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| New Congressional Black Caucus Chair: We May Have No Choice But to Impeach Trump |
| 2018-12-18 |
| [Townhall] Incoming Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Karen Bass (D-CA) sat down with The Hill on Monday for an interview. That's when she talked about the potential for impeachment proceedings. "Whether or not articles of impeachment get introduced and followed up on, I think time will tell," Bass told Jamal Simmons. "We could very easily be in a place where we have no choice because if it keeps coming out of evidence of criminal behavior from this White House, it's going to be hard for us not to do that." Bass, however, did remind Simmons of one thing: Republicans hold a majority in the Senate. Even if the House decided to impeach Trump and it passed, it wouldn't hold up in the Senate. "Realistically speaking, you know, you know we can impeach in this House, but it can't be followed through because there's not a supermajority over in the Senate," Bass explained. "So I think impeachment might come up, but I guarantee you it is not the first item on anybody's agenda that would be chairing these committees." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 They should be careful what they wish for. Electing Trump was a reaction to the teleprompter cretin. The next reaction will be even worse. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2018-12-18 23:25 |
| #12 The Dems are a one trick pony which is impeachment. They care little about America. For them it all about power. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-12-18 22:57 |
| #11 I’ve recently been wondering how much of that is natural... Wouldn't want TrumpHitler to get credit for any successes, would we? Even if it is good for America. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-12-18 22:07 |
| #10 As the stock market keeps crashing I’ve recently been wondering how much of that is natural... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-18 21:16 |
| #9 As the stock market keeps crashing the Dims stay stuck on stupid. Which is why the market began crashing when voters gave the House back to the Dims a few weeks ago which is the final nail in the coffin with the debt at bankrupt leveĺs. The US is no more. The whole world knows it except for US voters. |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-12-18 14:21 |
| #8 If the Dems spend the next two years investigating all things Trumpy, it will be noisy, but will keep them from other mischief, like passing stupid laws and messing with things they think they understand. Prediction: their Trump obsession, while tiresome, will eventually provoke a backlash that leads to a thousand year TrumpReich. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-12-18 13:15 |
| #7 We may have no choice but a civil war. Everything I see indicates that it is baked into the cake at this point. Whether we get 1 or 2 terms with President Trump, CW-II is unavoidable. Use whatever time we have wisely to get ready. |
| Posted by: Cluth Hatrack7787 2018-12-18 11:23 |
| #6 Typical CBC Corrupt Pol: The Curious Case of Karen Bass But after hitting the campaign trail this spring as the Democratic Party's heir apparent to outgoing Congresswoman Diane Watson, Bass, who was President Obama's state campaign co-chair in 2008, ran into the kinds of troubles that normally dog the fat-cat insiders and Sacramento political hacks. The Los Angeles Times reported in early June that Bass had missed 60 percent of Assembly sessions during her campaign, yet she was collecting the generous $141.80 in per diem payments that taxpayers provide legislators so they can afford to work far from home, in Sacramento. Bass had collected per diem for 29 days, getting more than $4,000, yet for much of that time she was skipping out of legislative duties in Sacramento. Just months before her per diem practices came to light, she had touted her "Joint Select Committee on Reform" to increase legislative transparency and revamp the old ways of doing business in politics. "That's why it's upsetting that we find her having compromised in some of those areas," says Doug Heller, executive director of Consumer Watchdog, a Santa Monica–based good-government group. More recently, Bass' staff made the news for taking from oil giant BP lots of free tickets to major sporting and other events in Sacramento. Though it was legal, it left an uneasy feeling that Bass had morphed into just another pol, and more quickly than most. "At the very least," says Heller of her per diem take, "it's a major loss of perspective over what should have been a natural and obvious bright line for someone like Karen Bass. When you go to Sacramento and live in that insular world for five or six years, clear rules become fuzzy." |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-12-18 09:18 |
| #5 CBC cheap labor, the downside. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-18 08:55 |
| #4 It's all they have. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-12-18 07:52 |
| #3 "So I think impeachment might come up, but I guarantee you it is not the first item on anybody's agenda that would be chairing these committees." I'll take that bet - these drooling morons have been talking about little else over the past two years. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-12-18 07:15 |
| #2 We may have no choice but a civil war. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-12-18 07:14 |
| #1 Real headline "Dems have nothing but irrational urges to impeach Trump" |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-12-18 06:06 |