OaktownBear said:
Have to agree with this. Think about it. In many cases a secret vote could make it more likely that an innocent President would be removed from office. The senators need to be held accountable for their vote. Ultimately, if republican voters choose to ignore the rule of law and make it impossible for their candidates to do what is right and still win their nomination, those voters get punished in the general election by watching their candidates go down in flames.
Personally, I don't buy the line of thinking here. Too many false equivalencies that miss the point.
1. Hunter Biden getting that job was an abuse of power.
Duh. But it's the kind of abuse of power that goes on constantly in this country, both within the corporate and governmental sectors. Nepotism happens everywhere when someone has the power to make it happen.
More importantly, Joe Biden is not the president. You'll have a damn hard time impeaching him from an office he doesn't hold.
2. The Democrats don't have any moral authority.
You don't need moral authority to prove someone else abused their power. There are judges and attorneys out there who haven't led clean lives. DUI's, misdemeanors, etc. Somehow the cases get tried anyway. Everyone knows that all politicians abuse their power to make more money, to get themselves cushy jobs when they are out of office, etc. That doesn't mean that when your president is so stupid to do all of these things in plain sight that you can't call him on the carpet for it.
3. Impeachment is too boring and won't change anyone's mind as a result.
The point is not to entertain. The point is to bring those in power to answer for abusing that power. If people don't find that more entertaining than the latest Tyler Perry movie, that's their problem.
Look, everyone knows how this is going to end. Democrats wag their fingers, Republicans obfuscate, the House votes to impeach, the Senate acquits. Just like we knew Kavanaugh was going to be confirmed. You still have to bring all the facts to light and let the chips fall where they may.
And the notion that putting the facts in front of undecided voters (though I honestly don't know how anyone could be undecided in a contest between Random Person X and Trump) is going to somehow hurt the Democrats is pure folly.
