The real thing, the Honorable Justin Amash, U.S. representative from Michigan's 3rd Cong. District, has become what I hope isn't the last Republican member Congress to openly charge that the president has hit the 'threshold of impeachment.'"
Amash's singular act of conservative conscience came in an avalanche of Trump-like tweets. This, of course, incurred he inevitable: "Jim Lower, a [pseudo]conservative state representative, suggested he might run against Mr. Amash next year." In the Republican Party, truth is both rare and dangerous.
Yesterday, House Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin (Md.) said, in the words of the NY Times, "that an increasing number of his colleagues were moving toward a conclusion that some kind of impeachment proceeding was inevitable." Said Raskin himself: "We have to keep this in proportion with everything else we’re doing, but believe me, the anger and frustration is growing, not just in the public, but within the ranks of Democrats, too."
Last week, in what I assume was merely a placation of her caucus' more militant members, Speaker Pelosi "declared her openness … to initiating an impeachment inquiry as a means of forcing administration officials to comply with the subpoenas of the six House committees investigating Mr. Trump’s conduct." His reaction, I imagine, was one of base-invigorating joy.
Here is just a handful of Amash's more poignant Twitter fusillades (to really appreciate his full bombing campaign, you should access his account read them all):
Few members of Congress even read Mueller’s report; their minds were made up based on partisan affiliation—and it showed, with representatives and senators from both parties issuing definitive statements on the 448-page report’s conclusions within just hours of its release.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 18, 2019
Impeachment, which is a special form of indictment, does not even require probable cause that a crime (e.g., obstruction of justice) has been committed; it simply requires a finding that an official has engaged in careless, abusive, corrupt, or otherwise dishonorable conduct.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 18, 2019