21st Century Regicide: The House Votes

spectator.org ^ | by JOHN C. WOHLSTETTER

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The Democrats have taken a sinister, dangerous turn.

The December 18 House votes (230-197 on abuse of power and 229-198 on obstruction of Congress) to impeach President Trump, one day shy of 21 years since Bill Clinton was impeached, followed one of American history’s most delicious ironies: the very date, December 10, that the House Judiciary Committee began formal debate, there was a reminder of the Ghost of Impeachments Past, none other than one Jerrold Nadler, who exactly 21 years earlier, in his opening statement in the Clinton vote, said,

The effect of impeachment is to overturn the popular will of the voters as expressed in a national election. We must not overturn an election and remove a president from office except to defend our very system of government or our constitutional liberties against a dire threat. And we must not do so without an overwhelming consensus of the American people and of their representatives in Congress of the absolute necessity.

There must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported by one of our major political parties and largely opposed by the other. Such an impeachment would lack legitimacy, would produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come. And will call into question the very legitimacy of our political institutions.

The December 13 via twin 23-17 party-line votes by the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by the selfsame Jerrold Nadler, that sent to the House floor articles of impeachment were voted in flagrant contradiction of Rep. Nadler’s strong 1998 stance. And on the very day that the HJC voted came another XMAS present for the GOP: a 1999 campaign sally (1:35) by Adam Schiff, running to unseat James Rogan, one of the House managers of the Clinton impeachment:

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[Fido969]

Funny how lefties never have to answer for their hypocrisy.

[hanamizu]

Funny how lefties never have to answer for their hypocrisy.

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It’s not hypocrisy when they do it. Didn’t you see how somber they were? Why Pelosi wore funereal black. That shows that they were sincere.

[ctdonath2]

Everyone is missing the actual crisis:
Pelosi is obstructing the will of the House.

At minimum she must be stripped of the Speakership immediately.
House minority should submit resolutions censuring Pelosi, revoking her speakership, demanding immediate delivery of Articles to senate, and asking Supreme Court to weigh in.

[caww]

It’s a ‘runaway House’....The senate can shut this down.

[ctdonath2]

Not the Senate’s problem (they don’t want it and will kill it).
It’s the House’s problem (they passed it and she’s sitting on it).

Speaker Pelosi is derelict in her duty, guilty of: abuse of power, and obstructing Congress.

[caww]

You can put all manner of guilt against Pelosi but it’s not going to stick.....she simply does not have the power she’s exhibiting in the illusion she’s created for the public.....the Senate knows this and so does she... they can just shut this down.

[kiryandil]

Funny how lefties never have to answer for their hypocrisy.

Had Nadler and Schitt been Republicans, the massed Media artillery battalions would have poured fire into them ceaselessly till they broke.

Since they're Democrites, we didn't hear even a single firecracker go off...

[kiryandil]

Excellent points.

Now we just have to sober her up, and put her dentures back in. Before she's removed.

[redpoll]

Thanks for posting that quote. I think I”ll post it whenever there’s an unhinged leftist warning me about the impending destruction of Everything Held Sacred by the orange meany.