ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— Statement from ILGOP Chairman Tim Schneider on Impeachment Vote
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
(THE STATEMENT:
“For over three years, Democrats have been searching high and low for an
excuse to reverse the results of the 2016 election. Their disdain for the
judgement of the American people have taken them down this unconscionable path.
It’s a path that led House Democrats to make a partisan mockery of
impeachment’s serious and grave nature. Our constitution’s most extreme remedy
for alleged presidential misconduct should never be utilized on purely partisan
grounds as today’s roll call indicates. It’s my hope the Senate will quickly
put an end to this witch hunt.”)
WTTW
— Trump Faults Pelosi for Uncertainty Over Impeachment Trial – AP
https://news.wttw.com/2019/12/19/trump-faults-pelosi-uncertainty-over-impeachment-trial
CBS2
— President Trump Impeached By U.S. House: What Chicago Area Lawmakers Said In
Debate
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/12/18/trump-impeachment-vote/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democratic House impeachment of Donald Trump no profile in courage – John
Kass
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-impeachment-nancy-pelosi-kass-20191219-sth3kr4ilnaznnwx4ujhlqgoi4-story.html
— Illinois delegation votes along party lines for impeachment, putting issue
into play in hotly contested races next year – RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-illinois-delegation-impeachment-vote-20191219-xygvxnrsybf7rc4muevo6ztdky-story.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Two
Republicans are vying for right to take on Casten: former state Rep. Jeanne
Ives of Wheaton and Gordon Kinzler of Glen Ellyn. Ives is heavily favored in
the GOP primary and has received endorsements from conservative political
action committees. She is a staunch Trump supporter who has regularly
criticized Casten for backing impeachment and accused him of trying to “take
away the votes of millions of American patriots.”)
— Donald Trump impeached: America’s 45th president becomes 3rd to be impeached
by the House of Representatives – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-us-house-trump-impeachment-vote-20191218-bevq3wzbtbeipiemx54kwylfgi-story.html
— Teenagers don’t use email — colleges do. That’s a problem during college
admissions season – Dawn Rhodes (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents a) discourage
reading emails, b) discourage visiting websites other than Facebook, and c) encourage
everyone to be on Facebook 24 hours each and every day.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-teenagers-emails-college-applications-20191219-ya4pwnt7lfdktdmac4r3fq7p7q-story.html
— Trump takes swipe at House lawmaker’s dead husband, implying he’s in hell
during Michigan rally. The White House says the president was ‘just riffing.’ –
AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-donald-trump-john-debbie-dingell-20191219-46rveqe42newrkcnnm52dr6zai-story.html
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— In historic day, President Donald Trump becomes 3rd president to be
impeached – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2019/12/18/21029117/president-trump-impeached-historic-day-historic-day-3rd-president
— Traditional Hispanic enclaves lose residents while city’s overall Hispanic
population grows Logan Square, West Town, Pilsen, Albany Park and Avondale
loses Hispanic residents while gaining more white residents. – Manny Ramos
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/12/18/21028836/logan-square-pilsen-lose-hispanic-residents
DAILY HERALD
— What Illinois members of House have to say about impeachment
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20191218/what-illinois-members-of-house-have-to-say-about-impeachment–
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “Trump is impeached and joins the
‘losers’ of presidential history.” (DIERSEN: How will Trump-haters use
impeachment against Trump-supporters? How will Trump-supporters use impeachment
against Trump-haters?)
