Let the cage rattling begin!
Here's one of the newly minted Democratic Reps who happens to be a woman and Muslim (A double right-wingnut whammy! Triple if you count that she's a Democrat!) using language that the Trumpsters can understand.
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Well, it’s one way to make a name for yourself after entering Congress. Hours after Rep. Rashida Tlaib made headlines for being sworn in as one of the two first Muslim female members of Congress on Thursday (alongside Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar), she told a cheering crowd about her mission against Donald Trump: “Impeach the motherfucker.” Speaking at a reception for the MoveOn campaign on Thursday night, the Michigan Democrat recalled a conversation she had with her son. She quoted her boy saying: “‘Look, Mama, you won. Bullies don’t win,’” Tlaib told the crowd. “And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t.’ Because we’re gonna go in there and impeach the motherfucker.”
Tlaib expanded on her comments in an op-ed for the Detroit Free Press, writing that “We already have overwhelming evidence that the president has committed impeachable offenses, including, just to name a few: obstructing justice; violating the emoluments clause; abusing the pardon power; directing or seeking to direct law enforcement to prosecute political adversaries for improper purposes...” And after conservatives criticized the congresswoman for her “impeach the motherfucker” comment, she doubled down: On Friday, Tlaib tweeted, “I will always speak truth to power. #unapologeticallyme.” Tlaib is the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to Congress and, alongside Omar, became the first female rep to wear a headscarf, also known as a hijab, in Congress.
Nancy Pelosi knows exactly how to react. This is why she's Speaker and not some numbnuts with next to no experience.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated on Friday that she views impeachment as a “divisive” issue, but partly defended newly elected Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) Thursday evening remark that “We’re gonna go in there and impeach the motherfucker.”
Speaking with MSNBC host Joy Reid, Pelosi was adamant that she is not in the business of policing the language of her colleagues. Furthermore, she noted, the president himself has used far worse language.
“I probably have a generational reaction to [Tlaib’s comment],” Pelosi said in the MSNBC interview set to air Friday night. “I’m not in the censorship business,” she said. “I don’t like that language, I wouldn’t use that language, but I wouldn’t establish language standards for my colleagues.”
Tlaib’s comments, the speaker added, were “nothing worse than the president has said.”
Meanwhile
Donny keeps clawing as hard as he can to get back into his fantasy world. "There's no place like the inside of my head! There's no place like the inside of my head! There's no place..."
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All the talk of indictments and impeachments appears to be getting inside somebody’s head. In a bizarre statement, even for Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, the president on Friday morning wrote: “How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?” It’s unclear why being in the “greatest election of all time” would make him immune to impeachment, or by what measure he rates the last two years “the most successful first two years of any president.” The 93 percent rating is incorrect. A recent survey put his approval among Republicans overall at 85 percent. Among those who identified as strongly Republican that was 93 percent, but those voters make up less than half of the Republican electorate and just 18 percent of likely U.S. voters. Trump’s overall approval rating among not-so-strong Republicans was just 72 percent. And as for collusion with Russia—well, that's for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to decide.