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Machiavellian on 11 December 2019
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JWeinCom said:
SpokenTruth said:

The House Judiciary Committee has announced they will vote on 2 articles of impeachment on Dec 12th.  They will include Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress.

One the 12th, that vote will determine if either article or both will be sent to the full House of Representatives for a final vote.  If either article is accepted by the House, the president will have officially been impeached and we will begin the Senate Trial.

I have mixed feelings.  On the one hand in a just world there definitely should be articles of impeachment.  On the other hand, this is almost certainly not going to be given real consideration in the Senate, so what end does it really serve?

Lets be honest, no matter what the articles of impeachment are, it was not going to be given any real consideration in the Senate.  I believe making these articles very simple and easily defended puts a lot of onus on the Senate to dispute those claims and also make it simple for the public to understand why we are here today on these matters.  One thing is very clear is that Senate Republicans have made it clear they will do just about anything to continue to allow Trump to abuse his position.  Its the main reason why Trump has little if any respect for them because he knows they will always support anything he does out of fear.  The ones that do care, well as we have seen will leave congress instead of going against their party.

It would be interesting to see if Trump would win another term how many republicans not run for reelection as they rather quite then stay complicite to this president.