We are way past a constitutional crisis. I didn’t expect Trump to be removed from office but the impeachment trial, if you want to call it that, put the country at DEFCON 1, as a democracy. DEFCON stands for Defense (DEF) readiness Condition (CON). DEFCON 5 is the normal peacetime condition and DEFCON 1 is when we are on the brink of war, like nuclear war.
Posts tagged as “impeachment”
Impeachment is not the end-all to be all, but it's better than a good start.
I have argued for months that this fucker is not going to leave office when he loses the election...
Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump have huge nuts! huge. You know why they’re nuts are inflated? Cause ain’t shit gonna happen to them, at least…
I think Democrats have no choice but to impeach this fool.
t’s all been very confusing. But the larger story — the crucial constitutional story — is not the incoherence of the president’s defense. It is more that he and his party are exposing limits of impeachment as a response to the presidency of a demagogue.
Nadler will have the gavel but will he use it to keep control of the hearings in a deliberative way, like his colleague, Representative Adam Schiff did in the Intelligence Committee hearings?
The U,S. Constitution does not guaranty democracy
Why doesn’t Congress hold administration officials who have defied subpoenas in inherent contempt, by jailing or fining them?