GOP, now's your chance to put country above party

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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 Trump’s skimming taxpayer money for his hotel properties or lying about payoffs to a porn star. It’s not even major corruption, like asking a hostile foreign power to help him in the 2016 election.

It stems from Trump’s astonishing decision to freeze millions in aid to Ukraine as he pushed that country’s leader to dig up dirt on his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden’s son. Ukraine is under attack by Vladimir Putin’s 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 whistleblower’s 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]

1. Those Republicans who stick with Trump will pay dearly for this....

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]

2. The dam is breaking.

[Moral Compass]

3. Listened to part of an interview on NPR

I’ll have to go on to the website to get the 1st term House Republican’s name, but his contention is that this isn’t an impeachable offense...

That’s the talking point today

Most Republicans are not capable of putting country before party.

They are against democracy itself.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. whatever happened to country first

[Doc_Technical]

6. I think the phrase "Country First"

referred to a country ruled by old white men.

Either that or they meant a certain genre of music.

[Skittles]

5. the Greedy Old Pig party has not done that since before Reagan