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Nikki Haley on Impeachment
“You’re going to impeach a president for asking for a favor that didn’t happen and — and giving money and it wasn’t withheld? I don’t know what you would impeach him on” — Nikki Haley to CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell
The impeachment inquiry is like “Seinfeld”; a show about nothing. Actually, “Seinfeld” was better – it was the original show about nothing, whereas this is the Democrat’s second show about nothing when it comes to Trump.
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I would call it a Rorschach impeachment. Whatever the Democrats see is an impeachable offense. If they think that X happened, that justifies Trump’s impeachment. If they then find out that not X happened, that instead justifies impeachment.
Bizarro-impeachment.
I would call it Hypnosis Impeachment. The Democrat masses (and their Stool Pigeons within our perimeter), being of the right mind to be responsive (i.e. totally submissive) to even the most ridiculous suggestions, see (or just parrot) exactly what the script writers weave into the selected data sets they leak into the public consciousness. They lack the skills and/or desire to think outside of that infantile comfort zone.
I note that people that favor impeachment are mostly unable to articulate what specifically they find impeachable. Most of them are probably think that Trump should not be allowed to override foreign policy decisions or being involved in criminal investigations, which are two duties that define the office of president.
In the future Disney should make a theme park called TDS-world where up is down and normal things are criminal and criminal things are normal.
I believe anything Nikki Haley says. If she says that what Trump did was not impeachable, I believe it’s not impeachable.
Trump is being impeached for being a Republican. Expect every other Republican to be impeached.
A democrat could eat babies on live TV while openly taking bribes from ISIS and keeping a harem of little kids, and the only democrats who would complain are his political rivals.
This ‘inquiry’ is nothing more than a mud slinging exercise where the mud has to be manufactured without any real dirt. That’s why the proceedings are secret. The public session will be used to highlight the parts they want us to see, the parts that support thier pre conceived conclusions.
If Nikki Haley isn’t one of the top voices of sanity in the Republican Party, I don’t know who is.
Don, stop writing all this stuff that I agree with all of a sudden. You are messing with my mind.
So, attempted political extortion is A-Ok, so long as A) The extortee calls your bluff and B) you fold because you were bluffing. Well, of all the idiotic Trumpian defenses……this may be the least dishonest and pathetic. So, kudos to Nikki for that much. Although it probably won’t make Trumpers happy, since its not denial or deflection.
This explains why the Nevers have turned against Nikki Haley over the last couple days.
I see you have downloaded the new talking points. (Note: now they use the word “extortion” because “quid pro quo” wasn’t working as well as they’d hoped.)
Yep. Media using “quid pro quo” always bugged me, since its not necessarily a bad thing. Its just a polite favor exchange. This otoh, was extortion.
Also . . . this should be a huge bombshell.
Washington Post: Nikki Haley says top Trump aides tried to recruit her to undermine President
No, it wasn’t. Stop the madness.
Nobody seems to care that this kind of bartering is not uncommon. Why doesn’t it matter that others did it and no one cared??
Ummm . . . Orange Man Bad?
The best I can figure out is that Trump is an outsider. He wasn’t part of the Beltway Club. They did not approve. He barged his way in and didn’t kiss the rings of the kingmakers.
And Republicans aren’t supposed to actually achieve conservative policy wins. They’re supposed to pretend they want them, and then get the sads when Democrats block them. It’s all been failure theater for years.
President Trump committed the Beltway sin of winning.
Duty bound to stick to the talking points.
I can almost hear them saying, “Well, Hell boy, how can we run on these winning issues in the next election if we actually fix them this term?”
What a desperate thing to say. You should look up the word extortion.
This whole thing is boiling down to what someone thinks was subjectively in Trump’s head when he talked to the Ukrainian president. He’s literally being impeached not because of the outward act, which could have been motivated by any number of intentions, but because the Dems simply assume they know what that intention was. It’s as if someone shot an intruder who was trying to attack them, and all the elements of self defense are present, but then someone finds out that the person who shot the intruder knew the intruder and actually owed him tons of money or had other reasons to want him dead, so he’s prosecuted for murder even though self defense was also possible. The point is that it doesn’t matter what was in his mind if the elements of self defense are all present.
But it’s even worse than that. Because even if they could read Trump’s mind and determined that all he was thinking about was getting dirt on a political opponent, it still wouldn’t be a crime. A president is entitled to use the powers of his office to enrich himself politically. Not personally or financially, but politically. Because “politically” means he’s doing it for his constituents, and for his view of what direction the country should take, not just himself. Presidents and politicians do this type of thing all the time.
In fact, the Dems are doing it right now.
It’s a complete farce. The Dems deserve to be decimated come next election.
Not harsh enough.
If not X happens, I fear all Hell will break loose.
LOL, I didn’t mean decimated in the old Roman military sense. Though that wouldn’t be a bad idea either. ;)
This. He has actually made keeping campaign promises his brand as president, and the House and Senate GOP loath the base, and always count on breaking every core party platform plank except the owns the Chamber of Commerce pays in full for fulfillment.
Mere decimation be counted as a landslide.*
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*10% of their roughly 50% of the voters would be 5%. That would mean a 55% plurality for the Republicans.
I think this explains Vindman, “Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the President, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country,” Haley wrote.“
I think Kelly found his stooge.
It’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out in the 2021-24 period, if the most hardcore of the #NeverTrump crowd are going to disqualify supporting anyone who wasn’t/isn’t a full throated Trump opponent in the 2017-2020 period (or 2021-24, if he wins re-election).
They already have Pence on the crossed-off list — if Haley’s a scratch, too, because she wouldn’t get on board for some type of usurpation or 25th Amendment invocation, they’re really going to start running out of GOP hopefuls in a hurry, if the single-issue they’re looking for is open hostility to Trump on virtually all issues, since Haley has criticized Trump since leaving her U.N. position when she’s thought he’s gone too far (might be time to get some white-out and change all those dusty Mitt ’12 posters to Mitt ’24 if that’s the game-plan).
Watch the Nevers who have spoken favorably of Haley. We have at least one among us who has suggested Haley run for President in 2024. If he suddenly switches to anti-Haley, we’ll know that the Never Narrative™ has permanently shifted.
It will be interesting to hear the future mechanization/justifications of the #NeverNikki movement in trying to explain their opposition outside of “She didn’t reflexively oppose Trump after she left her U.N. job“. Should make for some fun pretzel logic columns and podcasts.