Posted on 12/10/2019 4:45:52 AM PST by Kaslin
A history professor I once studied under tended to offer weary responses to technical and highly dispensable questions of the sort that arise in weary seminars. To wit: "But what's that got to do with the price of eggs?" Or, more pointedly sometimes, "the price of eggs in Arkansas?"
I thought of this aptly characterized boredom threshold as I watched the impeachment -- um -- hearings on Monday. Hearings? Snorings seems more to the point: a canopy of mingled objections and arguments and the preening of elected officials who know well enough they are on television. I make no attempt at distributing the credit or blame to particular actors, the defense or the prosecution. The occasion is large enough for censures of various kinds.
What had it all to do with the price of eggs in Arkansas? So little that a disinterested sitting hen would scarcely have noticed.
The hearings on whether to impeach President Donald Trump have hardly any discernible pertinence to the well-being of the American people or the security of the Republic. Yes, I know that Democrats assert, with bloodshot eyes and pounding hearts, the very opposite. Given the paucity of evidence they adduce, and its lack of relationship to some provable crisis, their fervor seems just a bit much.
This nationally embarrassing operation is, in essence, a board game with rigged rules, concocted by the Democrats as a way of embarrassing a seemingly nonembarrassable president. The rhetoric it coaxes from the mouths of Democratic leaders makes the matter even less endurable.
For instance, take this statement from the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler: "The Framers worst nightmare is what we are facing in this very moment. President Trump abused his power, betrayed our national security, and corrupted our elections, all for personal gain." And the next day: "The integrity of our next election is at stake," and Trump poses "a continuing risk to the country."
The gentleman from New York, along with the gentleman from California, Rep. Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee, needs to lie down in a dark room with cold compresses pending passage of their present fever.
They evidently prefer that the nation lie prostrate at the thought of the horror their inquiry seeks to prevent. It came down Monday to a murky, barely intelligible argument between lawyers over a phone call, asking -- not commanding -- the "favor" of an inquiry into the Bidens' varied interfaces with Ukraine. Concerning which intervention, two points need raising:
No. 1: The unsuitability -- yes, the arrant dumbness -- of Trump's request for political information on a potential opponent. How characteristic of a public man who prefers tweets to speeches, arm twists to exhortations. How unbecoming in an heir to the political estate of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Polk and so on.
No. 2: The peculiarity of attempts to portray a thoughtless phone call as political sabotage of the first order, necessitating removal of the caller just months before the people's chance in November to judge, in democratic fashion, the caller's tactics. Impeachment -- what for? For public entertainment? What's it got to do with the price of eggs in Arkansas, or, for that matter, anywhere else? Not a thing, I make bold to submit.
A straightforward vote to censure the President's diplomatic intervention would do the job infinitely better than the tedious and semihysterical process of impeachment. Isn't that plain enough to see, unless, perchance, one lives where the imagination causes sweats at the mere thought of Donald Trump seated in a chair meant for Hillary Clinton? Or Joe Biden? Perhaps even Elizabeth Warren?
One could quote The Federalist on the need for perspective in that hard-edged human pursuit called politics. The carnivalistic nature of impeachment brings more nearly to mind Sir William Gilbert, who carved out, in "The Mikado," an enduring standard for true justice: "My object all sublime/ I shall achieve in time/ To make the punishment fit the crime/ The punishment fit the crime."
We might well, assembled next November at the polls, bear that standard in mind for application to Nadler, Schiff & Co. once they're finished dragging their countrymen through such unpromising territory.
We really can’t blame the Rats for what they have pulled here with #FusionCollusion. The blame rests squarely on the GOP that is letting them get away with it. Comey, Baker, the Ohrs, all of them, they knew from Day #1 they would get away with it.
What a lame article.
I remember the old catch phrase:
What if they gave a war, and nobody came?
It’s been obvious for a long time that the deep state is getting deeper and the only solution is an armed conflict to rid the country of the evil corruption that has saturated every section of American society. Considering how ensconced the cabal is in government it would be the bloodiest battle ever in the history of this country. Are you willing to give up EVERYTHING to regain the liberties that have been lost and others that are eroding? All of the laws and people that we vote for are immediately under assault or overturned by activist judges or in the case of impeachment,a Congress that will proceed no matter how obviously obsurd the charges are. So what will it be? Fight or flight? Either way we lose a lot. But liberty or death is is a choice we will have to make eventually. Until the end of the Age is undeniable fighting is the only logical choice.
You are correct. I hope the GOP has learned something this time, but remain doubtful.
The jackass who wrote this bit of drivel is obviously of the “Mittens” school of thought. There was nothing inappropriate about the president asking for an investigation into Biden’s corrupt practices. And as far as tweeting goes does this jerk think that Trump should only communicate through the corrupt and lying MSM? This article needs to be wrapped in a disposable diaper and thrown away.
What a lame article.
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It is worse than lame, the writer gives some of the blame to the President and suggests censure instead of impeachment. He acts as though asking the president of Ukraine to look into the Bidens as though it were an evil and illegal deed instead of a requirement for following the law.
There is no law that says that a person running for political office is exempt from criminal investigation. We have now learned that Joe Biden received one payment of approximately $90,000.00 for his efforts to help Burisma(sp?) and he helped his son receive millions of dollars in Ukraine and perhaps many millions of dollars and a billion to work with from China. The players in this game include a son of Pelosi and another (step) son of John Kerry and a staffer from senator Romney. It also looks like Jerry Naddler and Adam Schiff have both participated in taking money from Ukraine. These are evil people who think the government owes them something special, they think they are entitled to some of the money they disperse to other countries for aid. They know that when we find out how they are laundering money they sent for aid we will not be happy so they want to ruin the exposers, namely Mr. Trump and Mr. Barr. These thieves belong in prison, or worse.
This article needs to be wrapped in a disposable diaper and thrown away.
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There many solutions. When someone tries to narrow it down to one solution they are selling something, or fishing.
It used to be an elementary school exercise: “What’s the price of eggs in China?” So you go to the library, look up China and look up eggs....you can’t find anything specific about the price of eggs in China. But you learned about using the card catalog, something about eggs, and something about China, and maybe some other things too along the way.
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