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The Impeachment Is Just the Beginning
The frenetic energy of Schiff, Nadler, et al., as they cajoled and scolded the Senate, reminded me of young children exhausting their last reserves of energy, lost in inane argument over bedtime. Of course, we love our children and kiss them as we tuck them into bed. The House Managers, not so much. Yet, there they were, protesting that the Senators weren’t listening, insisting that they’d missed the point. Couldn’t they see that Trump is bad? The House Mangers provided a way to justify his removal! The Senate remains unmoved? It just isn’t fair!
The House Managers/Democrats were never going to pull this off for a host of reasons, but primarily because the funds were released, on time and without any Ukraine investigation into the Bidens or an announcement of an investigation. The rest is all backstory and a lot of noise.
But it is not all noise.
Post-acquittal, the Democrats will continue to cry foul, claim cover-up, and delegitimize the results of the Senate trial. The fact that the impeachment itself was rushed, partisan and patently unfair to the President will be lost in their noise. But there will be more to the story.
The Bidens will continue to be questioned and investigated and (remember you heard this here first) Joe Biden will quit the primary. His health, of course, will be cited as the reason for quitting. Second, there will be an investigation into the so-called whistleblower and the truth will come out – that he worked for Biden, that he helped squelch any backlash related to the Burisma/Hunter Biden conflict of interest, that his whistleblower complaint failed to disclose prior contacts with Schiff’s staff, and that his complaint was part of an orchestrated plan to set up the President for impeachment. He will face perjury charges and perhaps much worse.
If we have learned anything about Donald Trump, he is a man of his word and he is relentless. I would not bet against him.
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The Democrats are now turning to Bloomberg in hopes he can win by spending his fortune. They just changed the rules to allow him in the next debate.
You would think the Texas legislature special election would be a warning. I think BREXIT was a warning they ignored, too.
Yes good call
Remember the day care hysteria, the recovered memories hysteria and similar mass hysterias? One would have thought that modern society would be beyond that but the national and local press has focused on these to drive financial goals. The Media is now running the Democrats, not the other way round.
There’s no justice as the long the government, as it is constituted today, remains.
Guess my head goes on a pike next. Hope the view is excellent from atop it!
Pikes for these dudes, too!
And dude-ettes. My bad. Pikes all around!
In other words her vote on a very important question was determined by whether she felt insulted; real adult behavior that. Talk about doing the right thing for the wrong reason!!
Except it won’t be two weeks, they already have several options lined up they just need to do some polling to see which one might get the best results. Impeachment again? That depends on whether the polls indicate that Independents are disgusted with Dems for wasting time and effort on the failed impeachment or are blaming Trump for the whole fiasco we’ve just been through. You will know which way this is going by watching what the MSM does from now to Nov. If they drop the talk of impeachment that means the polling says it was a failure in terms of moving undecideds against Trump. But make no mistake they haven’t exhausted their arsenal by a long shot. I have no idea what trick they will pull next but don’t be shocked when they don’t give up and play fair.
That’s how we got Collins on the right side for Kavanaugh. She felt pushed and bullied by her constituents and voted the right way for a change. Having heard news that this bullying was happening again, I was sure she’d be a no. But no.
Look here: http://ricochet.com/619162/archives/too-clever-by-half-2/
There are losts of ninnies among us. Early in my career when my children were in gradeschool we lived in a small town in Fairfield County, CT. The NYC news stations would hype every oncoming winter storm as the storm of the century and my neighbors would strip the shelves of the local Stop and Shop. Funny thing; you could not find a single loaf of bread in the grocery store, but next door at “Francis’ Bakery” you could find an overflow of the most delicious eastern European baked goods, including a loaf of rye that God Himself serves in heaven. In their panic, the ninnies walked right past the proper place to find a worthy last meal. The same thing used to happen in Miami when the forming of a tropical depression was announced in the lower Antilles.
I like your thinking . . .
“News” media monetizing fear. They hype the danger so frightened people track the news more assiduously. This yields more eyeballs to the screen, more market share, more advertising dollars.
This has worked so well for them that they’ve upped their game from weather threats to climatic perils.
And closer to the subject of the OP, the Democrats and their fellow-travelers are following the same strategy: “The Trump presidency is an existential threat to our constitutional government.”
(Not quoting any particular person, just the nature of their argument.)
I’m beginning to think that the Democrats have already given up on 2020. They’re pushing the impeachment to this ridiculous extreme so it won’t be unprecedented when they do it again.
Probably that too. Although I think they have no other choice. When they stop attacking they must defend – and there is no actual defense for anything they’ve done from Hillary’s emails to Michelle Fields to Very Fine People Hoax to Stormy Daniels to Campaign Finance Hoax to Kavanaugh Sc Lynching to Russia Collusion Hoax to Ukraine Hoax, and also very probably deep corruption involving foreign aid and kickbacks.
They’re already starting on that narrative. I’ve seen multiple comments on the order of “Trump fired the ONE PERSON who could manage this.” Whoever in the hell that is, anyway: they don’t seem to have an actual name.
What I’m dreading is if the coronavirus really spreads over the next couple of weeks, and one of the Democrat candidates gets really sick (or dies). You’ll see the entire Democrat lineup switch from “why is Trump closing the borders to all of those wonderful Chinese people?” to “why didn’t Trump close the borders back in December, when the first case was reported?” And, of course, “MUH HEALTHCARE COULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS!”
Of course, the real nightmare scenario is if Trump himself actually gets really sick. They’ll be calling for his replacement in seconds, not days.
By this guy?
I’ll go back and quibble with your title. Impeachment is not the beginning, it is merely one tool in a series of efforts to overturn the results of the 2016 election that began on November 9, 2016. The goal always has been, and likely remains, to remove President Trump from office using any tool at hand. As each tool has broken or failed to achieve the goal, the removal effort moves on to another tool. The persistent consistency of the effort using such a disparate selection of tools suggests that whatever tool is currently being applied, or will be applied in the future, is illegitimate and not to be taken seriously.
The array of tools tried include the effort to get electors in the Electoral College to vote contrary to the votes of their states; the multiple efforts to invoke the 25th Amendment; the effort to find criminal activity via the president’s past tax returns; multiple efforts to claim improper collusion with Russia; the effort to claim improper pressure on Ukraine leading to the extremely vague and ill-defined charges contained in the articles of impeachment. Those who seek to remove President Trump from office will probably be able to come up more reasons to try again (and again). It matters not whether they are logical or even if they are inconsistent with prior reasons.
It does matter when the actions are criminal. Don’t know what will stop these people but jail for some might start to make a difference. There is so much money flowing, much of it taxpayers’, that confinement might be the only result that can impress these people to stop.