Posted on 12/15/2019 3:26:07 AM PST by Kaslin
It was one of the longest telegraphed punches in political history, but that doesn’t make it any less of a cheap shot. Just 19 minutes after he took the oath of office, at 12:19 on January 20th, 2017, the Washington Post ran a piece entitled, “The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun.” Donald Trump finished his inauguration address at 12:18.
From that moment forward, Democrats have been working toward what they’ll likely achieve this week: voting articles of impeachment out of the House of Representatives, branding an asterisk next to Donald J. Trump’s name in the history books.
They’ve never accepted the results of the 2016 election. They’d not only measured the drapes in the Oval Office, Democrats had visions of new liberal Supreme Court Justices dancing in their heads for a year. Those dirty, smelly Americans living between their superiors on the coasts ruined their plans, and this is part of the payback.
In their wrath, Democrats have cheapened the important power of Congress to remove a truly lawless executive from a just, but rarely exercised occurrence to the equivalent of a vote of “no confidence” in a parliamentary government.
Now that impeachment has been weaponized over dislike of the person occupying the office, why wouldn’t the opposition party impeach any president in the future over anything? Democrats have been unbound by facts, evidence, and even reality in their Ahab-esque pursuit of President Trump. As soon as the articles of impeachment are adopted by the House, any stigma that would be attached to an electoral-strategy based impeachment is gone. Republicans would be foolish to unilaterally disarm and surrender the tactic in the future.
The cheapening of Congressional impeachment power is just the latest in a series of actions Democrats have taken to water-down once-powerful, and meaningful, charges and institutions. And each one, each “victory” for the left, damages the country further.
Being called a “racist” used to carry weight; it was not tossed around lightly. When someone or something was called racist, it was met with a seriousness by the public, unless and until it was disproven. In that, the left saw opportunity.
Al Sharpton pioneered calling everything racist and Jesse Jackson perfected the art of the shakedown. Both positioned themselves, with the help of fellow travelers in the media, not only as accusers but absolvers as well. Forgiveness was only a donation check and symbolic gesture away. Both “Reverends” were afforded fabulously wealthy lifestyles, having their humiliations and shortcomings glossed over or ignored by the press, and Sharpton ended up with a cable “news” show. They also served, at different times, as rings Democratic candidates had to kiss if they wanted their party’s presidential nomination, with Al currently filling that seat.
But each false charge, while tightening their grip on power and fattening their wallets, helped drown out real charges and hurt real victims. A real cry for justice gets lost in a chorus of opportunists.
Take “racist” and replace it with whatever alternative “ist” or “phobe” word you like; lather, rinse, repeat.
I’d like to think we reached a crescendo with the rash of fake hate crimes claimed after Trump’s victory, but liberals have not slowed down one bit. Nor will they. Ever. Unless, maybe, they’re held to their own standards; forced to live the way they’re forcing on everyone else.
Unfortunately, for the country, Democrats have taken us to a dark place. By cheapening impeachment to the point that it is nothing more than an electoral strategy, when it is needed – and no nation is perfect, it likely will be needed again – it will go over like the twelfth time “wolf” was cried and a president who should be removed from office for the sake of the republic will survive.
There is nothing Democrats won’t do to win next year. Remember that feeling you had on November 9, 2016, about 2:30 am, when the media could no longer pretend Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin were “too close to call” and they had to admit Donald Trump was President-elect? Remember the looks on the faces of those Democrats, both elected and masquerading as journalists; the shock and horror? They want revenge for that; for failing them, for defying them.
Nothing short of a major outbreak of conscience or love of country is going to stop Democrats from taking the country down this destructive path, and everything they’ve done during the Trump administration shows they’re immune.
the present “cost” of Sedition against
the Constitution for the united states of America
is NOTHING, except the awarded ability to ‘try again’.
Democrats soil institutions. They can’t help it.
Well, no, but no one wants to contemplate the alternative. The country is divided beyond repair. One side or the other needs to go or the country formally separated.
