President Trump is expected to be impeached for a second time Wednesday, as the House votes on whether to remove him for his roll in egging on a violent mob on the Capitol.
He needs far more than impeachment. He needs to be arrested, charged, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Game. On.
Rep. McGovern (D-MA) spitting facts.
âEvery day Donald Trump is in the White House, our nation is in danger.â
Rep. Cole (R-OK) spitting up.
âItâs unfortunate the path to support healing is not the path chosen by the majority in the House today.â
Iâm at work and canât watch, so I expect all my fine friends at TPM to keep me informed.
Thank you all in advance!
Rep. Cole - we have not had the opportunity to view any evidence. We have not been given the opportunity to speak with any witness.
Witnesses? Everybody in the chamber, including you. Evidence? Are you claiming you havenât heard the pre-riot rally? Fine, letâs play it and then watch the response.
Done.
Baby steps.
Iâm perfectly willing for the nation to heal and for divisions to lessen âŚ
After accountability, after impeachment, after conviction in the Senate, after all the facts come out about Trump and all who were involved in the insurrection, after Republicans start telling their followers the truth.
And, as we heal, let the investigations and prosecutions of Trump and his crime family continue.
We canât heal and mend divisions if we all donât know the truth and have a common set of facts and sense of reality. Hereâs to proper and effective healing.
Just donât be too surprised when the punning starts.
Joe Manchin who I brought up on a thread last weekhe didn;t disappoint.siding with the GOP as expected and predicted .
And as far as Johnathan Turley and his" opinion" on impeachment.
A repost
Steny Hoyer powerfully wielding a barbed-wire Liz Cheney.
BUT I WANT TO REFERENCE THE REMARKS OF THE CHAIR OF THE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE, WHICH IS THE ANALOGUE TO THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS. IT IS ALL THE REPUBLICANS ELECTED TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND THEY ELECTED LIZ CHENEY, THE DAUGHTER OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE FORMER WHIP OF THIS HOUSE, DICK CHENEY, WITH WHOM I SERVED IN THE 1980âS. REPRESENTATIVE CHENEY FROM WYOMING, A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN, SAID THIS.
âTHE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SUMMONED THE MOB, ASSEMBLED THE MOB, AND LIT THE FLAME OF THIS ATTACK.â
THAT IS NOT SOME IRRESPONSIBLE NEW MEMBER OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. THIS IS THE DAUGHTER OF THE FORMER REPUBLICAN WHIP AND FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. SHE KNOWS OF WHAT SHE SPEAKS, AND SHE SAID THIS AS WELL. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A GREATER BETRAYAL BY A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF HIS OFFICE AND HIS OATH OF CONSTITUTION â TO THE CONSTITUTION.
THIS IS NOT, AS LIZ CHENEY SAID, JUST SOME ACTION. SHE CHARACTERIZED IT AS THE BIGGEST BETRAYAL OF ANY PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN OUR HISTORY. MR. JOHN KATKO, NOT A BACK BENCH REPUBLICAN WHO JUST GOT HERE AND DOESNâT KNOW WHATâS GOING ON. MR. JOHN KATKO, WHO IS THE RANKING REPUBLICAN ON THE HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE SAYS THIS â TO ALLOW THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO INCITE THIS ATTACK WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES IS A DIRECT THREAT TO THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY. THIS IS NOT SOME BACK-BENCHER ON YOUR SIDE OF THE AISLE â ON THEIR SIDE OF THE AISLE, MR. SPEAKER. IT REFLECTS THE SENSE OF OUTRAGE, THE SENSE OF HISTORIC DISSIMILARITY FROM THE ACTIONS OF ANY PREVIOUS PRESIDENT. AND THEN, MR. ADAM KINZINGER, MEMBER OF THE COMMERCE COMMITTEE, A SENIOR MEMBER FROM ILLINOIS.
SO WE HAVE A MEMBER FROM WYOMING, A MEMBER FROM ILLINOIS, AND A MEMBER IN NEW YORK â FROM NEW YORK. THERE WILL BE OTHERS ON THIS VOTE WHO WILL JOIN THEM, AND MR. KINZINGER SAID THIS â IF THESE ACTIONS â HE HASNâT HAD ANY HEARINGS. HE DOESNâT NEED ANY LONG, DRAWN-OUT CONSIDERATION. IF THESE ACTIONS ARE NOT WORTHY OF IMPEACHMENT, THEN WHAT IS AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE? THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BROKE HIS OATH AND INCITED THIS INSURRECTION.
ETA: Sorry for the ALL-CAPS, this is straight from the C-Span live transcript.
ETA²: Hoyer on FIRE 
Thanks, Sen. Manchin, for giving cover to the seditionists in the house for their resistance to impeachment. Rep Cole has already referenced your statement that impeachment is ill-advised at this time as justification for not impeaching because it would be divisive.
Thatâs what Sen. Debbie Stabenow D-Michigan said yesterdayâŚperhaps Nicloleâs show on MSNBC ⌠The messaging goes something like this:
âYes, we must have healing and unity but it would be insincere without justice.â
Fyi, the destruction of the Trump crime family and his enablers most fully will be implemented outside the halls of Congress.
Yes! Thatâs what Iâm talking about! Since Iâm not able to watch, I want visuals. More visuals!
One of the Dâs is refuting the GOP claim that the Dâs are rushing to judgement. Factually accurate, but not revealing anything new.
I would suggest to TPM this might be a great candidate for a Live Blog.
This is going to be an all-day âbring your lunchâ affair and shouldnât be limited to a one-off article. This is an historical event that will become the denouement of the Trump Administration reality show. Peoplesâ careers could be ruined in all of this, depending on how they vote.
The event shouldnât be limited to a one-off article.
Try this and you can go back and forth:
Got to leave a lot of front page space in case tRump has something to add. Watch as one nonsense statement after another from Rethugs appears.
Democrats should agree that we establish a bipartisan committee to investigate what happened. But not in lieu of impeachment. But in addition to it.
Rep. Jason Smith is the slimiest POS you can imagine. Crying âwe are hurting if you do thisâ.