https://www.thetelegraph.com/opinion/article/Trump-is-impeached-and-joins-the-losers-of-14917246.php
NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump And Other Republicans Use Impeachment Process As Fundraising
Opportunity
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/trump-and-other-republicans-use-impeachment-process-fundraising-opportunity#stream/0
PEORIA PUBLIC RADIO
— Central Illinois Delegation Splits Along Party Lines On Impeachment – TIM
SHELLEY
https://www.peoriapublicradio.org/post/central-illinois-delegation-splits-along-party-lines-impeachment#stream/0
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Michael Rein Comments on Jack Franks’ Initiative to Abolish Elected
Coroner’s Office
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/12/18/michael-rein-comments-on-jack-franks-initiative-to-abolish-elected-coroners-office/
— Democrats Impeach the President and Already Planning the Next Impeachment
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2019/12/18/democrats-already-planning-the-next-impeachment/
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Hallmark Reveals a Big Yellow Stripe Running Down Its Spineless Back –
Laurie Higgins
https://illinoisfamily.org/media/hallmark-reveals-a-big-yellow-stripe-running-down-its-spineless-back/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ‘They hate him’: Ted Cruz calls impeachment a ‘political gesture of anger’ –
Spencer Neale
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/they-hate-him-ted-cruz-calls-impeachment-a-political-gesture-of-anger
FOX NEWS
— Trump taunts Dems at Michigan rally: ‘Doesn’t really feel like we’re being
impeached’ – Morgan Phillips
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-rally-christmas-michigan
— House impeaches Trump over Ukraine dealings, paves way for Senate trial –
Gregg Re
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/impeachment-debate-floor
AMERICAN THINKER
— The cult of impeachment – Patricia McCarthy
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/12/the_cult_of_impeachment.html
BREITBART
— US lawmaker says Trump treated worse than Jesus before crucifixion
https://www.breitbart.com/news/us-lawmaker-says-trump-treated-worse-than-jesus-before-crucifixion/
— Afghanistan Military Gets 3X the Taxpayer Funding as U.S. Border Wall – JOHN
BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/18/afghanistan-military-3x-funding-border-wall/
DAILY CALLER
— Rally Crowd Chants ‘Four More Years’ As Trump Reacts To Being Impeached –
AMBER ATHEY
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/18/trump-impeachment-michigan-rally-four-more-years/
— Trump Campaign Says POTUS Raised More Than $5 Million On The Day Dems Voted
To Impeach – CHRIS WHITE
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/18/trump-campaign-donations-impeachment/
— Media Celebrates After House Votes To Impeach Trump – SHELBY TALCOTT
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/18/media-house-trump-impeach/
— Pelosi Won’t Rule Out Withholding Articles Of Impeachment Until Democrats
Get A ‘Fair’ Trial In The Senate – CHRIS WHITE
https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/18/trump-impeachment-pelosi/
TOWNHALL
— Partisan House Votes to Impeach President Trump, Some Democrats Defect –
Katie Pavlich
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/12/18/impeachment-vote-n2558216
CHRISTIAN POST
— Trump says Pelosi ‘offending Americans of faith’ by saying she prays for
him, calls it untrue Trump says Pelosi ‘offending Americans of faith’ by saying
she prays for him, calls it untrue – Michael Gryboski (DIERSEN: My
critics/opponents talk and act like they pray to GOD a) to stop me from sending
out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails and b) to stop everyone from reading the emails. My critics/opponents
promote LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling,
pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, patronage,
political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age
discrimination, retaliation for complaining about the aforesaid, and even worse
things. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on
those who stress that they are a member of a church, attend church services,
and give money to a church.)
https://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-says-pelosi-offending-americans-of-faith-by-saying-she-prays-for-him-calls-it-untrue.html
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Houses Passes Two Articles of Impeachment against Trump, Setting the Stage
for Senate Trial – TOBIAS HOONHOUT
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/houses-passes-two-articles-of-impeachment-against-president-trump-setting-stage-for-senate-trial/
THE HILL
— Schumer aims to drive wedge between Republicans on impeachment – JORDAIN
CARNEY
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/475224-schumer-aims-to-drive-wedge-between-republicans-on-impeachment
— Pelosi noncommittal on delivering impeachment articles to Senate – MIKE
LILLIS AND OLIVIA BEAVERS
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/475239-pelosi-noncommittal-on-delivering-impeachment-articles-to-senate
— House votes to impeach Trump – OLIVIA BEAVERS AND MIKE LILLIS
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/475228-house-votes-to-impeach-trump
ROLL CALL
— Their voters backed Trump. They voted to impeach him. Now what?
