blort wrote:
agip wrote:
F'in Ben Sasse wrote an essay defending his position
AND NEVER EVEN MENTIONED A BIDEN OR AN INVESTIGATION INTO BIDENS.
To Sasse's credit, he agrees Trump made bad mistakes and shouldn't have done what he did.
But Sasse, and other R senators, completely ignore, push aside, don't mention that Trump was attempting to corrupt our elections.
Sasse only talks about the delay in aid.
Un f-in believable.
Rs still are able to shock me for some reason.
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I think what republicans and democrats (and all of us) should ask themselves is what would my opinion be if Obama had done this. Just say Trump was running against Obama in 2008. Trump had some, possibly shady, business dealing in the Dominican Republic. Congress had voted aid for the DR after a hurricane. Obama has a conversion with the DR president and wants a favor. Can you investigate Donald Trump's business dealings in the DR. And he withholds the aid. Do you think this is wrong? Is it impeachable? If not what should be done? Then what if during the house investigation Obama refuses to allow any of his staff to testify to the house. Refuses to hand over anything except a sort of transcript of the call. Would you be okay with that?
If you are a democrat would you come up with all the same excuses the republicans have? If you are a republican would you have the same anger that democrats do?[/quote]
I'd say that no other president would have gotten away with what Trump did. None of them have had a stranglehold on his party's senators like Trump does. Not supporting Trump can end a career in politics.