All that does is make a whole new generation of politicians become attached to their privileges.

He should have no privilege for that.

Suddenly 99 JD Vances in the Senate.

Ro Khanna doing his standard move of cycling back and forth between pretending to be a progressive and just being utterly spineless.

I truly hope “refused to impeach President Trump” becomes a purity test in the next primary. That’s a lot of incumbents to kick to the curb, but with this vote it’s well warranted.

On the other hand, if they did vote for impeachment, call them and tell them to keep up the good fight.

God damn it. My local rep is one of those assholes.

And then send them out to pasture like Andrew Cuomo.

It can be done. Do it enough, and you’ll have a party that actually represents the people.

Don’t do this. Just primary them.

How is this both senators and House of Representatives?

Also, if your rep is not on the list, call their office and express your appreciation that they voted to move forward with impeachment.

None from Wisconsin, wtf California?

Reminder that you can also do this if your rep voted against tabling to express support for what they’re doing and they they’re representing you well.

Thank you. One of my representatives, Gabe Vasquez, is on the list and I messaged him. Funny that he put out a press release condemning the actions of bombing Iran but doesn’t want to support impeachment. What a turd.

Was surprised WV wasn’t on the list, then realized why and grew even more depressed.

I looked up the ones in my state, and I’m just gobsmacked at how fucking ugly the districts are. I know gerrymandering is bad, but when I actually have to see it… /puke

I wish the office came with a mandate that they’d personally have to field constituent calls 4 hours a week.

But like so much else, they aren’t going to legislate accountability for themselves.

Well, I’ve just sent emails to the representatives that I could. Probably half of the ones from my state prevented emails from going out because my address didn’t fall in their district.

TBH they’re representing my interests pretty well in this case. An impeachment trial would have just been a huge waste of time unless 20 Republican Senators joined the 47 DNC caucus to remove Trump and I can tell you right now with a 99.9% certainty that wasn’t going to happen.

“If it won’t be successful, then work against it instead of showing support!”

Dems

I mean, an Impeachment trial without any possibility of removal seems pretty pointless, yeah. It takes 67 Senators to remove. The DNC with caucus have 47. They probably don’t even have enough votes to pass a simple majority purely symbolic impeachment, much less removal from office.

The Democratic party has always just been another branch of the wealthy. Neoliberalism is a cancer that really kicked into gear when Heritage Foundation-backed president Ronald Reagan came into office. Obama (I believe in his second term) said that back in the 80s, he would have been considered a moderate Republican.

It’s not about not wanting to cause a fuss. It’s just a losing impeachment that people don’t want to attach their names to, probably the weakest attempt so far because so many Democrat presidents have acted in the same way. Precedent isn’t nothing.

My representative, who is generally a pretty progressive guy, is on this list. A local journalist asked about his vote, and the statement from his office was that the congressman is waiting for a classified briefing on the Iran strikes to help determine whether the president broke the law.

I know that we live in a world where we expect not only a 24-hour news cycle, but 24-hour resolutions to all issues. Having a solid argument and proper evidence for impeachment is the sort of thing that moves more slowly than we would like.

Really appreciate it. I’ve been telling myself I need to start adding to the emails of my reps, and used this list as the reason to start.

Ah, Jim Clyburn, the jackass who helped Biden win the primary and put us on the path to the second Trump term.

God damn right. Primary every last one of those gutless fuckers and never cast another vote for any of them if they represent you.

unfortunately, a lot of americans don’t have the means to leave :/

House reps. There are only 100 senators total

There’s a reason I call them Republicrats. Although I suspect this specifically is because they want future Democrat presidents to be able to blow shit up in the Middle East at will too.

As if the Republicans in Congress would have allowed this impeachment to go through punished. His J6 one while he was found responsible, they chose not to punish him over it. They would have brought up the time that Obama did something similar, too.