Trump-district Democrats eager to pivot forward. Republicans say not so fast –
Simone Pathé
http://www.rollcall.com/news/voters-backed-trump-voted-impeach-now
POLITICUSUSA
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters falsely deny that they hate Trump and hate
Trump’s supporters.
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/12/18/steve-scalise-gets-booed-for-saying-democrats-hate-trump-voters.html
POLITICO
— Hoyer: ‘We need to talk about’ delaying Senate impeachment trial – KYLE
CHENEY and JOHN BRESNAHAN
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/18/trump-impeachment-trial-steny-hoyer-087319
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Defiant Trump rallies supporters as House impeaches him – DARLENE
SUPERVILLE, ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN
http://www.startribune.com/as-house-convenes-on-impeachment-trump-declares-disbelief/566306882/
CNN
— The day Donald Trump’s presidency changed forever – Chris Cillizza (DIERSEN:
How will Trump-haters use impeachment against Trump-supporters? How will
Trump-supporters use impeachment against Trump-haters?)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/18/politics/donald-trump-impeach-house-vote-president/index.html
— Warning lights are flashing for Democrats as they impeach Trump – Chris
Cillizza
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/18/politics/impeachment-polling-donald-trump/index.html
— Pelosi’s stern message to party after impeaching Trump House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) gave party members who cheered after impeaching President Trump a
stern look of disapproval.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/12/19/nancy-pelosi-look-impeachment-vote-vpx.cnn
CBS NEWS
— The House impeached Trump. What happens next? – GRACE SEGERS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-impeachment-next-steps-process-and-timeline-after-todays-house-vote-2019-12-18/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Will Trump-haters use impeachment to justify getting rid
of the following once and for all: individuals, organizations, companies,
governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, Protestant, conservative,
patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners,
German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in
America for a long time?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/politics/president-impeachment-history.html
— Twitter and Facebook Want to Shift Power to Users. Or Do They? A
decentralized internet was hailed as a way to dethrone Twitter and Facebook.
But to the tech giants, the idea could unload some of their burdens. –
Nathaniel Popper (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending
out GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails. But failing that, they want to stop everyone from
reading the emails. But failing that, they want the Illinois Republican Party,
DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican
Central Committee to dictate what I include in the emails.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/technology/facebook-twitter-bitcoin-blockchain.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters promote Trump-haters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/opinion/lincoln-project.html
— Chinese Students Denounce Limits on Free Speech, in a Rare Protest The
backlash came after several universities adopted vows of loyalty to the
Communist Party, raising concerns about academic freedom. – Javier C. Hernández
and Albee Zhang (DIERSEN: I am loyal to the Republican Party, Illinois
Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton
Township Republican Central Committee. But I should write a book about
past/present leaders of the aforesaid who demanded/demand blind loyalty to them
personally.).
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/world/asia/china-protests-universities.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Students
at a prominent Chinese university on Wednesday staged protests against efforts
by the ruling Communist Party to further extend its control over university
campuses, a rare and risky rebuke that highlighted broader concerns about the
erosion of free speech under President Xi Jinping. The protests were a response
to the decision this month by Fudan University, a Shanghai institution known
for its relatively tolerant culture, to rewrite its charter to emphasize
loyalty to the party over traditional values like independence and academic
freedom.)
