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If you’re free in Anaheim tomorrow (Friday Oct 11) you should swing by one of these two really cool popular places – Ted’s Burgers in the morning from 8 to 8:45, or Varsity Burgers from 5 to 5:45 to hear our moderate Democrat Congressman Lou Correa talk about why he now supports an Impeachment Inquiry into President Trump. We’ve been trying to get him on board for a couple years now, but we’re glad he’s with us now… and maybe he was right to wait for incontrovertible impeachable shit like this past month’s cluster… or for public opinion to catch up with impeachment.
One thing he should really stop doing though is act like he HAS to be a moderate, conservative, cautious Democrat because he’s from Orange County – Lou’s district is DEEP BLUE. But anyway let’s go see him and cheer him for doing the right thing! Here’s his statement from a couple years ago.
Congressman Correa Announces Formal Support For Impeachment Inquiry
Washington DC – Congressman Lou Correa released the following statement on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump:
“No one is above the law. For the past nine months, I have joined my colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee in investigating the many abuses of power levied against this President. We have addressed many issues, but the President’s effort to request assistance from the Ukrainian government for his political gain is something entirely different.
“Today, I stand shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Pelosi and formally announce my support for an impeachment inquiry of the President of the United States. Congress must act quickly and judiciously to ascertain all the facts about this egregious abuse of power by a sitting President. No one is above the law.”
Whoops. I’m sure Lou and his people will think this was some prank, but he only has these two events listed as “Coffee with Lou” where he’d probably rather talk about other things than impeachment. At Los Amigos Steve White showed me something on his phone, a colorful flyer that talked about Lou, impeachment, Varsity, and the day and time. So I posted this. Turns out it was some impeachment Facebook group asking people to come and try to get Lou to support impeachment. I guess they’re a little out of the loop, because he already came out in support two weeks ago.
Meanwhile friends of mine are understandably unimpressed with how he didn’t come around on this issue till it was politically safe: “Real portrait in courage, that one,” snarked one local politico…
Meanwhile, Lou pissed off a lot of people in Little Arabia yesterday by telling a bunch of Arabs, “to keep peace in the Middle East, we have to keep Israel strong.”
https://www.facebook.com/19905373/videos/10102501229877270/
Maybe he could balance that off by signing on to Congresswoman Betty McCollum’s HR 2407, “Promoting Human Rights for Palestinan Children Living under Israeli Military Occupation.” I believe I will suggest that to him at Varsity, both as the right thing and as a bridge-mending measure.
https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/tell_your_lawmaker_to_support_hr2407
Pretty tone deaf, to say the least. He’s terrified of AIPAC. And for no good reason.
Poor Lou seems terrified of a lot of things.
I suppose that after being fearful for so long he can’t break the habit and enjoy the realization that he has a safe seat for life and can finally act like a mensch. Of course he may not really want to.
Yes, I sometimes think on these things.
He’s terrified by those things about which he chooses to be terrified.