“We cannot have an alleged foreign agent in the United States Senate.”
Wouldn’t they have to expel quite a few Republicans?
Yes. That’s the idea.
If Republicans get behind this expulsions with those reasons on everyone’s minds it’s not a big jump to trying to remove the Republicans. Not that I expect Republican politicians nor their voters to actually be consistent. But removing Menendez is a net good even if we can’t use the precedent on the rest.
I think it would be harder to figure out if any can be kept.
If I was Fetterman id run with this in rural PA come election time. “I kicked more democrats out of congress than Trump did.” God the confusion alone would be priceless.
Sadly, the idea that any Republican is informed about the Democratic candidate’s record and policies is flatly preposterous.
You do it for the out of touch, under-informed moderates… not those who vote R down the line.
Sadly, the idea that any Republican is informed about the Democratic candidate’s record and policies is flatly preposterous.
Bingo bango. No need to worry about them following up on why.
Confused Republican voting noises
Fetterman shows his own integrity. The news is trying to impute his integrity to all dems because of the upcoming election cycle.
Yeah, it’d be nice if either party had even a shred of what he’s showing but he’s nowhere close to the all of the democratic party.
John Fetterman shows the integrity of John Fetterman. I am sure many of his caucus are nervous about maintaining a majority.
31 Democrats have called for a resignation already, so they’re not shying away from temporarily losing his vote. They went 51-49 this last election, so they can be 50-49 until the replacement is appointed by New Jersey’s Democratic governor.
31 Democrats, including Fetterman, called for his resignation after the first indictment. Now, after a second indictment, Fetterman is calling for his immediate expulsion.
We cannot have an alleged foreign agent in the United States Senate.
I think it’s important to note that, at this stage, these are merely allegations. Menendez has not had his day in court, he has not had a formal opportunity to reply to the allegations. He should certainly face some sort of suspension, but taking away his senate seat flies in the face of “innocent until proven guilty” and sets a dangerous precedent.
Eh, it’s a 2/3rds majority to expel a senator, the evidence in the case is damning, and he skated by on corruption charges before through a hung jury. I don’t think we need to worry about slippery slopes because we don’t wait years for a trial to resolve.
And being expelled from the Senate isn’t a criminal matter, it’s a political one. Senators can be expelled even if they’re not guilty of a crime.
. I agree, and I disagree. What if the evidence against menendez is so compelling that there’s no doubt of his guilt I actually don’t know. If some Republican brings up charges against the democrat, on stupid evidence, and everybody could see it stupid evidence, then of course that Democrat should not be expelled.
While they certainly could expell the Senator based on evidence against him, that evidence isn’t being presented yet. At the moment, we just have indictments, and given the nature of the evidence (intelligence sources) it probably won’t be revealed until it’s in court - if it’s revealed at all. As such, the Senate can only really go by the outcome of the court case, not the evidence directly. They couldn’t expell a Senator without telling the public why.
The issue with the Republicans doing this kind of thing is that their base will easily lap up any fictional reason they give as “evidence”. So while many people will see it as stupid, a significant and very vocal group might not.
We need several hundred more of him in Washington.
With or without a fkn suit.
Quick someone call Walt Disney’s guy. You know what I’m talking about. Ya. Give him a ring. Tell him I’ve got a really big project.
Sadly, despite the excellent work of Disney’s Imagineers, animatronics are not yet allowed U.S. citizenship.
But they’re allowed to run large social media corporations?
Gotta cryogenically freeze this man’s DNA.
Fetterman shows the integrity of John Fetterman; the democratic leadership in the Senate was more concerned with dress codes. Why does the rest of party get to claim benefit from his actions?
So, you’re 100% right, but your first sentence reminded me of this South Park clip
I knew exactly what clip that that was going to be.
Yeah, it really shows the integrity of the Democrats that only some of them want to kick someone out of the senate for getting caught accepting bribes a second time.
And the first time around they didn’t want to kick him out because NJ had a Republican governor who would have replaced him with a Republican.
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Integrity? Come back when that D is replaced with an R.
If you are replacing a D with a D, that’s just virtue signaling.
Damn that’s an impressively stupid take.
You’re right. Let me clip my toenails in solidarity with their integrity.
We will both lose something equally valuable this day.
If saying the right thing is virtue signaling, what should Fetterman say?
People who are so vocally opposed to ‘virtue signaling’ often adore vice signaling.
Can’t wait to see Republicans acting according to this standard. Or do you only hold democrats to this standard?
What standard? I’ll mock anyone who virtue signals, R or D.
Kicking somebody out because they are guilty as fuck of a serious crime is not virtue signaling. It’s the right thing to do.
