{"id":37070,"date":"2019-05-19T03:40:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T03:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37070"},"modified":"2019-05-19T03:40:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T03:40:17","slug":"rep-amash-outs-himself-calls-for-trump-to-be-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37070","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Amash ‘outs’ himself; calls for Trump to be impeached"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Rep. Justin Amash stands atop the back bench of the House of Representatives as a lone Republican voice.<\/p>\n

The GOP lawmaker from Michigan has become the first in his political party to say that Donald Trump, the nation’s Republican president, has committed an impeachable offense . . . or three.<\/p>\n

Will this relatively unknown legislator<\/a> be the first of other Republicans to declare they are fed up with the president’s conduct, his disregard for the rule of law, his ignorance about checks and balances, his hideous conduct?<\/p>\n

I have no idea.<\/p>\n

It does fascinate me that this libertarian-leaning lawmaker who reportedly is at odds often with his party’s congressional leadership would be the first to say what many on the far left of the Democratic Party are saying: that Trump should be impeached immediately.<\/p>\n

Of course, Amash used Twitter to make his views known. It does annoy me that so many people in public office are using that particular medium to make these grand pronouncements . . . but that’s a topic for another blog entry.<\/p>\n

One lone voice in a particular party doesn’t signal a political tsunami in the making. After all, the House is just the accusatory chamber. The Senate, which still is run by the GOP, has to provide a two-thirds vote to convict a president of a “high crime and misdemeanor.”<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see this Senate with its current partisan makeup following the trail that would be blazed in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Which makes all this talk a waste of time.<\/p>\n\n

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