It is time for the Democratic and the Republican leaders of Congress to meet.

[kentuck]

It is past time to discuss the obvious elephant in the room.

This President is an existential threat to our democracy. It is time to remove him.

The discussion should be about how to do that. Do they want to impeach or go the 25th Amendment route?

They should work for a consensus. It is no longer possible to stick their heads in the sand and pretend that nothing is wrong.

The time has come.

[AlexSFCA]

1. wishful thinking

Our hope is Mueller's investigation

[napi21]

2. .I'd bet talks like that are already happening behind the scenes already. Did you

see the clip of Susan Collins & Reed on a hot mike a day or so ago where comments like "I think he's nuts" and 'I'm really worried" were overheard? Collins was asked aabout it and she covered it well, but I dont believe their cover story/ Fitting their comments with the events of the hour makes it sound like they were talking about The Con! I think they're waiting for the moment enough Pubs agree sand then they'll go into action.

[canetoad]

6. Yup

There's already a bipartisan group of moderate senators meeting about healthcare. Betcha 45 has come up more than once.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/moderate-senators-seek-bipartisan-path-forward-health-care-n787546

WASHINGTON — Following the demands of their leaders, congressional Democrats and Republicans remained entrenched on their partisan sides of the health care debate until the very end.

But now that Senate Republicans were unable to repeal Obamacare, some are saying the answer is to work together — and in fact a group of moderates on both sides of aisle have quietly been talking for weeks to try to find some common ground.

[CrispyQ]

3. Richard Painter closed his statement on The 11th Hour by saying he's very scared.

He said we're in a very dangerous situation & we could slip into an authoritarian dictatorship. It was good to finally hear someone say this on the news.

[kentuck]

4. I heard that!

That was the first time I had heard Richard say that he was "scared".

[BigmanPigman]

5. After reading R. Reich's conversation with a former Repub rep posted here on DU

I have different expectations as far as outcome scenarios go.

The asses in congress won't do anything unless it is soooo bad that it effects them and their personal, greedy agendas. His fan base won't leave him unless they are hit in their own pocketbooks. We can't count on a win in 2018 let alone 2020 since Americans are idiots.

Therefore, we have to hope he doesn't fire Mueller and gets enough info to make congress impeach him before 2020 due to public pressure for the mid-terms...

or he drops dead from a stroke...

or he is about to really go psycho and his cabinet (which is made up of very Repub. bastards) pulls out the 25 Amend. and forces him out.