Quote (cambovenzi @ Dec 19 2019 08:20am)
This has always been about playing dirty to further hyper-partisan political interests. Democrats were upset he won the election and they wanted to overturn that and get back at him by any means necessary. Impeachment regardless of the issue was the rallying cry from day 1 after the elections. They know the senate won't remove him right now, so dragging his name through the mud and impeaching him ahead of an election is the best they can do. They gain nothing from letting the senate acquit Trump right now. It makes some strategical sense for Pelosi and the dems to consider letting this sham impeachment fester, even if its a scummy and dishonest thing to do.
This is just a laughable narrative.
Every opposition party is upset when their adversary wins the presidency. Multiple Republicans before the election were calling for Hillary to be impeached once in office for her behavior. The Trump defending Andy McCarthy, who opposed impeaching Trump, wrote a book on why Republicans should impeach Obama. To pretend that impeachment isn't a weapon both political parties always consider is just revealing your historical ignorance.
The Mueller report showed several acts of attempted obstruction of justice by the president, and still Pelosi realized that impeachment wasn't a wise decision. It took a blatantly obvious abuse of power for her to change her mind.
Nobody in this thread who supports Trump(including yourself) would oppose impeaching a Democrat if the same facts were present. Not one. Trump's misbehavior and corruption have become so normalized that you fellas aren't able to understand that.
Gotta say though... this is a day where reality-based Americans can be happy that our democracy fought back against a blatantly corrupt leader. Whether it helps Trump in 2020 or not is irrelevant in my opinion... he's now etched in history as an impeached president.
This post was edited by IceMage on Dec 19 2019 12:29pm