With regards to Hunter Biden, taking excessive advantage of his father’s name is unsavory but also not a crime. Given that in neither the case of the father nor the son was any evidence presented by the president’s counsel that a crime had been committed, the president’s insistence that they be investigated by the Ukrainians is hard to explain other than as a political pursuit. There is no question in my mind that were their names not Biden, the president would never have done what he did....The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a “high crime and misdemeanor.”Yes, he did.The president asked a foreign government to investigate his political rival.The president withheld vital military funds from that government to press it to do so.The president delayed funds for an American ally at war with Russian invaders.The president’s purpose was personal and political.What he did was not “perfect." No, it was a flagrant assault on our electoral rights, our national security interests, and our fundamental values.Accordingly, the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of the public trust.
Thursday, February 06, 2020
Yay Mitt
A few key paragraphs in Mitt Romney's speech:
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He is right.
the republican party's Malcolm Turncoat
Ha. Why does the authoritarianism of Putin and the wannabe authoritarianism of his asset Trump appeal so much to you, Jason?
Soony has gone the full catallaxy
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1225173166512730112
As people say after that Tweet, if you think history is going to judge Romney as the one who's the loser for voting to impeach the worst President in anyone's lifetime, you have no freaking idea...
And no, just because he did the right thing here doesn't mean that people (like me) are going to revise our opinion of everything he did in the past. It was a bad look that he grovelled to Trump for an appointment; he was gaffe prone as a Presidential candidate, but as I indicated in a post in 2012:
https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-gaffe-tastic-mr-romney.html
it was probably a case that he would not stand up to the idiots in his own party (a problem shared by Turnbull.)
That he has finally stood up to his party (while still in the Senate), and when it matters a lot, is still a good thing.
"c" word violation, Graeme.
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