This topic has been retired.
Abuse of power is quite a bit more serious than obstruction of justice.
I just doubt that either of the two counts approved by the House will stand in the Senate. Something as serious as impeachment has to be on the basis of a bipartisan consensus that the president has got to go. But the Democrats are willing to rally 'round him, and the American voters, to which I referred in my previous note, didn't seem to be pushing for impeachment when they went to the polls. The GOP pretty much banked its prospects as being the party of impeachment, and in return the voters handed them the first loss of Congressional seats in the middle of an opposing president's term since 1934. Heck, we knew that even before the first election.