I truly think he will be removed from Office today. Hopefully sanity, especially with the repubs,

[monmouth4]

will realize there is no other choice for them. I had thought this may have happened during the night but so far it hasn't. If repubs want to save any face re this debacle, they really have no other alternative.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. The Republicans have no face to save. Don't give them an out.

[janterry]

2. I'm sorry to say, I doubt it

I hope you are right. But I suspect the statement from Trump will 'save' him - that he will agree to an orderly transition.

[handmade34]

9. too late for an "orderly transition"

this statement does not sound like humility or order

“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”

[Squinch]

3. There was a thread that said the House adjourned till Monday.

I hope that's not true and that you're right.

[exboyfil]

7. If that is the case, then we seriously need to consider a new Speaker

[Budi]

18. WOW! That's just what the insurgents said yesterday too!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214838728#post7


...anything taken from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office that was especially popular with the crowd.

One person emerged holding up a piece of a wooden plaque that marked the entrance to Ms. Pelosi’s office, which someone appeared to have torn off a wall. The rioter held it up like a trophy, as hundreds of people on the steps below cheered wildly. “Not our speaker!” shouted one woman. “Get her out!” shouted another man.

Richard Barnett, 60, from Gravette, Ark., stood outside the Capitol, his shirt ripped open and his chest bared to the cold, loudly bragging about how he had broken into the speaker’s office.

“I wrote her a nasty note, put my feet up on her desk,” said Mr. Barnett, who goes by the nickname Bigo. He was brandishing an envelope with the speaker’s letterhead that he had taken from Ms. Pelosi’s office. He insisted he had not stolen it — “I put a quarter on her desk.”

[exboyfil]

21. I want him impeached

Adjourning the House means that will not happen. Right now I consider the impeachment the most important thing. Our country is running unconstitutionally right now unless Trump has delegated to Pence which I seriously doubt.

The caucus meets and votes again for the Speaker. If enough Democratic Representatives decide that continuing the people's business is more important over the Speaker desire to move on, then we have the caucus vote. If Pelosi loses, then we have a full House vote for a new Speaker with the House Democrats voting as a block

That is how democracy works. It has nothing to do with the rabble.

She is our Speaker for now until our caucus decides otherwise. I never said she wasn't our Speaker.

If the VP and the Cabinet doesn't do there job, then the House needs to do its job. Even still a 25th removal from power is not sufficient. We need a removal from office and a ban on holding any future federal office. A remedy only provided by an impeachment.

[Budi]

23. We all want him impeached. Pelosi DID impeach him, who stopped it?

Pelosi isn't the one to blame.

And who says she isn't prepping for ANOTHER go at Impeachment?
I hope by monday the blowback will be severe enough that the REPUBLICAN SENATE will feel the urgency as we all do.

You're laying the sole blame on the person that has already made the impeachment a success in the House.

The Senate Republicans hold the cards.
And the groundswell to move them has to come from outside the halls of Pelosi's control.


Your blame is sorely misplaced.

[The Genealogist]

4. Not so sure about that.

I imagine the Republicans will have gotten their marching orders over night, and we'll hear about "healing the nation" and "moving on" and "reaching across the aisle" and "Trump has learned his lesson."

[BlueNProud]

5. GOP will do nothing. A week from now after he drops a bomb in the ME this will be forgotten

like his phone call to GA is now forgotten and the 2 huge elections that we talked about for months are now forgotten. There will be a new outrage to replace the old ones soon enough. Mitch will hide from the cameras, Pelosi will issue strongly worded statement, Wilson and Schmidt will publish outraged tweets. Wash rinse repeat.

[uponit7771]

6. No ... even FAUX News Talking Heads recognize the kGOP is split and there's no going back

[still_one]

8. Not so sure about that. They have let him get away with so much, and those republicans in the

House and Senate, who even after the riotous mob expressed support for trump by objecting to the electoral college certification leaves me very questionable that will happen, because those congressional enablers are still pushing the lies

[PirateRo]

10. NOTHING the republicans do now matters

Any action would be far too little and much too late.

They should have voted never to seat this monster four years ago. They failed.

They had ample opportunity to impeach and remove for years after one abuse after another. They failed.

Pelosi gift wrapped an opportunity to impeach. All they needed to do was vote to remove. They failed.

Instead, they STILL objected Biden’s legal right to office to the last day, right to the terrorist attack they themselves fomented.

They are irrelevant now to everything except their own prosecution and prison.

[bearsfootball516]

11. Don't see that happening.

[onenote]

12. Not going to happen.

The fox noise crowd is already trying to rewrite yesterday's events.

[malaise]

13. I saw Blanche Dubois shouting Enough Enough Enough early this morning

It's way too late for him to separate from the love fest with Killa Kon - fuck off Lindsey.

[Freddie]

14. Last night I was hearing that they were actually considering the 25th

Today I’m hearing crickets about that. They won’t do it.

[blueinredohio]

15. Nope, not gonna happen.

[USALiberal]

16. No, he will not! Nt

[Hortensis]

17. Heard one possibility could be a deal made to get him through the last days

without further harm, avoiding the need to move immediately to either the 25th or impeachment.

As you'll recall, rather than impeach Reagan for various crimes committed by himself and his administration, a bipartisan deal was made to install a very respected, retired Republican senator as Reagan's chief of staff to impose order on the West Wing.

This is not an endorsement, just relating a comment on what might be happening.

[tblue37]

19. After a bed long & stressful day & night, I would think they were more interested in sleep

than in an ugly confrontation with Trump.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

22. If only

Nobody has the guts to do it. He needs to be out before he can issue his last round of pardons and before he can do any further damage. Let alone to serve as an example that this kind of behavior cannot be tolerated in a democracy.