Called wafer thin evidence. This is where impeachment becomes the norm rather than the exception. Thats not how our Founding Fathers intended. They wanted impeachment to be rare. They set a high bar for impeachment. Alleged abuse of power, the first article is not a high crime or misdemeanor. In fact its not even a crime. Since there is no concise Legal Definition of abuse of power the Majority Party in the house can designate nearly any disagreement with the president are now in an Impeachable Offense. The second article produced a similarly dangerous precedent. Its a practice that began with George Washington and its not obstruction of congress. Rather its a function of the essential checks and balances contemplated under the constitution. It is what every Grade School Student in america knows but apparently House Democrats do
not. Let the third branch of government decide to come up they are the referees. The house has never, i repeat never, approved an abuse of Power Roi Obstructio
remarks to the future. today s vote will be judged by future generations including my precious children abby and nathan, and may be granted, i could grandkids. historians will study what members of this congress did when our democracy was tested like never before by a present to personal interest above country and they are not even calling the constitutional impeachment mechanism unconstitutional. historians will marvel how some members of congress continue to stand by this man. how they put blind partisan loyalty or fear of donald trump about their duty to defend the constitution. how they made absurd partisan arguments to obstruct the proceedings and how pushing back when their party fell under the dark spell of authority autism and they embraced it as the