Posted on 12/15/2019 6:07:30 PM PST by janetjanet998
https://apnews.com/17c13b4aa38228aeaba137ef4aeec939 Click to copy RELATED TOPICS Ukraine AP Top News John Bolton Trials General News Mick Mulvaney Politics Joe Biden Impeachments Trump impeachment Mitch McConnell Donald Trump Democrats seek Bolton, Mulvaney for impeachment trial By LISA MASCARO and JONATHAN LEMIRE an hour ago Youtube video thumbnail WASHINGTON (AP) Senate Democrats are proposing a weekslong Senate impeachment trial seeking testimony from four new witnesses including John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney over President Donald Trumps actions toward Ukraine, according to a detailed outlined released Sunday.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York proposed the structure for a fair and honest trial in a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, an attempt to launch negotiations ahead of House voting this week that is all but certain to result in the president being impeached.
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Of course it was discussed.
So what? All relations between nations are either quid pro quo or war.
Quid pro quo when dealing with other nations is the President's JOB. When FDR sent the destroyers to Britain in 1940, he demanded basing rights for the US in the Caribbean.
Why wasn't he impeached, if quid pro quo between nations is a high crime?
In other words, Bolton is a throwback/fossil from a time that is a distant memory for many people, if they were even alive in the Reagan era.
There is nothing wrong with ‘quid pro quo’ or what is more commonly known as ‘tit-for-tat’.
It is the foundation of ‘diplomacy’.
The only time it should be considered harmful or illegal is when it is done as blackmail or extortion to cover up other criminal activity.
That may be, but don’t we need at least of couple of people like that to have an input ?
If we are going to base our nation’s actions on the input of elected/appointed leadership, shouldn’t we have a variety of opinion. A devil’s advocate, so to speak ?
IIRC, the Israeli’s had a devil’s advocate concept in their governmental decisions. One extra man who would propose something extreme or in complete opposition to the general concensus.
Bolton may be a throwback, a fossil, but there is much value in the phrase SPARE THE ROD, SPOIL THE CHILD.
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