Posted on 12/13/2019 3:28:44 AM PST by Kaslin
If cosmic justice were to prevail, Democrats would drop their impeachment sham in confessed disgrace and move to give President Donald Trump a second term by acclamation for having ceaselessly abused their power in trying to nullify his first term.
Though cosmic justice won't prevail, the Constitution will, including its prescribed Senate check on impeachment and its provision for election of presidents through the Electoral College.
The Democrats have given new meaning to the term "overplaying your hand," and their witch hunt will continue to backfire. They will fail to remove Trump from office and, through their egregious overreach, will have probably ensured his re-election.
Given the timely release of the inspector general's report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses, their bogus impeachment crusade has been further exposed as an appalling partisan travesty.
It cannot be repeated too often that the thrust of the Democrats' complaint against Trump is that he is a walking high crime and misdemeanor. They consider him so heinous that they needn't produce evidence of actual treason, bribery or other "high crimes." They've been trying to unseat him from the moment he was sworn in, and they're still trying, despite the failure of their previous efforts. Democrats talked of impeachment before he took office, and Democratic Reps. Al Green, Brad Sherman and Steve Cohen initiated a formal impeachment effort the first year of Trump's presidency.
These shysters have wanted to impeach him over his tweets, the Emoluments Clause, his tax returns, collusion with Russia to interfere with the election, obstruction of justice, quid pro quo, extortion, bribery and obstruction of Congress. They wasted weeks in formal impeachment proceedings, first in an underground Star Chamber in the House and then out in the open before the House Intelligence Committee. In those proceedings, the Democratic accusers paraded hearsay witness after hearsay witness to show that Trump had engaged in bribery in a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In raising the Ukraine issue, they didn't even bother to prove Trump's intent; they unilaterally declared that it was to cripple his likely 2020 Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden, when in fact, it was more likely about Trump's desire for past Democratic corruption to be investigated.
But after putting half the country asleep in trying to make a painstaking case for "bribery" and enraging the other half, they came up with nothing, and so they told the country, in essence: "Never mind. Don't hold us to our monthslong charade alleging bribery. Just like all the other times when we were caught bearing false witness against this duly elected president, we're just going to find different words. But this time, we're going to use ones that you can't say are too narrow ('abuse of power')" -- because they are meaninglessly vague.
Impeachment is a gravely serious remedy that the framers intended to be used sparingly and only when there was such a threat to the republic that a bipartisan effort would ensue. Here the Democrats don't even have a legitimate, non-serious basis; they have highly contested thirdhand evidence, and they have no bipartisan support. If their impeachment grounds were genuine, they wouldn't have changed them like fashion models change clothes.
Though they've been trying to impeach Trump for years now, his alleged actions hadn't even taken place when they began their efforts. House Leader Nancy Pelosi recently admitted that impeachment had been a Democratic project for 22 months -- well before the notorious phone call with Zelensky.
Consider the richness of the Democrats' lusting for Trump's ouster over his alleged interference with an election when they have been trying to interfere with the 2016 election (and now the 2020 election) for three years. It would be outrageous enough if they had just endlessly mounted false charges against Trump via the impeachment process. But their political apparatus -- the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign -- coordinated with foreign actors and abominable, partisan crooks at the FBI to frame President Trump for conspiring with Russia. Can you even imagine what hell there would be to pay if Trump and the Republican National Committee had been accused of doing what these Democrats actually and undeniably did?
Moreover, Rep. Adam Schiff, his corrupt colleagues and their media co-conspirators ridiculed and demonized Rep. Devin Nunes for exposing this corruption. Schiff filed a report to refute Nunes' report, and they've been calling Nunes a liar and a kook ever since. But whatever games people want to play about Inspector General Michael Horowitz's disclaimer that he found no documentary or testimonial evidence of political bias (despite the plethora of emails and other real evidence of bias at the FBI), no sane person can deny that the IG report vindicates Nunes and exposes the sanctimonious Schiff as an unconscionable liar. Yet Schiff has quarterbacked this entire Democratic impeachment farce.
Horowitz's disclaimer as to discovery of bias is not only misleading because we know of undeniable anti-Trump bias at the highest levels of the FBI. It is also misleading because we are talking about matters far worse than bias. This was abject corruption. An FBI agent doctored evidence; the FBI tricked Trump into an interview disguised as a briefing; and high-ranking FBI personnel deliberately defrauded the FISA Court multiple times to incriminate a sitting president. This is stuff right out of a Robert Ludlum novel, and these Gestapo felons must be held to account.
