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"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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Trump Impeachment: House Votes to Formalise Inquiry
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday November 01 2019, @10:10PM (1 child)
The Republican Party has never been the party of fiscal responsibility in my lifetime. Seriously, just look at the budget deficits, and you'll see every Republican since 1980 ramming through massive deficits with both unwarranted tax cuts and spending boosts on stuff we don't need. The last truly fiscally responsible Republican was Dwight Eisenhower, and even he thought the US was spending too much.
They're doing that on purpose. The strategy that's been in place since 1980 was developed by Grover Norquist (a man who has never been elected to anything, I might point out) is to cut taxes until the budget has scary-looking deficits, then use the scary-looking deficits to convince a Democratic president that the Only Possible Solution (tm) is to gut Social Security. Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama came close to falling for it too.
One reason I know they're doing it on purpose is that I walked up to one of my senators (the now-deceased George Voinovich), who always billed himself a moderate fiscal conservative Republican type, and asked him how he reconciled his fiscal conservatism with voting for the Bush tax cuts. He didn't give me a straight answer.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday November 01 2019, @11:19PM
Don't forget, that all along the cries for cutting the budget were really dog whistles, coded messages. They were never sincere about fiscal responsibility. What they really wanted was to discriminate, and all the talk about fiscal responsibility was just cover for that goal. Cutting some program for the poor always hurts disadvantaged minorities more. That was the part I didn't figure out until after the Clinton years.