re: #181 Cheechako

The final Impeachment Bill will have to have more articles than just this “quid pro quo” issue. Think about it for a minute. “Quid pro quo” (trading something of value for some other item of value) has been the SOP of politics for years. It’s the old “you vote for funding my project and I’ll vote funding for yours”. Been around for ever.

I think this is one reason many politicians (Rep & Dem) think that what trump was doing was not really that bad. Historically, quid pro quo has been a standard and acceptable practice in all, Federal, State, County, and City bodies for what seems like forever.

All the other illegal and unethical practices trump has accomplished need to be incorporated into the Impeachment Bill.

I disagree with the premise of that statement.

I think it’s abundantly clear that both Dem and Rep politicians DO think that what Trump did was really that bad. I think politicians of both stripes spend their time carefully AVOIDING doing anything as blatantly corrupt as Trump did, and that they recognize it as A Bad Thing.

I think the Republicans feel they simply have no choice but to minimize it because otherwise they’ll be ripped to shreds by the Trumpkin base.