I consider Twitter a great barometer for how Lefty Nation is feeling about something. Right now, anything about the Impeachment is trending no 16 and no 18 on US trends. So yeah, nowhere near the top 10 and yeah, Lefties not too hot on it and don't want to admit it.
Maybe, after Kavanaugh and Mueller, they're a little nervous. Well they should be. They got nothing and CERTAINLY nothing worthy of impeachment. What they really should be saying, if they wanted to be honest, is "We're butthurt. Therefore IMPEACH 45!!"
Rump is guilty of the same crimes that Nixon was guilty of and that was Impeachable. Nixon didn't authorize the breakin. he didn't monitor the break in. He found about it afterwards. Then he tried to bury it.When Congress started looking into it, he obstructed the investigation. Does any of this sound familiar?
But there is a huge difference between Rump and Nixon. Nixon was trying to protect his people and got bagged for it. Rump is demanding his "People"" protect him. Nixon's people were the ones that did the deed. Rump is the one that has done the deeds. I highly respect Nixon to this day. I never liked him but I did respect him. I neither like nor respect rump.
Um. Nixon's impeachment involved BREAKING AND ENTERING, you realize. Indisputable, actual crimes.
What you have here is real corruption on the part of the Biden's and maybe, MAYBE, Trump wanted this investigated, but we can't be sure. Not even close to the same thing you know it and the American people know it. And what was on the line is not breaking and entering but the GIVING OF FOREIGN AID.
So please.
Nixon did not authorize nor direct nor have prior knowledge of the break in. He learned about it afterwards. His crime was the coverup, not the deed. The ones involved in the actual breakin went to prison. Nixon was bagged for obstructing the investigation of Congress. Back then, the Republicans had backbones and understood that even a President had to answer for that.
The closed door witnesses have given enough information for it to the next level which is floor wide open investigations. The fact remains that Rump tried to use the funds to blackmail the Ukrainian President for Political Favors. to be specific, to either find or manufacture dirt on a political rival. He tried to use those funds as a bribe. And Bribery is specifically mentioned as a reason for impeachment. The afterfact that Rump found out that he didn't have the right to withhold those funds are irrelevant. It's the fact he tried to use them to get what he wanted. And first person testimony has already been done in closed sessions. That same testimony will be starting today.
Pelosi has been soft pedaling all this until now. What changed her mind was this Ukrainian mess when the 7 moderates changed from no impeachment to impeach. This is a make or break time for the Republicans in office. If the testimony goes like it did under close sessions (there is no reason it shouldn't) then they are going to be hard pressed to not vote for impeachment including in the Senate or be replaced. Even if it never makes it to the Senate, rump can no longer threaten the elected Republicans like he has in the past. And that threat is all he has had going for him. His 36% base won't change but he'll lose all the rest and that is not enough to make the Republicans toe the line.
I don't want to see a full Senate conviction. I want it to go to the Voters in November of next year. But I want everything on the table for everyone to see. I want to give the Republicans a chance to stand on their two hind legs and grow a pair. The last thing I want to see is for one party to control the President, Senate and the House. That's when we get some of the most damaging laws passed that it takes years to get over regardless of which party is in control.
You think that the Dems will be destroyed. You are wrong. Rump is going for a long ride and not at the expense of Air Force One. The question is, how many Republicans are willing to take the same trip.