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Showing Original Post only (View all)So, What if the House of Representatives Decided to Proceed with Impeachment? [View all]
What if, after hearings and deliberations a vote were held and we didn't get the 218 votes needed to pass Articles of Impeachment? That's a real possibility, because some Democratic House members won their elections by very thin margins and believe that they would be voted out and replaced by a Republican. In many case, they are correct, and their districts would flip back to being Republican. Then, we'd end up back in the minority again in 2021.
But, what if Articles of Impeachment did pass? Well, then they would be sent to the Senate, where a 2/3 voted would be required to remove Trump from office. Well, as everyone can easily understand, getting 67 Senators to vote to remove Trump is almost certainly not possible. The republicans control the Senate, and Mitch McConnell is firmly in control of how things are done in that house of Congress. So, we'd lose and Trump would stay in office until he got voted out or finished a second term. Once again, Democrats would lose.
So, it's not so simple. Some might say that just having the Vote in the house would "send a message." It would, but if we couldn't pass Articles of Impeachment, the message that would be sent is that Democrats can't even work together to do that, and that we are, therefore, weak and ineffectual.
And that, my fellow DUers, is why Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to go for impeachment proceedings at this point. If additional dirty deeds are discovered, she might well change her mind. But, if we do not have the votes, she won't call for a vote. It's that simple. If we can't carry that vote to an actual impeachment, we lose much more than if we wait until the 2020 election to make the change.
And that election is our best opportunity to boot Donald J. Trump out of the White House. So, let's do that, shall we?