task0778
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I do believe if the House had done their due Diligence, slowed things down and did it right, along with giving the republicans theirThe way that Schiff reset the impeachment proceeding rules in the House, that took any fairness off the table
in the Senate. The republicans had to put up with the sham in the House, and the democrats had to in the Senate.
If you're going to place blame, rise above your partisan indoctrination and blame both parties.
And, for you foreigners blabbering in our politics.....go kick start your anemic economy.
I'm tired of your sour grapes.
Frankly, I didn't think the Senate trial was a sham, like the House impeachment was. Basically they voted to acquit because the case didn't measure up to the level of impeachment and even if more witnesses and documents would've done a better job of proving their case, it just didn't warrant impeachment. So in this instance I don't see a reason to blame the GOP for anything.
day of Due Process and none of that closed door crap in the basement. The republicans might have helped clean up any questions
the House had when they were in the Senate. But, that didn't happen start to finish. All I've seen from the left is all the blame
is left on the Senates shoulder and the democrats take no responsibility in the botched trial.
First of all, Dems don't take the blame for much of anything, but neither do the Repubs for that matter. But in this case it sure looks like it was slap-dash with not much foresight. It was all hurry, hurry, hurry cuz Trump is an existential threat to our democracy, the constitution, and the next election, so they rushed it. Maybe they feared the courts would not rule in their favor if they challenged Trump's claim to executive privilege in court. But in any case the needle never moved in their favor and in fact might've started going a little the wrong way, so they sat on the Articles for a month for some reason that I can't fathom. But in so doing, they exposed their own narrative of the impending disaster that Trump posed, maybe they thought the wait would harm the vulnerable Repub Senators or make them more nervous. I can see the hope to retake the Senate, but basically they screwed themselves over with such a weak and incomplete case that those GOP Senators didn't feel pressured.
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