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Good point. What you want most of all in a political figure, particularly in the White House, is someone who stands completely outside of existing norms and standards. You wouldn't believe how much Mafia bosses get done in a week of activity.

Edit: I should add that this notion you advance will certainly appeal to any of the authoritarian leaders presently or previously holding power. The Nazis, famously, got the trains running on time. Constitutional democracies are just so damned inefficient we really ought to do away with them.

Lev Parnas photos with top GOPers

I thought I read your position to be that if the President/Governor is doing something within his power, the reasoning behind that decision completely doesn't matter. So Blagojevich had the power to appoint a senator. If the reason he appointed person A over person B is that A gave him money for the appointment it doesn't matter because the appointment was his. Likewise, the President controls appointments and US foreign policy and if he takes certain actions because a foreign government pays him to do so it doesn't matter because the decision is his. Did I get that right? Honest question.

The GAO Ruled Obama Broke the Law in 2014, But No One Called for His Impeachment

On Thursday, The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a legal opinion concluding that by withholding aid to Ukraine, the Trump administration broke the law because Congress had appropriated those funds and the executive branch, therefore, did not have the right to place any conditions on that aid being delivered.

Now, let’s forget the fact that Ukrainian officials were unaware there was ever any hold on the aid, or that said aid was actually delivered. The Washington Post claims that the foundation of the GOP’s argument against impeachment was “severely undermined” by the GAO ruling, and the left is foaming at the mouth on social media claiming this proves that Trump committed an impeachable offense and the ruling has justified impeachment.

Except, if a GAO legal opinion justifies impeachment, Obama should have been impeached.

Lev Parnas and his lawyer are both wearing American flag pins....that irritates me for some reason

Lev Parnas and his lawyer are both wearing American flag pins....that irritates me for some reason