Pointless, ineffectual

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution condemning Donald Trump’s incendiary remarks telling four congresswomen of color to “go back” to where they “came from” as racist.

The measure, which formally rebuked the president’s comments, was approved on a mostly partisan-line vote of 240 to 187.

Just four Republicans – representatives Will Hurd of Texas, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Fred Upton of Michigan, and Susan Brooks of Indiana, joined Democrats in approving the resolution. The Michigan representative Justin Amash, who recently left the Republican party and registered as an independent after calling for Trump’s impeachment, also voted for the measure.

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“Every single member of this institution, Democratic and Republican, should join us in condemning the president’s racist tweets,” the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said on the House floor.

“To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people.”

  Guardian

And not to begin impeachment proceedings, Nancy, is a shocking abdication of your oath of office to protect the American people and your duty to defend the Constitution and democratic values.

Pelosi’s sharp words prompted a challenge of their own from Republicans, who accused the Democratic leader of violating rules that prohibit describing the president as “having made a bigoted or racist statement” on the House floor.

What? What kind of rule is that? I bet that wasn't in the founding documents.

Faced with a choice to confront Trump, much of the president’s party instead decried the Democratic congresswomen as “socialists” and branded them as “anti-American”.

“The president is not a racist,” Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell told reporters Tuesday on Capitol Hill. “Everyone ought to tone down their rhetoric, and we ought to move back to talking about the issues.”

Speak to your leader.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.