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daredtowork

(3,732 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 09:57 PM Mar 2015

Safety in Numbers: Arrogant GoP Senate too Big to Fail?

I'm just wondering if its impossible to prosecute or impeach Congresscritters for breaking the law if so many of them act in concert that it would impede operations of government to prosecute them.

Let's say today the Senate took a walk over to Fort Knox and divvied up the spoils because they felt like they all deserved performance bonuses this year. If most agree, who is to stop them?

What if a preponderance wants the Ten Commandments and a Christian prayer read before every order of business? How about clay pigeon shooting on the White House lawn has a demonstration of the Right to Bear Arms? If 87 Senators attend, there must be nothing anyone can do, right?

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Safety in Numbers: Arrogant GoP Senate too Big to Fail? (Original Post) daredtowork Mar 2015 OP
They could be 2naSalit Mar 2015 #1

2naSalit

(86,575 posts)
1. They could be
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:02 PM
Mar 2015

censured but that would require the Majority Leader's input, I think. Since he signed that letter and has been one of the most hateful bigots in the Senate, not gonna happen. There may be some rule in the Senate Rules that has to do with acts of sedition but I am not aware of any because I am not fully informed about the Senate Rules of late.

I think the D party better get some sense of the damage being done here and f'ing DO something about this gang of bigoted traitors.


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