Quote (bogie160 @ Jan 30 2020 10:04am)
They represent their constituents in red states that overwhelmingly oppose impeachment.
The general public is evenly split, if polls are any indication. "No" is beating "Yes" by about a percent.
so it boils down to "we aren't going to remove, and even if we hear new information from someone Trump directly told to do something we havent yet heard, we still wont remove".
and they say the leftists are scared of facts.
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jan 30 2020 10:06am)
If it's so unclear what happened in Ukraine, then how could the House come to the conclusion that these unclear events are reason enough to impeach the president?
I still havent heard a compelling argument why the evidence which was good enough for the House to come to a conclusion should not be good enough for the Senate.
frankly im getting a bit tired of people saying this over and over and over while they're corrected many times.
The house is the grand jury, which doesn't decide guilt or innocence, just with a VERY loose burden of proof decides if a case is merited.
1. in grand juries they're not always presented with all of the evidence
2. even in a grand jury where they get 100% of the evidence they aren't presented with arguments from the lawyers to decide the context and veracity of the evidence
essentially they're shown evidence, and then just asked if they think the evidence merits a trial. not even whether they think the person might be guilty.
the only reasonable argument ive heard from the right is that:
A. this is not worthy of removal (i agree there)
B. This is political (i agree there)
C. let the democrats try really hard then still fail, then deal with the consequences electorally in the next election
and if Bolton truly does have a silver bullet that wont cause removal but will kill trump at the polls then the american people deserve to hear it, i didnt vote for the 30-40 shill fuckers in red ties who decide what i can and cant hear. fuck them.