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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Sep 2019

      An explicit quid pro quo? No. But conservatives argued - properly so - that when Obama mused aloud about siccing the IRS on political opponents or prejudged that Hillary had done nothing indictable, he didn't have to be 100% explicit for it to be bad. Apply the same logic here.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Sep 2019

      I mean, we all learned in school that Henry II didn't have to say explicitly, "kill that meddlesome priest, please."

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Sep 2019

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      There are times when you acknowledge that you made an argument & lost it (I think the standard for impeachment is not what I wanted it to be in 1998), but if you just abandon your standards every time Democrats treat them with contempt, you will shortly have no standards at all. https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1176878342835965952 …

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Sep 2019

      "This should not result in impeachment" is a reasonable argument. "This was overhyped" is a reasonable argument. "Democrats also did awful things for which they should answer" is a reasonable argument. "There's nothing wrong with this picture" is not a reasonable argument.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Sep 2019

      The specifically overhyped part of this is that Trump never talks about U.S. aid at all. He spends much more of the call talking about Biden, investigations & Rudy. But that doesn't get him in the clear given the "I would like you to do us a favor though" when Zelensky raises it.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Sep 2019

      But the second problem here is the president asking a foreign head of state to cooperate with his personal lawyer on an investigation. That's extremely out of the ordinary, & there's a reason it's out of the ordinary.

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Sep 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Ron Coleman

      Traditionally (i.e., pre-Obama/Biden), we would ask other countries to cooperate in *our* investigations, but it would be much more unusual for the president of the United States to ask a foreign government to investigate a U.S. citizen.https://twitter.com/RonColeman/status/1176881368099360769 …

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      How is it a quid pro quo to ask a foreign government to investigate potential wrongdoing? Or is that off the table if the subject of the investigation is a relative of the other party's most powerful members? If so, that's a hell of a license for corruption.
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    8. franks_3111‏ @franks_3111 25 Sep 2019
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      Obama asked Ukraine to investigate Manafort in 2016.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 25 Sep 2019
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      WHICH WAS ALSO BAD

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        1. franks_3111‏ @franks_3111 25 Sep 2019
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          Except I don’t remember your condemnation then or anyone else’s, for that matter.

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