Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree
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MESSAGE TO PELOSI:
EITHER DO YOUR JOB, OR GET THE HELL OUT THE WAY FOR SOMEBODY WITH SOME BACKBONE
EITHER DO YOUR JOB, OR GET THE HELL OUT THE WAY FOR SOMEBODY WITH SOME BACKBONE
So once again Donald Trump has thumbed his
nose at you, and what’s your response? Talk, talk, talk. You're proving
yourself to be the most weak-kneed Speaker in American history - and at the very worst time in history. The founding fathers wrote the Constitution in anticipation of a moment like this, and here you are running your mouth, but afraid to use it. They must be rolling in their graves. I'm just glad you weren't around during the Civil Rights Movement - you'd still be talkin' while Black people were being lynched.
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Now don't get me wrong, I've wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt, but at this point it seems that you’re either completely clueless regarding your own congressional power, afraid of Trump, in collusion with him, or all three. I could understand your strategy of wanting to educate the public through hearings before dropping the hammer on him, but you're not even doing that. You're sitting around letting him tell you - and through extension, the entire legislative branch of government - to go to hell.
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You don’t have to keep begging, sniffling, and wasting time in court against Trump; congress is an coequal branch of government, so you can simply invoke congress’s power of Inherent Contempt. Invoking inherent contempt allows congress to have the sergeant-at-arms arrest a person who defies congress on the spot, and you don't have to set foot into a courtroom. You can also fine a person as much as $10,000 a day until they come into compliance.
Attorney General Barr should have long since gone to jail. That would have sent the administration a firm message, and it would have also sent a message to potential witnesses that the White House wouldn't be able to shield them from the wrath of congress for their failure to cooperate with congress's constitutional right of oversight. They would have had personal skin in the game. Thus, if you would have had Barr arrested for defying congress early on, you wouldn't be having the problem of stonewalling that you're currently wasting time with today. So why aren’t you doing that!!!? Please, tell me.
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Now don't get me wrong, I've wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt, but at this point it seems that you’re either completely clueless regarding your own congressional power, afraid of Trump, in collusion with him, or all three. I could understand your strategy of wanting to educate the public through hearings before dropping the hammer on him, but you're not even doing that. You're sitting around letting him tell you - and through extension, the entire legislative branch of government - to go to hell.
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You don’t have to keep begging, sniffling, and wasting time in court against Trump; congress is an coequal branch of government, so you can simply invoke congress’s power of Inherent Contempt. Invoking inherent contempt allows congress to have the sergeant-at-arms arrest a person who defies congress on the spot, and you don't have to set foot into a courtroom. You can also fine a person as much as $10,000 a day until they come into compliance.
INHERENT CONTEMP PROCEDURE
Under this process, the procedure for
holding a person in contempt involves only the chamber concerned. Following a
contempt citation, the person cited is arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms
for the House or Senate,
brought to the floor of the chamber, held to answer charges by the presiding
officer, and then subjected to punishment as the chamber may dictate (usually
imprisonment for punishment, imprisonment for coercion, or release from the
contempt citation). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress
.Attorney General Barr should have long since gone to jail. That would have sent the administration a firm message, and it would have also sent a message to potential witnesses that the White House wouldn't be able to shield them from the wrath of congress for their failure to cooperate with congress's constitutional right of oversight. They would have had personal skin in the game. Thus, if you would have had Barr arrested for defying congress early on, you wouldn't be having the problem of stonewalling that you're currently wasting time with today. So why aren’t you doing that!!!? Please, tell me.
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Speaker Pelosi, the American people are fed-up with your wobblin' knees and pitiful whimpering. Your weakness is crippling our democracy. Again, you act like you're afraid of this bully of a president - and a bully is exactly what he is. If you called his bluff he'd collapse like a house of cards. Trump will try anything to see what he can get away with, but like most bully's, he's nothing but a coward with a big mouth. He clearly demonstrated that when he limped into the draft board complaining that his feet hurt to avoid Vietnam. So you need to either do your job, or get the hell out of the way for someone with a backbone who will.
(CLICK ON DOCUMENT)Speaker Pelosi, the American people are fed-up with your wobblin' knees and pitiful whimpering. Your weakness is crippling our democracy. Again, you act like you're afraid of this bully of a president - and a bully is exactly what he is. If you called his bluff he'd collapse like a house of cards. Trump will try anything to see what he can get away with, but like most bully's, he's nothing but a coward with a big mouth. He clearly demonstrated that when he limped into the draft board complaining that his feet hurt to avoid Vietnam. So you need to either do your job, or get the hell out of the way for someone with a backbone who will.
Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
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