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Democrats’ impeachment inquiry will backfire
The Spokesman-Review ^ | October 27, 2019 | Marc A. Thiessen, The Washington Post

Posted on 10/27/2019 2:45:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

After dozens of House Republicans demanded access to a secure facility in the Capitol on Wednesday where House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was preparing to depose a Pentagon official, Democrats expressed outrage at the breach of protocol. “They’re doing this because this is what the guilty do,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. “Innocent people cooperate with investigations. Innocent people follow the rules of the House.”

Well, people engaged in impartial investigations aimed at finding the truth don’t violate every precedent and standard of due process set during previous presidential impeachments.

Contrast today’s partisan inquiry with the Nixon impeachment. As American Enterprise Institute President Robert Doar has pointed out, the Nixon inquiry was a model of bipartisan cooperation. The Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Peter Rodino (N.J.), assembled a unified staff (including Doar’s father, John, a Republican whom Rodino appointed as special counsel). The full House voted on authorizing the inquiry. The minority was given joint subpoena power. The president’s counsel was allowed to be present during depositions, given access to all of the documents and materials presented to the committee, allowed to cross-examine witnesses, and even permitted to call witnesses of his own. Most important, the committee did not leak or release selective documents cherry-picked to make the president look bad.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; impeachment; liars; republicans; secrettrial; shampeachment; weakcase
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1 posted on 10/27/2019 2:45:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Well, for one thing, Swallwell wouldn’t possibly have a clue as to what decent innocent people do. It’s a completely alien concept to every dem and RINO pol.

He hasn’t known that since he lost his innocence; probably at the age of 3 at a time he could not remember.


2 posted on 10/27/2019 2:54:56 AM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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To: Boomer

ALL DEMOCRATS ARE VILE, EVIL, VICIOUS, LYING DESTROYERS of GOOD PEOPLE!


3 posted on 10/27/2019 3:02:51 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Contrast today’s partisan inquiry with the Nixon impeachment."

Yes. And with Clinton's.

As soon as the Republicans were convinced that Nixon was guilty, they confronted him, made it clear that they would not defend him the guilty, and withdrew all their support.

As soon as the Democrats were convinced that Clinton was guilty, they circled the wagons, defended him en masse, and fought like gutter rats to protect him and the Democrat power structure.

That's the difference between the Republican Party and the Party of Slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Coup d'État, Illegal Immigration, Voter Fraud, Infanticide, Satanism, etC.

4 posted on 10/27/2019 3:05:46 AM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUTH, as clearly as we can perceive it and put it into words, is the best we can do.)
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Until an impeachment vote is held in the House to start the inquiry...there is no impeachment. The pretender-game here, is that you will conduct secretive hearings....stage some type of paperwork to create charges, and then ‘suddenly’ have a impeachment inquiry done (in a matter of minutes and not weeks).

I now believe that when this happens, and McConnell is handed the package, there will be a up and down vote a day later, and the package will be refused until the inquiry is done in the recognized ‘correct’ manner. They will hand it back to a courier to deliver to Nancy Pelosi, and she’ll say the House’s job is done. The Senate will be blamed because they can’t handle 4th-grade kid operation of impeachment that the House conducted.

I’ll also point this out. In a normal impeachment, the House is supposed to do the leg-work...using their powers, and the evidence is supposed to be part of the total package given to the Senate. The Senate is supposed to review the facts and testimony and decide upon some or zero amount of guilt. If the House doesn’t do their job, and McConnell tries to continue on with this...the Senate would be log-jammed for three or four months...having individual Senate committees doing the work that the House refused to conduct. In simple terms, every witness would be recalled, and the potential for false testimony goes to mammoth proportions.

In this case, the Senate could be standing there with half of the whole House package in pieces and everyone shaking their heads because the whole thing looks like one of the K-cars from Chrysler. They’d be unable to vote for the impeachment or against it....because nothing makes sense anymore.


5 posted on 10/27/2019 3:12:28 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Smarmy Wallace will be tossing puffballs at him a little later this morning.


6 posted on 10/27/2019 3:16:57 AM PDT by CMailBag
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

May be it’s just me, I sense it is starting to backfire now. It will probably drop off the radar when the IG and Barr’s report come out. IMO


7 posted on 10/27/2019 3:18:10 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Clinton was impeached. There was a Clinton Impeachment. Nixon resigned before The House voted on impeachment, so there was no Nixon Impeachment. If the current coup attempt goes away with no impeachment vote, then Trump was never impeached.


8 posted on 10/27/2019 3:20:14 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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A kangaroo court won’t make impeachment stick. Also called a drumhead tribunal.

Democrats can’t point to one thing Trump is guilty of because if they had him cold, they’d be telling us all about it.

Their silence is like the dog that didn’t bark in the famous Sherlock Holmes case.

Its says everything we need to know - that Trump is in the clear.


9 posted on 10/27/2019 3:25:33 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump appeared to be cruising for an easy win in 2020. Right now it’s working against Trump. The republican controlled Senate wants to use impeachment to damage Trump also but they won’t convict I don’t think. The Senate will find that Trump did some things wrong but it doesn’t rise to the level of impeachment and removal from office. I think Trump did nothing wrong and you gotta dumb no to see through the latest attempt to impeach.


10 posted on 10/27/2019 3:42:38 AM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

L8r


11 posted on 10/27/2019 3:44:26 AM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: duckman

IMHO Nancy’s entire reason for “Impeachment” was a shot across the bow about pursuing the coup conspirators.


12 posted on 10/27/2019 3:48:42 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was preparing to depose a Pentagon official,...”

The way this is being done these deepstate ‘witnesses” can pretty much say anything they want...Not going to end well.


13 posted on 10/27/2019 3:49:06 AM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve always heard that Hillary was fired from Watergate Nixon prosecution because she lied, was unethical and advocated depriving Nixon of legal counsel. This is exactly what the House has done this time. Hillary has been “vindicated” in a sense. The Dems have followed her off the cliff.

A more evil person never lived. Calling Melania “Jezebel” at Cummings funeral?! Who the hell she thinks she is?


14 posted on 10/27/2019 4:01:59 AM PDT by shalom aleichem (Barr and Durham! Get movin'. Time's awastin')
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Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. “Innocent people cooperate with investigations. Innocent people follow the rules of the House.”

...and the "good guys" do not threaten to nuke their own citizens.

15 posted on 10/27/2019 4:03:24 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
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To: shalom aleichem

Jezebel

Or Lileth


16 posted on 10/27/2019 4:04:16 AM PDT by combat_boots (TGod bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust! Hi)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Would you put your innocence in the hands of Swalwell or Schiff?


17 posted on 10/27/2019 4:08:13 AM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is no impeachment, because the House never voted for it

“Sham-peachment” is all it is ... pure theatre with no legal force

The purpose of cross-examining witnesses is to sort out the lies

Every one of these “witnesses” sounds like a fired ex-ployee with an axe to grind ... how do we know any of them are telling the truth?? They could all be outright liars (and probably are)


18 posted on 10/27/2019 4:13:33 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Democrats are evil.


19 posted on 10/27/2019 4:24:55 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Ann Archy

20 posted on 10/27/2019 4:34:40 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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