GOP, now's your chance to put country above party
By Froma Harrop / syndicated columnist
For Democrats, political reasons to avoid stepping on the road to impeachment still stand. But political complications have collapsed in importance compared with reasons to move ahead.
The burning issue is no longer ordinary corruption like President Donald Trumps skimming taxpayer money for his hotel properties or lying about payoffs to a porn star. Its not even major corruption, like asking a hostile foreign power to help him in the 2016 election.
It stems from Trumps astonishing decision to freeze millions in aid to Ukraine as he pushed that countrys leader to dig up dirt on his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden and Bidens son. Ukraine is under attack by Vladimir Putins Russia and needs that money for weapons to defend itself.
We know all this from the description of a whistleblower complaint by an alarmed official in national intelligence. The Trump administration shocked many by withholding his or her report from the House Intelligence Committee.
The issue is now national security. And to understand its seriousness, note that the Republican-led Senate unanimously consented to seeking the release of the whistleblowers complaint to the intel committees.
Until now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was putting all 10 fingers in the dam to hold off demands from the Democratic base to start the disrupting process to impeach Trump. Now Pelosi has gone ahead with an impeachment inquiry. This followed moves by moderate Democrats to drop their reluctance to go after Trump this way.
That should be a signal to all Republicans, not just swing-state ones. The dam is breaking.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/harrop-gop-nows-your-chance-to-put-country-above-party/
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,697 posts)Come 2020 in states where Senate Republicans running for re-election in the states Democrats need to not only win the White House, but retake the Senate as well.
How do US Senators in Iowa, Arizona, North and South Carolina, Maine, Colorado, Georgia, even Kentucky, defend Trump? If they stick with him, they will lose. Same goes for House Republicans all over the country.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Moral Compass
(1,513 posts)Ill have to go on to the website to get the 1st term House Republicans name, but his contention is that this isnt an impeachable offense...
Thats the talking point today
Most Republicans are not capable of putting country before party.
They are against democracy itself.
Fullduplexxx
(7,840 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,521 posts)referred to a country ruled by old white men.
Either that or they meant a certain genre of music.