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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @04:01PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @04:01PM (#914630)

    Is you feel this way due to the shortage of orange man bad takes on this news, you may to consider that you might be looking at a more representative slice of society than e.g. the New York Times comment pages.

    Trump is now up in the polls following the impeachment proceedings. And it may still be the case that pollsters are understating his support. To put it another way, at least the majority of people find the impeachment stuff rather less than compelling. It's a political circus that's just fueling the stupid partisanship in our nation today. To say nothing of the fact that congress could actually be doing work to make the lives of the people better instead of spending taxpayer resources and their time engaging in said circus. It's a disgrace.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:14PM (#914674)

    This used to be a reasonably distinct slice of the population that generally couldn’t, here at least, possibly care less about red-blue poo-flinging.

    What a waste. Sad.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @05:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @05:20AM (#914958)

    you might be looking at a more representative slice of society than e.g. the New York Times comment pages.

    Uneducated rural superstitious deplorables? Not representative, just loud.