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The GOP’s Opposition to Impeachment Is (Terrifyingly) Principled

...none of this (necessarily) means that the GOP’s defenses of Trump are unprincipled, only that its true principles remain unspoken. For Republicans, the question at the heart of both “Ukrainegate” and the impeachment inquiry is not really about what the president did, or what presidents can and cannot be removed from office for doing. Rather, it is about whether there is any distinction between Donald Trump’s political interests and America’s national ones.

To many conservatives, Democrats (and/or popular democracy) are a greater threat to America than Vladimir Putin.

...In a hyperpolarized political system — and in the face of demographic and ideological headwinds — many conservatives simply see little reason to value the maintenance of democratic norms above the preservation of their movement’s power.

rev, I was just being idealistic not realistic. In Kentucky they had a vote total of 1.5 million come out yesterday. Their "normal" vote total for an off year election is 0.9 million. It is a proven fact that large vote totals (for whatever reason) belong to Democratic happiness. That is the cause of Republican disengagement.

Trump has indicated privately to aides that not only does he not support Sessions run, but that he will actively oppose him.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump paid the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani $500,000 on behalf of a company co-founded by a Ukrainian-American businessman who helped Giuliani investigate Trump’s political rival Joe Biden, the supporter’s lawyer told Reuters on Thursday.

Reuters first reported the payment here last month but at the time Giuliani declined to disclose the exact source. He would only say that it was not foreign in origin and that it was payment for services he rendered to the company of the businessman, Lev Parnas.

The payment attracted attention because of Parnas’ role in helping Giuliani investigate former U.S. Vice President Biden, a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2020 election, and his son, Hunter Biden, who was a director of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

Parnas was arrested last month on unrelated campaign finance charges.

Charles Gucciardo, a personal injury lawyer from Long Island, paid the money to Giuliani Partners LLC, a management and consulting firm, on behalf of Fraud Guarantee, Parnas’ company, according to Randy Zelin, a lawyer for Gucciardo. He said the money was a loan to the Boca Raton-based company, whose website says it aims to help clients “reduce and mitigate fraud.”

“Mr. Gucciardo invested because he believed that Mr. Giuliani - the former Mayor of New York City; former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; and the first name in cybersecurity - was in front of, behind and alongside the company,” Zelin said, adding that his client’s politics are irrelevant.

The New York Times first reported late on Wednesday that Gucciardo paid the $500,000.

Obviously, Sessions knows a lot that would be damaging to Trump.

This was sloppy on my part — I was referring to the frat house behavior which he admitted to in high school;

the only incident I'm referring to is the Blasey accusation — which doesn't mean that any of the others are false, but they weren't as thoroughly investigated.

"Frat house behavior" is a term used to describe the sort of vomit-fests of privilege, machismo, and intoxication that Kavanaugh bragged about attending.

Oh, I see one of your signature licks...the DNC.

The DNC wasn't in charge of the hearings, nor was it a participant in the hearings. A lot of people were making a "big case" out of it, it was in the headlines for weeks.

A lot of people were making a "big case" out of it, it was in the headlines for weeks.

They can't "reverse" the election, comrade.

Let me explain. It already happened. He's been in office for nearly three years.

Is there anything you can't twist this combination of letters around in order to display your paranoia and fear?

The problem is the truth reflects negatively on trump.