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In reply to the discussion: Do y'all realize that the minute the investigation is called an "impeachment," the entire complexion [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)And this isn't 1973, Trump isn't Nixon and the 2019 Republican-controlled Senate bears no relationship to the Democratic-controlled Senate of the 1970s.
The Watergate hearings and other circumstance can provide some helpful history and guidance, but they must be seen in context.
The bottom line - at least for me and, apparently, many other people - is that, while a core of the Democratic base is well aware of Trump's criminality and unfitness for office and are convinced he must be removed (we thought that from his first day in office), most of the country is not there yet. It will take strategy and time to get them there and that's what the House is doing. The House Democrats have the same goal that we do - holding that man accountable and getting him out of office as soon as possible. And they are working toward that goal with a clear-minded approach - an approach based on knowledge and experience and savvy that most of us don't have It's amusing to see Nancy Pelosi being lectured here about the Constitution and Congressional procedure by certain people who clearly don't have even the most rudimentary clue about how either work. (For example, how many times to I and others have to explain that impeachment doesn't take away a president's power to pardon federal crimes?) Insisting that the only way to achieve that goal is to do it the way we want on the timeline that we want is short-sighted and counter-productive.
As I've said several times, instead of beating up on the Democrats, trying to get in their way, calling them weak, undermining them at every turn because they aren't doing this in a certain way, why not HELP them? Why not work to change public opinion, even if it's one or two people at a time? Instead of feeding into the "The Democrats are in disarray" narrative, why not help them shift the focus away from them and onto the Republican obstructionists?