Earlier this week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi decided to push forward with an impeachment inquiry when she announced it at a press conference. However, she has not yet scheduled any votes on the what comes next, and many people seem to think that she’s running interference for her Democrat colleagues so they won’t have to take a public position in support of forcibly removing President Trump.
The Democrat vote for Pelosi’s decision to proceed with the impeachment inquiry went as expected, with all 231 of them voting in favor. What that does, however, is point squarely to the fact that no Democrat can now stay in the closet about the issue — it’s fish, or cut bait. They want to impeach. There’s no hiding it for them now. Of course, every Republican voted against moving to impeach. However, one Republican, in particular, Kevin McCarthy, has a plan to force the Democrats further into the public’s view. He has a plan in place to force a second vote once on the resolution previously presented on Wednesday. This time the desired effect is to force them to vote on the record so that we can all see who wants the president ousted.
This from Breitbart News:
House Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) intends to force House Democrats to take another controversial vote by Friday sometime, forcing them on the record on their intent to forcibly impeach President Donald Trump, all as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to refuse to schedule any actual vote formally opening House impeachment proceedings.
If Speaker Pelosi refuses to seek approval of the whole House in the critical decision of impeachment—as is longstanding practice and precedent—I will again give all members the opportunity to go on record so their constituents can know where they stand on this issue.— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) September 26, 2019
McCarthy announced his intent to force a second vote, on the same resolution as he did before on Wednesday night, via Twitter on Thursday afternoon in a tweet after acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire testified earlier in the day and the public now has the so-called “whistleblower” complaint that sparked all of this.“The American people deserve to know where their elected representatives stand on this issue,” a senior House GOP aide involved in House floor proceedings told Breitbart News. “If Speaker Pelosi won’t hold that vote, we will.”
Interestingly enough, the word now is that they’ll be out of session for a two-week recess shortly (in other words, on vacation), presumably to give the Democrats time to regroup and strategize. They’ll never learn, it seems. Their attack this week seemed very amateurish, especially once Speaker Pelosi admitted to the fact that she hadn’t even read the transcript of Trump and Zelansky’s conversation. If she had even a scrap of sense, she wouldn’t have moved forward without knowing such an important detail. I think we can expect this will cost them dearly.