{"id":36313,"date":"2019-04-22T09:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36313"},"modified":"2019-04-22T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T16:54:25","slug":"elijah-on-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/22\/elijah-on-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah on Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The more I think about it, the more I agree with Elizabeth Warren that it&#8217;s time to open an impeachment investigation into Putin&#8217;s Pet Pervert and Obstructer-in-Chief, Resident Donald Trump.\u00a0 Civil Rights hero and Representative Elijah Cummings [D-MD] might not be quite there yet.\u00a0 However he is clearly leaning in that direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0422impeach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/0422impeach.jpg\" alt=\"0422impeach\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MA [<em>sic<\/em>]), chair of the House Oversight Committee, on Sunday predicted that history will &#8220;smile upon&#8221; the lawmakers who pursue the impeachment of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Face the Nation, CBS host Bob Schieffer noted that several high profile Democrats are calling for impeachment proceedings to begin due to the release of special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s Russia investigation report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>This is a political act, and if you do vote to impeach him and then the Senate votes not to remove him, won\u2019t that look like a victory for him<\/strong>?&#8221; Schieffer wondered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It may very well, but you know, sometimes, Bob, I got to tell you, there comes a point in life where we all have to make decisions based upon the fact that it is on our watch,&#8221; Cummings replied. &#8220;<strong>History, I think, even if we did not win possibly, if there were not impeachment, I think history would smile upon us for standing up for the Constitution<\/strong>.&#8221;&#8230;\u00a0 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2019\/04\/elijah-cummings-history-would-smile-upon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I could not embed the video clip included with the article, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0T2C-Dgj5v8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> had a clip of the entire interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0T2C-Dgj5v8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As I see it, this is the bottom line.\u00a0 If we take no action, it will embolden Trump, Pence, the Republican Reich, and their Russian allies to interfere in the 2020 election.\u00a0 In 2016, Obama did nothing, because Bought Bitch Mitch objected.\u00a0 Look where we are now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Do we want to be the party of political expedience, because we think it will help us get elected, or the party that takes a risk, because it&#8217;s the right thing to do?\u00a0 You tell me.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I think about it, the more I agree with Elizabeth Warren that it&#8217;s time to open an impeachment investigation into Putin&#8217;s Pet Pervert and Obstructer-in-Chief, Resident Donald Trump.\u00a0 Civil Rights hero and Representative Elijah Cummings [D-MD] might not be quite there yet.\u00a0 However he is clearly leaning in that direction. 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Elijah Cummings <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/22\/elijah-on-impeachment\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}