Impeaching Trump, The process begins now.

[Jacob Boehme]

Excellent piece from Robert Kuttner.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/impeaching-trump_us_5869b806e4b0eb586489f3a4

[Trust Buster]

1. I strongly disagree. Impeachment of Trump would serve as a win-win for Republicans.

Republicans would get the guy they want, Pence, and they will also be able to blame the Democrats for doing the dirty work at the same time. This will also be used as a justification for the Republicans trying to impeach the next Democratic President. I say we let Trump HAUNT the Republican Party for the full four years. That might not be the emotional play but it's the smart play.

[suston96]

2. I agree........

The founders left us with very few options to deal with elections gone wild.

Let the Repubs take their full term in the barrel.

Then let history record what happens during and after what I expect will be an incomparable historic debacle.

[babylonsister]

3. I predict he won't last 4 years, but agree. Let them own

this mistake, unless he becomes seriously dangerous. Yea, I know he is already, I think sadly he has to prove it, again.

[Initech]

6. Yeah exactly. I say let Trump dig his own grave.

If he resigns it will be better than full out impeachment. They lowered the bar with Clinton's impeachment, and they would further lower the bar with a Trump impeachment. It would be a full out media circus. I say just let him continue to shoot his mouth off on Twitter and build extremely expensive hotels in foreign countries. It will further make the GOP look like a billionaire's club.

[McCamy Taylor]

12. No, Republican do not want Trump impeached. Then Pence becomes Gerald Ford--tainted

and one term at best. What they really want is for terrorists to target Trump. Then Pence becomes LBJ. Trump was an idiot to run. If he was gonna run, he should have selected a Spiro Agnew the way Nixon did.

[Lord_at_War]

15. I don't think Trump cares if it's 4 yrs- or even 4 weeks.

I think he only ran for President as just one more thing on his "Cheeto Hitler" bucket list.

I think he would have happily gone home the day after Hillary won the election- but America is so f'ed up, they elected his dumb ass.

"The only thing 52 yrs has taught me is that my imagination isn't big enough to predict what will happen next..."

[oberliner]

4. Can you imagine President Pence?

With a RW House and a Republican Senate ready to do his bidding?

To say nothing of the sort of SC justices he might nominate.

[jg10003]

9. repost; Pence is a right-wing religious ideologue, but at least he is not a wannabe strongman.

Trump is an existential threat to the republic. Pence merely has bad policy ideas. Trump wants to be the American version of Putin. Pence is just very conservative. The Republic can survive a President Pence. If Pence is president then we can elect Elizabeth Warren in 4 years and get the country back on track. But the constitutional republic that has endured for 228 years may not survive President Trump.

[oberliner]

10. Pence is a true believer

Trump is a buffoon with no core values. His only goal is to enrich himself, his brand, and his ego. Pence would actively and aggressively pursue policies that are antithetical to everything progressives stand for. Trump's primary concern is that CNN run more flattering pictures of him.

[Trust Buster]

19. I agree 100%.

[YOHABLO]

5. The best we can do right now is get a good majority in the Senate.

Perhaps even the House, but I have my doubts. Also we have to get our Dem Congressmen/women to go after Trumps nominations with the vigor of a Doberman-Pinscher. Starting with Jeff Sessions. They should be thinking 'filibuster', obstruct, anything to save the U.S. This is throw down time. America under Trump is not America.

[progressoid]

11. yes. n/t

[Jim Lane]

16. Alas, that won't happen in 2018. The calendar favors the GOP.

Republicans will have to defend only one seat in a state Clinton carried (Nevada).

Democratic incumbents are up for re-election in Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Florida -- all Trump wins, some very close but some lopsided.

The President's party tends to lose seats in the midterms, but this isn't invariable. The Republicans gained seats in both the House and the Senate in 2002, for example.

Even if we make slight gains in the House, it's hard to see how the Democrats will even prevent losses in the Senate, let alone pick up the three seats (net) needed for a majority.

[Trekologer]

18. We need to take back state houses as well

It isn't just about Federal government positions

[TeamPooka]

7. Like the GOP is going to get rid of their patsy in the White House.

[truebluegreen]

8. Bad idea.

Trump is a loose cannon and a wildcard on policy; that's not true of Pence.

[ffr]

13. Only problem, they just hobbled the ethics panel as their first destructive course of business

With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Hobble Independent Ethics Office
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141653758

Thanks a lot Joe and Jane rust-belt voter! You got it wrong AGAIN in another election and your self-centered attitude is going to result in people getting killed.

[busterbrown]

14. Self Centered? If they were..

they’d realize that Trump policies would eventually destroy their lives..

a half cup of Plutocracy, 1/4 cup Oligarchy, and 1/4 cup of Insanity... added to the fact that he’s over 72? We’re all fucked!

[kentuck]

17. If nothing else...

They should all be put on the record.

[brooklynite]

20. So, you want Trump acquitted in the eyes of the Public?

That's what would happen when you didn't end up with 2/3 of the Senate to convict him.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. I don't have to read.

There is no more of chance of the GOP removing Trump as their leader as there was a chance of the National Socialists removing Hitler as their leader.