My letter to Nancy Pelosi - would you join me in sending one yourself.

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The ACA wasn't repealed last I checked.

Also, no wall.

Oh that's just scratching the service of Donald's failed promises, as of course you know well.

A big one where he's failed the "average Joe" is in how he's treated truckers despite having promised them he'd take care of them. The fat cat trucking executives got themselves nice tax cuts. The actual folks driving the trucks now have to pay taxes on their per diem things like food, lodging, while out on the road, that they didn't have to before. Nearly all have seen their taxes go up, some unbearably so. His other policies also line the pockets of the executives while endangering the lives of the actual truckers.
 
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The ACA wasn't repealed last I checked.
Did I say he was done? No.

Also, no wall.
What do you think this is. Wave his hand and POOF, there it is? The wall is being built, so you're actually wrong.

A Senator and also Speaker of the House? How does she find the time?
Too bad your urge for sarcasm ignored the mea culpa I posted.
 
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You don't drive a truck do you? I do.
Fake media, TDS folks, don't inform people. Instead, they make them look foolish when they regurgitate the falsities.
Trust truckers to tell you what's what: Federal Taxes And Per Diem 2019 - Page 1 | TruckingTruth Forum

Trump has taken care of Truckers.
trump takes care of truckers at DuckDuckGo

Welp, not all truckers agree with you:
Trump promised to put 'American truckers first.' Drivers say he hasn't delivered.


You're linking to posts on an internet chat blog for truckers where folks can post whatever they please, without any verification of claims.

Then you're posting to a search from DuckDuckGo with your own lead being "Trump takes care of truckers." Lulz. The very first one backs up exactly what I wrote at the bottom of my post, that his other "policies also line the pockets of the executives while endangering the lives of the actual truckers." From the US News & Report article linked on your page about Donald's administration have taken a step closer to relaxing federal rules governing the amount of time truck drivers can spend behind the wheel:

Highway safety groups have warned that putting the revisions into place would dangerously weaken the regulations.

"The agency is offering flexibility without regard for the fact that it could be exploited by the worst actors in the industry, including drivers who will operate while fatigued and motor carriers who will coerce them to do so," said Harry Adler, executive director of the Truck Safety Coalition.

There were 4,657 large trucks involved in fatal crashes in 2017, a 10% increase from the year before, according to a May report issued by the agency. Sixty of the truckers in these accidents were identified as "asleep or fatigued," although the National Transportation Safety Board has said this type of driver impairment is likely underreported on police crash forms.

Yes, the trucking executives are all for it. I understand some truckers are as well, but there's reason for why there's a fear that it's endangering the lives of the truckers.

"...Self-employed trucker drivers, or owner-operators, still qualify for the per diem deduction. These drivers receive an annual Form 1099 from their customer companies showing how much they were paid during the year. Owner-operators can still deduct 80 percent of the per diem rate, which is set by the Internal Revenue Service. The current rate is $66 per day." Tax Reform Truckers Carriers Per Diem Hit


Read the paragraph just above what you copied and pasted from the article "Tax Reform Truckers Carriers Per Diem Hit." I'll bold the most telling word.

Per diem covers part of the cost for meals and incidentals a driver purchases while spending the night away from home on business. Tax reform eliminated per diem for employee truck drivers – those who get an annual W2 wage statement from their employers. Amen estimated the loss of per diem could amount to $12,000 to $15,000 a year for a driver before accounting for tax reform’s lower tax brackets.


Oh the media didn't ignore what Donald claimed to be his promises kept. Neither did the late night comedians who enjoyed the heck out of them. Such as:
  • President Trump has re-asserted American leadership on the world stage, secured vital investments in our military, and stood up against threats to our national security.

He's stood up against threats to our national security? Dan Coats just resigned from being the Director of National Intelligence on account of Donald utterly failing to do that. Instead of listening to our own intelligence agencies about the threats to our national security from North Korea & Russia, Donald listened to what his itching ears wanted to hear. Putin & Kim know how to play Donald like a fiddle. Donald has literally been nicer to the biggest threats to our national security than he has been to.....well shoot, pretty much anybody else. Anybody who criticizes him or who he sees as a rival, he makes up a grade school level name for, bullies them on Twitter. He attacked the leaders of cities reeling from the shooting massacres, then turned around to gush about the "beautiful love letters" he got from the murderous Kim.

Donald got greeted in England with historical protests against him on account of how he's viewed not as a leader on the world stage but well, as the balloon depiction of him. He's made up silly & outlandish whoppers about other world leaders that they've then awkwardly had to correct.
 
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Did I say he was done?

No, you just said he kept his promises. I showed cases where he failed to to that. Doesn't matter if he was lying about them or just to inept to manage to do so, but right now the evidence shows your claim to be false.
 
