At some point doesn't the issue of the House impeaching Trump...

[Girard442]

...stop being a political calculation and become a moral issue? Seems to me that when enough dreck comes out, those who don’t support impeachment start looking like co-conspirators.

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. Because they are.

[guillaumeb]

2. Morality?

The GOP wants power. All else is a disguise.

[Girard442]

5. I'm talking about the incoming Dem majority.

Do they, at some point, go ahead with impeachment even when conviction in the Senate can’t happen?

[brooklynite]

15. No....

Because Impeaching him and NOT GETTING A CONVICTION would be worse.

In the eyes of the average votes who doesn't hang out on political blogs and who doesn't watch hours of political news, you just acquitted him.

[LanternWaste]

17. Politically, rather than ethically.

"NOT GETTING A CONVICTION would be worse..."

Politically, rather than ethically; the rest of your fortune cookie merely lacking any evidence to support it. Again.

[marylandblue]

3. No, impeachment was always intended to be a political issue.

[elocs]

11. No, it's more important to make sure Trump is a 1 term president

rather than scoring some moral victory.

[rockfordfile]

13. Then if Trump is still the nominee in 2020

With the things coming out now and later are clearly impeachable. I as a voter would say, "well why didn't the Democrats do something about it, they had the House".

For Trump he could say, "hey if what I did was so bad then why didn't they do something about it?".

[elocs]

16. Then you do all you can to defeat Trump and not pout about no impeachment

because impeachment does not remove a president from office without conviction by the Senate and that's not going to happen.
Defeating Trump with an electoral victory however does remove him from office. This is a very simple concept.

[NewJeffCT]

4. agreed

as more and more evidence comes out, it really is not a political issue, but an American issue of criminal justice.

[Bradshaw3]

6. Agree nt

[Garrett78]

7. As Lawrence O'Donnell has said the past 2 nights, we simply cannot send the message...

...that a president can do whatever the hell the president wants to do, that the president is above the law. That's an incredibly dangerous precedent.

Impeachment will be a must. If Republicans refuse to convict, that's on them.

And anyone drawing a comparison to the failed attempt at removing a president who lied about having an affair needs to stop with that foolishness.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. I was just thinking that this morning.

What Trump has done has transcended normal politics. It is a matter of law at this point, and he broke it, and there need to be consequences. Or at least an attempt at consequences.

We shouldn't resign ourselves to the notion that the best we can hope is that maybe he gets voted out in 2020. Good Presidents, as well as bad, get voted out. (See Carter, James Earl). Criminals, on the other hand, are called to account for their actions.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. Indeed.

[beachbum bob]

10. Impeachment has nothing to do with morality, its political, always.

[onecaliberal]

12. If there are not grounds to impeach trump, then impeachment can never be used for anyone.

[Atticus]

14. Agree, but be advised: when I suggested something like that a couple of months ago,

critics came out of the woodwork. Maybe the tide has begun to turn.

[Voltaire2]

18. It is well past that point.

[elfin]

19. I don't think the Dems will start impeachment UNTIL

Enough Repubs ask them to do it.

And they should say that if our own base starts screaming about it.