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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts) Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:47 AM Dec 2019

Jonathan Turley declared that this impeachment inquiry...

...had the "thinnest evidentiary record and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a President."

Okay, Johnny.

I seem to fairly recently remember a President being impeached for getting squirrely about a blowjob. That was it. That was the entire basis that Republicans sought to remove President Clinton from office.

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Jonathan Turley declared that this impeachment inquiry... (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2019 OP

Jonathan Turdley has really jumped the rails. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2019 #1

Same "libertarian" asshole who fervently argued for Clinton's impeachment dalton99a Dec 2019 #2

When Turdley comes on I am putting the TV on mute katmondoo Dec 2019 #3

Exactly. still_one Dec 2019 #5

He's the GOP witness, isn't he? blogslut Dec 2019 #4

Good God he's standing up for Andrew Johnson. nolabear Dec 2019 #6

To be fair, the actual impeachment argument against Johnson was flimsy. Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2019 #7

Yes but this isn't removal. nolabear Dec 2019 #8

I muted him too, but in fairness I believe the Clinton grounds were lying under oath. vsrazdem Dec 2019 #9

About an arguably immaterial matter of fact to a civil lawsuit. Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2019 #10

Agreed. vsrazdem Dec 2019 #11

Cheap trick struggle4progress Dec 2019 #12

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,731 posts)

1. Jonathan Turdley has really jumped the rails.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:49 AM

Dec 2019

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

2. Same "libertarian" asshole who fervently argued for Clinton's impeachment

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:54 AM

Dec 2019

katmondoo

(6,457 posts)

3. When Turdley comes on I am putting the TV on mute

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:03 PM

Dec 2019

still_one

(92,216 posts)

5. Exactly.

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:16 PM

Dec 2019

blogslut

(38,002 posts)

4. He's the GOP witness, isn't he?

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:08 PM

Dec 2019

I honestly don't know.

nolabear

(41,984 posts)

6. Good God he's standing up for Andrew Johnson.

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:16 PM

Dec 2019

Well, they have incompetence in common.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)

7. To be fair, the actual impeachment argument against Johnson was flimsy.

Reply to nolabear (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 12:18 PM

Dec 2019

It was basically a convenient excuse to get an admittedly terrible president out of office early.

Of the four Presidents who have had impeachment inquiries opened against them, only Nixon and Trump have merited removal based on the accusations made against them.