Posted on 11/15/2019 4:21:28 AM PST by tomselliott
President Trump is on the cusp of being impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate 2016 election meddling — and possibly Hunter Biden’s work with a natural gas company — as a precondition for receiving U.S. foreign aid.
This, Democrats say, is a classic case of a “quid pro quo” (the Latin term for “this for that”).
Whatever one thinks about the case against Trump, it’s worth asking: Is a quid pro quo automatically scandalous?
After all, Democrats’ leading 2020 candidates have repeatedly pledged to use exactly this technique to advance their own political interests.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.grabien.com ...
Anyone else know of this.
And by the way.....I must have asked my husband 1000 times to "do me a favor"...things like "Honey, do me a favor.....pick up a gallon of milk on your way home". And I can tell you without hesitation....He got NOTHING for the favor.
“Buy health insurance or we will fine you.”
Nothing is stopping you from posting your blog junk right here in full.
This isn't your personal click farm.
Get a job.
If there is no quid pro quo, then why are we giving foreign aid? We had better be getting something for it.
Ge got milk...
... and likely cookies
... ... and if he truly did not get ‘something else regularly’ a divorce.
It isn’t YOUR personal admin job either.
Nope, not a job. It's a labor of love.
I'm on a mission from God.
I doubt that.
O, ye of little faith.
Ah, the wondrous big lie technique. There was NO precondition.
I don’t understand how asking them to investigate a truly corrupt company, and a corrupt American is even bad.
It’s not. But the big lie I refer to was the tying of military aid to the request, which has been emphatically denied by all parties, including Ukraine.
...or anything else.
That’s some good literature right there.
Obama Fights Nigerian Anti-Gay Bill, Threatens To Cut Off Aid
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2011/12/09/obama-fights-nigerian-anti-gay-bill-threatens-to-cut-off-aid/
Vote for me and I promise a chicken in every pot.
Quid Pro Quo.
Pay me an honest days wages and I’ll give you an honest days work.
Quid Pro Quo.
Isn’t this pretty much how the world works? Well, maybe not in a commie world, but certainly in a capitalist world.
right....which underscores the alice in wonderland nature of all of this
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