Posted on 02/07/2020 5:49:47 AM PST by Kaslin
The partisan impeachment of President Donald Trump finally passed, mercifully, like a kidney stone, with Democrats grimacing helplessly during acquittal in the Senate on Wednesday.
It's over.
The cable news networks loved it because they love a show but there was no real drama. Americans knew for months how this would turn out. They knew Democrats didn't have the votes in the Senate. It was all about targeting select Republican senators in the next elections.
The people turned off this farce of Democratic Impeachment Theater long ago.
Americans aren't as dumb as some politicians think they are. They paid attention for a while. They read the transcript of his phone call to Ukraine -- which needed military assistance -- asking for an investigation into the Bidens.
But they figured this thing out. They saw the flaws in the arguments. Independent voters didn't think the call -- which didn't ultimately prevent Ukraine from getting military aid and didn't lead to a Ukraine investigation into the Bidens -- was grounds to remove a president.
Many Republicans don't think Trump's call was "perfect," as he insists, but they didn't want to remove him from office for it. And they knew that a presidential election was less than a year away. So, they decided to move on.
"Right now, this is a political loser for them," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, referring to the Democrats. "They initiated it. At least for the short term it has been a colossal political mistake."
Now there are three questions:
When do the House Democrats bring another impeachment?
Can Trump, who can handle adversity, handle success? Or will he self-destruct?
And what about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who cemented herself in the American mind as a petulant child, angrily ripping up her copy of Trump's State of the Union speech?
The impeachment did backfire. When it began, on the heels of the Mueller report's failure to prove Trump was a secret Russian agent, the president's approval ratings began to rise.
His poll numbers have skyrocketed, climbing to the highest they've ever been. A new Gallup poll shows him with 49% support, his highest level since taking office. And he has an astounding 63% approval rating for his handling of the booming economy, according to the poll.
During his State of the Union speech the other night, Trump didn't mention the impeachment once.
With Pelosi sitting behind him, muttering to herself like some angry bag lady alone on a night train, he didn't have to mention it.
He focused instead on his accomplishments and the economy, which infuriates his enemies. When he was done, Pelosi grabbed Trump's speech, and in a fit of petulance, theatrically ripped it to shreds.
That partisan rage will last in the American mind and be featured in Trump political commercials, just as CNN anchor Don Lemon's laughter mocking Trump voters as illiterate rubes will last until November.
To some of her most ardent, childlike fans, Pelosi's temper tantrum made her seem like something of an epic heroine.
Oddly, many adults don't see Pelosi as a heroine. They don't see her as the Childlike Empress of "The Neverending Story." And they probably don't even see Pelosi as Boudica, the fierce warrior queen of the Celts.
They might see her for what she is, a politician who grew up in politics in the family of a Democratic political boss and who likes to hold the levers of power.
Her tantrum could have been calculated. It could have been her understanding that she's inexorably losing control of House Democrats, and that this may have been her last State of the Union speech.
Or it may have been frustration.
Pelosi reads the polls; she can see her impeachment gambit caused Trump to rise. She heard him masterfully weave emotion into his showmanlike speech:
He reunited the soldier with his family; he accepted the thanks of that 100-year-old Tuskegee airman who proudly stood to salute his president. He awarded the Medal of Freedom to conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh.
Most worrisome for the Democrats, he cast himself on the side of African Americans struggling with the criminal justice system. He took the side of a mother whose daughter was sentenced to substandard urban public schools. He called these "government schools."
Perhaps Pelosi, after this long ordeal, could no longer suppress her rage and she just cracked.
Pelosi once wisely said she wanted no part of a purely partisan impeachment, that it would be wrong for the country and her party. But power is like sugar, once the body is hooked on blueberry pie, it always wants more.
So, Pelosi capitulated to the urgings of her wild-eyed Inspector Javert, Adam Schiff and pushed impeachment.
Schiff blew it. He hid the identity of the so-called whistleblower rather than allow him to testify and explain the political motivation behind his complaints about the Ukraine call.
Was the whistleblower a plant of Obama administration intelligence officers? Had the whistleblower talked to other witnesses, or Schiff's staff, or Schiff himself, and helped set the whole thing up?
Americans don't believe in political fairy tales. And this was the glaring fault of the House Democratic impeachment.
House Democrats didn't take the time to go to court and compel White House witnesses to testify, but then whined about the lack of witnesses in the Senate trial. They brought vague charges that were not crimes.
It was partisan. It backfired and it ended in pain, like a kidney stone.
Perhaps it is far simpler than all the pundits blather.
America has started to unlock its gaze from the swirling toilet.
