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Won't happen but it's a nice thought. This would be sending a message!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/31/1915427/-Rescind-Trump-s-State-of-the-Union-invitation-The-House-must-not-be-complicit-in-this-corruption
Rescind Trump's State of the Union invitation. The House must not be complicit in this corruption
Hunter
Daily Kos Staff
Friday January 31, 2020 · 12:15 PM EST
As Republican senators put the finishing polish on their cover-up of an act of international corruption by Donald J. Trump, a cover-up made impossibly dangerous by Sen. Lamar Alexander's adoption of the Trump defense argument that such acts are "improper," but within the new bounds of the presidency, the House of Representatives cannot go along with the Senate anointing of Trump as something above the law, and above his oath and theirs.
The House must rescind their invitation for Trump to give next week's State of the Union address from their chamber. Donald Trump betrayed our democracy for an act of personal gain; he does not deserve the dignity of entering that chamber. He can perform his duty via letter, or from the White Houses own cameras. The House cannot allow the man of 15,000 lies to use their borrowed dignity to condemn our very rule of law, as he will, and further his attacks on his American enemies, which he will, and sneer in the face of those that believed he, like all past presidents, was governed by bounds over which he could not step. As he will.
Sign the Petition to Nancy Pelosi: Revoke Trumps invitation to the State of the Union. The House must not be complicit in his corruption.
If the Senate wants to celebrate their new king, let the Senate host him. Let the Senate cameras, locked in place for the "trial" lest they stray onto fidget-spinning senators or empty Republican chairs, broadcast his betrayals. The House must have no part of it. The invitation is a privilege, not a right. It reflects the goodwill of the House, not their fealty to him.
The House must cancel. The "president" remains impeached, and has been proven corrupt to sufficient degree as to require his Republican allies to adopt the new and authoritarian position that the president's power to do such acts can no longer be checked. Refuse to allow the corrupt man to use the House, at least, to further his own agendas. If the Senate believes him a king, the Senate can host his coronation.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Pelosi should disinvite Trump.
Let Adam Schiff give the SOTU
And make it a barn burner.
babylonsister
(171,092 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)but it should.
It's not required by the House to have him there and as an impeached (and if our system were functioning properly, removed) president he doesn't deserve it as another platform to spout his narcissistic crap, lies and other BS.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Fuck that guy!
All norms, rules, regulations and courtesies have flown out the window.
onenote
(42,767 posts)He would and could point out that Clinton was allowed to give his SOTU while his trial was underway.
He would and could play the victim.
And he could and would simply hold a rally with his rabid supporters in which he would give the SOTU "the Democrats don't want the country to hear" with record breaking national television ratings.
It won't happen because Pelosi is smarter than those who think it would be a good idea
and I agree with you, Pelosi is much smarter than to play into trumps games!
stillcool
(32,626 posts)more of the moment. Cancelling the SOTU, or not, has nothing to do with corruption. Its doing something for the sake of doing something, which means nothing. I won't be watching, but can't imagine it being anything but grotesque.
matt819
(10,749 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,870 posts)No one wants to listen to him blather on.