I'm reading "Democrats fume at 'unserious' Trump impeachment vote" (Axios).
128 Democrats sided with House Republicans to block Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) from bringing a Trump impeachment vote, including most of Democratic leader...
Green's five-page measure argued that Trump "disregarded the doctrine of separation of powers by usurping Congress's power to declare war."...
Make a list of all the Presidents who should have been impeached if things like what Trump did to Iran is a basis for impeachment.
Green told Axios in an interview he doesn't have "one scintilla of regret" about forcing the vote, adding that it "does not in any way cause me any degree of consternation to be criticized."
When last I noticed Al Green, he was interrupting Trump's address to Congress and waving a cane at him.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 5, 2025Did that register any degrees on the consternation meter?
He's a man without consternation. He's a man who doesn't know how to sell an accusation.
AND: In Greener pastures:
OMG!!! 😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/a1PbaFTjpP
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 24, 2025
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Let's hope it's becoming the Fetterman party.
"He's a man without consternation. He's a man who doesn't know how to sell an accusation."
Hilarious. Now find an Al Green lyric to top that and you'll be on a roll!
The Limp Dick Resistance
I would think there must be someone in Green's district who would be an improvement, but maybe there isn't. It's remarkable how many cartoon characters get elected to Congress. He's more entertaining than my representative, Betty McCollum, who is just as nuts as Green but has stayed in Congress for a quarter century by living inside Nancy Pelosi's vest pocket.
When I last noticed the other Al Green, I was going to first base and no further with an art major in college, over the stables at Caples Mansion on the bay at sunset, with the only stairway out blocked by a giant snapling turtle.
Bygones.
I never blamed a snapping turtle for the things I did in politics.
In his Coffee & Covid blog, the always interesting and entertaining Jeff Childers posted this fascinating bit about the CIA/USAID operation which provided the ostensible basis for failed Impeachment #1:
More major puzzle pieces fell into place this week, as investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger dropped a blockbuster story on Public, under the headline, “Both USAID And The CIA Were Behind The Impeachment Of Trump in 2019.” Regime change at home. This also explains why President Trump targeted USAID starting on Day One, and savaged the rogue agency like a pit bull getting after a toy poodle.
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CLIP: Investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger details the CIA-USAID-Trump regime change operation (5:49).
Impeachment 2.0 rested on a single ‘whistleblower’ complaint delivered to Congressional Democrats about Trump’s alleged “quid pro quo” with one Vladimir Zelensky, Ukraine’s intolerably smug Martial Law Administrator. The so-called ‘whistleblower’ was a leftover Obama-era CIA analyst still embedded in the White House. That’s your first CIA connection.
The whistleblower’s report was itself completely founded on reporting by an “independent investigative journalism” outfit with a bureaucratic mouthful of a name, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, handily acronymized as OCCRP.
OCCRP was a “soft power” (regime change) arm of USAID, receiving most of its funding from the U.S. State Department, which we have learned is bursting at the seams with CIA agents. We know OCCRP was a soft-power USAID tool because, in a 2024 German documentary, a USAID official confirmed it, saying USAID “approves OCCRP’s annual work plan” and “approves new hires of key personnel.”
The German documentary was subsequently memory-holed under pressure from the State Department. But copies remain.
In the now-deleted documentary, Drew Sullivan, co-founder and head of OCCRP, bragged that the “independent” organization had “probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government… and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out.” That’s regime change; the classic definition.
We can now see a straight line drawn between CIA/USAID and Trump’s impeachment, running right through OCCRP. If you suspect that turning America’s regime change operation inwards at a sitting U.S. president constitutes treason, many people would agree.
This story isn’t going away. The chips are being set on the board. Players, place your bets.
"Stick with me baby
Stick with me anyhow
Things should start to get interesting
Right about now."
Video reminds me of kruschev banging his fist then, when that was not enough taking off his shoe and banging it on the podium at the UN
https://youtube.com/shorts/28X8lELykBo?feature=shared
John Henry
By the way, I'm ashamed of Marietta for electing MTG. She's not unlike a snapping turtle. Grow up and elect a decent, non-RINO, non-fool. There are scores of them on the ground. If a bunch of people largely thrown out of the TEA Party hadn't backed her, she wouldn't be on the staircase snapping her gums.
Get serious.
"'A completely unserious and selfish move"
the ONLY Time an Impeachment bid ISN'T completely unserious, is when you know (or, at least THINK) you will/can get 2/3rds of the US Senate to vote to convict..
Otherwise, it's pointless.
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson was serious
ISWYDT.
Green, green, it's green they say
On the far side of the hill
Green, green, I'm goin' away
To where the grass is greener still
Boatbuilder is right.
Definitely we need to start defenestrating the voices that make us uncomfortable because they question our cherished assumptions. We could be like the Democrats!
Research Reveals Leftist Thought Much Less Diverse Than Right
The video contains a great graphic right up front. But maybe, instead of playing to our strengths as a political movement, we should copy the Democrats and demand more purity.
BTW, Trump won me back with that expletive quote. So farking true.
Trump has Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine.
The Commies have Al “Wavin” Cane.
As compared to Trump's first term when they were 'serious' moves? Please.
Al "waving cane" Green - lobbing bombs like we're in the middle east
President Donald J Trump is literally the most law abiding POTUS in my lifetime. Not one thing the democrats have accused him of doing illegally is true. Not a single one.
Al Green was a great singer and songwriter. I just looked up to see if he was still alive and I didn’t recognize him. He put on the pounds.
