You would, would you?
Try reading the fifth amendment sometime.
Oh, I just saw Pelosi doing a 'high five' with some CNN or MSNBC (I forget which) anchor, celebrating this whole thing, with Pelosi saying 'He's impeached, and he'll be impeached FOREVER." As if that were some sort of huge accomplishment; as if impeachment were a guilty verdict.
Pelosi and the Congress did what they have sworn an oath to do, on the people's behalf, when a president is accused on abusing the power of the presidency, as Trump was, and as the evidence clearly showed he had done. She had every right to be proud of having fulfilled her responsibility to the office that she holds, and to the people who put her there.
Johnson was impeached....does anybody remember what for? He wasn't kicked out of office, though, so what he was accused of doesn't matter.
It was a procedural infraction, and he was not found guilty by the Senate. And it did matter, because as a result of his impeachment, the powers of the presidency were diminished for many years afterward.
Clinton was impeached, for felonies he admitted committing and for which he was punished by other courts. You know, fined heavily and disbarred. He did not, however lose his job. The accusation for which he was tried went away.
Clinton lied under oath within the context of an investigation that should never have taken place. So although he technically did commit a crime, he did so in the face of political entrapment. His mistake was that he agreed to be questioned under oath regarding personal conduct that had no bearing on his fulfilling the office of president. He should simply have refuse to comply, rather than comply, and then lie.
Trump has been impeached. Not for any felony, but for 'abuse of power,' which means...what, precisely? I haven't figured that one out myself. ANYway, 'impeach' means 'accused.' "Indicted."
If you haven't figured out Trump's abuse of power, yet, then you are an idiot. Because the evidence is overwhelming that he threatened to withhold U.S. aid to a foreign country in an effort to extort damning evidence from them to use against his political opponents at home. This is clearly an abuse of the power of the presidency for personal political gain, and it was so obvious to everyone involved that many of the participants in the U.S. government agencies involved immediately turned to the justice department to expose the attempt. And even the republicans that support Trump are not denying his abuse of power, or that it was wrong. They are simply claiming that it wasn't a bad enough abuse of power to warrant his impeachment. (Although we all know that if it had been a democratic president accused of doing the same thing, their howl for the maximum punishment would have been heard all the way to Pluto.)
Now he's going to be tried in the Senate, and considering the partisanship that has driven this whole thing, he will almost certainly be found 'not guilty.' the accusation will go away except in the heads of those who don't like him anyway.
The democrats did what they had to do according to the laws and the oath of office that they took. This was not "partisan", it was mandated. Trump clearly did abuse the power of his office and they HAD TO investigate, and they had to impeach based on the overwhelming evidence. So when the Senate ignores this same evidence, and refuses to censure Trump in any way for what was clearly an abuse of the power of his office, THEY will be doing so out of partisanship. And THEY will be the ones ignoring their responsibilities of their oath of office, and to the people who put them there.
For anybody with two thoughts to rub together, that impeachment will, equally certainly, ensure his re-election. Even those who don't like him or his polices are likely to vote FOR him out of sheer outrage at the total misuse of impeachment powers.
This is patent gibberish, as it's highly unlikely that Trump's clear and obvious abuse of power will somehow translate into more people voting for him. If anything, what will happen is that some of those republicans in the Senate will pay the price at the polls for ignoring their responsibilities to their oath of office, and to the people who put them there, in their ignoring Trump's abuse of power.
I'll probably vote for him again, and again it will be more a vote against the Democrat than for him, unless the Dems come up with someone with a little more brain power and ethics than they have at the moment.
You were going to vote for him again no matter what he did, or what any republicans have done because of him. Because you're the one that's not thinking, but is just acting out of willful ignorance, and malice. You clearly don't care about Trump's lack of ethics, so why should you care about the democratic candidates being so ethical?
