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In reply to the discussion: I am about to give up, because I can't control it or anyone. [View all]better
(884 posts)But in short, what paints Democrats as weak is not an impeachment failing in the Senate, it's declining to fulfill their constitutional obligations because Senate Republicans can't be counted upon to fulfill theirs. We will either prove that government will at least move to hold a president subject to the rule of law, at least under Democratic leadership, or we will prove that if a Senate majority is corrupt, the government will not even attempt to hold a president accountable. One of those two things WILL be proven, and soon.
Either the government is capable of upholding the rule of law in the time between elections, or it is not. There is no middle ground.
And quite honestly, if it is not, then it is time to abolish the whole thing and start over, because it is clearly fatally flawed.
And you're also wrongly assuming that initiating impeachment proceedings necessarily will lead to a trial in the Senate. Chances are high that proper investigations wouldn't even be completed before the election, and even if they are, it may still prove wise not to pass articles of impeachment so close to an election. But none of that negates the value of impeachment investigations and hearings, which will garner a great deal more attention and thus expose a great deal more truth than will investigations outside the impeachment process, because those investigations will be known from the outset to have no real chance of resulting in prosecution, regardless of the evidence, since referral to DOJ would be their only recourse.