Marshall DE Mike Green lead the FBS in sacks last year with 17. He’s a Baltimore Raven now.
Texas Rep Al Green leads all Democrats with 3 articles of impeachment against Trump. He’s a meme and a punchline now.
She needs a bigger mallet
Al Green's impeachment vote was most likely about fund raising and it probably worked well.
Well at least Democrats finally got to Rogan... Oh no; instant regret.
After campaigning for Barbara Jordan to move from State Senate to Congress, I was hoping she would be the model for African American politicians. As far as I can see, there are no visible African Americans in Congress of her mete. While she was a protege of LBJ, and showed his acumen, what we've ended up with is stumblebums like Al Green. It became an obvious strategy, at least in Texas and I assume the rest of the south. Forced to redistrict to ensure minority majority congressional and legislative districts by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Democrats (essentially the only party at the time) moved to fill those seats with the less than impressive place holders whom they could control with money. What they didn't anticipate was the conservatives moving out of the party and these people staying place until they die.
Have pimpstick will babble…
"He only got elected because voters thought they were voting for Al Green."
- said someone funny.
If it ain’t the MSM having a hard time hiding their glee when they think the effort to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons wasn’t successful, it’s scumbags like Green pulling this horseshit.
Fuck these traitors.
The calls for impeachment remind me of my stepdaughter when she was younger, flipping over the checker board when her older brother started winning the game.
Perhaps disregarding Congress’s war powers is an impeachable offense. The Democrats have taught us that you can impeach a President after they leave office. Obama has a much bigger history of bombing with the consent of Congress (or even informing them after the fact as required by the War Powers Act). Therefore, I suggest there should be a bipartisan effort to impeach Obama.
Wow, Althouse alluding to Culture Club?
Notice that there's almost no lashing out at these Rogue Extremists from the Minority Leader or Chuck Shumer. Nor is there any from the NYT's or the WaPo. And no reporters are collering D Senators and demanding to know if they support the impeachment.
But if this was the R's. Miss Lindsey, Thune, and Johnson and all the rest would be rushing to cameras to denouce this "Outrageous, extreme attempt to impeach a D POTUS" and "We Republicans just don't do that sort of thing".
You always get the feeling that the R Senators if forced to choose between MTG and the current D House speaker would choose the Democrat. Just as they liked Biden better than Trump.
The CBC amuses. No shortage of morons among the ranks.
Basically, the Democrats greenlight their most radical members while the Republicans are constantly at war with there's. "No enemies to the Left", seems to be the motto not just of Democrats - but of the Republican establishment.
Note: Lisa Murky (R-RINO) just stated that if the Senate goes 50-50 in Jan 2027, she will join the D's to give them the majority. This is the person, Mitch McConnell constantly gave $Millions to, everytime she ran for re-election.
I'm so tired of hearing Green moan
Won’t he please remove the bone
From his nose
Just as soon as he can
Some Dems say that he’s found a way
To make Prez pay for drawing breath
Hey assholes, we didn't vote for that
It's a natural fact
This Geico caveman’s a hack
Let’s show him where it's at, people
Every day we get closer to a modern Charles Sumner/Preston Brooks moment.
"Make a list of all the Presidents who should have been impeached if things like what Trump did to Iran is a basis for impeachment. "
Doesn't matter. It's Trump.
"Green told Axios in an interview he doesn't have "one scintilla of regret" about forcing the vote, adding that it "does not in any way cause me any degree of consternation to be criticized."
Translation: I'm in a super safe district so I can say or do any damn thing I like. My constituents have bought into the government is your daddy argument.... and I'm yer daddy.
Bob B said...
Perhaps disregarding Congress’s war powers is an impeachable offense. The Democrats have taught us that you can impeach a President after they leave office. Obama has a much bigger history of bombing with the consent of Congress (or even informing them after the fact as required by the War Powers Act). Therefore, I suggest there should be a bipartisan effort to impeach Obama.
It hasn’t been 60 days yet.
That is pretty much the end of this discussion no matter how you slice it.
Really the war powers act is just a stupid document that just causes problems. War isn’t defined in any way. There is no way to determine when the 60 days timer starts.
It is a dumb law that was passed by dumb corrupt people.
Possibly the push for impeachment will gain more traction when a more credible advocate gets behind it. Like Hank Johnson.
I see Pocan voted for impeachment. What a do-nothing Rep we have.
RSM @ 10:11 Lol. That's why they have the Capitol Police in there nowadays so that very sort of thing doesn't happen. And Mr Green carries a cane just like Preston Brooks too.
Personally, I prefer Al Green's first impeachment article (introduced the first week or so of Trump's second term, I believe) which alleged Trump was guilty of "dastardly deeds." At least that was honest about the standard being applied.
I've seen Al Green's cane waving around at a lot of unsavory Democrat moments. There are those of us who know where we would like to put Green's cane.
BTW, Trump won me back with that expletive quote.
Which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, you're not a serious person.
It is a dumb law that was passed by dumb corrupt people.
Which differentiates it not a scintilla from every other Federal law in my adult lifetime.
Hasn't Al Green tried to impeach every Republican president going back to Reagan? Well, no, the guy's only been in Congress since 2005, but he acts like he's got a record to maintain or something to cross off his bucket list.
The news isn't that Al Green filed for Trump's impeachment -- somebody always does -- it's that a third of the Democrats voted for it (and two-thirds voted against it).
I don't think Mike Johnson would go be rushing to the cameras with "that's not who we are" if some Republican tried prematurely to impeach a Democrat president. He'd just bury the resolution without publicity and quietly let it die.
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