Bravo Jerry Nadler

On Thursday, House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee said they would probably be done offering amendments to the impeachment articles by about 5:00 p.m.

They wanted to go to a White House Christmas Party.

Then, as recounted by Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, Ranking Member Doug Collins told everyone that they had more amendments/points to make, saying that “if we have to fact-check you all night, we will.”

This move by the Cult of Trump was designed to force Democrats to hold the votes on the Articles of Impeachment in the middle of the night when most of the country’s citizens were sleeping.

This, the Fringe Right subscribers hoped, would give them a talking point that Democrats were so scared of the voters that they had to vote when everyone was not watching television.

As the clock went past 11:00 p.m. (Washington D.C. time) came, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler performed a political savvy and brilliant act.

After making sure that no more amendments or points of order would be offered by the Trumpists, Nadler recessed the committee until 10:00 a.m. on Friday.

Suffice it to say, Collins and the other Republicans (including Arizona’s fringe Debbie Lesko and Andy Biggs) went ballistic after having their Blackshirt tactics turned back on them.

Collins comments, see below, after the hearing was, to coin the Mastercard commercials, “priceless:”

When the committee resumed their consideration of the Impeachment articles at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, December 13, the vote took less than ten minutes and Donald Trump became the fourth President to face Articles of Impeachment before the House of Representatives.

Bravo Jerry Nadler.

He showed Democrats and others how to fight reactionary fringe cultist bullies and turn the tables on them.

Democrats should remember this episode, learn from it, and do not forget it.

https://blogforarizona.net/bravo-jerry-nadler/

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Editorial Cartoons for the Week from Blog For Arizona

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Where some of the Democratic Presidential Candidates Stand on Education

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Shields and Brooks from 12/13/19

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-and-brooks-on-articles-of-impeachment-fbis-russia-mistakes

Idea of the Week: The Country needs a Role Model in the White House.

Setting aside the upcoming full House vote on the 2016 Popular Vote Losers unconstitutional and criminal acts, the majority of the people in this country rightfully yearn for an upstanding adult to sit in the Oval Office as a role model for all to admire rather than the lying, whining, unindicted co-conspirator, KKK endorsed, charlatan current occupant.

While the impeachment inquiry/hearings have proceeded, Individual One has:

• Mimicked a romance scene between former F.B.I. employees Lisa Page and Peter Strozk. He later lied about Strozk needing a restraining order on Paige.
• Left the N.A.T.O. summit early like a baby after seeing a clip of some of the other leaders mocking and laughing at him.
• Called members of the F.B.I. scum. for debunked claims of spying on his campaign and ruining the lives of convicted “good people” criminals Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. It is amazing that Trump loyalists and supporters have not openly questioned the President’s repeated inability to recruit law-abiding staff. 
• Launched a Twitter attack on 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg because she was chosen as the 2019 Time Person of the Year. It is equally disturbing that Trump loyalists and supporters do not seem to have a problem with the President attacking a child. See the Chris Cuomo commentary on this below:

Or this commentary from CNN’S Brooke Baldwin:

• Lied (has the tally reached 14,000 yet) again that the wall was being built.
• Attacked Elizabeth Warren’s marriage.
• Said just today (12/13/19) that decorated Iraq War veteran Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman was “another beauty.”

This country needs a role model in the White House that people can look up to and respect.

It does not need a person who:

• Is an unindicted coconspirator designated Individual One.
• Was endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan.
• Lies as regularly as he breathes.
• Attacks and belittles children.
• Attacks and belittles people who disagree with his positions or tell the truth about him.
• Caters to totalitarian tendencies and adversarial interests.
• Betrays his oath of office and the Constitution.

The people have a choice in 2020. They can either make it possible to return this disgrace to the White House if he is not convicted of his impeachment in the Senate or select another option that will restore respect for the United States again.

It is time the country had a role model again as its President.

https://blogforarizona.net/the-country-needs-a-role-model-in-the-white-house/

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