Displaying 601 To 630 Of 1,008 Comments You must be able to read my mind, as that is EXACTLY my belief. » Posted By TOCB On February 8, 2020 @ 2:23 pm Nothing will be done to stop trump unless Democrats are able to take the government back. Republicans will only say everyone in the executive branch serves at the pleasure of the president. They are correct related to political appointees, but not related to career federal employees. There are laws governing the termination of federal employees. » Posted By TOCB On February 8, 2020 @ 8:17 am Not only acceptance, but encouraging. » Posted By TOCB On February 8, 2020 @ 8:13 am I stand corrected. Thanks. » Posted By TOCB On February 8, 2020 @ 8:11 am Granted, Romney did not take as much of a risk as did people like Doug Jones and Joe Manchin, but for a republican in the era of trump, I appreciate his action. That fact that trump can’t touch him actually makes it a little sweet to me. » Posted By TOCB On February 8, 2020 @ 8:11 am New Hampshire Can I vote in a primary if I am an undeclared voter? https://sos.nh.gov/VotePartyPrimFAQ.aspx Democrats and those who lean Democratic should be very leery of polls in states that have open primaries. Trump and other republicans will do ANYTHING to retain power in 2020, including voting in primaries for people they think will more likely to lose to trump in the general. Trump knows that if he doesn’t stay in office, his ass is grass, and congressional republicans know the same thing. Polls for the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary show Sanders and Buttigieg in first and second. These are probably the two people trump’s klan think they can beat. Of course the delegate count in NH won’t determine who the nominee will be, but the winner could gain some momentum going into states that COULD determine who the nominee will be. » Posted By TOCB On February 7, 2020 @ 5:28 am Iowa has been caucusing in the primary season for over 100 years. This is the first time they have use a app to report results. When you consider over 4,000 delegates to be allocated in the primaries, 41 delegates allocated to four candidates is not a big deal. So the winner didn’t get the customary momentum going into NH. Since neither IA or NH is representative of the Democratic Party, I doubt if the winner of those two states will necessarily have a significant impact on the final outcome of the nomination. I think reporting issue is just something for the press to occupy themselves with until something else comes along. I don’t think anything helps trump. The idiots who are going to vote for trump are going to vote for him no matter what. If the rest of us do our jobs, there isn’t enough of them to win. » Posted By TOCB On February 5, 2020 @ 3:23 pm It has been a VERY long time since I have said anything positive about a Republican. Mitt Romney’s speech before the Senate in the impeachment trial of Donald John Trump has given me an appreciation for him. Not because he agrees with me, but because he honored his oath to do impartial justice. I sensed that this was hard for Romney to vote to remove a president of his party from office. Given the same circumstances, I think I would have made the same decision Romney made, and put my conscience and the Constitution above my party. I suspect there will be many times I will disagree with Romney in the future, but I will from this day, have great respect for his integrity. » Posted By TOCB On February 5, 2020 @ 11:21 am The Iowa caucuses have a reporting problem. This is not nearly as big of a deal as the press is making it. Iowa is not representative of the Democratic Party. When the general election comes around, Iowa will vote just like everyone else, so whatever reporting method they have used in past, will be used in November. MAYBE this will be a wake-up call to political parties to have a national election for primaries, just like they do for the general election. Super Tuesday is a mini-national primary election. Why not expand it to at least regional elections? » Posted By TOCB On February 5, 2020 @ 7:37 am https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-are-president-trumps-poll-numbers-going-up Why is this happening? The most straightforward and daunting answer is that he is getting more popular. The economy continues to be buoyant with unemployment numbers the lowest we’ve seen in decades. The President has inked two trade agreements. They may be thin (in the case of Trump’s repackaged NAFTA) or in the case of China more fairly described as defeats. But the news is success even if the reality falls short. Finally, as we discussed yesterday, much of Trump’s transgressive behavior has become increasingly normal and acceptable to a large minority of the population. Trump’s poll numbers are up. The reason? much of Trump’s transgressive behavior has become increasingly normal and acceptable to a large minority of the population.
