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A few more votes would have been enough, nicht wahr? He didn't have to be convicted on both to be removed. 50/55 = 91% of Republicans voted to convict and remove him for the obstruction of justice charge.
Counter-factuals are always hard. Johnson only made it by 1 vote. Getting that last vote is likely to be very hard in almost any case one can imagine.
Sure, Democratic Senators weren't going to vote to remove him. That doesn't lessen the importance or decrease the severity of the Republican Senators' actions. Something's very messed up when a political party treats a vote at an impeachment trial as just another political battle because they know they'll lose.
And it seems weird to say after-the-fact that Clinton wouldn't be removed even if ... when the commenter was someone who voted for removal. :-/ But Uncle Ted was a bit of a weird character anyway ("... it's a series of tubes!!!11" ;-)
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Counter-factuals are always hard. Johnson only made it by 1 vote. Getting that last vote is likely to be very hard in almost any case one can imagine.
Sure, Democratic Senators weren't going to vote to remove him. That doesn't lessen the importance or decrease the severity of the Republican Senators' actions. Something's very messed up when a political party treats a vote at an impeachment trial as just another political battle because they know they'll lose.
And it seems weird to say after-the-fact that Clinton wouldn't be removed even if ... when the commenter was someone who voted for removal. :-/ But Uncle Ted was a bit of a weird character anyway ("... it's a series of tubes!!!11" ;-)
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.