Wait, don’t impeach Rick Perry or me, impeach Romney!

It’s always disheartening to see that our country’s president doesn’t have any idea how the government actually works. Good thing he’s not on “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” Just for the record, as any good 5th-grade student knows, senators can’t be impeached. No such thing. The impeachment process is for officials outside the legislative branch.

Senators can be expelled from their chamber, but it requires a 2/3 vote of their colleagues. Good luck with that.

In another tweet, ever the classy guy, Trump called Romney an ass

6 thoughts on “Wait, don’t impeach Rick Perry or me, impeach Romney!

  1. Actually, the House voted to impeach Sen. William Blount in 1797, but Blount refused to come back from Tennessee for the hearings, so the Senate voted that Blount was unimpeachable and dropped the case. However, they never clarified whether that meant Senators couldn’t be impeached or just that Blount couldn’t be impeached because he’d already voluntarily quit. Since there’s been no attempt to impeach a legislator since, the question has never been settled. However, if someone would like to try impeaching a legislator to find out, I have a long list of suggestions.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1797-impeachment-has-never-been-fully-resolved-180963926/

    1. That is quite incorrect. The House clearly exceeded its authority in that case. Although the courts have never ruled on this, the Constitution is EXPLICIT, so no interpretation is really needed:

      Those that can be impeached, according to the Constitution, are “all civil Officers of the United States.”

      The Constitution elsewhere states that “no Senator or Representative shall be appointed to any civil office.”

      Ergo …

    1. not as a president but as a state rep, yes; well connected in the state. He really did save the Winter Olympics here. That’s my non partisan, non sectarian opinion

      1. https://www.thedailybeast.com/romneys-shady-connections-from-salt-lake-olympics-still-paying-off

        “The Dizdarevic and Simmons donations to Romney over the years add up to $1.5 million, all of it connected directly or indirectly to contributors at the heart of a scandal that the noted IOC investigator Dick Pound said in his memoir “could have meant the end” of the international committee. It was a giant worldwide barrage of horrific headlines that continued for years. Yet, it simultaneously was Romney’s claim to fame, his ticket to the governor’s mansion in Massachusetts. Now, it has taken on a distant, blurry cast, as if all that matters is that he ran good Games. But if presidential campaigns are character tests, Romney’s starts in Salt Lake.”

        Sure he saved the games. Yet shady asshats who are tied up with the controversy subsequently became campaign donors for Romney.

  2. Though not a Mormon or a Republican, as a long time resident of Utah this makes me want to vote for Romney even more now.

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