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08 October 19
RSN: William Boardman | What Does "Impeachment" Mean to Democrats? They Don't Say.
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "This is not encouraging. The country has been in a deepening constitutional crisis for more than two stormy decades and now, belatedly, the speaker is proposing an umbrella?"
William Boardman, Reader Supported News
Boardman writes: "This is not encouraging. The country has been in a deepening constitutional crisis for more than two stormy decades and now, belatedly, the speaker is proposing an umbrella?"
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In the real world, Ukraine got its military aid (late) and the Ukrainian president did not get any White House visit. That would be a quid pro nunc. Whether anyone’s investigating the Bidens remains unclear, no matter how deserved. When you’re the VP of the United States and your son is getting $50,000 a month from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch and you don’t make a peep – well, whatever Joe Biden thinks his behavior was, it was not an example of integrity. And Biden still hasn’t owned up to it any more than he’s owned up to his more egregious gifts to his country: the Iraq War, Justice Clarence Thomas, and predatory credit card companies. To the extent that the official impeachment inquiry is designed to protect Joe Biden, it’s yet another corrupt Democratic Party scheme designed to interfere with an election and defraud the American public.
Right now, both parties are betting there’s a sucker born every minute and that won’t change. Come see the official impeachment committees swallow their umbrellas whole without a trace. Is there any reason to think America’s elected freakshow won’t keep the two-party con spinning indefinitely? The chair of the House Intelligence Committee can’t even admit the harmless truth about his early knowledge of the first whistleblower. How much of this incompetence is deliberate?
Without that kind of integrity and honesty, we’re not likely to get helpful answers to questions like these:
Do we want to allow presidents to use their office to enrich themselves?
Do we want to allow presidents to re-write laws without Congressional participation?
Do we want to allow presidents to attack the environment for the sake of private interests, at the cost of the public good?
Do we want to allow presidents to deny climate science at the cost of the public good globally?
Do we want presidents to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, rather than arbitrarily caging children against the law?
Do we want presidents to respect the rule of law and due process of law?
Do we want presidents to be accountable for their words and actions, especially when they incite bigotry and violence?
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