Trump is the chief idiot and crook. That LARGE MINORITY of the population is the real problem with the USA. Granted, they have a right to be deplorable and ignorant. However, the MAJORITY has to rise up and defeat them IF we want to keep our democratic republic and continue to move it in the direction of a more perfect Union. » Posted By TOCB On February 5, 2020 @ 7:27 am The political party that tore up the Constitution is crying about someone who tore up the lies of a lying dictator. Pence, who is the vice liar, says Pelosi reached a new low. He is so low that he that he needs a very tall ladder to reach Pelosi’s feet. » Posted By TOCB On February 5, 2020 @ 7:18 am Murkowski is part of the problem, not the solution. She criticizes her fellow senators for doing exactly the same thing she did. The Senate is not supposed to be political when they are doing “impartial justice”. The Senate failed, Senator Murkowski, BECAUSE YOU FAILED. “I cannot vote to convict. The Constitution provides for impeachment but does not demand it in all instances,” Murkowski said from the Senate floor, adding that removing Trump from office would be “the political death penalty.” “The president’s behavior was shameful and wrong. His personal interests do not take precedence over those of this great nation,” she said. » Posted By TOCB On February 4, 2020 @ 6:33 am Notice the difference in the how House Managers address the Senate compared to how trump’s legal team addresses the Senate. House Managers appeal to the senators to consider this, that or the other. On the other hand, trump’s counsel tells senators what they can or can’t consider or do. Trump’s counsel already told the House that although the Constitution says they have the sole right to impeach, they can only do it if the president approves it. Now, they are telling the Senate that they can’t allow the chief justice, the presiding officer, to rule on witnesses and evidence because if trump disagrees with it, it would have to go before the court. Of course this ignores the fact that the Senate has the sole right to try an impeachment, and the court has no jurisdiction in an impeachment or and impeachment trial, EXCEPT the chief justice presiding over the trial. Of course none of this matters because McConnell has already agreed to do whatever trump wants him to do. So trump’s counsel can present any kind of bogus argument they wish, and the republicans will go along with it. » Posted By TOCB On January 31, 2020 @ 1:07 pm House Managers continue to address the Senate AS IF republican senators respect the Constitution and the rule of law. It is obvious they do not. » Posted By TOCB On January 31, 2020 @ 10:51 am “They can’t ignore you and get away with it, for we always reap what we sow.” » Posted By TOCB On January 31, 2020 @ 10:42 am WOW!!! Did you notice the chaplain’s prayer before the beginning of the trial this afternoon? It seemed to be directed at the hypocrisy of republican senators.
» Posted By TOCB On January 31, 2020 @ 10:38 am I see that some pundits on MSNBC are trying to blame Alan Dershowitz for republican senators not voting to have witnesses and probably voting to acquit trump. Dershowitz says he did not say a president can do whatever he wants and cannot be impeached, although I have to admit that is what I thought he said. But at the end of the day, senators, most of whom have law degrees, are responsible for removing a criminal president from office. Republicans have chosen trump over the USA. That is their right, as un-American as it is. The rest of us just have to put on our big boy and big girl pants, and take back our government from Americans who favor an autocratic government over a democratic government. One wonders where are the militiamen who think the Second Amendment is for the purpose of violently overthrowing a tyrannical government. I suppose that depends on what you think a tyrannical government is. In the case of trumpism, the militiamen are on the side of the tyrannical government. » Posted By TOCB On January 31, 2020 @ 8:04 am Btw, trump also shot the 63 million Americans who voted for him as well. They just don’t care. » Posted By TOCB On January 31, 2020 @ 5:26 am Maybe Lamar Alexander doesn’t think impeachment should even be in the Constitution. He apparently thinks voters should elect a president who has good character, so they won’t have to confront impeaching a president. IMHO anyone in a federal elected office should endeavor to protect and defend the Constitution. In fact, they take an oath to that effect. https://www.citizen.org/article/in-their-own-words/ Lamar Alexander said that presidents should be held to the highest standard, thought Clinton should resign. » Posted By TOCB On January 31, 2020 @ 5:25 am Twenty-four hours after Mueller said he could not indict trump for criminal conspiracy to help Putin steal the 2016 presidential election, trump makes a call to Ukraine to strong-arm them to help him steal the 2020 election. Capping Medicaid is a very minor infraction compared to what trump is capable of doing between now and November. » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 9:39 pm Donald trump essentially just shot at least 66 million Americans, not in the middle of Fifth Avenue, but on Capitol Hill, and his poll numbers went up with at least 63 million Americans. Alexander said yes, House Democrats proved by presenting a mountain of evidence that trump attempted to extort the Ukrainian government by withholding military aid to them in order to persuade them to announce an investigation of Joe Biden, but that’s okay. Alexander doesn’t need to see or hear anymore evidence, and he will vote against the American people seeing or hearing anymore evidence, at least as part of a Senate impeachment trial. Does it really matter what Collins, Murkowski and Romney say? Even they are not going to vote to convict. Let alone the twenty republicans required to convict trump. Tonight the USA became a banana republic. Actually, it happened on January 20, 2017, but now there is no question about it. The rule of law is dead in the USA. The head is dead and it won’t be long before the tail dies as well. THE LATE GREAT UNITED STATES. RIP. » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 9:30 pm I am with the majority in every demographic except age (+65), gender (male) and state (Texas). » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 7:08 pm Wow! I remember when I was a child, I was really excited about living in a democratic republic. Today, I actually ashamed of my government and many of my countrymen/women. » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 7:05 pm Yes, the dam is breaking, but Senate republicans will acquit him anyway, which SHOULD result in a blue tsunami in November. » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm Believe me. I understand about the BP issue. If trump is re-elected bogusly, I fear there will be some kind of civil war. » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 6:56 pm House Mangers need to take this last day of questions from the Senate to explain to the American people, NOT THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS, BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, why the framers chose the Senate as the court for impeachment, the almost SOLE purpose of which was because of impartiality and independence from politics, and that indeed in the Johnson impeachment, because of that impartiality Johnson only escaped removal from office by ONE VOTE. So before the Seventeenth Amendment, the Senate was indeed impartial. However today, the Majority Leader has PUBLICLY stated BEFORE the trial started that there would be no room between the position of the president and that of republicans in the Senate, YET they all took the oath to do impartial justice. They should close by admonishing the American people that the House has done their job in holding the president accountable to the people, the Constitution and the rule of law, while republicans have chosen trump over the people, the Constitution and the rule of law. NOW, it is up to the people to do their part. » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 7:09 am The intent of the framers of the Constitution related to the “court” for impeachment has been discussed and indeed distorted by learned members of Congress, counsel for the president, and the legal profession during the impeachment of trump. The Federalist Papers are often used to explain what the framers of the Constitution actually debated in the process of settling on the actual language included in the Constitution. Hamilton was the first secretary of state. Madison was the fourth president of the United States. John Jay was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court. These were authors of The Federalist Papers. Hamilton wrote Federalist 65, 66 and 69 which dealt with impeachment. In Federalist 65 Hamilton explained why the Senate was chosen as the court for impeachment, not only for the president but all executives of the federal government. The primary reason the Senate was chosen was because of their independence from politics. Hamilton did not mention why senators where independent of politics, but the underlying reason is because they were not elected, but rather appointed by state legislatures. Today, the Senate does not have the degree of independence that persuaded the framers of the Constitution to conclude this body was independent of politics, because since 1913 members of the Senate are elected by the people just as members of House and the president are. This makes the Senate just as political as the House and the president. Therefore today, impeachment is almost entirely a purely political process with a total disregard for facts. Although the Constitution does not specifically say the president is not above the law, the fact that Congress is granted oversight of the executive branch of the government and that Congress is given the sole power to impeach and convict and remove a president from office, those provisions of the Constitutions dictates that the president is not above the law and indeed CANNOT do whatever he wants, in spite of what trump and congressional republicans and Alan Dershowitz believe. Article 1 Section 3 7: Judgment in Cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law. https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers#TheFederalistPapers-66 From Federalist 65 Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent? What other body would be likely to feel CONFIDENCE ENOUGH IN ITS OWN SITUATION, to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an INDIVIDUAL accused, and the REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE, HIS ACCUSERS? From Federalist 69 The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Maryland and Delaware. » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 6:18 am Yes, this too is bribery. However, under our election laws, it is LEGAL bribery. Of course, with trump and republicans it doesn’t matter whether it is legal or not, as anything trump does is legal. » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 4:36 am Unfortunately, he was elected by the people of the UK, just as trump was SUPPOSEDLY elected by the American people. I always say that in a democratic form of government, politicians don’t win or lose elections; voters do. The current discussion among political pundits in the U.S. is that Biden or some other candidate or even trump can do this, that or the other to win the election. The reality is that whoever gets the most votes (in our “democracy”, not actual votes) is seated in the office they are running for, REGARDLESS of what kind of person they are, what their record of serving the people is or isn’t, or how intelligent or not intelligent they are. » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 4:32 am Trump’s “wall” was always ONLY a racist dog-whistle. NOTHING else! Remember that he said Mexico was going to pay for it. And what he didn’t say is that IF a wall along the U.S. southern border was EVER constructed, the U.S. would use Mexican labor to do it, because for some unknown reason, people of Mexicans descent, whether they are U.S. citizens or not, are 99% of construction workers in the U.S. with government subcontractors. » Posted By TOCB On January 30, 2020 @ 4:24 amComments Posted By TOCB
Yes. An undeclared voter may vote in a state primary or a presidential primary. You will be required to choose either a Republican or Democratic ballot when you go to vote. The last day a registered voter can change their party affiliation before the 2020 presidential primary is October 25, 2019. Supervisors of the checklist are required to meet on that day at least between 7:00-7:30 p.m. to accept party changes.
If Alexander had his way, a Clinton impeachment trial would have never occurred because Clinton would have stepped down before the trial. “The world badly needs an effective United States president,” Alexander said in September 1998. “To stay in office sends the wrong message to the country and to our children.”[127]
Alexander urged Democrats to tell Clinton to resign “for the good of the country.” In Alexander’s view, “the president’s job is to set an example for the country and behave a little better than the rest of us do, not a lot worse.”[128] Alexander said he believed that the character of our elected officials was hugely important.
6: The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
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