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In reply to the discussion: This is what happens when impeachment is "off the table." [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)of Presidents that preceded them. That is why both of the largest political parties bicker around margins instead of going for the jugular. Please see Reply 92.
And Democrats have the bigger problem because, until recently, their base has expected different things of them than Republicans have expected of their leaders. In 2006, a sizeable number of Republican voters cheered things like waterboarding and drone killing. Democrats condemned it--until Obama, whereupon they either ignored it or rationalized it.
This idea that all the wrong is on one side and Democratic politicians who are Rhodes scholars or UCHI law professors just stumble and bumble along, always being intimidated and/or outsmarted by the likes of Dimson just does not stand up to factual examination.