Still hot. Still summer.
Nothing more of interest to report.
It appears there is now proof the whole Russian collusion hoax was perpetrated by the Obama administration with help from the Clinton campaign.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have one, just one, Democrat who voted to impeach Trump do the decent thing and apologize for voting based on bad and fake information?
It will never happen in this political age. As aways, it is about power.
The radical Republicans did the same thing to Johnson during reconstruction.
We don’t hate politicians enough.
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We've known this for 8 years....................
Yep
Andrew Johnson was a Southern sympathizer who actively undermined Reconstruction and vetoed civil rights protections for freed slaves. Radical Republicans didn’t impeach him over a fake scandal—they did it because he stood in the way of reuniting the nation on equal terms.
Comparing Johnson to Trump only makes sense if you believe Trump, too, stood in the way of a multiracial democracy. And frankly, many of us might agree.
Congress passed a law stating only they could fire a Cabinet member and when Johnson fired Stanton they impeached him .
The impeachment was spurious just like the ones against Trump
Johnson’s vision for reconstruction was basically Lincoln’s and the radical Republicans wanted punishment of the rebellion states not reconciliation.
The radical Republicans tried to defeat Lincoln in 1864 primaries that’s why Lincoln and Johnson won as The National Union Party, not Republicans
Joe, you're right that Johnson was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act—an act many saw as unconstitutional and which was eventually struck down. But calling it "spurious" skips over the deeper issue: Johnson wasn’t just firing someone—he was actively working to dismantle Reconstruction.
Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, opposed the 14th Amendment, and used the pardon power to restore ex-Confederates to political life—all while blocking efforts to protect newly freed slaves. That’s what had Radical Republicans alarmed. The Stanton firing was the legal pretext, but the real issue was a president using his power to undermine the post-war rebuilding of a multiracial democracy.
As for your point about Lincoln and Johnson running under the "National Union Party" in 1864—that’s accurate in name, but a temporary rebranding to attract War Democrats. Lincoln was still very much a Republican, and Radical Republicans still supported him over McClelland. The idea that they tried to “defeat” him in the primaries doesn’t really hold up—primaries as we know them didn’t exist yet, and Lincoln faced no serious challenge for the nomination.
Finally, to equate Johnson’s impeachment with Trump’s misses some critical distinctions. Trump wasn’t impeached for a technicality—he was impeached first for pressuring a foreign government to interfere in a U.S. election, and later for inciting an insurrection. Whether one agrees or not, those are charges of profound consequence—not just political rivalry.
We don't hate ANY politicians enough
Yep.
"...he was impeached first for pressuring a foreign government to interfere in a U.S. election, and later for inciting an insurrection."
Both were lies cooked up and set up by Demonrats.
CA
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