Answer (1 of 16): Few American politicians have as thoroughly indicted themselves, their party, and the voting public in as few sentences as Marco Rubio has done. The five incisive sentences that lay out the case for his personal failure, Republican Party failure, and American failure are buried ...
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"Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office." What is your opinion of this quote from Marco Rubio?
Few American politicians have as thoroughly indicted themselves, their party, and the voting public in as few sentences as Marco Rubio has done. The five incisive sentences that lay out the case for his personal failure, Republican Party failure, and American failure are buried in lots of extra verbiage in
his statement, but they shine through anyway. Here they are (numbering mine, of course):
1.
Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office.
2.
Determining which outcome is in the best interests requires a political judgment — one that takes into account both the severity of the wrongdoing alleged but also the impact removal would have on the nation.
3.
And ultimately, voters themselves can hold the President accountable in an election, including the one just nine months from now.
4.
Can anyone doubt that at least half of the country would view his removal as illegitimate — as nothing short of a coup d’état?
5.
It is difficult to conceive of any scheme Putin could undertake that would undermine confidence in our democracy more than removal would.
Let’s look at the sheer amount of fail in those sentences
1+2 - “The ‘best interest of the country’ is determined on partisan and political grounds, not on whether the chief executive has any moral guardrails.” I might be able to stomach this argument if it was in the context of
personal immorality - Trump’s hush money payout to Stormy Daniels is evidence of his personal immorality, and technically is a violation of campaign finance law, but it does not implicate him in abuse of office, so I don’t see it as being impeachment worthy. Too bad Rubio’s making excuses for abuse of the powers of the national government.
2 - Marco, your gutless political calculation would look less gutless if it wasn’t justified by the wrong things later on. Bush the Younger argued that he should be re-elected because “we’re at war.” Here, the calculus is far more craven than that - it’s about whether Republicans would disapprove.
3 - Second biggest fail of the bunch. “Voters can decide in the upcoming election.” The upcoming election Mr. Trump was soliciting foreign interference in, which you have no intention of stopping? That election? Bit tough have a fair election in a blizzard of not just propaganda, but propaganda solicited by the US government on behalf of the incumbent.
4 - Biggest fail of the bunch. Partly because
removal is actually more popular than acquittal. (Though Rubio, a Republican, presumably hews to the line that non-Republicans aren’t real Americans, so only the opinions of Republican identified voters should be considered.) Partly because of the inherent presumption that the overwhelming Democratic victory in 2018 somehow did imply a national willingness to hold the President to account. Partly in the conflation of the use - or even abuse - of a legitimate legal process with a violent military takeover.
5 - No, actually, it’s not, and you’re participating in it right now. “Confidence in democracy” does not mean “our guy won.” Though again, I understand that is the GOP’s default position. Confidence in democracy - or more accurately in our democratic republic - means being able to believe that it’s constituent elements including the voters, the legislators, the executive, the judges, and the civil service, will work faithfully towards the betterment of the whole republic. And will do so in good faith and even if we don’t always agree on what “better” looks like or how to get there. You, Little Marco, are burning that down before my eyes. You are telling me, in so many words, that your “political calculation” to capitulate before the raging forces of nativism, authoritarianism, and idiocy the GOP helped unleash is somehow better for the nation than upholding your oath to the Constitution.
Which brings me to Biden below.
Shit, DOJ is holding up the release of 24 emails right now that would show bullshit all of these justifications for holding up the aid are:
Politico covered that 1999 memo. They FOX news now?
"let's move on!!" They basically lied to the American people, pushed that shit through State of The Unions, cost thousands of lives, maimed countless others, fucked up all kinds of shit and wasted BILLIONS ON LIES, and it was 
"cacs mad!" 
