I don’t like it, so I won’t cooperate.
The House should vote to impeach relatively soon, and then if the Senate acquits, they should just keep adding charges after beginning another impeachment inquiry into one (or several) of the veritable cornucopia of possibilities. Trump's tax returns might turn up another round of offenses within a few weeks or months. I guess the argument against is that it cheapens the potency of impeachment? In the meantime, any important bipartisan laws can be passed, but there's not much point to attempt passing anything remotely progressive, since McConnell's got his self-described "legislative graveyard". Edit: Along came a perfect example of bipartisan legislation: Senators Lindsey Graham and Chris Van Hollen introduce plan for sanctions against Turkey No one associated with the Ukraine area of the impeachment inquiry has defied a subpoena yet, so they can't be held in contempt of Congress. It's coming, though.
I like this idea more than worrying about the potency of impeachment. It would be funny as all hell if they kept bringing impeachment proceedings against him. The Republicans would look stupid as hell acquitting him over and over again on laundry lists of new charges. Would really drive home how stupid this all is.they should just keep adding charges after beginning another impeachment inquiry into one (or several) of the veritable cornucopia of possibilities.
I hear this sentiment from some very liberal friends of mine every time the current US administration does some ridiculous shit - "well, now everyone will realize that Trump is stupid/a criminal/a Russian puppet". Everyone who is capable of intelligent thought has already realized the idiocy of the situation, and everyone who still hasn't caught on will deny any wrongdoing no matter the evidence presented. Republicans aren't afraid of looking stupid, they only care about being in power - because that is the only thing that really matters.
Linguistic subterfuge. Every time they tie the proceedings to "unprecedented" language, they use the term "Investigation". Every time they refer to the actual thing that has begun - the Inquiry - they use the proper term, "inquiry". And inquiry is not an investigation, and is not bound by the same principles. It's the thing you do before a trial, to make sure you have all the pieces and parts to the whole puzzle.
The problem is that there won't be anything resembling a trial in the Senate. Mitch is gonna say something like "And here, now, we will discuss the articles of impeachment: They have been sent to us by the House on a more-or-less party-line vote. Now that we have discussed these cLeArLy PaRtiSaN impeachment articles, we will take a vote this instant, because we need to acquit this poor, persecuted dictraitor so he can get back to fucking shit up, stat."