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To: bray

The article is illogical as is the argument. Impeachment is not about justice, it is a political remedy. In politics, truth is very much a bystander. The actors are all politicians and they will behave in a political fashion, not as a legal proceeding.

As for impeachment itself, if Articles of Impeachment are delivered by the House, the Senate must sit in a trial and it form and function changes, but it’s makeup does not. As in the Clinton impeachment, a Senate trial can end without examination of evidence, and without a vote on the Articles, so what is left is political theater where the other side has every opportunity to write their own script. The outcome is predetermined by the political will of the parties involved and the Republicans are incapable of delivering a single Democrat vote and cannot deliver all of their own votes to boot.

Impeachment is a pathway to failure that can only serve to bolster Obama. Obama understands this, the media understands this. Many conservatives choose to believe in a fantasy that can never be.


12 posted on 08/02/2014 9:19:20 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: centurion316; bray

It was tough enough with Clinton, but we had such outstanding rhetoric from a “Scottish Law” expert. I don’t see that a better scenario exists with the Democrats in charge. As a moral victory, the charges would be in the Congressional Record for a while, until the hard drive crashes.


14 posted on 08/02/2014 9:27:14 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: centurion316
Sorry, I am not the defeatist you are. You are only following conventional wisdom which has gotten us where we are. You are following the path of least resistance and simply because you say it won't work then it won't. If you don't try of course who can prove you wrong.

Explain why his numbers dropped 6 points this week when all the news was his impeachment? Follow my path and it will drop another 6. Politics isn't about logic, it is about leading and works much like golf. You hit right for the ball to go left and vice versa.

19 posted on 08/02/2014 9:30:43 AM PDT by bray (Palin/Bibi 2016)
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To: centurion316

“Politics is the art of delaying any decisions until the issue is no longer relevant.”


20 posted on 08/02/2014 9:32:13 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: centurion316
...so what is left is political theater where the other side has every opportunity to write their own script.

The other side will write their own script whether we impeach or not. With impeachment, we get off our cowering rear ends and we articulate a truthful message. We rally the people who don't like Obama and we send a message to the remaining people that Obama deserves to be impeached.

Impeachment is a pathway to failure that can only serve to bolster Obama.

Nonsense. You don't know that. What we do know is that doing nothing, not standing up to the Democrats is utterly destroying our country. It's deflating the opposition and its sending a message to others that Obama doesn't deserve to be impeached.

33 posted on 08/02/2014 9:49:40 AM PDT by FreeReign
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