General Discussion

...most egregious thing imaginable--something so obviously horrible that members of the sitting president's own party are calling for it. Otherwise it is just a waste of time and political capital--more likely to be used against the party bringing it than against the perpetrator of the high crimes and misdemeanors.

Republicans are certainly not calling for anything in this case, and it seems too easy for them to brush this off as not even really being part of his duties as president--so nothing to see here. I can easily see them saying that when it comes to Turnip the standard is that only things directly related to the running of the country are fair game--not merely construction projects he might want to pursue. Of course, their standard would be jaywalking for a Democrat, but we expect that hypocrisy--it doesn't change the vote count.

All of the energy the Democratic party expends should be spent pursuing getting public sentiment on the side of undoing the damage that conservatives have done to our democracy over the last several decades--including, but not limited to:
- Getting corporate and dark money out of politics
- Restoring a robust education system in the U.S.
- Getting religion out of the public square
- Restoring balance to the Supreme Court
- Ensuring elections are actually free and fair
- Bringing more voters to the polls so democracy truly has a powerful voice
- Codifying the norms we all took for granted before the era of the Orange Abomination

Drawn out and futile impeachment debates do not further those goals IMO.