With all due respect to anyone who believes a censure resolution amounts to anything:
Innocent people are dying because of lies.
Innocent people are being tortured.
Innocent people are being illegally spied upon.
Censure will stop none of it.
This is an administration that lied us into war.
This is an administration that ignores the Geneva Conventions.
This is an administration that ignores the U.S. Constitution.
This is an administration that ignores screaming warnings about impending terrorist attacks.
This is an administration that ignores an entire American city, while it is drowning.
This is an administration that ignores Congress's unique law-making authority.
This is an administration that ignores Congressional subpoenas.
This is an administration that does not believe in the balance of powers.
This is an administration that does not believe in free and fair elections.
This is an administration that believes in politicizing literally every aspect of governance.
This is an administration that believes government is there to serve its family, friends, and cronies, not the American people.
This is an administration that believes in liberty for some, and justice for few.
This is an administration that believes allegiance to itself is identical to allegiance to the country.
This is an administration that not only believes it is above the law, but that it is the law!
This is an administration that believes it can get away with anything- because no one has proved otherwise.
And you think a censure resolution will stop it?
In what way does censure amount to anything more than a slap on the wrist?
In what way does censure constitute anything more than a scolding wag of the finger?
What has this administration done that would make you think a censure resolution will effect them in any way?
We are frustrated because we want accountability.
We are frustrated because we believe accountability means consequences.
We are frustrated because 69% of our party, and between and 39% and 45% of our compatriots already believe this administration should be impeached.
Without the benefit of network televised hearings, and with almost no discussion of it by Democratic leaders or televised pundits, between 39% and 45% of all Americans have, on their own, come to favor impeachment!
Think about that!
We are not raving lunatics.
We are not ignorant about politics or law.
We are not asking for rash results.
We are asking for process.
We are asking for leadership.
We are asking for courage.
We are asking for accountability.
We are asking that the House Judiciary Committee commence the politically dangerous process of impeachment hearings.
We are willing to see where the evidence leads.
We are willing to see how the public reacts.
I will, once again, quote the late, great Congresswoman Barbara Jordan:
It is wrong, I suggest, it is a misreading of the Constitution for any member here to assert that for a member to vote for an article of impeachment means that that member must be convinced that the President should be removed from office. The Constitution doesn't say that. The powers relating to impeachment are an essential check in the hands of the body of the legislature against and upon the encroachments of the executive. The division between the two branches of the legislature, the House and the Senate, assigning to the one the right to accuse and to the other the right to judge, the framers of this Constitution were very astute. They did not make the accusers and the judgers -- and the judges the same person.
We understand how the process works.
We understand how it has been abused.
We are asking that it be used the way it was intended.
We are willing to live with the results.