Don Surber: Impeachmenticide

Don Surber ^ | 2/15/2021 | Don Surber

[LibWhacker]

This impeachment will go on The Donald's permanent record. Nancy Pelosi notified his draft board. And Democrats will rename Donald J. Trump State Park.

Small wonder the Orange Man laughs in their faces. Democrats have diminished themselves. The impeachment turned a hollow victory in November into a humiliation.

Because once in power, what did they do?

Did they order the nation's economy to re-open?

Did they pass a corona virus relief package?

Did they work with Republicans on a new immigration law or anything else?

No, no, no. Democrats did not do anything like that. The first thing Democrats did once the election was certified was to impeach Donald John Trump, even though his term expired on January 20.

They impeached him again because their first impeachment failed.

And now the second impeachment has failed.

Democrats planned a second impeachment all along. Two days before protesters stormed the Capitol, USA Today ran a column, "Congress should impeach Trump again and bar him from holding any future public office."

In his column, writer Austin Sarat (an associate provost and associate dean of the faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College) cited no specific crime, which the Constitution requires. Sarat's argument was we should impeach because he just doesn't like Donald Trump.

Without offering any proof, Sarat said, "Because the president has repeatedly shown that his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States means little to him, he must never be allowed to hold office again."

And yet, throughout his term, President Trump repeatedly went out of his way to respect the Constitution. He never pulled the plug on the Mueller witch hunt. He never disobeyed the unconstitutional restraining orders issued by mere district judges.

And unlike Obama, President Trump did not use the FBI to spy on political opponents.

Democrats took Sarat's advice and impeached Donald Trump.

Again.

On top of the stupidity of trying the same trick that failed last year, Democrats were remarkably inept in impeaching The Donald. The snoozer trial was set to fold on Saturday when Democrats got a hare-brained idea at the last minute to break their own rules and bring in a witness.

Media-ite reported, "Senate Democrats are under fire from all sides after striking a deal to avoid witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial — shortly after voting to allow them in a last-minute measure.

"The trial seemed as though it would conclude on Saturday afternoon, but House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) announced that he was seeking testimony from a witness. That witness, Rep. Jaime Hererra Beutler (R-WA), was prepared to discuss the details of a phone call between Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in which the former president, Beutler alleges, indicated his support for the Capitol rioters after the attack was underway."

Media-ite failed to explain why Democrats changed their minds. Trump's lawyers told them that their mid-game rule change would enable Team Trump to call in 100 witnesses and drag the case out till June.

Oops.

After the Senate acquitted Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon, the Democrat Party became the laughingstock of the nation and the world. The political media does not get it. 75 million people who voted to re-elect Donald Trump are happy. 60 million who did not (and the 20 million stuffed ballots) are unhappy. That is the story.

Democrats woke up Sunday morning shell-shocked. Chris Coons, who got in the Senate by letting Biden sniff his daughter's hair, called for a 9/11 commission to investigate the storming of the Capitol.

Wow.

No sane person puts what happened at the Capitol anywhere near the level of the tragedy of a sneak attack that killed nearly 3,000 people. Then again, no sane person allows Joe Biden within 50 feet of his pre-teen daughter.

Still, Democrats and their minions in the media cling to this ridiculous notion that there was an insurrection at the Capitol.

The American people did not like the storming of the Capitol, sure. They also don't like the impeachment. Half the people did not like that he was impeached, and the other half do not like that he was acquitted.

This was a lose-lose proposition for Democrats. Republicans skate. Donald Trump laughs.

But the tone-deaf New York Times wrote, "The vote stands as a pivotal moment for the party Mr. Trump molded into a cult of personality, one likely to leave a deep blemish in the historical record. Now that Republicans have passed up an opportunity to banish him through impeachment, it is not clear when — or how — they might go about transforming their party into something other than a vessel for a semiretired demagogue who was repudiated by a majority of voters."

Ah, concern trolling by the Times. It never gets old.

The Associated Press reaction put the Times to shame. It outright lied.

The AP said, "After he incited a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last month..."

He was acquitted. Apparently besides capitalizing black but not white, AP also believes acquittal means guilt.

Politico reported, "Democrats did a victory lap in defeat, pointing to the seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict. And Republicans face a future haunted by a damaged ex-president who won’t go away."

