Republican calls for Impeachment

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Republican calls for Impeachment

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GOP Rep. Amash becomes first Republican to call for Trump's impeachment.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/18/politics/justin-amash-trump-impeachable-conduct/index.html

Washington(CNN) - Michigan GOP Rep. Justin Amash said Saturday he had concluded President Donald Trump committed "impeachable conduct" and accused Attorney General William Barr of intentionally misleading the public.

Amash's comments recommending Congress pursue obstruction of justice charges against Trump were the first instance of a sitting Republican in Congress calling for Trump's impeachment.
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I want to send this man an Edible Arrangement. It's about damn time someone stepped up!
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Must be a blue moon tonight. A Republican comes down with a severe case of conscience.

And to think, it could have been Mitt who was the first to be a moral example.
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Kevin Graham wrote:Must be a blue moon tonight. A Republican comes down with a severe case of conscience.

And to think, it could have been Mitt who was the first to be a moral example.


And to think you'd ever had something nice to say about Mitt.

What an obstacle to progress for the conservstive movement Romney has turned out to be. The man once lambasted by leftists who illegally taped his 47% remarks and was purported to advocate self deportation serms to be doing everything in his power to raise taxes, increase welfare payouts, socialize medicine, and keep thd border porous and unenforced.
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ajax18 wrote: ...and keep thd border porous and unenforced.

Every time you pen this complaint, I imagine a past time and a couple of Native Americans looking at each other and lamenting the very same thing as they watch your relatives spill out of their dinghy.
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canpakes wrote:
ajax18 wrote: ...and keep thd border porous and unenforced.

Every time you pen this complaint, I imagine a past time and a couple of Native Americans looking at each other and lamenting the very same thing as they watch your relatives spill out of their dinghy.


And i suppose if Native Americans were united and loyal to each other they would have kept their land and i would not have been born. The fact that we're making the same mistakes as they did and incidentally losing our land culture and dying out is certainly ironic.
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moksha wrote:GOP Rep. Amash becomes first Republican to call for Trump's impeachment.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/18/politics/justin-amash-trump-impeachable-conduct/index.html

Washington(CNN) - Michigan GOP Rep. Justin Amash said Saturday he had concluded President Donald Trump committed "impeachable conduct" and accused Attorney General William Barr of intentionally misleading the public.

Amash's comments recommending Congress pursue obstruction of justice charges against Trump were the first instance of a sitting Republican in Congress calling for Trump's impeachment.

and? (a.k.a., so what?)
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Justin Amash is a very principled libertarian that happens to get elected as a Republican. You remove partisanship from the equation and what he is saying is obvious. It’s welcome and brave, but not surprising.
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Didn't Bill Clinton's popularity go up after impeachment? Whatever one's view is on obstructing an investigation that didn't bring any criminal indictments regarding conspiracy, much less collusion, and there arguably wasn't much obstruction, if any; is it politically worth it? People are growing tired of russiagate and want the focus to shift back to pocketbook issues. It's the economy stupid. I think there will be a backlash if impeachment is done without hope of conviction. Time to be practical if Trump is to have only one term. There were a lot of disaffected Obama voters that voted for Trump because neolib/con Hillary wasn't perceived to be on their side. Impeachment might galvanize these disaffected and keep them in Trump's camp. Time to move on.
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Bill Clinton’s impeachment was dubious. Trump has committed the most egregious impeachable conduct in history. Assuming that the public will react the exact same to each case strikes me as the hastiest of hasty generalizations.

That Democrats lost the presidency and ground in Congress 2 years later with Al Gore of all people having to pick a VP to counterbalance a sense ethical taint also seems to be missed. The idea that the after effects of Clinton’s impeachment were straightforwardly pro-Democrat is ahistorical. And it’s coming from people who lived through that history.
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