Posted on 09/25/2019 4:26:57 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
“It’s really a sad day for our country. I feel very sad right now.” – Nancy Pelosi
Oh, yeah, it really is a sad day for our country, San Fran Nan. – The saddest part of all of it is that many of us have known all along that the deranged, despicable, depraved Democrats would take the country down this road sooner or later since the day after Donald J. Trump was elected to the presidency. Every step the Democrat Party has taken, from the creation and funding of Antifa, to the efforts to entrap and frame a sitting President of the United States, to the Mueller Witch Hunt, to the Congressional Clown Circus led by Jabaa the Nadler and Bug Eyes Schiff, has obviously and overtly been designed to lead to yesterday’s crowning moment of shame.
We all knew the depraved Democrat Party would take the nation to this sorry point sooner or later, even though it has still never been able to find any actual legal basis for doing so. We knew this would happen because the Democrat Party no longer has any interest in governing under our constitutional republican system of government, and only cares about the acquisition and maintenance of political power.
This reality has been the case since at least 1992, but has never been rendered more nakedly obvious than it has since the Democrats and San Fran Nan assumed power in the House of Representatives on January 1 of this year. The Judiciary and Intelligence committees chaired by Nadler and Schiff, along with the Oversight committee chaired by the equally depraved Elijah Cummings, have yet to spend a moment of time on any real work for the public interest during the first 9 months of this year, instead maintaining a myopic focus on dummying up some pretense – any old pretense would do – to move towards impeachment of the President.
But here’s the funniest part of yesterday’s antics by Pelosi: Despite all the weasel words she spoke in her statement late in the afternoon, nothing real changed. Pelosi said this:
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The only problem here is that an “official impeachment inquiry” has no meaning under the constitution and the law. Pelosi knows that, which is why she used those specific words, and made no reference to mounting a formal impeachment inquiry via a vote of the full House, which would have some meaning under the law.
See, the speaker of the house has no power whatsoever to unilaterally declare a formal impeachment inquiry. None. Doing that requires a majority vote of the entire body of the House. That would mean San Fran Nan would have to somehow cobble together 217 actual, recorded “yes” votes on the floor of the House.
Given that the Democrats currently control 235 seats to 198 (2 seats are vacant) for the Republicans, one might think getting to a simple majority would be an easy task for the doddering, stammering Speaker. But one would be surprised for holding that thought.
Pelosi’s big problem in all of this is that she has 35 or so members who managed to steal districts in the 2018 elections normally held by Republicans. Few if any of those folks, who would like to get re-elected in those same districts next year and been working hard to fool their constituents into believing they are “moderates,” are willing to go on the record as formally supporting a formal impeachment inquiry targeting a Republican president when there are no real grounds for going down that radical road.
So, just as with everything else she and her fellow Democrats do, yesterday’s theatrics by Pelosi were just that: Theater. Dishonest theater. Nothing real will change – those committees will just keep doing what they’ve been doing all year.
The only thing that will change will be the talking points parroted by the Democrat toady media, which will henceforth parrot the words “official impeachment inquiry,” peppering them into every report they make. This is how the mass public brainwashing process works – repetition of key messages is crucial. Goebbels and his fellow Nazis called it the “big lie.”
If you don’t believe that’s what the Democrats are doing here, read this morning’s piece in Politico titled “Vulnerable Democrats fear impeachment messaging stumbles” and count the number of times Democrat members quoted in the piece focus on “messages.” In that 600 or so word piece, I count 15 references to “messages,” “messaging,” “talking points,” or some other iteration of those words. It’s pretty much all they talk about.
The Democrats are very desperate here, because their mass brainwashing efforts keep failing. As of yesterday, President Trump’s public approval rating in the Rasmussen survey stood at 53%, a two-year high and fully 6 points higher than the rating received by Barack Hussein Obama at the same point in his presidency 8 years ago. Trump’s standing in the RealClearPolitics average, which includes all the fake polls created by media outlets purely to drive fake news stories, stands at 45.1%, also a two-year high.
The truth is that Donald Trump is a very popular president when compared to his immediate predecessors in office, Obama and George W. Bush, and his base of support, which represents over 40% of the nation, is steadfastly loyal. Making matters even more desperate for the Democrat “leadership,” such as it exists, is the fact that all the Marxist/fascist promises made by the radicals running for their presidential nomination are backfiring, especially in those swing congressional districts.
The President is going to release the transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today, along with the complaint by the Democrats’ fake “whistleblower,” an Obama loyalist who has no first-hand knowledge of that conversation. That fake whistleblower will also testify before Bug Eyes and his committee in the coming days.
The transcript will no doubt prove the President said nothing wrong, but the fake media and their Democrat masters will do everything they can to spin it otherwise, or even better, to claim the transcript has been somehow “doctored.” Despicable media hacks at MSNBC and CNN were laying the groundwork for those tactics yesterday.
Make no mistake about this: Regardless of the ongoing brainwashing efforts by the Democrat/Media propaganda complex, if the Democrats move down this road and end up holding a successful impeachment vote in the House, Democrats in those swing districts will pretty much all lose their re-election bids. Any Republican who joins an effort to remove the President via a 2/3rds vote in the Senate will be writing the end to his or her political career. There will be no forgiveness for such a despicable act of sedition, nor should there be.
Finally, should the Senate end up removing the President from office absent any real grounds for doing so, then the social contract between the public and the entire ruling class, already hanging on by a mere thread, will have been severed. If that sad day should come to pass, all bets for our nation’s survival in its current form will be off.
