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"If we play nice the GOP base will be less riled up…"
…is a FAILED Dem strategy.
It has cost us all dearly.
If you don't fight tooth and nail for justice and equality, you will never defeat the empowered and emboldened far right.
Why do Dems keep making this mistake?
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) March 12, 2019
And as much as I love @SpeakerPelosi maybe it's time for us to have a sit in inside her office-and in every top House Dem's office who has a vote on an impeachment inquiry and let them know-we are not going to accept appeasement NOT THIS TIME
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
Impeachment is a process of investigation. It’s how Congress prosecutes crimes committed by a president. If Pelosi doesn’t want to undergo that process, she needs a better reason than “it divides the country” and “he isn’t worth it.” Because we’re already divided, and he sure is.
— Jamil Smith جميل كريم (@JamilSmith) March 11, 2019
From your lips to God's ears. Certainly this has the virtue of being true: "Pelosi knows she has to impeach Trump, or her own voters will never forgive her, and will punish her party accordingly" If they don't impeach Trump what's the point of electing Democrats?
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
Yes-maladjustment is a legitimate basis for impeachment https://t.co/Jy68tgXbCu
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
The MSM also simply ignored the story of the Trump campaign aide who accuses him of forcibly kissing her in 2016. Simply pretend they don't know about it
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1105257863679787008
Trump tomorrow:
NOT worth impeachment? I’m the MOST WORTH IMPEACHMENT IN HISTORY! Nixon taped some people? So what! I rigged a whole election!
Clinton got a “blow job”? Yeah… from an intern!! Big deal! I bagged porn stars!! Many beautiful women.
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) March 11, 2019
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/03/11/feature/nancy-pelosi-on-impeaching-president-trump-hes-just-not-worth-it/?utm_term=.5a71f484bfa4
Different interpretations:
I see folks are missing the likely outcome of Nancy Pelosi suggesting publicly that Trump "is not worth it" EVEN ON IMPEACHMENT.
I mean, even impeachment fans could do well by saying, "Trump is so much weaker than Mike Pence, there's no point to impeaching."
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 11, 2019
But others are less reassured:
The broader problem, I believe (and argued in this paywalled piece, https://t.co/Gjym0ChUUF ), is that Pelosi is making or allowing many subsidiary decisions (like egregiously foot dragging on tax returns & generally fearing subpoenas) as a result of opposing impeachment.
— Jeff Hauser (@jeffhauser) March 11, 2019
Again I get the gloss you're putting on it but I'm just very skittish about the idea the Dems do this again 'let's move forward not backwards' so the GOP can impeach the next Dem POTUS over another fake scandal like Whitewater or Emailgate
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 11, 2019
Amen. There was a variant of this on @chrislhayes where a guest suggested impeachment is a no BECAUSE if you do Trump's Deplorables will riot. I mean let's just get it over with and admit this isn't democracy as we're ruled by terrorism-fear of the GOP voters
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 11, 2019
As Applebaum argues impeachment has value wether the Senate does the right thing or not or even if the inquiry ultimately voted to impeach or not. IT'S THE PROCESS that's virtuous
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 11, 2019
Here @SpeakerPelosi says impeachment is only justified if it's "bipartisan":https://t.co/GWA0CUhRdS
But this doesn't reckon with a core pathology of this moment. it gives veto power to Trump's propaganda apparatus *even if* Ds conclude it's justified:https://t.co/dUMdHA5Arp pic.twitter.com/hujQIgv2yA
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) March 11, 2019
We just learned the Germans hid info of the terrorist attack for fear Trump will misuse it. That's maladministration @SpeakerPelosi and it's an impeachable offense https://t.co/B0oCXeh6yw
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 11, 2019
Jan Shakowsky came up with an even worse reason not to impeach-'it would suck up all the air on lowering prescription drugs' So you won't impeach unless McConnell convicts but you WILL pass meaningless bills McConnell won't put on the floor?
