Impatient on Impeachment?

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From Tommy Christopher:

Take the Hint People! Nancy Pelosi Tells Reporters Impeaching Trump May Be ‘Unavoidable’

“You said that the president may have engaged in impeachable offenses, yet today you are saying you’re not on a path to impeachment,” CNN’s Manu Raju said, and asked “Can you explain why you are opposed to launching an impeachment inquiry when many of your members want to do it?”

“Let me be really very clear,” Pelosi said. “The president’s behavior in terms of his obstruction of justice, the things that he is doing, it’s very clear, it’s in plain sight, it cannot be denied. Ignores subpoenas, obstruction of justice. Yes, these could be impeachable offenses.”

“You might understand it better if you remember these three things,” Pelosi continued. “We want to follow the facts to get the truth to the American people. With a recognition, two, that no one is above the law.”

“And three, that the president is engaged in a cover-up,” Pelosi said. “And that is what my statement is. How we deal with it, is a decision that our caucus makes, and our caucus is very much saying whatever we do, we need to be ready when we do it.”

“And I do think that impeachment is a very divisive place to go in our country,” Pelosi said, and concluded by adding “But we can get the facts to the American people through our investigation, that may take us to a place that is unavoidable in terms of impeachment, or not. But we’re not at that place.”

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Crazy Jon Voight Thinks Trump Is the Greatest Since Lincoln

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From Michael John Scott at MadMikesAmerica:

Jon Voight, the less than relevant eighty year old father of Angelina Jolie, took to Twitter on Friday night to proclaim his love of President Trump in a pair of videos that said the president’s job “is not easy” as he has to fight “the left and their absurd words of destruction,” though he has “made his every move correct.”

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Obligations

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From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:

Sometimes, I find it amazing the things that people feel obligated to do over the things they are genuinely supposed to do. Take former White House Counsel Don McGahn, who defied a subpoena out of a sense of obligation, perhaps, to President Trump, despite the real possibility of being held in contempt of Congress and any penalties that might pertain to that.

It’s questionable that Trump has a legitimate reason to direct McGahn not to testify–he is a former, not current, employee of the White House, and he would have been questioned regarding things he already discussed in about 30 hours of questioning by the Special Counsel’s team. I’m just an old D-list blogger, but that doesn’t look like his testimony should fall under anything like executive privilege to me. It seems less questionable, though, that Trump has a less-legitimate purpose in having McGahn refuse to testify; one of the more disturbing items in the Mueller report is that McGahn was told by Trump to fire Mueller, didn’t do it, and then was advised by the White House to publicly state that Trump never tried to obstruct justice (even if it seems like he knew Trump did).

If requesting McGahn dodge the hearing is another form of obstruction, we’ve got like, three layers of obstruction, right there.

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Losers and the Electoral College

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From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara:

Why are the Clinton supporters mad at the Electoral College if they knew beforehand it would decide the winner? Why didn’t they say something before the election?

Does anybody really believe that, had Trump won the national popular vote but lost the election, or if Kerry had squeaked by in Ohio, that these same folks would be screaming their heads off about how “unfair” it all is or refusing to attend the inaugurations of the “illegitimate” President Kerry or President Hillary Clinton? Don’t make me laugh.

Trump and Clinton both went in and played by the same electoral rules, as established by the U.S. Constitution. Both campaigned for an Electoral Vote majority, not a popular vote majority. Trump won the election fair and square. Trump is the legitimately elected president of the United States.

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Tlaib to Mnuchin: Don’t Trust Trump DOJ – Get Outside Legal Advice

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From Tommy Christopher:

Rep. Tlaib Warns Mnuchin To ‘Seek Out Legal Advice’: Trump DOJ ‘Not Protecting You, It’s Protecting The President’

“As somebody that has practiced law and is an attorney, I would revise you, secretary, to get personal legal advice,” Tlaib said, “because the coverup by this administration, it goes just beyond just providing the taxes.”

Tlaib was referring to Mnuchin’s defiance of a congressional subpoena to provide President Donald Trump‘s tax returns. Mnuchin sat motionless as Tlaib continued.

“You can consult the Department of Justice, but you, personally, making decisions, not on the best part of the American people, but to cover up the occupant of the White House, I think you need to be very very clear about what your role is, and what your responsibility is to the American people,” Tlaib said.

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Alabama Senate Votes to Virtually Eliminate Tourism to Alabama

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From The Borowitz Report:

Greg Reed, the Senate Majority Leader, said that, if signed into law, the measure would achieve his fellow Republican senators’ long-standing goal of making tourism to Alabama “so rare as to be essentially nonexistent.”

“This is a great day for everyone in the state of Alabama who has worked so hard to wipe out the evil scourge of tourism,” he said.

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Was I Persecuted as an Evangelical Pastor?

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From The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser:

One need only watch what is happening on the abortion issue to see what happens when Christian beliefs are treated as the equivalent of federal and state law. The abortion issue hinges on constitutional rights, not Biblical commands. What God says on the matter has no part to play in the abortion debate. All that matters is whether a woman has a fundamental right to control her own body. Science, not Bronze Age theology, should determine the medical and social parameters for abortion.

That Evangelicals stubbornly and ignorantly refuse to understand this, leads them to wrongly conclude that they are being persecuted by secularists. While certainly there are individual instances of persecution, such unjust treatment is rare and certainly is not the result of some sort of systemic, organized assault against people of faith.

I was an Evangelical pastor for 25 years. And I wasn’t just any old Evangelical preacher. I was an outspoken, in-your-face, meddler in the private lives of others and in the daily machinations of government and public education. I was, in every way, a Grade A, pain in the ass. When my preaching, beliefs, and behavior were challenged, I thought I was being persecuted for my faith. Was that really the case?

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Presidential Candidate Finds New Way to Relate to Rural Voters

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From The Onion:

Cory Booker Tries To Relate To Rural Voters By Mangling Hand In Grain Auger

OSCEOLA, IA—In an attempt to show how much he had in common with the audience at a campaign event on an Iowa farm, Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker tried to connect with rural voters Friday by deliberately mangling his hand in a grain auger.

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If You Voted for Him Then,
Don’t Act Surprised Now

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From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:

Take a good look, America.

This is your “lesser of two evils.”
This is the result of your third party, middle finger protest vote.
This is the fruit of you checking out and opting out altogether back in 2016.

I hope it was worth it, though I can’t imagine how it could be.

I think you’re beginning to see you made a mistake, I sense your silent regret, and I hear you carefully walking back your decision.

I even see you responding with apparent shock—but for the life of me I can’t imagine you’re surprised right now, even though you claim to be.

More disturbing than you voting for him out of supposed necessity, or choosing an independent candidate that ensured his ascension, or abstaining from voting at all—is you acting like this wasn’t the logical outcome, that this unmitigated global disaster wasn’t all but inevitable.

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