What Happened This Week In Washington — And Georgia

There’s been lots of online chatter about: 1) Will Congress, particularly Democrats in the House, push for Trump’s impeachment and removal from office? and 2) Will the Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from power?

I don’t know the answer to these questions. But listening to Pelosi’s and Schumer’s speeches tonight, it sure sounds like they would rather just wait until Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Pence and McConnell didn’t even directly criticize Trump by name, so it’s hard to see them trying to push Trump out.

What has happened today is that it now feels like many Republicans in Congress don’t feel the need to defend Trump over these next two weeks, however, and that is notable.

All good points, but to return to our earlier discussion about the GOP breaking away from Trump … doesn’t what is happening in the House kind of undermine that possibility in a very real way? I appreciate that I might not be taking into full consideration the differences in how the two chambers approach institutional legacy, but I guess I had anticipated more of a rebuke — red districts or not — given what we just saw in the Senate.

Well, Sarah, some of the differences are: 1) All the House members face reelection in two years; 2) They mostly come from some VERY red districts; 3) They generally haven’t been in office as long; 4) The House is supposed to be “the people’s chamber,” i.e. more populist and less concerned about its institutional legacy; 5) The Senate is run by McConnell, who can quash Republican dissent, while the House is run by Pelosi, who can’t.