In a Thursday night piece, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board argues that President Donald Trump’s incitement of the mob that invaded and vandalized the Capitol Wednesday in an attempt to overturn the November election warrants his early departure from office.
When you’ve lost the wsj. What is left?
I’m not sure any of the ding dongs who marched on the capitol read WSJ
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Lindsay has completed his legacy. The files on him must be dripping.
As President @realDonaldTrump stated last night, it is time to heal and move on.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 8, 2021
If Speaker Pelosi pushes impeachm ent in the last days of the Trump presidency it will do more harm than good.I’m hopeful President-elect Biden sees the damage that would be done from such action.
Correct but their audience is much more upper crust. The donor class be bailing.
You’re right. He’s clearly lost the oligarchs.
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They got the tax cuts, judges, roll back of regs,and now they have to scrape the rest off of a shoe as not to leave a trail through the house.
The board advocates for the President to be removed through impeachment rather than through the invocation of the 25th Amendment, arguing that the latter “smacks of a Beltway coup” (despite the fact that it would definitely take Vice President Mike Pence’s cooperation, and possibly that of Trump’s own Cabinet secretaries).
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1347561667505360897
https://twitter.com/mikedebonis/status/1347609019779870720
“Mr. Trump’s many opponents are crowing in satisfaction that their predictions have been proven right, that he was never fit to be President and should have been impeached long ago,” they write. “But Mr. Trump’s character flaws were apparent for all to see when he ran for President.”
What am I missing in the above? Are they admonishing someone? Who? The opponents who saw the flaws, made predictions and generally made their feelings on Trump known? It doesn’t make sense.
“smacks of a Beltway coup”
Um, what happened Wednesday?
They quibble, though, that Democrats are not “responsible” enough to handle an impeachment without alienating Republicans and making it into a partisan spectacle.
I think I saw irony jump off a high bridge with cement chained to its ankles.
Fox News?
Bravo. Same with the NY Post, which is suddenly aghast at the conflagration.
None of these traitors who are now calling for Dems to “lower the temperature” are offering any sort of apology or mea culpa for their role in inciting the insurrection. They continued to vote for it after people were killed. You can’t bring people together unless both sides are willing to act in good faith.
Leaving aside the quality of the WSJ’s premises and arguments, the confusion you’re asking about arises because the excerpt provided by TPM stops short. Here’s the excerpt:
“Mr. Trump’s many opponents are crowing in satisfaction that their predictions have been proven right, that he was never fit to be President and should have been impeached long ago,” they write. “But Mr. Trump’s character flaws were apparent for all to see when he ran for President.”
And here is the WSJ’s next line:
Sixty-three million Americans voted to elect Mr. Trump in 2016, and that constitutional process shouldn’t be easily overruled as Democrats and the press have demanded from nearly his first day in office.
You ask whom they are admonishing. It’s us, for having impeached him before; for having wanted to over-turn the outcome of the 2016 election.
What they mean is that we were prematurely correct.
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House Republicans are loyal to Trump and it’s on Senate Republicans to join forces and go with conviction.
They need to put some syrup on that waffling. And TPM needs to manage excerpts better.
Um, we didn’t. many of us knew when he came down the escalator
Fuck you, WSJ editorial board. What you’re saying is that from the beginning you’ve been willing to put wealth and personal power over the good of the country that supports your pampered lifestyles. (And, apparently you’re claiming that’s a good thing in some kind of twisted free-market way.)