Tlaib submits impeachment resolution with support of one other Democrat

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN



By Sunlen Serfaty and Ashley Killough, CNN

Updated 0047 GMT (0847 HKT) March 28, 2019

(CNN) - Freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib has formally submitted her impeachment resolution Wednesday afternoon with only one other member's name of support — Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas, who has tried to push the impeachment issue on his own before.

"Just Al Green and I," Tlaib said, adding that she does not think there will be any others who come forward with their support.

Tlaib has been working behind-the-scenes to get colleagues to put their name on the resolution that directs the House Judiciary Committee to inquire whether President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses.

Earlier this week she sent a "Dear Colleague" letter to a targeted list of members who in the past had shown an openness to pushing for impeachment and that she thought could be open to signing their name to her resolution.

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/27/politics/rashida-tlaib-impeachment-resolution/index.html

[leftynyc]

1. WHY is she wasting everyone's time with this? (nt)

[watoos]

2. Exactly,

just like the poster claimed yesterday about cable news being 7/8 right wing propaganda, it's hard to do the right thing when 7/8 of cable news has everyone convinced that impeachment must be off the table.

Just imagine if the M$M were truly fair and balanced, Trump would have been impeached a year ago.

We must blindly follow what we see and hear from the corporate controlled far right M$M.

Thank god for the 2 dissenters, that's a start.

[leftynyc]

4. It's a waste of time

It's going no place and takes the Democrats off their message. Now THIS will become an idiotic, time wasting story.

[brooklynite]

5. I don't need to be "convinced by R/W media" that Impeachment is a dumb idea...

...if you CAN'T convict President Trump after you've Impeached him, you've made things exponentially worse.

[leftynyc]

6. Which is why this is merely a vanity

thing and should be beneath every single Democrat. She's part of the problem.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. Because you should never start something unless you are certain of the outcome, right?

Tell that to Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Leon Jaworski, Neil Armstrong, and many more. They were all just "wasting everybody's time", until they weren't.

Kudos to the two Democrats with the courage and conviction to stand up for the Constitution and Do The Right Thing. Maybe someday enough will join them and hold the GOP's feet to the fire...

[brooklynite]

9. Ghandi and King did not engage in a single effort with only a win or lose outcome

Unlike a sustained civil rights campaign, we have ONLY one shot at Impeachment. And unlike their campaigns, we have an alternative strategy available to us: it's called the 2020 Election.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. And one can support the other

Relentless Congressional investigations making the case for impeachment, forcing the GOP to take a stand in the face of overwhelming, irrefutable evidence, helps both the 2020 race for the White House but also the Senate.

Too many are assuming a Trump impeachment process would play out like Clinton's, when they should realize we are far beyond Nixon territory.

If you think of impeachment as an merely effort with "only a win or lose outcome", that's where you are mistaken- it is much more significant than just seeking a conviction in the Senate, it's about fighting for what is right. If Democrats show the courage to fight for what is right, they will fire up voters, especially young voters, for a record turnout in 2020.

[brooklynite]

11. Perhaps the fact that nobody in this thread agrees with you says something...

[BlueWI]

13. It does say something.

It says that instead of a rush to judgment, there's a rush to inaction. Nearly universal belief in this party that the president has committed impeachable offenses, and an equally widespread determination to shout down any attempt at impeachment.

Quite a paradox.

[BlueWI]

12. Thanks for the post!

The depth and intensity of this risk-averse attitude towards impeachment is baffling. Certainly impeachment would be a risk. But it's also an action that the Democratic caucus has the power to do. Waiting till 2020 when there are several known impeachable offenses is a risk too, and it had better work out.

While I can understand the preference not to pursue impeachment as a political calculation, I do not get the judgmental attitude that is directed towards Democrats who support impeachment. Why isn't more grace given to Democrats who prefer a different strategy than the so-called "long game"? The election interference has been known since 2015. How long will the game be?

It must be nice for the president to know that the opposition party is so fearful of Fox News that they vigorously police their own conversations about impeachment.

Think about how different the results would be if Democrats committed similar offenses. Republicans would be tripping over themselves with excitement, and I bet DU would be firmly on the side of impeachment too under those conditions. How ironic!

So thanks for speaking up. I wish more of us did.

[NurseJackie]

3. Oh good grief!

[BlueFlorida]

7. Publicity Stunt

and it gives Democrats less credibility when the real resolution comes after all the evidence is put together.