||| FROM CONGRESSMAN RICK LARSEN’S OFFICE |||
After yesterday’s events in our nation’s capital, I want you to hear directly from me. Let me say it as plainly as I can: the attack on the Capitol building was an assault on our democracy perpetrated by domestic terrorists. If this happened in any other country, the United States would condemn it.
I have opposed Donald Trump and his policies since he first stepped on the national stage. I have fought against him and his policies every single day of the last four years.
Last year, I was the first member of Washington state’s delegation to call on the impeachment of Donald Trump. I voted to impeach him. And I am prepared to vote to impeach him again, but after yesterday I believe we need to leapfrog impeachment and remove him from office immediately.
I am calling on Vice President Mike Pence and the members of the Cabinet to do their sworn duty to bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution. It is time for them to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Donald Trump from office.
Do it today.
The constitutional procedure defined in the 25th Amendment is the fastest and clearest way for the senior leadership of the Trump Administration to join us in removing Donald Trump from the levers of power. We don’t have time to waste.
Even after the attack on the seat of our democracy, we did our constitutional duty and ensured that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in on January 20th. On that day, Democrats will also take the majority in the U.S. Senate. (Thank you, Georgia!) We will restore our democracy and fix the damage wrought by Donald Trump and his allies.
We can and will come back from this attack on our democracy.
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Be sure to ask Derrick Evans, W. Virginia delegate, if it’s alright with him and his boys first. Oh, and apparently he lost his keys to the Capitol building.
Wow, the Empire strikes back!
we are lucky these were morons and idiots. next time we might not be so lucky; and I do believe there will be a next time. There are just too many people who voted for him and agree with his statements. I honestly do not know what we can do to protect ourselves from these misguided people. I am at a loss.
Political Theater
Saturday, January 9, 1 PM – Office of Senate Majority Leader McConnell
“The Senate is currently in recess and is holding pro forma sessions every three days until January 19. Pursuant to the unanimously approved order setting up the recess and these pro forma sessions, the Senate may conduct no business until January 19.
“The Senate will hold two more pro-forma sessions on Tuesday, Jan. 12 and Friday, Jan. 15, but “Without unanimous consent, the Senate may not conduct any business of any kind during pro forma sessions, including beginning to act on received articles of impeachment from the House,” All 100 senators would have to agree to conduct “any business of any kind” during the two pro-forma sessions on Jan. 12 and Jan. 15
Unless Chief Justice John Roberts presides over an impeachment trial starting on Jan. 19, and unless House managers exhibit articles before the Senate on the same day the Senate is informed on impeachment on Jan. 19, any Senate trial would likely “begin after President Trump’s term has expired”
The coup plan went deeper than people realize:
“The supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday to stop the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory were attempting a violent coup that multiple European security officials said appeared to have at least tacit support from aspects of the US federal agencies responsible for securing the Capitol complex.”
“Some among America’s military allies believe Trump deliberately attempted a coup and may have had help from federal law-enforcement officials”
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attempted-coup-federal-law-enforcement-capitol-police-2021-1
More coming; Capitol Police directed insurgents to specific offices; reports that they had maps of Congressional escape areas; intel that the mob is returning for inauguration..
A modest proposal for the new year:
Seek an information source that just crosses center of your usual. I have trusted friends and family of different views. I’m sure we all do, if we look into it.
Paige: I do not see how there can possibly be a modest view of all of this. The president incited a riot. Done deal. It is on video. There needs to be a reckoning on this or else it will happen again and maybe in Olympia and other state capitols. I do not think this is hyperbole. I really believe there is a clear and present danger to our country. Something must be done by Congress.