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63. I find the language of "Dems now own Trump's crimes" incredibly counterproductive.

Despite claims that somehow the CR nullifies the Article II "Take Care" clause and nullifies the Congressional Budget and Impound Control Act, it DOES NOT. No way, no how.

Senate Democrats have NOT, in ANY WAY whatsoever, handed over a blank check that renders the unconstitutional, unlawful recessions and impoundments of the funds appropriated by Congress to be legal. To claim that the CR has done so is to declare what Trump is doing to now be legal. And that is utter, unequivocal, CRAP that we MUST NOT push as a message. Un f-ing believably counterproductive.

Should they have blocked the CR? Maybe. But maybe not.

FWIW, I believe there was no unequivocal right answer. Should Senate Democrats have used their leverage more effectively? Of course. However, I for one don't know that, had they done so, it might not have ended up shifting the public's growing anger from the chaos of Trump's unilateral, lawless shutdown of the parts of our government he doesn't like to the chaos of the "democratic shutdown" of everything. More on thoughts on the Senate's CR Sophie's choice in ( this post).

Yes, keep lobbying them to do what you believe is right, but I beg you all, when the people who are on our side in this fight do something you believe is a wrong step, please, please, try to extend a little grace. Pointing the guns of our rage at our allies, however misguided we may think their actions are, is not how we defeat the REAL enemies of our constitutional democracy. We defeat Trumpublicanism by keeping our rage firmly directed where it belongs.

In our constitution, We the People gave ourselves a far more effective remedy for a lawless, out-of-control executive lead by a lawless, out-of-control President and Vice President than cutting off the money: Impeachment. And right now, the most effective thing members of the House committed to protecting our form of government against their unprecedented attack is to draft Articles of Impeachment.

Being in the minority in the House is not a barrier to drafting articles. It doesn't matter how many times Johnson blocks introduction. They can (and I believe, MUST) put articles of impeachment out there and call on every American who is committed to defending our constitution to lobby their representatives to co-sign or be voted out in favor of someone who will.

To lobby them to stand strong and condemn the actions of Trump and Vance and as crimes against our founding principles WITHOUT lobbying for them to declare those acts to be High Crimes in Articles of Impeachment is tantamount to lobbying them to spit in the wind. More on why I believe this is absolutely necessary in this post,