If Democrats truly are doing a victory lap, then they are daft. They lost because they could not send boxloads of votes to the Senate at 3 a.m.

Over on the Island of Misfit Never Trumpers, the fury was unsound. The Bulwark reported, "Today’s vote to acquit Donald Trump was a disgraceful act of partisan cowardice."

Never Trumpers are sad because they will never regain influence in the Republican Party. They blame Donald Trump. I credit him for exposing their insincerity about conservatism, They opposed his every action including moving the embassy to Jerusalem, an act which brought peace to the Middle East.

The media spin right now is the Democrat Establishment spin that this hurt Donald Trump.

Beneath that veneer of sneer is the reality that Democrats are off to a terrible start. They bet on another impeachment and they lost again.

They were in a precarious position to begin with. Even with boxes of Biden votes dumped in the wee hours, Democrats barely pulled off the presidential election. They will go into the midterm election next year tied in the Senate and only a 10-seat lead in the House. History says Republicans have a great chance of regaining both houses of Congress in 2022, especially as Covid Year II kills the economy as the victims of the unnecessary lockdowns spend their life savings to stay alive.

But we shall see how that works out.

Instead of working with Republicans to advance his agenda, Chairman Xiden is following Obama's take-no-prisoners approach of passing legislation without even a single Republican vote.

I hope they keep it up because in his first midterm, Obama cost Democrats 7 Senate seats and 63 seats in the House.

While Republicans lost control of the House in Donald Trump's midterm, they also gained 2 Senate seats. That is unusual.

I told a woman who does not follow politics he was acquitted. She laughed and laughed.

Democrats fell in love with impeachment. It became their undoing. Power corrupts. The brain is the first thing to go.

Donald John Trump sails into history as the first president to be impeached twice.

History will record that he beat the rap twice. No matter how hard and how often Democrats spin it, the final outcome is all that matters.

And Donald Trump and his supporters get the last laugh

[FreedBird]

Hatred is toxic and hurts the person who hates the most.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Did they work with Republicans on a new immigration law
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We should be glad they didn’t, too many Republicans want to give them a permanent majority.

[SmokingJoe]

KenMatthews
@KenMatthews

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PRESIDENT DONALD J TRUMP.

ELECTED TWICE.

2 Nobel Peace Prize nominations.

2 Fake Impeachments.

ZERO CONVICTIONS.

https://gab.com/KenMatthews/posts/105725974842757632

[Soul of the South]

Exactly what did the Republicans accomplish when they regained the House last time under John Boehner and later Paul Ryan?

Balance the budget?
End government funding of Democrat social activist groups?
Reverse Obama’s transfer of student loan debt to the U.S. Treasury from private banks?
Fund the border wall through the appropriations process?
End Obamacare?
End funding of wars all over the planet?
End the carried interest federal tax break for the super wealthy?
Use their Constitutional authority over the federal courts below the U.S. Supreme court to limit the jurisdiction of federal judges, and prevent individual federal judges from declaring laws and executive orders unconstitutional?
Streamline and reform the federal bureaucracy?
Tort reform?

What exactly did the last Republican majority Congress accomplish during the Obama years? If nothing, expect nothing in 2022 if Biden is president and Kevin McCarthy becomes speaker.

[kiryandil]

[libertylover]

Extremely good points!

[Bratch]

Mitch McConnell Deployed His Anti-Trump Ploy in The Exact Same Manner He Deployed Against The Tea Party…

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Sundance

An interesting, insightful and accurate article from Christopher Bedford in The Federalist [SEE HERE] outlines how Mitch McConnell delivered his impeachment floor speech as a ploy to destroy the MAGA movement.  Bedford notes how Senator Lindsey Graham even outlined how McConnell’s attack was purposefully written and delivered to give any Democrat opponent in 2022 ammunition against Republican senators up for re-election.

However, what Bedford and Graham did not directly speak about is: (a) the historic pattern within exactly what Mitch McConnell did; and (b) the motive for him doing so.

Several DeceptiCon senators have already announced they will not run for re-election in 2020 [Shelby, Toomey, Burr, Portman and Johnson]. 

In the 2022 Senate races there are 34 seats up for grabs.  14 are held by Democrats and 20 are held by tenuous Republicans. 

