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Wanglicious posted...

you can say it's the quid pro quo but that's the same way perjury was the crime with Bill: we all can see the underlying reason and that it's bullshit

It's not though, you (and most people) just don't give a shit about why the systems are in place. It's the same weak argument as Gabbard's no vote.

The entire point of impeachment is that it can only used on very specific high crimes that damage the office of the presidency. It has nothing to do with judgment of a president. Causing a great depression is not impeachable. Rallying for nazis to shoot up journalists in not impeachable. Assassinating American citizens by executive order is not impeachable. But despite how stupid it sounds, lying under oath about a blowjob IS 1000% unambiguously by definition grounds for impeachment.

You might think that secretly trading US foreign aid in exchange for personal political favors is as harmless as lying about a blowjob, but it still is unambiguously an abuse of the office of the presidency. That's it. If the house ignores it, like they did all the other impeachable offenses, then they are failing their most basic job.

So you're right that it's bullshit that this is the first issue the house actually moved to impeach on. It should have been way, way earlier. But that doesn't change that this issue needed to be impeached.

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