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Hillwilliam -> RE: Al Green Calls for Impeachment (5/25/2017 7:50:31 AM)
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ORIGINAL: BoscoX
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Democrats Want To Impeach A Republican President? What Else Is New?
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According to a list compiled by CNN, 27 Democrats have so far come out in favor of impeaching Trump. What they don't provide is context. For 36 years, Democrats have routinely called for impeaching Republican presidents at the drop of a hat.
Here is a sampling:
On May 1, 1981, thousands of protesters marched in Washington to denounce President Reagan's economic and social policies. The event was billed as ''Days of Resistance to Roll Back Reaganism." (Sound familiar?) At the event, at least two speakers called for impeaching Reagan.
''Our purpose is to turn this country around,'' one said. ''Getting rid of Reagan is the first step.''
In early 1983, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said Reagan should be impeached "for incompetence." Later that year, he called for impeaching Reagan over his military action in Grenada.
Jesse Jackson wanted Reagan impeached in 1984 for mining Nicaragua's harbors. Texas Rep. Henry Gonzalez and six other Democrats introduced a resolution to impeach Reagan in 1987 over the Iran-Contra affair.
Gonzalez pushed to have President George H.W. Bush impeached in 1991 because of the Gulf War.
Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Robert Wexler introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush in 2004 that centered on the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, global warming and the 2004 elections.
Conyers filed a resolution in 2005 calling for Bush's impeachment, and was still publicly advocating it by 2007. And Kucinich kept pushing for impeachment into Bush's last months in office.
Yes, it's true that Republicans in the House actually did impeach President Clinton. But that effort came only after Clinton had clearly committed perjury, not as a way to express policy differences.
So the mere fact that liberal Democrats are talking up impeachment now isn't even newsworthy.
Heck, Rep. Maxine Waters — who is currently making a big stink about impeaching Trump — first called for his impeachment before Trump was inaugurated. Rep. Alan Grayson was talking up Trump's impeachment before he'd even secured the Republican nomination.
What is newsworthy, however, is the fact that some Democrats outside the Beltway — as well as some inside the Beltway — are urging their colleagues to get a grip.
In an interview with Politico that aired online this week, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel warned that the party's monomaniacal focus on the president wasn't doing anything to make Democrats more appealing to voters who cast ballots for Trump last November.
"We don't talk about and fight for the middle class like we are," he said. "We believe we're for them, but they don't — if they don't hear we're for them, then we got a problem."
Politico's Edward-Isaac Dovere said Emanuel "thinks everyone in Washington is too focused on the crazy around Trump to see what's actually going on — and what's not."
Democratic leaders in the House and Senate are also at least tepidly warning their colleagues against impeachment talk. "What are the facts that you would make a case on?" Nancy Pelosi said. "If you don't have that case, you're just participating in hearsay."
California Rep. Adam Schiff said that Democrats' calls for impeachment now could "be perceived as an effort to nullify the election by other means."
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http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/democrats-want-to-impeach-a-republican-president-what-else-is-new/
I think I saw my first "Impeach Obama" bumper sticker on Jan 21, 2009.
I have said several times that if Mr. Trump is impeached, it will be the Republicans who will do so and enough Democrats will go along for the ride so they can be blamed later if things go to shit.
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