[Breakdown Here]

Due to vulnerability, their lack of support amid the republican base, and their insufferable 2020 behavior outing them as DeceptiCons it is almost guaranteed the GOP will lose seats in the 2022 mid-term election. Those exiting senators, among others, know what McConnell’s objective is.  They also know this time the damage is far greater than previous times McConnell set about to destroy the base of the party.

Most casual political observers have absolutely no idea how McConnell works. 

However, for over a decade CTH has been trying –mostly failing– to awaken the base of common sense voters.  In 2010, 2011 and 2012 the #1 priority for McConnell was to destroy the threat represented by the Tea Party.  In 2022 we are seeing an exact replay of the same intents and purposes, only this time the target is President Trump’s MAGA movement.

It is a motive and agenda all wrapped up in the senate power structure.  McConnell does not fear being in the minority; the color of the flag atop the spire of the UniParty senate does not matter to those underneath it.  McConnell maneuvers with just as much power in the minority as he does in the majority; factually, he makes more money selling his DeceptiCon caucus votes to Chuck Schumer (on behalf of Wall Street) than he does in the majority where he is forced to purchase them.  The entire thing is a rigged-game.

THE FEDERALIST – […] “So what’s all behind this? After four years of yelling “MAGA!” while pushing his own classic, corporate Republican policies, McConnell had hoped to rid himself and his conference of the conservative populist nationalism the former president had championed and go back to the way things were.

He wants a return to promising to tackle illegal immigration before winking at corporate America that nothing will change. He wants to raise money on fighting the abortion of our infants while comfortably lifting nary a finger. He wants to shrug and change the subject when asked about men dominating women’s sports and using women’s bathrooms. He wants fewer taxes and more wars. Hell, he wants someone to blame for the Republican losses in the Georgia special election, and with them the loss of his seat at the head of the Senate.

Instead, his push to impeach ended with rebuke from his own conference. Angry and embarrassed, he blamed his own colleagues as well as the former president, performing a 20-minute attack ad for the left to use on Republicans for the next election cycle and beyond.” (read more)

Through his power structure, McConnell directly controls about 8 to 15 republican senators; we have called them “The Decepticons” for years. [Cornyn, Thune, Porter, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Barasso, Crapo, Murkowski, Gardner, Roberts, Sasse, Tillis, Rubio, Graham and Romney]

McConnell has a well-used playbook he deploys to retain power at all costs and select candidates that will be indebted to his Senate schemes. Senate candidate Doug Collins was up against the same Mitch McConnell machine readers here are very familiar with.

To remind ourselves how Minority and Majority Senator McConnell took down the threat of the Tea Party revisit these old articles:  CNN Part I and CNN Part II  both showcase how McConnell works.   Then do some research on how McConnell worked with Haley Barbour in Mississippi [SEE HERE].

For those who follow the deep weeds of politics, McConnnell’s schemes are brutally transparent. For the remaining 97% of the voting electorate, they still don’t understand how the UniParty works. Decepticon leader McConnell doesn’t want the American electorate to see purchased senate republicans voting NO on border security.

Consider Senator Mitch McConnell telling the President of the United States that he had “excessive expectations” because President Trump doesn’t understand how things are done around here:

“A Congress goes on for two years. Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point.”

“Our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before, and I think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the Democratic process.”

~ Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell

That rebuke irked President Trump, as it should.  President Trump responded via twitter: “I don’t think so”…

McConnell must preserve the trough – Corporations (special interest group) write the legislation. Lobbyists take the law and go find politician(s) to support it. Politicians get support from their peers using tenure and status etc. Eventually, if things go according to norm, the legislation gets a vote.

Within every step of the process there are expense account lunches, dinners, trips, venue tickets and a host of other customary financial way-points to generate/leverage a successful outcome. The amount of money spent is proportional to the benefit derived from the outcome.

When a House or Senate member becomes educated on the intent of the legislation, they have attended the sales pitch; and when they find out the likelihood of support for that legislation; they can then position their own (or their families) financial interests to benefit from the consequence of passage. It is a process similar to insider trading on Wall Street, except the trading is based on knowing who will benefit from a legislative passage.

Yes, Democrats are the opponents; they are ideological enemies to freedom. However, the far more urgent MAGA enemy is Mitch McConnell; the man who built the Trojan Horse.

[Old Grumpy]

Outstanding article; I’m sending it to everybody on my list.