A short one today…headed out by car through the boonies west of NYC once again.
From CNN (https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/04/politics/rashida-tlaib-trump-impeachment-comments/index.html):
New House Democrat Rashida Tlaib: ‘We’re gonna impeach this motherfucker!!!’
I have been saying for years that politicians who dare to openly speak the language spoken by real people would start to win and win big.
We’re just about there.
Rather than the marbles-in-the-mouth speech patterns of mainstream pols like Pelosi and Schumer…people who have so many lies floating around that they have to pause to consider every word and parse every sentence so as not to step into deep shit…here’s the real deal!!!
Plus…I think she’s right.
“And when your son looks at you and says, ‘Mama look, you won. Bullies don’t win,’ and I said, ‘Baby, they don’t,’ because we’re gonna go in there and we’re going to impeach the motherf****r,” Tlaib said Thursday, speaking of Trump, according to a video posted on Twitter by Nestor Ruiz, an activist with United We Dream.
Rashida Tlaib made history with her swearing-in.
“President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country,” she wrote in an op-ed published Thursday in the Detroit Free Press with John Bonifaz, co-founder of the nonprofit Free Speech For People. “On an almost daily basis, he attacks our Constitution, our democracy, the rule of law and the people who are in this country. His conduct has created a constitutional crisis that we must confront now.”
Tlaib also penned an op-ed Thursday arguing that “the time for impeachment proceedings is now.”
“President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country,” she wrote in an op-ed published Thursday in the Detroit Free Press with John Bonifaz, co-founder of the nonprofit Free Speech For People. “On an almost daily basis, he attacks our Constitution, our democracy, the rule of law and the people who are in this country. His conduct has created a constitutional crisis that we must confront now.”
During her campaign, Tlaib made clear that once in Congress she was going to push for impeachment against Trump.
“Why am I running? Because this is about electing the jury to impeach (POTUS) and I will make a heck of juror,” she wrote on Twitter in March.
More than a year before she ran for Congress, Tlaib made headlines for being thrown out of an event in Michigan where Trump was speaking. She had interrupted the then-Republican presidential nominee to ask if he had ever read the Constitution.
Please contrast this with Pelosi’s so-called “position.”
Tlaib is one of few Democratic lawmakers to call for Trump’s removal from office, however House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders have tread more carefully around the topic of impeachment.
In an interview with NBC News this week, Pelosi didn’t rule out pursuing impeachment against Trump, but said Democrats would wait until special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation concludes.
“We shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason,” Pelosi said.
I repeat:
” ‘We shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason,’ Pelosi said.”
How’s that for “treading more carefully!!!”
Perfect UniParty doublespeak.
Absolutely impenetrable.
Why don’t you tell us what we should do, Nancy? What you think that we should do.
Why?
Because then she’d have to tell the truth.
Whatever that might be…sigh.
Just sayin’…
It’s a little early for 2020 prognostications, but I will go on record as saying that the old-line political tap-dancers-around-the-facts-of-the-matters are going to get their asses kicked…on both sides of the presently almost non-existent “aisle”…by people who clearly say what they mean.
And then back it up!!!
Watch.
AG