Impeachment Commandante Nancy Pelosi was salivating over removing Trump .... she desperately wanted to take his place. She even tasked the wily Schiff to get dirt on Pence to shove him aside on her determined march to the Oval Office. Ever the exhibitionist, Pelosi stupidly held a gleeful impeachment signing ceremony-—handing out pens like she was already in office. That alone, will go down in history as her biggest blunder.
As a paradigm Democrat imbecile, Pelosi’s impeachment scam stupidly wrote open-ended articles of impeachment, that they hoped would compel Senate Republicans to investigate for them. Dems musta got that inane idea from Sharia law as practiced in ****hole Muslim countries.
DEMOCRATS STILL USING THE FAILED “VAUGHAN MODEL.” As the trial commenced, Democrats began dropping what they said was one “bombshell” after another — the same strategy deployed during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings — to drag out the spectacle and maximize the political damage.
Like Hillary calling Trump voters “deplorable,” Pelosi acted like no one was listening. She pulled out the cockamamie “urgency to save the democracy ruse,” sat on the articles for weeks, then started dictating to the Senate.
Once again, her presidency paranoia took hold...... she had
(A) zero standing to dictate the Senate trial terms, (B) no constitutional rights over the Senate, and, (C) not a scintilla of political leverage.
Stupid is as stupid does. She didnt see that coming. That she’d get nothing from Mitch McConnell for her trouble.
It was partisan. It backfired and it ended in pain, like a kidney stone.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
John Kass makes this understatement so as to limit the damage to the Democrats.
Too late Kass. It was not a kidney stone for the Democrat Party.
It was an amputation at the neck. America will not countenance Alinsky socialist radicals in power NOW...........or ever.
America got to see liberal fascism at work, the unilateral removal of the civil rights of the president by Adam Schiff. America got a look at the actual method by which the liberal fascist left Democrats would govern America, and AMERICA NOW WILL REJECT THEM FOREVER.
For the Democrat Party to survive, moderate Democrats must take their party back from the socialist idiots who think they can hoodwink America into electing them.
SO ITS MUCH WORSE THAN A KIDNEY STONE.... MUCH WORSE.
It was CLEARLY calculated as she can be on video "pre-ripping" the pages. Which is worse, planning a disastrous stunt or caving to a passing whim? They're both bad when you're third in line to the presidency and you're on national tv.
And the crazy witch called the goofball from Utah, tenasor Romney!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a_gBLX2L8s4
Nancy Pelosi = old bag.
That is all.
Folks...Democrap Leader, Nancy Pelosi has serious mental and chemical abuse problems that she has lost control of. IMHO Which includes being the Chemical Abuse Arbitrator for a major company with 40,000 employees for over seven years I have seen a lot of forms of chemical abuse, drug abuse and alcohol abuse and, I can tell you she probably is badly addicted to excessive alcohol use and needs to be assigned to a long term”dry out” program in a mental institution.
If you studied her movements & body actions in and during the SOTU Speech and her press conference yesterday, you will notice immediately, she had great effort in framing her words & sentences and almost looked like she did not know where she Was. All these signs and movement are sure signs and warnings of serious Chemical abuse!!!
Ms. Pelosi needs and requires medical attention and treatment, for she is not in a normal controlled state. She is no more the Speaker of the House, then I am “The man in the Moon!!!
MS. PELOSI HAD HER FIRST MELTDOWN AND LOST MOST OF HER BRAINS WHEN SHE HAD HER FIRST PERIOD.
Boudica
" a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She died shortly after its failure and was said to have poisoned herself"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
Compare photos of her now versus in 2016. She has gone down hill rapidly
But that can happen at her age.
i have seen people here say she has tardive dyskonesia.
not sure if they are joking
Considering she lives in San Francisco It is quite understandable that the toxins are destroying her mind.
Don’t ever count the Democrat Party out or pronounce them as dead.
As long as we have brainwashed idiots who are on the prowl for FREE STUFF they’ll have voters.
This is indeed true. Whatever it is...Ms. Pelosi belongs in an old age home sipping tea and wearing diapers!!!
I agree with your assessment.
As we all know democrats are always accusing republicans of doing what they are doing. Pelosi has “suggested” Trump was drugged up for his State of the Union address.
More proof that Pelosi is an addict. Also, I would not rule out dementia.
Nancy really, really scre*** up. The pre-ripping of the “House Documents” showed just how evil she is. I do think she’s lost it.
Nancy really, really scre*** up. The pre-ripping of the “House Documents” showed just how evil she is. I do think she’s lost it.
They still expect trump to feel bad or to act like he feels bad about the Dems loss and impending doom
Like Romney Bush McCain
And all the gop senate who allowed the sham immigration impeachment to go on saying nothing in trumps defense
Trump is not like that.
He is a man.
She really did mess up.
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