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Which part of the evidence I linked to did you not think about?
That's the question you have to ask yourself.
I asked for specific points to sustain your claim of Impeachment. You didn't provide any.
 
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The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Office of the Democratic Leader
H-204, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515

To the Honorable Nancy Pelosi

For more than two years the American public has been told by Democratic leadership a wide ranging series of reasons why the President is unfit for his position. We have been told on national news shows, radio and a wide range of social media thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of times how the President is guilty of a wide range of offenses from emoluments, to tax evasion, to racist, and of course treason and obstruction.

Leadership under your watch has stated unequivocally that there is clear evidence of actions that call for impeachment. We have all been the recipients of this news daily, multiple times a day for almost three years. Special Counsel Mueller with 19 seasoned prosecutors, dozens of highly trained Special Agents and all the power of the Special Counsel's office just finished 22 months of investigation.

Our elected legislators and representatives seem solely focused on this one major project and getting precious little else accomplished. You hold a great office in this country, have the trust of millions of citizens and could be doing so much more to help us. In my opinion.

With the greatest respect, we need a voice of reason, one who will not be afraid to lead, one that will bring this great time of division to a conclusion. Madam speaker, it’s time as third in line to the presidency for you to lead, to move forward. Bring this overwhelming evidence and move towards impeachment. Please don’t play politics with our great nation - let the chips fall where they may.

Simply put - it’s time to stand behind your words and assertions. It seems that there are some playing politics with this whole subject and it is hurting us as a nation. It’s time to bring and end. Get back to doing the people's business. It’s what we voted for - it is what we need and it is your job to do it.


Respectfully,
Pelosi won't read it. If you snail mail her you'll get an autopen signed letter making general observations about her concern for those she represents. If you're not in her district, which her staff will know by the postmark, they won't even open it.
Personal experience and also having known someone who was on staff for a former SotH years ago.
We all need to ask ourselves a very important question. Does the Democrat party behave as if they pay attention to our cares or concerns for their behaviors in our name?
 
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Nancy has already made statements that the U.S Constitution makes her equal in power to the President. After that venturing into the lands of the, are you kidding, isn't a stretch.

Nancy Pelosi Says Constitution Makes Her Equal to the President
She's not wrong. The President is the head of one branch of the federal government, the Executive. The Chief Justice is the head of another branch of the federal government, the Judicial. And the Speaker of the House is the head of the third branch of the federal government, the Legislative branch.

This is high school civics 101.
 
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She's not wrong. The President is the head of one branch of the federal government, the Executive. The Chief Justice is the head of another branch of the federal government, the Judicial. And the Speaker of the House is the head of the third branch of the federal government, the Legislative branch.

This is high school civics 101.
Well technically she is head of one half of the Legislative branch, but since the House and Senate need to work together to pass legislation, it's roughly the same. Arguably she is more powerful because Congress is the only branch that can remove members of the other branches.
 
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She's not wrong. The President is the head of one branch of the federal government, the Executive. The Chief Justice is the head of another branch of the federal government, the Judicial. And the Speaker of the House is the head of the third branch of the federal government, the Legislative branch.

This is high school civics 101.
That observation has not one thing to do with NP's assertion.

Article I

The SotH is second in line to the office of President under the Succession Act. That doesn't make SotH equal. Furthermore, SotH, in this case Nancy Pelosi, is not the head of any branch of government.
The Speaker of the House is the speaker for the House of Representatives and her powers are limited by House rules. SotH is not the head of the Legislative branch.
So no, Nancy isn't right. She's wrong.
 
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She's not wrong. The President is the head of one branch of the federal government, the Executive. The Chief Justice is the head of another branch of the federal government, the Judicial. And the Speaker of the House is the head of the third branch of the federal government, the Legislative branch.

This is high school civics 101.
She is dead wrong.

The Executive Branch is called "Executive" for a reason. Neither the Speaker of the House nor the Chief Justice can issue executive orders. High school... Ah, forget it.
 
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Well technically she is head of one half of the Legislative branch, but since the House and Senate need to work together to pass legislation, it's roughly the same. Arguably she is more powerful because Congress is the only branch that can remove members of the other branches.
Well yes and no. The presiding officer of the Senate is actually the Vice President but he serves within the executive branch. The leaders of the senate, both majority and minority have the most sway but they ultimately are still only senators unlike the Speaker of the House who is the elected official of the entire House of Representatives. It’s why the VP and Speaker are first and second in line to the presidency, respectively.
 
