Impeachment
Nov. 10th, 2006 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoI just posted this as a comment, but since the topic keeps popping up, I thought I make it a broader post.
Here's my basic problem with impeachment:
Unless you have 67 votes in the Senate ready to convict, it's utterly a waste of time, and gesture politics at its worst.
Tell me who the 16 Republican Senators are who would be willing to vote for conviction. Name names.
And, yes, I said this throughout the Clinton impeachment (with the parties reversed).
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My secondary problem with impeachment was, for a long time, you had to go deep into the line of succession to find a decent human being (Norm Mineta, who has since retired).
Admittedly, the number of people needing to be removed will become shorter sometime in January.
Here's my basic problem with impeachment:
Unless you have 67 votes in the Senate ready to convict, it's utterly a waste of time, and gesture politics at its worst.
Tell me who the 16 Republican Senators are who would be willing to vote for conviction. Name names.
And, yes, I said this throughout the Clinton impeachment (with the parties reversed).
*^*^*
My secondary problem with impeachment was, for a long time, you had to go deep into the line of succession to find a decent human being (Norm Mineta, who has since retired).
Admittedly, the number of people needing to be removed will become shorter sometime in January.
