tommu wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:40 pm
Well if you're not trolling you need close Facebook and watch a different cable network.
Says the guy whose total contribution to the discussion consists of two MSNBC/Democrat talking points.
I'll try again.
Impeachment has some similarities to a criminal trial. The House process is kind of like a grand jury, looking into things and judging if there is enough evidence to go to trial. The Senate process is like the actual jury trial. But the big difference is that in a criminal trial, there are two phases; guilt or innocence, then a determination of penalty. In impeachment, it is a binary choice; acquittal or the death penalty. In the Clinton impeachment, there was no doubt he was guilty as hell. He is on video looking straight in to the camera and committing perjury. But the Senate decided that the context of lying about infidelity didn't warrant removal from office.
In this case, because the subject Trump was pressing Ukraine to investigate looks like obvious corruption, it mitigates the fact that it was political arm twisting that would help him politically. It's a bit sleazy, but the Senate will vote to let the voters decide in less than a year, rather than go nuclear.
All the Democrats have to do to win the presidency is be businesslike and pretend to be bipartisan in Congress, and nominate a reasonable center-left candidate that can appeal to working class white men in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio. Or, they can create a constitutional crisis, flail about hysterically, and put up an unlikable radical with no chance of winning, then scream the election was stolen because some voters were asked to show ID. We'll see.
Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry.