Impeachment is not just about the trial and conviction in the senate, far from it. There are different fruits to be harvested.There are many politicians and pundits who are only focusing on the idea that impeachment in the house is only meaningful if the senate finishes the job and removes Trump.
That's just so wrong.
Some thoughts:
First, keep the hell away from anything to do with Russia. Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice. That is huge and it is enough. He is guilty of forcing security clearances for people who were not worthy. It appears he is preventing a full-throated defense of our election system from foreign influence and interference, And he may be guilty of violating the emoluments clause. Probably. Then there are Trump's personal and corporate taxes. There's almost certainly a huge treasure trove there.
That is enough of a shopping list to go after. There may be more and it is worth exploring the other possibilities.
it will take well over a year for the battles between the House Democrats and Donald Trump to work their way through. It is already a sh*t show and it will get worse. It will show Trump and his appointees for what they are-- corrupt, dishonest, exploiting their roles in government, totally disrespecting the law and the constitution. If the Republican in the Senate and the SCOTUS do as expected, they will enable this corruption. That will come across loud and clear to the independents and Republicans who are not blinded by cultish loyalty to Trump-- and there are millions of them.
Even if Mitch McConnell and his band of traitorous colleagues block conviction in the Senate, the nation and the world will convict Trump in their hearts. That will only happen if the House proceeds with hearings and investigations.
The good news is that it appears that the idea of investigations and hearings IS on the table. Call them investigation hearings or impeachment hearings, either way, they are a good thing. I'd love to hear your thoughts on advantages or disadvantages of how the hearings are framed.
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)