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Trump Impeachment: House Votes to Formalise Inquiry

posted by martyb on Friday November 01 2019, @02:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the Red-Queen-Race dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50246324

"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.

This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.

The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.

Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @09:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @09:33PM (#914817)

    The Clinton impeachment happened.

    In the 80s and mid-90s the Republican party was a party of principles and ideas. Remember the "Contract with America?" Today's Republicans could never come up with something like that. The Democrats have the "Green New Deal," which is kind of similar, except it's full of bad ideas instead of good ones.

    Once the Clinton impeachment happened, Republicans decided to be the party of obstructionism. The only thing they care about now is stopping the Democrats from accomplishing anything, and getting anti-abortion judges into the courts. 9/11 and the Iraq war gave them a temporary reprieve, in the form of at least looking like they're doing something important, but what we're seeing today is pretty much what a party dedicated to power and nothing else looks like.

    Trump himself, of course, could not have existed prior to the 2010s. I mean, the man existed, but his particular brand of politics wouldn't have worked before then.