SDG wrote:
Let's be serious for just a minute. Impeachment of anyone is meaningless and no one cares. Be it a Dem or a Repub, we all know it's a political exercise to try and embarrass folks you don't' like. Be it Trump two times or Schipp or Mayorkas.
They should do away with impeachment all together and instead just call each other names for a few minutes and be done with it. About as impactful.
Let's be serious for a minute. This is a direct result of the Republican party treating impeachment with a lack of seriousness.
Impeachment or threat of impeachment has historically been a serious thing and based on actual offenses, frequently with real consequences. Federal officials including Presidents, Senators, Cabinet officials, and judges have been impeached for graft, corruption, conspiracy to aid a foreign power, political bias in judicial rulings, abuse of power, supporting insurrection and secession, tax evasion, perjury, sexual assault, obstruction, and of course incitement to insurrection, and obstruction of Congress. Of the 22 federal officials who have actually been impeached, 13 were either convicted or resigned as a result. It has typically not really been a tit for tat political tool, except now with the Republican House that couldn't legislate itself out of a paper bag because it's too busy running revenge errands for Donald Trump..
Slowguy
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