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france.co.uk. The show may contain my tips for making money on bitcoin. It won't. It also may contain

explicit language and it really might. It's Monday December 16th 2019 from Slated to Gisdai,

Mike Pasca. Impeachment seems like a done deal. The entire house is to vote Wednesday. The

Senate is to take it from there and unless something really weird happens like Mitt Romney gets

a crisis of conscience that spreads like Ebola within his caucus, Trump will be acquitted. He will

then mark my words, conflate acquittal with exoneration, send out some fundraising letters on that

point, and then prominent Democrats noting that he sent out fundraising letters on that point,

will send out their own counter fundraising letters, and a vote that is likely to be 99% or more

along party lines will do nothing in so much as cement the power of partisanship. And partisanship

does run amaca. Oh, yes, it does. Today in the New York Times, veteran Watergate reporter Elizabeth

Drew notes, the impeachment process is barely functioning. Hyperpartisan politics and an

implacable president may break Congress's ability to check him. The current proceedings, Elizabeth

Drew writes, have demonstrated how fragile the Constitution's impeachment clause is. The idea of

the clause was to hold a president accountable for misdeeds between elections, but it's now clearer

than ever that it doesn't work very well in the context of a very partisan political atmosphere.

I am now going to offer you a counter argument. But first the caveats, here come the caveats, we

all love the caveats, cue the caveats theme. Okay, we have no caveats theme. But anyway,

here are the caveats. Yes, this impeachment is and will continue to be partisan, just the

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