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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
 


Donald Trump has already put his presidency on the line, by acting like Tony Soprano with the leader of Ukraine.

That phone call was a shakedown for a political favor, with a thinly-veiled threat to withhold foreign aid the small nation relies on to fend off Russian aggression.

Now, following another phone call between Trump and Turkey’s president, we are suddenly pulling back U.S. troops to make way for Turkey’s planned invasion to clear the Kurds out of the border zone in Syria.

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If Turkey crushes the Kurds, and the tens of thousands of ISIS fighters they are holding prisoner escape, they could return to being active terrorists who might attack us, particularly our troops still in Syria.

Meanwhile, we are left to question the motivation behind Trump’s decision. Is this about the lives of Americans and Kurdish people? Or protecting a business partnership with Turkey worth millions to him?

We shouldn’t have to wonder. Yet until Trump releases all his tax returns, and divests from his global businesses, this will always be an easy way for a foreign official to exert leverage on him – much like he’s accused of doing with Ukraine.

Thanks to Trump’s personal history of grift, the message to our allies across the globe is clear: The blood you shed for America means nothing. Come back when you’ve got something lucrative to offer him.
 


Is it constitutionally acceptable for the House speaker to initiate an impeachment “by means of nothing more than a press conference”? In short, yes.

The constitutional text on this issue is spare. The Constitution simply says that the House has the sole power of impeachment. Ultimately, if the House wants to impeach someone, it needs to muster a simple majority in support of articles of impeachment that can be presented to the Senate. How the House gets there is entirely up to the chamber itself to determine.

There is no constitutional requirement that the House take two successful votes on impeachment, one to authorize some kind of inquiry and one to ratify whatever emerges from that inquiry. An impeachment inquiry is not “invalid” because there has been no vote to formally launch it, and any eventual impeachment would not be “invalid” because the process that led to it did not feature a floor vote authorizing a specific inquiry.
 
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