BuddysBud said:
Eric wants to use precedent when it is convenient for his argument but ignore it (the House can make up its own rules about impeachment) when precedent doesn't support his argument. It is the same style that Pelosi uses. We can be 100% partisan in the House, but any Republican in the Senate who disagrees with illegally removing a duly elected president is partisan and must recuse himself.
Eric and the Democrats just keep showing how little they regard the law, the Constitution, and the citizens of the country.
That is all bull*****
I'm entirely at ease with the House setting their rules and the Senate setting their rules.
The question at hand is how the House notifies the Senate of their action. Considering that this is hardly the only time this arises, there has to be some kind of formal process by which one provides an official notice to the other of such actions.
It has absolutely nothing to with convenience of arguments.
Also, I have never called for any Republican to recuse themselves from the proceeding.
For that matter, I think the Democrats in Congress are really screwed up on this. They hardly started the investigation before saying it is complete. They haven't interviewed many witnesses that they need to interview. I think that a proper investigation should take a year or more and they are trying to compress it into a very short time period. It makes me wonder if they are even serious about it -- I think it is probably solely for publicity.
I don't like Trump but I don't see what they have as being sufficient for an impeachment.
What I do see in all this is that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have much concern for the Constitution and the law. For many members of both party, hyperbole trumps (no pun intended) the Constitution every time.