That is all.
Double dog dare you.
Without a house vote, there is NO formal impeachment inquiry.
It’s really that plain and simple.
Mo, it doesn’t. The Country is already gone. It is now only a matter of how long it will last. When the voters, in their infinite wisdom, put obama in the white House and gave the Democrat Party control of both Houses of Congress, that did it. From that point to the mid term elections, without any Republican opposition, they went wild. Just after Congress convened, the Democrat Leadership announced that they would not present a budget for the year, which was a violation of the Constitution. Ever since that,the Government has been funded by continuing resolutions. Then they inflicted obamacare on us. Plus experimenting socially with the military. Homosexuals and transgenders being allowed and encouraged to enter,plus the Black Lives Matter and other gangs of their ilk. Bums taking craps on police cars in full public view. Sexual deviancy went wild. obama said numerous times, “If elected, I will fundamentally transform America.” He was and he did.
Really? Let's hear your analysis, specifically where DB has erred.
Then Pelosi is effectively using the powers / processes of a branch of government to influence an upcoming Presidential election? That is an abuse of government power.
Exactly so. While we have endured rebellions, never before (to my knowledge) has the bureaucratic state declared war on an elected president...and by extension, the electorate. We're being told we may not elect a president of which they disapprove. Can a Russian/Iranian type election be far behind, where candidates must be approved by the state?
This strikes at the heart of "The Consent of the Governed."
For those who despise President Trump...I would ask, do you despise the office, the idea of the presidency? Because these actions have diminished the office greatly. They have diminished the Congress.
The 'Resistance' has gone well beyond the boundaries of acceptable dissent. It's the Sixties all over again. Knowing what we know now, will we accept the same result?
The RATs are not fit participants for our system of government.
I think this circus has been created so that when RBG dies, the left will say that a President under impeachment proceedings (true or not) should not be allowed to nominate a SCOTUS justice.
This one could easily lead to rebellion, and outright war. I’m sorry, but they are blatantly pushing an illegal act and should be held accountable.
Their general illegal push for mad power grab is “Trump dared to ask that the investigation that Biden blackmailed the Ukraine to stop be reinstated. That’s an abuse of power.” The insanity of their pretzel-logic is rampant. Basically, again, ignoring massive illegality to accuse Trump of daring to ask for justice. The first few times, it was bad, it’s getting worse, and they’re sharpening daggers, and it’s getting almost well past the point where action needs to be taken to physically remove these illegal actors from our nation’s halls.
Ignore DoodleDawg. That thing is a debbie-downer troll with nary a good word for the opinions of fellow Freepers.
Exactly, a simple observation that the moronic media overlooks. It's hype, arm flailing, like their nominee the fake Indian.
By coincidence, the very accusation against PT.
Wake me when that happens.
Oh, I recognize that. Trump has had an effect on his supporters.
Oh I hope so, I’m in such a mood for Pink Champagne!!!!!
I don’t know if there’ll be one but this is a county in desperate need of a massive civil war.
Blood running as high as horses bridle in the District of Corruption is about the only way to cleanse that cesspool.
https://nccs.net/blogs/articles/the-impeachment-process
A lot of mis-information is being spread around.
“While impeachment proceedings can be complex, the basic process is quite simple. An impeachment begins when an official behaves in a manner which the people believe disqualifies him from further public service.
A complaint requesting an impeachment investigation of that official is lodged with the House of Representatives. That request may either be general in its scope or it may delineate specific offenses; it may be requested in a petition filed by individual citizens or on the request of a single Representative, a group of Representatives, or the President.
The request is referred to the House Judiciary Committee which forwards it to the Subcommittee on the Constitution. The Subcommittee then investigates the complaints and, if there is merit to the charges, Articles of Impeachment describing the specific offense(s) are prepared. Those Articles are forwarded to the full Judiciary Committee for a vote. If approved, the Articles are sent to the full House for a vote.
“A simple majority of the House either approves or disapproves the Articles. If disapproved, the issue is terminated. Approval, however, is, in effect, the equivalent of a grand jury indictment against that official. The approved Articles of Impeachment are then delivered to the Senate. With this action, the House’s role in an impeachment is finished.
All Pelosi has done is give her approval for the Committee to continue looking into the matter. Her approval of the investigation changes nothing.
The next step is for the committee to vote on the charges. If approved the matter is put in front of the entire House to vote on it.
We are a long ways (if ever) that happening.
Any rebellion by the right will be put down by the Dems and military. Any rebellion by the left will be supported by the Dems and military. Should push come to shove, the military leadership would support the left.
“Besides some judges what have the Republicans done except push the globalist agenda?”
Not much as Paul Ryan and others squandered the first 2 precious, fleeting years of Trump’s Presidency.
“....Any rebellion by the right will be put down by the Dems and military. Any rebellion by the left will be supported by the Dems and military. Should push come to shove, the military leadership would support the left....”
Not so sure about that. The Dems (communists) are still trying to figure out what bathroom to use. They couldn’t “put down” a wet paper bag without military support. Most of the rank/file military love the POTUS as we do...they hate the communists. The military leadership definitely supports the communists...but those perfumed princes still have to report to POTUS. Whatever side the POTUS and the overall military supports will be the successor.
The communists definitely have it coming, and there are thousands out there just itching to give it to em...BIG TIME.
” It is now only a matter of how long it will last.”
On one hand I agree with you. On the other, we were blessed with this country, others fought to make it, defend her. We may be required to fight for and defend her too. Until then, I pray.
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