening is in fact an extraordinary blockbuster.
Tie the elements together - a House vote demanding the Vice President "activate" the 25th Amendment, giving him Congressional cover to do so, giving him a deadline, threatening a second impeachment vote as early as Tuesday - and what Nancy Pelosi has actually done is nothing less than to DEMAND DONALD TRUMP'S SURRENDER WITHIN 48 HOURS.
Or maybe it's more correct to say she demanded that Pence surrender Trump within that time frame.
If the letter were not extraordinary enough there's a second sting in its tail. Pelosi thanks her colleagues for bringing up things like Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That's the Constitutional Language that allowed the House to expel anyone who ever participated in a rebellion against the United States, or merely gave comfort to those who did. It was designed to prevent Southern traitors from the Civil War to rejoin Congress unless they could prove their loyalty. Pelosi's mention of it makes it clear she believes it could be used to expel House Republicans who participated in the incitement to last week's Coup attempt, and probably even those who voted to give the terrorists what they wanted in the votes that night which were intended to delegitimize the election.
It's one of the goddamnedest letters I've ever seen.
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