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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rachel Maddow explains how Democrats are overthinking impeachment: 'Who cares who it's good for?' [View all]
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/rachel-maddow-explains-how-democrats-are-overthinking-impeachment-who-cares-who-its-good-for/?comments=disqusMSNBCs Rachel Maddow said the political considerations of impeachment are beside the point.
Maddow appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers, where she told the host that Democrats had a constitutional duty to investigate President Donald Trump by opening an impeachment inquiry regardless of the unknowable political consequences.
If a president commits high crimes and misdemeanors, she said, the way the Congress is supposed to hold him accountable is by opening an impeachment inquiry, doing an investigation and then voting on whether or not they think that it rises to that level.
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Whether or not that hurts the president, helps the president, hurts the Democrats, helps the Democrats, A, is unknowable and, B, should be beside the point, Maddow said, and if you are doing it for the right reasons I think you are more likely to persuade the country that youve done it for the right reasons, rather than you having tried to think everybody around the corner in terms of how this is supposed to work out.
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Rachel Maddow explains how Democrats are overthinking impeachment: 'Who cares who it's good for?' [View all]
Javaman
Jun 2019
OP
No! If it hurts the Democrats people like us are screwed for more years to come.
wasupaloopa
Jun 2019
#3
What the hell is this "we need to educate the American people" shit? The American people will not
wasupaloopa
Jun 2019
#44
Why do you believe 2020 will be more free and fair than 2016 or 2018 senate races?
uponit7771
Jun 2019
#66
Daily televised hearing when there isn't a helicopter crash or mass shooting. I really doubt there
wasupaloopa
Jun 2019
#50
If we don't impeach Trump there is no way we will have enough energy to retake the senate
standingtall
Jun 2019
#64
Plus, what's discovered and made public will educate the masses and build support.
Ligyron
Jun 2019
#26
It's odd, Nadler & House Judiciary are conducting an investigation into Trump's crimes...
CaptainTruth
Jun 2019
#13
Why do you believe the other side will learn from you? The right will never agree with you. NEVER!
wasupaloopa
Jun 2019
#54
Combine this with Tribe's third option impeachment and this might be the right analysis. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2019
#34
Somehow it makes more sense for someone to analyze and dertermine policy and path
Laura PourMeADrink
Jun 2019
#89
If **Congress** did, yes, but there's a distinct part of Congress preventing that...
JHB
Jun 2019
#82
As expected, anyone for impeachment is then criticized by some naysayers on DU.
Nevermypresident
Jun 2019
#80