Political Affairs magazine gives us the low down on the state of the union to impeach the President. In the House of Representatives, from which impeachment must emanate via a simple majority of 50% +1 vote:
9% of US Congress now supports the impeachment review, including 18% of Democrats, 100% of Independents (1 out of 1), and 0% of Republicans.
Given the rhetoric of some of the noisier members of the loyal opposition, 18% of Democrats supporting impeachment is a paltry sum. Maybe the mainstream of the party is still lying in the weeds on this issue, not wishing to spook the electorate before the show trials can begin. If those publicly supporting impeachment at this stage are not the mainstream, one state is far overachieving in representation in the extremist vanguard.
Yes, it is us. Fully 75% of Minnesota Democratic Congressmen are on the bus for impeaching the President over ... something, anything ... during this time of war:
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA), Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL), Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA), Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA), Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), Rep. Jackson, Jr., (D-IL), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN), Rep. John Olver (D-MA), Rep. Major Owens (D-NY), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ), Rep. Martin Sabo (D-MN), Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA), Rep. Fortney Pete Stark (D-CA), Rep. John Tierney (D-MA), Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), and Rep. David Wu (D-OR).
Out of the four DFL standard bearers sent to Washington by our fellow citizens, only Collin Peterson up in CD7 is not co-sponsoring the bill to drum up grounds for impeachment. Betty McCollum, Jim Oberstar, and Old Marty Sabo, marching side-by-side toward this brave new world (of President Dick Cheney, I guess) with the likes of socialist Bernie Saunders, communist Barbara Lee, dementianista Cynthia McKinney, and the rest of the Democratic bomb throwers.
Given the mutating environment of Minneapolis liberalism which produced Sabo, I'm not surprised by his stance. I see the MN GOP is trumpeting Keith (nee X) Ellison's recent remarks that he's up for impeaching the Commander-in-Chief as a sign of his unfitness for office. I guess we can take as a silver lining that at least that position is a wash terms of increasing radicalization of that Congressional seat.
But Betty McCollum from blue collar, common sense St. Paul? And Jim Oberstar from the hard working, American values Iron Range? I think the swing voting folks back home might be a bit put off by the unsavory crowd their representatives have fallen in with since they were sent to Washington DC all those years ago. That would be 6 years for McCollum and a staggering 32 years for Oberstar.
They've been gone a long time. Maybe that's why their constituents don't recognize them anymore.
Post script: Regarding that radical Minneapolis 5th District, I see Nick Coleman follows Doug Grow's lead and continues the Star Tribune's policy of pre-emptive, degrading strikes on any who would dare criticize Keith Ellison's record. I especially like this remarkable description of the candidate:
a Democrat, an African-American legislator and a Catholic-Muslim
I'll let the religious scholars (and Kate Parry) work out that doctrinal imponderable and stick to advice I'm more adept at. MN GOP, for your next scream press release:
Ellison Flip Flops - He was for the Crusades before he was against them!
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