Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“House Democrats eager to protect a whistleblower who raised alarms over President Trump pressuring a foreign leader to investigate a political rival are considering testimony at a remote location and possibly obscuring the individual’s appearance and voice — extraordinary moves to prevent Trump’s congressional allies from revealing the identity, according to three officials familiar with the discussions.“

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-democrats-consider-masking-identity-of-whistleblower-from-trumps-gop-allies-in-congress/2019/10/07/171a4b14-e927-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html#click=https://t.co/IQk5o0HgDT

Whoa. That’s crazy

Trump on impeachment inquiry: “I think it makes it harder to do my job."

Anonymous wrote:“House Democrats eager to protect a whistleblower who raised alarms over President Trump pressuring a foreign leader to investigate a political rival are considering testimony at a remote location and possibly obscuring the individual’s appearance and voice — extraordinary moves to prevent Trump’s congressional allies from revealing the identity, according to three officials familiar with the discussions.“

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-democrats-consider-masking-identity-of-whistleblower-from-trumps-gop-allies-in-congress/2019/10/07/171a4b14-e927-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html#click=https://t.co/IQk5o0HgDT

Anonymous wrote:Stupid question alert:

Why are people calling for Pence to be impeached?

Also, Bolton was mentioned in the text message release. Any tea leaf readers care to guess how long it will be before we hear from him?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stupid question alert:

Why are people calling for Pence to be impeached?

Also, Bolton was mentioned in the text message release. Any tea leaf readers care to guess how long it will be before we hear from him?

Pence participated in some of the pressuring of Zelensky, by his abrupt decision not to attend Zelensky's confirmation. Also, he affirmed Trump's strategy when reporters asked him about it directly.

Now he's trying to say that he didn't realize any of this, that he was just doing whatever Trump told him to do without realizing what any of it meant. Suuuure.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stupid question alert:

Why are people calling for Pence to be impeached?

Also, Bolton was mentioned in the text message release. Any tea leaf readers care to guess how long it will be before we hear from him?

Pence participated in some of the pressuring of Zelensky, by his abrupt decision not to attend Zelensky's confirmation. Also, he affirmed Trump's strategy when reporters asked him about it directly.

Now he's trying to say that he didn't realize any of this, that he was just doing whatever Trump told him to do without realizing what any of it meant. Suuuure.

Anonymous wrote:Stupid question alert:

Why are people calling for Pence to be impeached?

Also, Bolton was mentioned in the text message release. Any tea leaf readers care to guess how long it will be before we hear from him?

Anonymous wrote:Stupid question alert:

Why are people calling for Pence to be impeached?

Also, Bolton was mentioned in the text message release. Any tea leaf readers care to guess how long it will be before we hear from him?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can Moscow Mitch end the House inquiry? I genuinely don’t get it.

He will set the rules regarding handling of the articles of impeachment in the Senate. Regardless, barring the revelation of significant further facts, Trump will not be removed from office.

Anonymous wrote:How can Moscow Mitch end the House inquiry? I genuinely don’t get it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Legislative committees are not in the Constitution. Political parties are not in the Constitution. There is no Constitutional impeachment proceeding until the full House has voted to initiate one; by itself, a partisan committee has exactly zero impeachment authority, because nonesuch was properly granted to it by the People's chosen representatives.

Always follow the authority trail. If it doesn't lead back to the People, then it's illegitimate

Here is what the US Constitution says about impeachment:

Section 4

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Here are the rules as they have evolved over the life of our republic


1) The House Judiciary Committee decides whether or not to proceed with impeachment. If they do...

2) The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee will propose a resolution calling for the Judiciary Committee to begin a formal inquiry into the issue of impeachment.

3) Based on their inquiry, the Judiciary Committee will send another resolution composed of one or more "Articles of Impeachment" to the full House stating that impeachment is warranted and why or that impeachment is not called for.

4) The Full House (probably operating under special floor rules set by the House Rules Committee) will debate and vote on each Article of Impeachment.

5) Should any one of the Articles of Impeachment be approved by a simple majority vote, the President will be "impeached." However, being impeached is sort of like being indicted for a crime. The president will remain in office pending the outcome of the Senate impeachment trial.

Right now, we are not even at #1.

So, no. Now, if the current "inquiry" yields facts that suggest that articles of impeachment should be drawn up, then we would get to #1 on this list.