My Thoughts (and yours) about Impeachment and Trial

Note: If I sponsored a challenge, I would conclude it with posting a winner instead of skulking because someone’s post beat the sponsor’s post (aka, not everyone thinks the exact way you do - so get over it).

They don’t count for anything! Just shut up, lay back, think of England, and pay up.

Article 2, Section 4

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

The first step involves the House of Representatives formally charging a government official with high crimes and misdemeanors.

The second step involves a trial in the Senate to convict (or acquit) and remove.

Impeachment and the House of Representatives involvement ended with impeachment.

Impeachment does not mean removal.

Impeachment means charged with a crime of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Conviction means two-thirds of the US Senate votes to remove the government official.

Stop believing the process requires your thoughts or emotions.

Impeachment and Trial only requires taxpayers to pay for the proceedings.

Nothing else. Just shell out more money and shut up!

You can’t vote for anything. You can’t express your opinion to people who will not listen.

You will be required (SILENTLY) to finance the politicians, their lawyers, the paperwork, their billable hours, their expenses, their food, their transportation, their parking, their healthcare, their clothing, their aids, their internet access, their fact-finding missions, their flights from the Senate trial to campaigning in Iowa, their flights back, their TV exposure, their marketing of their speech of the day, their makeup, their haircuts, their bullet pens, their fanfare, their paperwork, their research, and everything else government bilks the taxpayer for.

Then there will be arguing and you will finance all of this also.

Then there will be more arguing and another tab to pay.

Then finally, there will be a vote.

A conviction and removal of office will occur when a super-majority of the Senate (67 Senators) vote for a conviction.

The US Senate is (almost) split evenly between the Democrats and the Republicans and while a few may-or-may-not vote against party lines; the majority will and always will.

Thus, this entire use of taxpayer financed funds will amount to little surprise to anyone except the Biblically clueless that it was all for naught, all a financial fiasco, a complete waste of time and money.

Of course, until the next election, and every day thereafter, the Democrats will say the Republicans voted to hide a crook and the Republicans will say the Democrats are still sore about November in 2016.

When I see well-dressed politicians, in first class seats on a plane, eating 5 star cuisine, travelling here and there with scores of similar aids and legal representation, laughing all the way to the bank, I wonder why anyone keeps falling for these charades that transfer capital, borne by the sweat of taxpayers, to charlatans pulling all of the strings.

Prove me wrong. Present your best argument. Whether you do this before or after you fill out your 1040 forms is your business.

Your answer may change accordingly.