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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJustin Amash gets standing ovation at his town hall tonight. Maddow covering some
of it right now..........
Watch GOP Rep Justin Amash get a 30 second long standing ovation at the beginning of his town hall event. Amash is the first GOP Rep to say Trump should be impeached. Looks like his district agrees with himand the rest of Sane America. #TheResistanceRises
Marvis Herring
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riversedge
(70,310 posts)Brian Tyler Cohen
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2h2 hours ago
Heres @JustinAmash, a Republican in a Republican district, getting an ovation from the crowd after defending his position that Trump should be impeached.
See @GOP? You dont all *have* to be cowards.
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riversedge
(70,310 posts)Tea Pain
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58m58 minutes ago
Tea Pain Retweeted The Hill
Impeachment is a bigger winner than lotsa Dem's think. If Amash can get a standin' ovation at a Tea Party town hall pushin' impeahment, surely Dems can sell it to their party.
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LiberalFighter
(51,104 posts)DeVos has threaten to cut off funding to his campaign too.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)BootinUp
(47,197 posts)riversedge
(70,310 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)pretty soon words wont work
riversedge
(70,310 posts)Dave Weigel
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3h3 hours ago
Amash takes a swing at his so-called leader, @GOPLeader, who had accused him of seeking attention w his Trump tweets. I read the Mueller report. Im sure he didnt read it. He resorted to ad hominem attacks; thats the kind of leadership we now have in Congress."
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)Turns a low level headline, somewhere, not likely on fox spews, - and makes it into a big event.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)Daniel Lewis
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1h1 hour ago
Pretty rare moment in politics. @justinamash says some of his colleagues agree with him about President Trump and the Mueller report but won't speak out publicly.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)All mostly White folks in attendance. One of the most Conservative Areas in Mich. Just got him self reelected. Notice no boo's.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)TomSlick
(11,110 posts)I believe that this was a profile in courage moment. Rep Amash will probably knows he will pay a price in his next GOP primary but had the courage of his convictions anyway.
Rep. Amash is a Tea-Party type. Nevertheless, you have to admire someone who speaks the truth as s/he sees it - the consequences notwithstanding. Such intellectual honesty is woefully wanting in today's GOP.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)He is going get his sorry ass handed to him in this state.
blue-wave
(4,365 posts)because he represents Grand Rapids Michigan. Home of Betsy DeVos and her clan. Hey, I'll welcome them all to our side, but I've had personal interaction with individuals from that geographic area and some of them are to the right of Attila the Hun. That said, I hope he's on the up and up.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)JI7
(89,276 posts)is an area we can agree on . that doesn't mean he is claiming or we need for him to agree with us on everything.
peggysue2
(10,842 posts)their slavish support of the Squatter-in-Chief. America is watching and listening. Trump's propaganda is failing. Finally.
mnmoderatedem
(3,729 posts)that what should be a unanimous reaction is instead a lone outlier to the only republican in the entire Congress willing to tell it like it is.
Republicans.
RandiFan1290
(6,245 posts)He is only changing his tune because his job is in trouble.