NEW YORK POST
— Nancy Pelosi’s stomach-turning impeachment charade damages America – Michael
Goodwin
https://nypost.com/2019/12/18/nancy-pelosis-stomach-turning-impeachment-charade-damages-america-goodwin/
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump impeachment vote live updates: Trump becomes third U.S. president to
be impeached as House approves both articles of impeachment; Pelosi leaves open
the possibility of withholding the articles of impeachment from the Senate –
Colby Itkowitz, Felicia Sonmez, John Wagner and Elise Viebeck
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-live-updates/2019/12/18/237147e8-2110-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html
USA TODAY
— House impeaches Donald Trump in historic vote, reshuffling U.S. politics on
eve of 2020 – John Fritze
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/18/house-approves-articles-impeachment-trump-historic-vote/2679963001/
— Facebook disinformation in the 2020 presidential election: What you can do
to stop its spread – Jessica Guynn (DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents,
all government and political news and commentary is disinformation except for
the government and political news and commentary that they put out or bless. I
should write a book about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/12/12/facebook-disinformation-spread-2020-election-how-stop/4400150002/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Rallies His Base as House Votes to Impeach At a boisterous event
hundreds of miles from Washington, president praises his fellow Republicans for
standing by him – Michael C. Bender
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-rallies-his-base-as-house-votes-to-impeach-11576727567
— House Votes to Impeach President Trump Democrats and Republicans vote almost
entirely along party lines; president denounces effort to remove him from
office – Siobhan Hughes and Natalie Andrews
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-prepares-to-vote-on-impeaching-trump-11576667768
— House Debate Over Impeachment of President Trump Appeared to Settle Nothing
The proceedings made clear that America’s voters, rather than members of
Congress, will have the final say on Mr. Trump’s conduct – Gerald F. Seib
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-debate-over-impeachment-of-president-trump-appeared-to-settle-nothing-11576708053
— Americans Evenly Divided on Trump Removal, WSJ/NBC News Poll Finds Survey
shows a 48% to 48% split on whether to impeach and remove the president from
office – Aaron Zitner
https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-evenly-divided-on-trump-removal-wsj-nbc-news-poll-finds-11576706794
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats crow about their success in destroying
traditional marriage and the traditional family.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-demographic-threat-to-americas-jobs-boom-11576673115
— This Impeachment Folly The Resistance wins in the House, but will it now
lose in 2020? – Editorial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-impeachment-folly-11576715094
— How Trump Can Rise Above Impeachment Acquittal and even an economic boom
won’t be enough to win the president re-election. – Karl Rove
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-trump-can-rise-above-impeachment-11576713984
BLOOMBERG
— Millions in Taxes From Legal Pot Won’t End Illinois’s Woes
https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/millions-in-taxes-from-legal-pot-wont-end-illinoiss-woes
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater asks “Why Didn’t Republicans Try Harder
to Defend Trump?” and says “Their case on the House floor was
illogical, irrelevant and based on flat-out lies.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-19/trump-impeachment-republicans-flail-before-house-vote
POST JOURNAL
— It may be illegal in New York state to ask potential employees for their
graduation dates. – John Whittaker (DIERSEN: My critics/opponents
hint/imply/argue/shout that what you learned earning college degrees and
professional certifications gets stale. They stress that I earned a) my
bachelor’s degree way back in 1970, b) my master’s degrees way back in 1976,
1980, and 1997, c) my CPA way back in 1979, and d) my Certified Internal
Auditor way back in 1981.)
https://www.post-journal.com/news/local-news/2019/12/employers-asking-for-graduation-dates-may-be-illegal/
ATLANTIC
— The Stain of Impeachment Will Last Forever – David A. Graham (DIERSEN: What
stains do you have? Mine include the adverse actions that my Democrat superiors
in the federal government took against me. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me
to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance
expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my
coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13,
got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the
almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $19,568 (21%)
pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS
superiors did not promote me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions
in 1978, got rid of my mentor in 1975, and disallowed my partial day per diem
claims in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me resign in 1969 and
disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. My critics/opponents ended
my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, Wheaton Chamber of
Commerce Government Affairs Committee membership in 2011, Milton Township
Republican Central Committee webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, Illinois
Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership in 2007, American
Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board membership in 2004,
etc. My critics/opponents side with each other and with my Democrat superiors
in the federal government.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/stain-will-last-forever/603763/
