I could easily come up with a dozen off the top of my head (you pull that many just from the Mueller Report, and that doesn't even get to emoluments, or abusing his pardon power, or breaking immigration law and putting toddlers in cages, etc.) And even if we are just talking about the Ukraine matter, where is bribery?
Yeah, I know the GOP is feckless and will just acquit him on whatever charges the House draws up. But they will have to vote on each charge. The most charges there are the more vote Republicans will be forced to take on an issue that might not look so good for them 10-20 years down the road.
The purpose of impeachment isn't just to remove the President. It is also to build a record and to hold members of Congress accountable as well. I am not sure that the madness of King Don will completely leave the Republican party. But it is inevitable that there be some kind of distancing when he is gone. Even if Trumpism remains, Trump himself is such a dumb-dumb Republicans will probably be distancing themselves from his more nutso actions 15 minutes after he leaves the White House. If Trump loses next year's presidential election, the vote Senator Toomey will take to let Trump off the hook in 2020 is going to look pretty bad in 2022 when my Senator if finally up for reelection. Making every Republican Senator vote in favor of bribing foreign leaders just so they can let "their president" off the hook is something that can produce all kinds of political dividends over the next decade or more.
In other words, this impeachment is about the long game. Why are House Democrats refusing to play it?
Yeah, I know the GOP is feckless and will just acquit him on whatever charges the House draws up. But they will have to vote on each charge. The most charges there are the more vote Republicans will be forced to take on an issue that might not look so good for them 10-20 years down the road.
The purpose of impeachment isn't just to remove the President. It is also to build a record and to hold members of Congress accountable as well. I am not sure that the madness of King Don will completely leave the Republican party. But it is inevitable that there be some kind of distancing when he is gone. Even if Trumpism remains, Trump himself is such a dumb-dumb Republicans will probably be distancing themselves from his more nutso actions 15 minutes after he leaves the White House. If Trump loses next year's presidential election, the vote Senator Toomey will take to let Trump off the hook in 2020 is going to look pretty bad in 2022 when my Senator if finally up for reelection. Making every Republican Senator vote in favor of bribing foreign leaders just so they can let "their president" off the hook is something that can produce all kinds of political dividends over the next decade or more.
In other words, this impeachment is about the long game. Why are House Democrats refusing to play it?