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I'm aware.
Please
I was speaking of recent Impeachment.
Perhaps you should have specified.
Before the Internet became a household necessity (actually about 20 years before--during the Nixon debacle) my highly-intelligent, dear old Dad explained to me that impeachment didn't require a conviction. My also remarkably astute high school history and civics teacher assured me that he was correct. And, like a fool, I just ran with that. What ever would I have done had you not come along and...
Web searches are fun, aren't they? You must really love them.

"NOTE: Impeachment is the first step in removing an officer from office."
"The House draws up articles of impeachment that itemize the charges and their factual bases. The articles of impeachment, once approved by a simple majority of the House members, are then submitted to the Senate, thereby impeaching the officer. The Senate then holds a trial, at the conclusion of which each member votes for or against conviction on each article of impeachment."

(Emphasis provided)

The above quote comes from a link within the link you provided.

(Impeach - FindLaw)

Amazing what you can just stumble onto when you actually know what you're talking about.

By the way, "impeachment," unless used in the general sense (see any dictionary), is merely a fancy, high-level governmental word that means "indictment," or "bringing of charges against."

Here's a great-and-mighty Uniform Resouce Locator to some evidence for this:

(https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-indictment-and-impeachment)

Please notice that none of these links are to dot-govs (including mine) ;)
 
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That's the question you have to ask yourself.
I asked for specific points to sustain your claim of Impeachment. You didn't provide any.
I provided over a hundred pages of detailed evidence. Which part of it did you not find convincing? I mean, I'm sure you didn't just dismiss the evidence you asked for without reading it.
 
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Pelosi won't read it. If you snail mail her you'll get an autopen signed letter making general observations about her concern for those she represents.

You would need a powerful microscope to find any chance Speaker Pelosi will read the letter in this thread's original post, but if it's actually sent it will be read by an intern in her office. This is not due to the writer living outside of her district, though, but rather because the letter is self-indulgently verbose and trite, offering nothing that merits it being passed up the chain with the potential of making it before her eyes.

If you're not in her district, which her staff will know by the postmark, they won't even open it.
Personal experience and also having known someone who was on staff for a former SotH years ago.

This is a false assertion. I'm not sure what your personal experience entailed or how long ago you knew someone who worked on the staff for a former Speaker of the House, but it's most definitely Speaker Pelosi's office policy that all received correspondence be read and logged regardless of the person's residency. My university has an internship and fellowship program with her office, and many of her recent and present staff are my friends and classmates who've been tasked with this duty.

Most people today submit written correspondence via one of two online portals rather than wastefully and inefficiently by paper and delivered mail. One portal is open to all to be able to contact Speaker Pelosi in regards to her role as Speaker of the House. Since millions more are at liberty to contact her office this way, obviously the volume of correspondence is significantly higher and the likelihood of a tailored reply even lower. However, every submission is logged, and it is read. Her office's software will record the sender's details and IP address and autofill it on the log form. If a staffer reads something of worth or requiring attention, it's then shown to a supervisor. Letters that are exceptional in some form may receive a response.

There's a second portal exclusively for constituents of Speaker Pelosi's district; you must enter in your zip code in order to be able to access it. Anyone living in her district who has a time-sensitive, critical issue is encouraged to directly call her office, and that's what most do. For less urgent matters, the majority use the portal. As to be expected, her staff gives priority to those in her district with concrete needs but that doesn't mean they ignore the rest who live outside of it. Most representatives organize and prioritize correspondence similarly.

Printed letters sent by mail are more cumbersome but they're not discarded if the postmark is from out of district. Some offices scan letters first as a safety precaution. Then they are opened. Both the letter and the envelope are scanned and logged in.

I've worked for two California incumbent state senators, both Democrats, neither of whom even had a Republican challenger who qualified to make it onto the ballot, so courting votes is not a high concern. My reason for working for them is out of a passion for public health, and specifically vaccination, causes they've championed. As with Speaker Pelosi, priority of correspondence is given to those within their districts, but I've read emails, faxes, and letters from all around the state, the country, and as far away as Australia. The importance of reading all correspondence and keeping logs actually came into play just this week because one of the senators was assaulted by a middle-aged anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist who'd sent him belligerent, unhinged emails. The assaulter had tried and failed to be a write-in candidate for the California State Senate. I also worked for a high-profile Congressman (also a Democrat) and read many messages submitted via the online portal or by fax; the few letters mostly sent from the very young (often charming!) or the old; and accepted calls from people who live outside of his district.

Threats are one of the reason why many representatives have all their correspondence read and logged. Both Republicans and Democrats receive them, unfortunately.

We all need to ask ourselves a very important question. Does the Democrat party behave as if they pay attention to our cares or concerns for their behaviors in our name?

I wouldn't give my time to working for them if I didn't know the answer to unequivocally be yes.
 
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