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
6. The speaker says she’s waiting for "something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan.” Perhaps it will emerge. In the past, though, it has been the process of impeachment itself—the inquiry, the hearings, the public airing of the evidence—that has helped produce it.
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) March 11, 2019
2. Shakowsky is making it worse saying 'if we impeach we can't do our for the people agenda' Congresswoman there aren't the votes in the Senate for that either
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
If we're waiting for Republicans to give us permission to impeach @realdonaldtrump, we're going to wait a very long time.
We can't afford to wait. It's time to do what's right. pic.twitter.com/riwwmwbTMO
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) March 11, 2019
There's so much evidence that this president should be impeached it's hard to keep track of it all—but @RepMaxineWaters did a great, thorough job of recounting what we know on @AMJoyshow this weekend. https://t.co/0yd317CSCj
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) March 11, 2019
.@RepRichardNeal says he wants to build a strong legal case for obtaining Mr. Trump's tax returns before he moves forward. Here’s the case. It’s already been made. Time to send the letter. https://t.co/xjtf3NL6IF
— Tom Steyer (@TomSteyer) March 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1105225713743990785
I don't care if it's new or not it's wrong. Trump isn't Clinton he's Nixon. And it really didn't backfire on the GOP. They won all 3 Houses in DC in 2000-WH, Senate, House, and held it for next 6 years. They so demonized the Clinton brand Hillary could never fully escape it
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
EPIC FAIL.
If Donald Trump, who has made a mockery of the US presidency, who has obstructed justice in plain sight, cannot be held accountable, the system has failed miserably. That includes Republicans AND Democrats. And I anticipate Mueller as well.#Pelosi #Impeachment
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) March 11, 2019
Pelosi was elected to serve the American people, not play games. There are lives on the line. There are children who lost their parents because politicians continue to treat this as a partisan game instead of an urgent matter of public safety. Her words are bereft of conscience.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 11, 2019
I’m a Pelosi superfan.
I don’t know if impeachment is right or wrong. It’s a legitimate debate.
But for those of you who think the Speaker today was managing trump, or managing the Republicans, or the media, there’s another possibility you should consider:
She was managing you https://t.co/abtaxBsgmb
— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) March 12, 2019
The constitution doesn’t tell the house to only vote to impeach when they are SURE that the Senate will vote to remove… https://t.co/KUCkxh4YZc
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) March 12, 2019
In other words it's the opposite of what you want in a legal code- deterrence
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
Let’s just say it: Donald Trump is a rich wht repub man. He can break all kinds of laws and norms and America will still say that it’s “too disruptive” to impeach him. Anyone who didn’t have those discriptors would be gone, as my mom would say, “ before a cat could lick its butt”
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) March 12, 2019
His racist, xenophobic authoritarian, and illegitimate regime iIS 'too disruptive' impeachment is about taking power back and finally saying we won't tolerate any more
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
6. Clinton looked pretty sympathetic: look at these chickenshits impeaching a guy over a blow job.
I think the House would be the ones who looked good: look at this chickenshit Senate covering up for crimes large and small.— Jeff McFadden (@JeffAndDonkeys) March 11, 2019
This is exactly my feeling about it. If you don't impeach a rich, white, illegitimate GOP 'President' for treason then it only further emboldens an already sociopathic GOP. Clearly they CAN shoot someone on 5th Avenue and even the Democrats will let them get away with it
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
NO as the GOP will still impeach a future Democratic President over the next fake scandal they conjure up-Whitewater, Vince Foster, Travelgate, Benghazi, Emailgate, Lois Lerner being mean to GOP groups
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
I REALLY hope you're right. Like Mulder I WANT TO BELIEVE but… but I want to be sure
— Expand the Court (@ProChoiceMike) March 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/thor_benson/status/1105287757109190656
e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g https://t.co/QhYrjnSwEU
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 11, 2019