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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (136133)	9/20/2019 5:44:08 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358344

If true, this reminds me a lot of the Watergate break in. In both cases, it is an attempt to gin up dirt on an opponent. In both cases, even if successful, it does nothing to improve the candidate's position. In the case of Nixon, he pretty much had a lock on the presidency. In Trump's case, Biden is unlikely to be the candidate for a number of reasons. In both cases, the potential for blow back is enormous because it is going to come out sooner or later. In other words, it is stupid,. Edit: the coverup just magnifies the problem.

To: bentway who wrote (136133)	9/20/2019 6:05:11 PM
From: combjelly	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway kidl Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 358344

From a Quora post asking about the most surprising thing about the latest... This was the very topic of conversation last time I got together with my lawyer friends, and the consensus was that the most surprising thing is that it is way easier than any of us thought to just straight up ignore the Constitution. I don’t think it would be possible for Democrats, if only because of the “empty space” advantage, wherein senators from relatively unpopulated states get the exact same voting power as senators from densely populated states. So as long as one party makes a concentrated effort to convince a few thousand Montanans or Alaskans to vote their way, they can take over the Senate, and as the only body with the authority to impeach elected officials, they get carte Blanche to do whatever the hell they want. Let me emphasize that this has nothing to do with political affiliation or belief. It’s a massive gap in the Constitution that nobody has ever had the wherewithal to do before, at least not this brazenly. But now that we all know it can be done, more will follow.