Johnson Votes Against Impeachment Inquiry
Washington, D.C. – Today U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) issued the following statement following the U.S. House of Representatives formal vote on the impeachment inquiry:
“I voted against the impeachment resolution,” said Johnson. “The process it establishes doesn’t provide the transparency and fairness we need. It concentrates power in the hands of Adam Schiff, who is given a veto over Republican efforts to call witnesses and subpoena records. A tainted impeachment process does not better us as a nation.”
This formal impeachment vote comes thirty-seven days after the Speaker of the House launched impeachment proceedings. There have been seventy-two hours of testimony the majority of Congress and the American people has been denied access to.
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Neal Tapio is already attacking Dusty for not locking Democrats in the basement or something. I knew he would have a way to complain that Dusty didn’t do enough.
If he’d just given them all cocktails laced with benzodiazepines the night before they wouldn’t have made the vote…..
Good vote.
I’m glad all the Republicans voted against this sham resolution. The Democrats have the luxury of having the MSM on their side, so they can put this forth as exactly what the Republicans and, frankly, fairness dictated, but it is anything but.
The Democrats are so corrupt we need to get that prosecutor that Uncle Joe Biteme got fired in Ukraine by a quid pro quo to come over here and investigate them.
Apparently there were two Democrats that are not totally corrupt, stupid, on the take, etc.
What a disgrace he has become to our department. I know he was taught better but obviously has thrown it all away for power.
The whole idea of an inquiry is, in my opinion, kinda dumb. Gerald Ford had it right: an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives agrees it is. Whatever process they use to reach that agreement is for them, and them alone, to decide (since each House of Congress gets to make its own rules). So this doesn’t seem like a big deal to me.
Statistically speaking, the odds are greater that Dusty votes for impeachment than the Senate convicting. #Fact
While Dusty has proven to be anything but a Trump ally, he is not so suicidal as to vote for impeachment leading into an election year where he is already considered a notably weak incumbent.
That said, I think it possible that a GOP controlled Senate convicts President Trump. The DC GOP establishment, which includes Thune, have never liked Trump, have no respect for him as a man or as President, detest we voters for defying the party’s will, and would much rather lose the 2020 election with Pence replacing Trump as President than win it with Trump leading the ticket.
Yeah, not a Republican here so maybe I’m missing some nuances that only party members ge or something, but I haven’t seen anything that makes me think there would be more than one or two GOP Senators who’d vote to convict Trump under any circumstances.