Representative Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, wrote on X: "This is absurd on its face. The United States has not declared war since 1942 and has conducted over 125 different military actions since that time, including in Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Presidents of both parties have relied on Article II authority, as well as AUMFs [Authorizations for Use of Military Force], to conduct targeted strikes and have not been subject to impeachment. In 2011, Barack Obama conducted an 8 month campaign in Libya to topple Gaddafi."
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We should have never been involved in any of that shit since WW2. 125 bad decisions don't justify an additional bad decision.
Put him in a bigger peach this time, so he can't get out
Bigpeachment
Donnie and the giant peachment
Primary. Every. Single. One.
a P.E.S.O. for president Taco's followers, good pitch
I have full faith that if the DNC had the votes to remove trump, which is 67 senators and a house majority, then they would go through with this impeachment trial.
They have 47 Senators with caucus. This was never going to accomplish anything, and I'm glad we're saving this for later.
One taco? That'll be 128 PESOs.
Edit: that's about 6€ or $7.50 USD. These must be LA tacos.
Okay but if you don't remove 20 Republicans then it still accomplishes nothing. 67 Senators needed to remove Trump from office.
… are you seriously implying that any gains the party makes are pointless if they don’t hit the 2/3rds threshold?
I’d sit this one out if I were you, take the time to brush up on politics and critical thinking.
On the topic of Impeachment, yes, it means fuck all to primary these congressmen over not holding a silly ritual with no real consequences.
Ditto for anything that requires a constitutional amendment or defeating filibuster like undoing citizens united or passing medical for all. We need to Remove the GOP, not just get better DNC.
There is a new website tracking whether politicians will go on the record to be against bribery.
I wonder if they will note this?
I hate questions like this. Because for conservatives, taking bribes isn't an exclusionary issue. They would vote for the literal Antichrist if it meant they could oppress someone.
Sure they might care that their particular conservative representative not take bribes but if that representative took bribes but was also racist, they are going to vote for them.
Traitors, every last one
for all his talks, Ted Lieu still doesnt have the balls to impeach.
Is there a list of names? Because if any of my reps show up on this list, I will never vote for them again.
I don't want these fucking dinosaurs running the goddamn party anymore. I want some progressives with teeth who have the backbone to fight the fascists head on. I don't care how petty or how low they have to get, I want to see them at least try.
Why people keep thinking the democrats will ever be more than passive bystanders to corruption and greed. They benefit regardless who's in charge as long as it's not left of them
It's funny. When the impeachment attempt was announced, it was roundly condemned by Very Serious Leftists as useless and, in fact, targeting Trump for something that was not actually illegal, and thus more proof of Dem complicity by engaging in 'pointless' symbolic action instead of 'real' interference.
And now that most Dem reps seem to agree with this position, many of those same Very Serious Leftists regard not supporting the impeachment attempt also as proof of Dem complicity.
Cowards the lot of them. I'm sure as well having AOC at the forefront the majority of the useless Elissa Slotkin-style useless libs squashed this out of spite
Vichy Democrats
Damn that's true, same reasonning, same position
They should have done it on day one and continued every day to explain to the public why it is necessary and how he is corrupt and dangerously incompetent if he remains.
But they impeached him before, so their stance is that he got better and is no longer a threat to democracy?
They just don't feel the need to hide anymore. Most of your "Democrats" are just Republicans with a different paint job.
They are just Republicans that aren't comfortable rounding up minorities into camps. They are cool if Republicans want to do it, but they are afraid of being associated with it for now
Their stance is Trump came out of his two impeachments politically stronger than he went into them, and unless 14 GOP Senators decide to switch their allegiance all of a sudden the act of impeachment is practically useless.
- It takes 67 Senators to remove.
Here is the full list of Democrats that voted to table the articles of impeachment.
Find yours, call them, and let them know they've failed to represent the people interests.
TBH they're representing my interests pretty well in this case. An impeachment trial would have just been a huge waste of time unless 20 Republican Senators joined the 47 DNC caucus to remove Trump and I can tell you right now with a 99.9% certainty that wasn't going to happen.
Thank you. One of my representatives, Gabe Vasquez, is on the list and I messaged him. Funny that he put out a press release condemning the actions of bombing Iran but doesn't want to support impeachment. What a turd.
Was surprised WV wasn't on the list, then realized why and grew even more depressed.
And then send them out to pasture like Andrew Cuomo.
It can be done. Do it enough, and you'll have a party that actually represents the people.
Yup, that's what democracy is supposed to be all about giving engaged citizens the tools to change the system to reflect their values!
Also, if your rep is not on the list, call their office and express your appreciation that they voted to move forward with impeachment.
I looked up the ones in my state, and I'm just gobsmacked at how fucking ugly the districts are. I know gerrymandering is bad, but when I actually have to see it... /puke
Don’t do this. Just primary them.
Do both, so they know why they lost.
It's so other Democrats know why they lost. The message is for them but they won't get it until it starts happening.
God damn it. My local rep is one of those assholes.
Start beating on those primary drums.
Ro Khanna doing his standard move of cycling back and forth between pretending to be a progressive and just being utterly spineless.
I truly hope "refused to impeach President Trump" becomes a purity test in the next primary. That's a lot of incumbents to kick to the curb, but with this vote it's well warranted.
Seems an own goal. It's not like it was going to pass anyway, since every single republican unsurprisingly turned it down.