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There might even be some Republicans who would get on board with that kind of presidential rebuke. Peggy Noonan has.
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[Peggy] Noonan penned an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal Thursday in which she called for Congress to censure Trump as a form of “rarely used shaming.” The article came in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s first public statement about his investigation, which spurred more calls by Democrats for Trump's impeachment.
“The harrowing part of the Mueller report is part 2, on obstruction of justice,” Noonan wrote. “Reading it, you feel sure the president would have loved to subvert the investigation but wasn’t good at it and was thwarted by his staff.”
— www.washingtonexaminer.com, June 02, 2019
Funny, incompetent “bank robbers” still end up going to Jail — even when they’re not “good at it” … there’s this thing called “intent” which usually constitutes the basis of a crime.
If an ID-Thief tries to use your Credit Card number to commit Fraud — but the Bank intervenes and tells the clerk to block the transaction — does that make the Thief any less than a thief?
How much more should we be outraged, when the president of the United States, tries to obstruct Justice on nearly a daily basis? If ignoring lawful subpoenas means anything — our presidential “Thief” has finally figured out how to ‘get away with’ the caper.
And thwart Justice to his heart’s content … and to much consternation to the majority of the nation.
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Censure is a formal, and public, group condemnation of an individual, often a group member, whose actions run counter to the group's acceptable standards for individual behavior.[1] In the United States, governmental censure is done when a body's members wish to publicly reprimand the President of the United States, a member of Congress, a judge or a cabinet member. It is a formal statement of disapproval.[2]
President Andrew Jackson was censured by the Senate in 1834.
Senator Joseph McCarthy, one of ten U.S. Senators to be censured.
It is long past time, for any self-respecting body of legislators to add our current “nasty” leader, to our historic gallery of National Rouges. Trump’s law-breaking behavior should not be celebrated — it ought to be condemned.
Trump represents the worse of America — not our best. Decent law-abiding Americans who know this, should stand up and say so. Now.
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While they’re at it, they should Censure the Rouge’s rouge too: Bill Barr.
Giving how Noonan feels about Obstruction of Justice, she’d probably endorse that call to action too.
America has got to quit pretending this stuff is Normal.
IT IS NOT.
National Censure is one way to say this. It is the very least we can do.
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