CentralChamps21

One point regarding impeachment-the process can continue after the accused leaves office, as a conviction by the Senate can be accompanied by a disqualification from holding future office which would clearly be worthwhile.

A bullet to the torso will stop you.

The Senate trial is conducted under essentially whatever rules the majority want it to be conducted. If McConnell and 18 other Republicans wanted to remove him, they could have a 1-day trial if they wanted.

Agree with you about impeachment vs 25th, but Kinzinger has been anti-Trump for a long time so it's not news until someone like Lindsay Graham calls for it.

How are they going to be held accountable? They'll raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for what they did and will get re-elected more easily. We need to triple the size of the House. Makes their districts smaller so it's harder to gerrymander, harder to raise big money, and has the added bonus of reducing the power of small states in the Electoral College.

Not sure whether it's accurate, but that tweet claims that the shooter was part of Pence's detail. If that guy is indeed Secret Service, and Pence is nearby, that's how it's going to end every time.

If Trump is removed under the 25th amendment, he would be the acting President. Bush Sr and Cheney were both acting Presidents under the 25th Amendment (granted, the voluntary section and not the removal section) and they weren't counted as Presidents, so I don't think Pence would be considered the 46th President unless there is impeachment and removal, or resignation.

I know the new Congressional term already started, but as of today, there are 51 Republicans and 48 Democrats in the Senate, so Schumer can't take power until the new guys get seated.

He's not majority leader until the 20th, and that's assuming that the seating of the 2 Georgia Senators isn't blocked by legal action.

It would take 19 Republican Senators to agree to this.

If they give up the filibuster they allow PR and DC to become states which makes it much harder to ever gain power again, and they know that. They will find the balance of not filibustering enough other things that the Dems don't change the rules over their filibuster on statehood and the SC expansion.

Being able to filibuster some things gives them more power than not being able to filibuster anything.

I don't think the Republicans will be so obstructionist that it will force the Democrats to nix the filibuster. He's morally bankrupt, but he's really smart and he knows exactly where the line is and will run right up to it. Also, I don't favor statehood for DC. Maybe the first thing the new Democratic majority should do is change the law that allows for these stupid objections to the counting of electoral votes.

Republicans would almost certainly filibuster an increase in the size of the Supreme Court.

Two of the seats, PA and WI, are held by Republicans in states that Biden just won. All the rest of the seats are held by the same party that won the state in 2020.

The Republican Party is essentially the QAnon party right now. It all depends on what direction QAnon goes. If they triple down on MAGA, so does the base. If QAnon suddenly decides that Trump was part of the liberal child sex cult all along, then they'll anoint someone else. The smartest direction for the party to go is Nikki Haley, so we know that's where they won't go.

I've seen a couple people make the point that this drawn out refusal to accept the election results is providing momentum for getting rid of the electoral college, which would of course be disastrous for Republicans.

I don't want a lineup full of them, but having one or two when you have as much power throughout the rest of the lineup as the Sox have is pretty valuable.

Unfortunately Alabama isn't stupid enough to hire him. There's only one program that's both stupid enough to hire Gase and unlikeable enough to wish they would, but I'd just as soon they let Jim Harbaugh fail for a few more years.

Bears at New Orleans Sunday 3:40 on CBS

Jackson's was an easy catch. The other two were catchable but not easy catches.

You never get to see the whole field on TV so I'm not sure how much of the lack of downfield passing is Trubisky can't hit open guys and how much of it is nobody can get open.

Abreu, Anderson, Giolito, Moncada, Jimenez

Unfortunately, that f**k has probably convinced himself that he really won, so he can claim he doesn't know he's pushing something false, ficticious or fraudulent.