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The Realities of Impeachment

by Taylor Lewis

 

I won’t say that impeachment is back in the news, because the removal of the President never left and has been a headline grabber since before Trump took the oath. Back then, desperate cable commentators tried in vain to convince Electoral College electors to throw the purple prize to, among others, a morose Paul Ryan.

 

#NeverTrump Republicans have mostly given up their quixotic quest to cashier Trump (with the exception of a red-faced Bill Weld floating the crackers idea of executing the President for treason). Hardline Democrats, however, aren’t deterred. The more progressive sort continue to call for impeachment, citing transgressions ranging from mean tweets to an abstruse constitutional clause that nobody heard of between the years of 1830 and 2016. “At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior -- it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it,” the young Stalinist star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, upping the pressure on Democrat leadership.

 

Now, something about Ukraine and Trump asking Volodymr Zelensky to look into Joe Biden’s sleazy son’s skullduggery in the former Soviet satellite has rekindled calls for impeachment. Never mind that the source of the allegation wasn’t present for the classified conversation. We’re also supposed to believe that, in the history of our republic, no other president quietly asked another world leader for dirt on their opponent. And you’ve already forgotten about that other business with a British foreign agent feeding factitious dirt to President Obama about Trump’s predilection for Muscovite strumpets, right?

 

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For all of Pelosi’s supposed political acumen, her hand was forced by the progressive rabble-rousers. This makes for a dramatic coup de théâtre, but it’s still only that: theater. Pelosi lost face, yes. But the humiliation will be downplayed by her media backers, who treat statecraft like so many three-act plays. And we already know the coming ending.

 

The Washington wisdom behind Trump’s impeachment makes sense until you venture three feet outside I-495. Within the DC groupthink bubble, impeachment is treated as a galvanizing force among voters not plugged in, Matrix-like, to the political scene. Michael Oakeshott was right when he wrote that “politics is a suitable subject for conversation -- perhaps that is all it is suitable for.” Politics holds the general imagination insomuch as it provides practical benefit to people. Sometimes it’s chatted about over coffee or a cigarette. Otherwise, it’s a bore, or, worse, a duplicitous farce. Impeachment is no different–just useless footler to tear off a sliver of a margin of undecided voters

 

Republican voters already know the other side doesn’t play fair. They also understand Trump isn’t about to be frog-marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, with Rep. Rashida Tlaib shoving a bayonet to his back.

 

The impeachment threat is for ripping off rubes with direct mail and occupying idle hours on CNN. Pelosi is playing Democrats for suckers. Meanwhile, the same liberal cable crooks and consultants laugh their way to the bank.



Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/the_realites_of_impeachment.html#ixzz60YB75vWP
 

 

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Of course it will never happen. (Pelosi knows that too. That's why she never held a congressional vote on this "inquiry.")

 

And indeed the whole spectacle might be amusing in a macabre sort of way if there weren't important things going on in the world.

 

The president is engaged in negotiations of tremendous significance with the Chinese and trying to neuter as much as possible the violent mullahs of Iran, but the Democrats don't care. In fact, they would prefer he fail, and seem to be doing everything in their power to make it so.

 

To call that un-American is an understatement. 

 

https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/why-the-democrats-have-gone-insane/

 

 

 

 

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Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

 

Every last House Democrat voted this evening to proceed with impeachment against the President of the United States based off of a whistleblower complaint they hadn’t read, filed by a person without firsthand knowledge, after the transcript today showed no impeachable offense.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vulnerable Democrats’ nasty hangover worsens today as members continue waking up to the reality that impeachment may not have been their greatest idea after all.

 

 

Quotes from House Democrats today after realizing the extent of the electoral nightmare they’ve created for themselves.

  • “I think we’ve set it up to be a no-win situation for frontliners, and it probably only becomes more of a no-win situation as we move forward,” one freshman Democrat said to the Washington Post. “I think we premised an impeachment inquiry on facts that we don’t know yet — on third-hand information, and this is what I think we’ve done poorly all along: We set expectations so high, and those expectations are never met.”

 

 

  • “This is going to suck all the oxygen out of the room… I am concerned that it will, in some way, take us away from the real business at hand, which are pocketbook issues for the people of our districts. You really are opening Pandora’s Box,” Congressman Van Drew said yesterday.

 

  • “It’s not a topic that comes up often except by activists, and that alarms me. The American people are not living and breathing national news cycles. I worry very much this will take a lot of Americans by surprise,” said Congressman Kurt Schrader.

 

  • “If I serve one term, and do it with honor and principle, and lose because of that, so be it,” said Congressman Dean Phillips, attempting to make peace with hastily sealing his own fate.
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This is quickly being shared across the twitterverse.......................and gobbled down by the likes of many posters here.

 

 

FAKE NEWS

 

The poll question was "If President Donald Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine in order to incentivize the country’s officials to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden, and his son, would you support or oppose impeachment?"

 

NOT "Do you support impeachment."

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This is quickly being shared across the twitterverse.......................and gobbled down by the likes of many posters here.

 

 

FAKE NEWS

 

The poll question was "If President Donald Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine in order to incentivize the country’s officials to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden, and his son, would you support or oppose impeachment?"

 

NOT "Do you support impeachment."

 

And -- despite people claiming it's proven Trump did this, it's anything but. 

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