One supposes that given the breadth and depth of their own corruption going to the very democratic processes they pretend to adore, the Democrats will keep ratcheting up the volume on their false claims against Trump, hoping, as usual, to dupe the voting public into restoring them to power in 2020.
But as I said, they've overplayed their hand. If justice prevails, they will rue the day they went down this sinister road, and Trump not only will not be removed; he will be reelected, and the Republicans will regain their majority in both houses of Congress.
Lir
A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY
I think all this Dem BS has been silencing their lunatic nut cases. I think the disappearance of SJW and Antifa is a plus for dems and to keep them occupied watching frivolous scandals against Trump keeps them home watching and hoping.
I hope after this gets squashed the silence from DC then brings their lunatics back out in public.
Lir or Ler is a sea god in Irish mythology. His name suggests that he is a personification of the sea, rather than a distinct deity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lir
Exploding cigar 142,347.
Congratulations, dems.
You have to wonder what was done to Schiff as a child.
When that alleged dossier was brought out I viewed it as someones idea of a satirical piece to be submitted to UK’s Daily Mail or other lefty publication which was rejected probably because of this.
Frankly Trump strikes me as a guy who knows the value of a buck and wouldn’t waste it on a bunch of hookers urinating on a bed just to get even .For that to be used as the reason to allow spying on the Trump political campaign by the court is unbelievable.
If these coup conspirators get away with what they have done the country cannot recover. It is as simple as that. Whether 0bama actually goes to jail is irrelevant but he needs to be found guilty enough that NO ONE can deny what happened.
There is something about this that is different. We all know that Soros’ check book can produce thousands of protestors in hours. Where are they? Impeachment is “too solemn” for Astro turfed protestors?
These are people attacking the United States.
The fact that they happen to be sitting Congresscritters and Senators is happenstance in that regard
Pulled back due to potential public “optics”, alongside the fauxpeachment insanity?
I keep trying to remember how Schiff-for-brains was in high school. He was not in my (small) circle of friends, and frankly, there was nothing remarkable about him. I can only assume that while the seeds of corruption had to be there, they only started growing after we graduated.
He and I were high school classmates.
My suspicion is the Rats didn’t want to send that many targets downrage. We might “open the range”.
“A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY”
Just one of MANY seditious conspiracies against WE THE PEOPLE.
These are people attacking the United States.
The fact that they happen to be sitting Congresscritters and Senators is happenstance in that regard
In reading your post I thought of a classmate of mine.
He was raised by loving parents that, to the best of my knowledge, were good to him.
In high school he was mean. He’d carry a cat to the top of a water tower and throw it off just to see if it landed on it’s feet. In snow ball fights he’d put rocks inside the snow ball. He’d mimic the Three Stooges and take two fingers and jab people in their eyes.
In his adulthood he was crooked and very mean to his wife.
My point is how he was raised had little to do with how he turned out. What he was in high school is what he was in adult hood. I suspect no different with Schit for brains.
Many of us believe how we were raised is the sole cause of whether we turn out good, bad, rich or poor. The sad fact is it’s how we’ve been brainwashed when there are so many other factors that determine one’s lifelong behavior.
With regards to Schit, I’d say the Kalifornia culture in general had more to do with how he turned out than did genetics or parenting. Regardless of how it happened, this dude is EVIL!!
Our high school was in CA. I did not turn out like him at all. He spent his early childhood in New England, IIRC.
I spent my entire childhood in CA. I would attribute his temperament to genetics, and his current corrupt heartlessness to the interaction between genetics and environment (familial and societal).
In listening to these hearings, I realize Democrats have now become strict constitutionalists. Their sudden love for this country is something to behold and the constitution is now their bible. They quote and revere the founding fathers, which is refreshing because it wasn’t too long ago they wanted their names to be stripped from history because they were all racists.
About your former classmate: he sounds like a born psychopath. Such people are born with brain anomalies that prevent them from feeling empathy, and sometimes cause them to take pleasure in others’ suffering. This is as much a physical brain disorder as schizophrenia or mental retardation.
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