Cory Booker: 'I'm not going to rush to impeachment'

[karynnj]

23. I would suggest that the Democrats cautious speech is both a respect for process and because this

may be a real case where impeachment should happen. For anyone in government, the seriousness of needing to use the remedy that impeachment provides should cause a sense of seriousness. The charge here may well be a major party candidate colluding with a hostile foreign country to win an election. This is an incredible charge that most of us thought more the province of dsytropricies, not something likely to happen here.

While, in a sense this is just one more step from where we were in the past, when Republicans colluded with ultra right billionaires, who poured millions into ads speaking lies to influence people to distrust decent candidates or distort issues, it is a VERY VERY big step. What it shows is that our very democracy is at risk. I know that since Adams and Jefferson, people supporting one side have smeared the other. This is as scary as can be.

The caution of everyone from Bernie to Booker might be because this is not similar to Cruz speaking of impeachment - which he knew was neither justified by Obama's actions or at all likely to happen. It is not even similar to the calls for GWB to be impeached, where we all know the actions why he could have been charged, but likely not impeached. At this point, this feels very very different. These are not normal times - and I assume almost every politicians wish they were, albeit with the Republicans ones, they would want a different Republican President.