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Tom Steyer's impeachment movement could help Tom Steyer (and that's about it)

m.knox

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TDS is alive and well in the most rabid faction of the democratic party.

So a democrat sticking a cigar up an intern's twat makes that democrat more popular with the democrats? Interesting.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mcmanus-steyer-20171112-story.html

There are two ways to impeach a president and remove him from office. Only one of them has ever worked.

The first way is to let evidence from investigations slowly build a bipartisan consensus for impeachment. That’s how Richard Nixon was pushed out of office in 1974. (Nixon resigned before he was formally impeached.)

The second way is for just one party to launch impeachment without bipartisan support and hope the country comes along. That’s what Republicans did to Bill Clinton in 1998, and it didn’t work. Instead, it backfired, making Clinton more popular.

Tom Steyer, the hedge fund billionaire who may be running for a U.S. Senate seat in California, is trying to invent a third way to impeach President Trump — without any of the advantages of the first two.

Democratic Party’s largest donor, seems unconcerned that his party doesn’t have a majority in the House of Representatives, where impeachment proceedings must begin.

He’s urging Democrats in Congress to make Trump’s impeachment their goal right now, and a major focus of their congressional campaign next year. He’s demanding that every candidate publicly support impeachment to “make it clear where we all stand for Democrats voting in 2018.” And he’s putting $20 million into a petition drive that’s gathered some 2 million signatures in favor of his view.

Trump “is a threat to the American people,” Steyer said last week in an interview with ABC News. “Why aren’t people willing to stand up and say that? I don’t understand it.”
 
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