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In reply to the discussion: Not impeaching Trump would make a complete mockery of the rule of law and ruin our country. [View all]DFW
(54,502 posts)There is really only one question to ask:
Is it worth the risk? On the one hand, the House WILL vote to impeach if Judiciary wants to do it, and Jerry was one of the indignant Democrats on the buses to the White House 20 years ago. Jerry is not a vengeful sort, but the taste of payback might be too seductive to resist. So we get to embarrass Trump with being only the third president to be impeached, we say to the world, "we see significant wrongdoing that calls for an impeachment trial on grounds far more serious than the ones the Republicans used on Bill Clinton." That's the upside we know of.
The downside we KNOW of is purely that the Republican-dominated Senate will NEVER vote with a two thirds majority to convict and remove Trump from office--AND---Trump will brag and crow and do the happy dance and shove it our faces for the rest of the time he remains in office after an impeachment attempt to get rid of him.
The part we don't know, and therefore would be risking: would this be like an American invasion of Iran would be to the Iranians? I.e., would this energize and fire up his dwindling base so dramatically that a re-election drive now practically with a guarantee by LLoyd's of London to fail could suddenly spring up to the point where he could conceivably inspire his backers to stage his re-election? And burn cars, houses and "libbrul" places of business if that fails? His MAGGOTS might not be content just to paint swastikas on Jewish grave markers any more. Mitch McTurtle would just sit back, smirk and enjoy the show.
If there is something more productive our House majority can do, then they should do that instead. Subpoena everybody and hold investigations right and left, but about things that REALLY happened--not chase Grimm's Fairy Tales like Chaffetz and Gowdy. Keep their hands tied behind their back for two years, remind them of what it was like for us. We won't even make them learn to spell the names of Libyan port cities, or where they can be found on a map. The worst they may have to do is read a few words written in the Cyrillic alphabet--but being Republicans, I'm sure most of them can do that already.