[Magdalen] Comey testifying

[Grace Cangialosi]

You're right about Nixon, Christopher.  

I have to confess that I don't even understand the point of impeachment. It doesn't get the person put of office--in fact, as far as I can tell, absolutely nothing changes.

It seems the only way you can get a president out of office is to invoke the 25th Amendment, which won't happen with this Congress, or for him to actually be convicted of a felony. And even in that case, with the likelihood of never ending appeals, a president's full term would be served before anything was actually done.

If I sound cynical, it's because I am.
No one seems to have the will or the courage to stand up as the pieces of our government are being dismantled and our rights eroded, one by one.  You know the story of the frog in the pot of slowly heating water--that's where I think we are, and no one seems willing to turn off the heat or take the pot off the stove.


> On Jun 8, 2017, at 6:55 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:55 AM James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Point of order - Three presidents have been impeached.  None convicted
>> (Nixon resigned before he could be tried in the Senate).  Impeach = indict,
>> not convict.
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I don't believe that Nixon was actually impeached by the House of
> Representatives. The investigating committee recommended articles of
> impeachment, but I think he resigned before the full House ever acted on
> them. He doubtless would have been impeached though had he not resigned.
> 
>> --
> 
> Christopher Hart
> 
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