Democrats have killed the USA. There’s no use getting upset about it. Bell unrung, glass unspilled kind of thing. You cannot share a country with people who are dangerously delusional and it’s no use pretending you can even if you would want to. What we have is an opportunity to do better in the future by accomplishing goals we could not achieve while pretending we still had a USA. Like sending 30 million illegals home for starters. Like making the country a very dangerous place for Socialists and Commies. These events, Impeachment, Civilian Disarmament, #DeepState, etc. are not the worrisome signs of tragic portends, at least they need not be. These things are also great opportunities if we have only the courage to seize them.
Remember how Democrats cheapened impeachment during Clinton’s trial?
Lying under oath was “a private matter” that was none of our business.
Sex-starved conservatives relished in the Monica Lewinsky story’s lewd details.
Democrats taught our children that oral and anal sex was not the definition of sex.
There is no level to which these people will not drag us on their mad quest for power and wealth.
They cheapen everything down to nothing, so that they can they can impose strange new values on us that we will be forced to embrace. Like “carbon neutral” and “social justice”.
Hillary’s spent years suggesting she was robbed, using Russian interference, voter suppression,
misogyny, racism, sexism, deplorables.... anything she could think of to lay the blame.
Hillary’s hand-feeding the electorate tall stories about why she lost....is strictly for public consumption.
REALITY CHECK Hillary conducted her campaign, and herself, exactly like a candidate who
KNEW from the getgo.........the election was fixed in her favor. Heck, she was a shoo-in.
<><> Obama put the entire US intel apparat at her disposal,
<><> the slavish media was at her beck and call
<><> she herself bragged foreign leaders everywhere were backing her election.
<><> she had campaign money coming out of her ears as Bill visited offshore banks round the globe.
The president will survive this as will the Nation.
What I a am looking forward to is the book Donald Trump will write once he leaves office. My guess it may be the best selling book of all time next to the Bible.
Of course the NYT will try and figure out a way to keep it off the best sellers list. They will probably institute a new list, one on which only political novels are ranked.
Should be fun to watch.
Jill Biden the sad sack wife of Democrat buffoon Joe Biden has openly proclaimed that POTUS, Donald J. Trump is simply afraid to run against her all powerful (NOT) husband, Joe Biden and she proudly shouts what a great son her Hunter Biden is.
I guess if you can call a son great if he is a proven druggie, has been kicked out of the USA Navy, has womanized galore and impregnanted females, not his wife, across the entire country, not to mention his myriad criminal acts along with his crooked, criminal father.....one would say your mind is a bit biased and twisted. Onward, Jill Biden...you, too reveal your true low life , useless status..period!!!
Ms. Jill Biden, I suggest before you open your biased yap...you take a good look at your comments made publicly, which clearly reveal how ill informed you really are!!! case closed!!!
In their zeal and hurry, they are destroying the institutions and gaining support for the individual. Exactly what Trump is trying to accomplish in Washington D.C.
Democrat friends and relatives must be ostracized for Christmas
They have these last two weeks forfeited their right to not only co existence, but are no longer fit to be part of America.
It’s hard, but if they come to visit, they must be turned away, ostracized.
Bingo!
Destroying Institutions is what leftists do to gain power.
There is a reckoning coming for these evil people
Good article and he’s absolutely right. The hysterical and ruthless leftist quest for power has hollowed out the meaning of our institutions and destroyed the political safeguards we have always relied on as a country.
Hunter is not Jill Biden’s son.
Biden had a first wife who was the mother of Hunter.
Sorry, she referred to him as “My Son”!!!
Sure the Nation will survive but will the Republic? Doubtful.
Trump will prevail and the Republic will survive.
Do not minimize what happened in the UK. People can only be pushed and bullied for so long. Remember the radicals on the Left are vastly, VASTLY outnumbered and they are bullies to boot. Bullies do not want to actually fight and the moment the are presented with a show of force they will run for the hills.
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