Posted on 11/02/2019 3:19:22 AM PDT by Windflier
One of the charges Democrats have leveled against Trump is that the White House improperly put the transcript of his call with the Ukrainian president on a special server used to protect highly classified information. Yet Democrats are doing the very same thing, conducting impeachment depositions inside a SCIF, improperly using a classified system to restrict access to nonclassified information not just to the public but to members of Congress. Talk about hypocrisy.
Let’s be clear: There is nothing wrong with holding hearings behind closed doors as long as there is due process. During the Nixon impeachment much of the evidence was presented in closed-door sessions. But there was not a flood of leaks from those executive sessions, as we are seeing today. And unlike today, the minority could issue subpoenas, and the president’s counsel was present to cross-examine witnesses and present evidence. Secrecy and fairness go hand in hand. One without the other is corrupt.
The partisan nature of the Democrats’ inquiry will backfire in a number of ways. For one thing, it allows Republicans to make the case to the American people that the process is unfair, and if there is one thing Americans demand, it is fairness. If the facts are on the Democrats’ side, they have nothing to fear from transparency and due process. Second, their partisan behavior has given the president justification to refuse to cooperate with the investigation, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower refused to cooperate with the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. And finally, it has made it easier for congressional Republicans to rally around the president. Right now, Republicans are more torn about Trump’s Syria policy than they are about his impeachment inquiry. By failing to show even a modicum of fairness, Democrats have turned impeachment into a game of shirts vs. skins.
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I don’t believe the Tenure of Office Act was repealed.
It was declared unconstitutional by the USSC.
I don’t believe the Tenure of Office Act was repealed.
It was declared unconstitutional by the USSC.
Money does not win elections....Trump proved that.
But it is a good sign that his fundraising is so strong this early.
Even if the Democrats are totally defeated, like in 1984, they will not learn from it or change.
They will just hide their socialist, gun-confiscation, pedophilia agenda under a cloak of “moderation”.
EXIT Shifty Adam Schiff stage left,
ENTER Deputy AG Durham stage right.
The Democrat Party is truly the Party of HATE, VIOLENCE, AND EVIL!
It’s long ignominious history—from the pro-slavery party—to the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and lynching—to infanticide, communism, satanism, coup d’état, “high tech lynching”—and “IMPEACHMENT”—continues as the PARTY OF HATE, VIOLENCE, AND EVIL!
Dims don’t understand what they are doing to themselves. Trump will win 2020 and then it’s the beginning of, TRUMP UNCHAINED! The Trump hammer falls after Election Day 2020.
The Dems are doing what Hillary got fired for during Watergate....
Marc Thiessen has had a column at WaPo for some time. Tokenism.
He also doesn’t like President Trump.
My worry is that the Democrats are behaving so boldly because they know something terrible is planned for our president, and they are buying time until it happens, making sure he accomplishes as little as possible until he’s removed. Our country is in the hands of traitors, and we will be shocked at how deeply and insidiously they have dug into our nation.
My worry is that the Democrats are behaving so boldly because they know something terrible is planned for our president, and they are buying time until it happens, making sure he accomplishes as little as possible until he’s removed. Our country is in the hands of traitors, and we will be shocked at how deeply and insidiously they have dug into our nation.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) who was impeached for Bribery wrote the the rules and he just put his girl friend on Staff
Marc Thiessen is a regular Washington Post columnist and as far as I can tell, the ONLY conservative columnist of the paper.
A high school classmate of mine was a hard core Democrat. I couldn’t budge her into the “R”column.
She told me last week that she has registered Republican due to the current actions of he Democrats.
She said they have been behaving like out of control children, and she is sick of it.
Only ONE-—but I don’t think she is the last.
That's possible and we should, collectively, be prepared to make sure that they never rule and are brought to justice in whatever system survives the chaos to come.
Democrats are violating every standard it’s why prisons are full of them.
"Improperly?" That's what they have?
Pure caca de toro.
Thee is some disgust here from the Wapo. They don’t like making Adam Schiff the face of their party.
They are going to accuse Trump of everything from tax violations to bribery to rape to child molestation. They will have hoards of people who have to come forward “right now.” But these people are running out of reloads.
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