Interesting outlook in the NYTimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/o...peachment.html
Interesting outlook in the NYTimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/o...peachment.html
With the long-awaited special prosecutor’s report amounting to little more than a $34 million op-ed, I think Pelosi is smart not listening to the junior revolutionaries from the most recent intake. I think most of the posters here are correct: you can talk darkly about conspiracies, rigged systems, the need to please the Viennese, or the deficiencies of the Constitution, or you can work to win elections.
Impeachment would take so long it would be election time anyways before proceedings were done.
While the constitution doesn't require that a law be broken for an impeachment to occur, and Mueller seems to have left it up to congress to make the determination if obstruction of justice occurred, which reasonably appears to potentially have been the case, I agree with the others on this thread that don't think an impeachment is the right strategy politically for the democrats. I'm intrigued by Warren's statement this weekend that she thinks the house needs to start the impeachment process. She's a savvy political thinker so I'm sure she's thought this through, but I don't understand what her motivation is for that. Polling I've seen doesn't indicate that the public is in favor of it.
Generally I think the democrats would do better to focus on their policy proposals, as they successfully did in 2018, and let trump speak for himself in reminding voters why they don't want to vote for him.
Exactly. I live in the 85006 - not that this is anything special, mind you - numerous other such zip codes/communities exist throughout America....enclaves where America doesn't work especially well and areas where the Trump message (how do I put this civilly?) doesn't resonate well, if at all. Trump and his henchmen's collective take on minorities overall is dated and time stamped in such places - even by aware Caucasians in such areas - and the kinder of us wish him alive and out of office, isolated somewhere where he can cause no further harm.
Want an emotionless reply? Have your President behave like an actual world leader capable of sane leadership, educated language/communication styles, and civil discourse. Eradicate the anti minority sentiment sweeping the nation - or at least publicly admit this is happening and launch a nationwide discussion as to what to do about this issue. Right now for those who believe in America, your President is not working well, if at all, for those in areas such as mine. And it's not something that can be ignored or swept under any rug. Rob
I can't give you an emotionless reply. I live in an area where too many people are vulnerable to Donald J Trump and being a human being, I am incapable of not taking a stance against such or of pretending such away. No can do. Sorry to disappoint.
I will however agree with you on one point......impeachment a la Bill Clinton as you stated does not guarantee a guilty finding nor automatic removal. Perhaps the best we can wish for is to appear as if to the rest of the world that we are aware of our status as the developed world's reputational pinata, and that even though our system doesn't work for many of us, we are trying to do something about this unfortunate 2016 Election result. Such would at least help lower income people who work in hospitality dependent on international tourism......and at least we could save 1/250th of face at this late date....better than nothing, no? Rob
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