Republican consultant Mike Murphy says a Republican senator told him that 30 Republican senators would vote for impeachment, if they could do so in secret. (I don’t know if that means they’d vote for removal, though). If true, then maybe they’re just waiting for something the public can easily grasp. A lot of their supporters are too ignorant to understand most of Trump’s corruption.
My new refrain?
“But his phone calls…”
Profiles in Courage, right there.
Although, to be fair, they might not be worried only about being voted out. They might be worried about actual violence being directed against them.
Good for Tulsi! I’m not a fan, but I’m still glad she’s on the right side of this.
Just gonna put this here:
NRA Was ‘Foreign Asset’ To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals
Read the report here: Document Viewer : NPR
I’m sure they would be happy if Trump just resigned. They get to keep a rubber-stamp president, can blame the Dems for forcing Trump out, and no longer have to wake up each morning wondering what kind of crazy behavior they have to make excuses for.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that the NRA leadership is made up of scumbags and traitors.
The order does not go directly from the football to people in silos. It goes to the Pentagon then to the silos.
Not a whole lot of diff but a small one
Great way to make the 12 Democrats left think that it would be safe to vote against impeachment. Just remember that he is a Republican consultant, and take his words with a grain of salt.
Oh, I suppose then that their American flag lapel pins don’t count for anything?
How do you know this?
Compare today’s Republicans to the chapter on Sen. Edmund G. Ross, “I Looked Into My Open Grave”.
It only takes a crazy or two, hopped up on white-supremacist bullshit and in possession of the means to do it, sure, but that was true in 1868, too.
Since the Senate can only vote for removal (the House holds an impeachment vote, meaning brings the charges), I think it’s a safe bet that Murphy was referring to the removal part of the process (trial and either exoneration/conviction with removal) that is determined by the Senate. 
I do understand the confusion, however, as many people use the word ‘impeachment’ to describe the entire process rather than the 2 components of impeachment and removal.
Agree with enalzi they would prefer a resignation. I will make a bold prediction: That ain’t gonna happen. (I’d love to be wrong.)
If we had a history of fanatical orders from the Prez being countermanded before reaching the ground troops I’d feel a bit better.
Of course. That lets them avoid actually doing something distasteful, *while *opening opportunities for portentous speechifying about the national interest and civic responsibility and did you notice how Bill Clinton didn’t resign? etc.
On the previous page, there were moderator instructions to drop the nuclear launch protocol hijack. Just sayin
I didn’t see that. Thank you.
Please see post #891. This continues to be a fast moving thread, so I’ll reiterate the instructions there:
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Sorry-will comply.
Of course, but because he said “impeachment,” I thought he might possibly have meant, “They would vote for impeachment if they were in the house.” It’s possible to have an impeachment but no referral to the Senate. If exoneration were a sure thing, then that might be a better course for Democrats. But if Trump’s actions become egregious and blatant enough, Republican senators not voting to convict could lose votes in Nov. 2020. The whole process is being held hostage by the uniformed and obtuse perceptions of this “base” which the Republican party has been cultivating over the last few decades.