True enough. I agree that’s not remotely productive.
Although I think Hillary’s flaws are more distinct than most of the rest of us. The problem, of course, was her opponent, whose flaws in turn dwarfed Hillary’s.
I agree that, in theory, that is true. That said, there are extreme situations in which such discourse ceases to be legitimate debate and purely becomes obfuscation and distraction. Of course, the trick is that people are unlikely to agree which those situations are.
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The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.
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Courts have nothing to do with it.
That addresses matters of procedure, assuming an impeachment to be valid. It does not (necessarily) address validity of grounds for impeachment in the first place.
And of course:
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The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
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If a court, even the Supreme Court, dared intervene, the Congress would rightly tell them where they could stick it. The Constitution expressly gives sole jurisdiction to Congress.
Congress gets to decide that too.
As I’ve also already said up-thread, that may be true, but until and unless it’s challenged by an impeachee, it remains an open question. The constitution contains a clause that would seem to limit the ability to impeach to “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” If Congress attempted to impeach for some grounds that is not a crime of some sort, I can certainly see the target raising that as a valid constitutional issue. Now, it’s possible that if and when that happens, the court will rule as you are saying, but I think it’s far from certain.
I have a prediction: 10 years from now, Bricker is going to look like a total jackass.
I have no problem with conservatives – true conservatives who advocate things like personal responsibility, limited government, and fiscal responsibility and who make such arguments in good faith. But what is referred to as “conservative” today is not at all conservative: conservatives do not advocate personal accountability, limited government, or fiscal responsibility. They’re not even remotely the party that advocates defending national security and instead seem to justify treachery. Today’s conservatism is a cult of scam artists who are motivated by religious superstitions and a fear of America becoming a society that is more tolerant and inclusive.
And if you ask us if we do anything
We’ll just tell you we don’t do anything
By what specific metric?
I’m guessing it’s not “…because of all the confident predictions he made that were wrong.”
I’m guessing it’s more “…because he had the audaciousness to be a conservative and not a liberal!”
But let’s see.
What kind of specific metrics might we employ to test this theory of yours?
Gary Johnson as president.
We all look like jackasses.
If Gary Johnson is president I’ll eat a bug, a la Sam Wang, and agree that we’re all jackasses to boot.
Humanity.
You’re saying he won’t be human? You’re saying he’ll look like a jackass because he’ll literally be a jackass, a physical member of the equus africanus asinus family?
Well, I suppose in that case his jackassery would be pretty easily to validate at least.
A super strong robot jackass! And I’ll be a super strong robot Adrienne Barbeau!
“Metric,” means (in this context) a agreed-upon standard of measurement. Merriam Webster gives, as an example, the sentence: No metric exists that can be applied directly to happiness.
So “humanity,” is not a metric.
To be specific, I think you hold a lot of positions right now that will be far out of the mainstream within a decade. As in 25% or lower approval rating. I think Trump will be hugely disgraced figure a decade from now, the same way Nixon was. You will look just as bad as Nixon’s defenders during Watergate look now. You are on the losing side of history with this.
Trouble with that argument is that **Bricker **is not, nor has ever been a Trump supporter in any way imaginable. He recognizes that Trump is a complete idiot and embarrassment.
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