Posted on 12/24/2019 3:46:11 AM PST by Kaslin
Watching cable news and surfing Facebook this past Wednesday, an outside observer might be excused in thinking that the Democrats won something. There were the members of the mainstream media lauding what they repeatedly referred to as an indelible mark on Donald Trump’s presidency. Facebook and Twitter users lit up in some misperceived triumph. Collectively the left cheered when, finally, after three long years of trying, President Trump was finally impeached. Perhaps it was the excitement of the moment, the culmination of a three-year vendetta, but Democrats far and wide seemed so jubilant in their perceived victory, that they displayed an absolute ignorance of the reality in which they were living. That being, absolutely nothing has changed.
Just as when they woke up on November 9, 2016, and just as they sat stoically on January 20, 2017, Donald Trump is still their president, and Democrats still don’t like him. Quite literally, nothing was changed by the House Democrats’ formal vote to impeach the president, a formal vote to say nothing more than, “We don’t like him!” Nothing has changed except for the fact that Democrats have a fresh opportunity to lose with some dignity intact, an opportunity that they thus far have been reluctant to embrace.
If a tree falls in the woods, and there’s nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound? What if the House voted to impeach a president, but failed to send such impeachment to the Senate, does the impeachment even matter? Yes, House Democrats have formally voted in favor of two articles of impeachment against the president, yet Speaker Pelosi has yet to deliver those articles to the Senate. The Speaker feels, quite incorrectly, that by withholding the articles from the Senate, she somehow gains leverage over what she erroneously believes to be an unfair process. As juvenile as it is, threatening to take your ball and go home, only ever works if the other side really wants to play. To believe, as Speaker Pelosi evidently does, that withholding the articles could somehow compel the Senate to cater to her partisan demands is to overlook the fact that the Senate never wanted this impeachment farce in the first place. Mitch McConnell, President Trump, and Republicans throughout the country could be just as content to see an entirely partisan impeachment fall apart simply because the champion of such impeachment is afraid to bring it to an open trial. A loss for the House Democrats to be certain, but not one with any semblance of dignity.
Speaker Pelosi, her allies in the Senate, and Democrats throughout the social media universe have charged that Mitch McConnell, and any Senate Republican who does not sign off on the demands of Chuck Schumer, is a hopeless partisan and somehow unfit to be a “juror” in any would be trial. Are we then to accept that, by implication, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and the rest of the House Democrats who have been on a three-year quest of impeachment in search of a reason are impartial purveyors of truth? Are we to forget the Russia collusion narrative and Adam Schiff’s fraudulent claim to have proof of such collusion? Should we overlook the baseless claims of obstruction of justice towards the Mueller investigation? A fair “juror” would, necessarily, keep in mind the “prosecutor’s” demonstrated history of vindictive and fraudulent prosecution. And are we to overlook the fact that other “jurors” would include Kamala Harris, who just weeks ago tweeted “See you at your trial” before the House even voted on impeachment? Or what about Elizabeth Warren who famously lied about her ancestry to advance her career and falsely claimed to have been fired over pregnancy to advance her presidential campaign? Are these the examples fair and impartial jurors the left would like to populate a Senate trial?
Democrats have been on an endless three-year quest to arrive at this point, regardless of reason and in absence of merit, a partisan driven vendetta whose promulgators now charge their opposition with hyper-partisanship. This is eerily similar to the classic fairy tale movie, The Princess Bride, when the conniving crime boss Vizzini decries, “You’re trying to kidnap what I’ve rightfully stolen!” Having nothing left to advance their hopes of removing Trump from office, Democrats now accuse Republicans in the Senate of the very immoralities they themselves are guilty of. That sounds a lot like a phrase Speaker Pelosi has popularized, “beneath the dignity of the office."
To be sure, the articles of impeachment will fail if they ever reach the Senate. The first article, alleging abuse of power, is not only unsubstantiated, but an act House Democrats have openly committed by spending all of their time and exerting all of their influence to harass the president and his family through endless, and baseless, investigations. The second article, accusing the president of obstruction of Congress by exerting executive privilege and challenging subpoenas has already been taken up by the Supreme Court with regards to the subpoenas for his tax returns. The very fact that the Court is looking at the question means that it is a valid question and not sufficient grounds for impeachment. The ill-advised impeachment is rightfully dead on arrival in any body that is not partisan.
Democrats wanted to put an indelible mark against Donald Trump’s name and an asterisk next to his presidency. What they have done is placed an indelible mark against this Congress and a permanent asterisk next to this impeachment. They have lost and there exists no way for them to change that. Still, they can lose with dignity by dropping this charade now before they do any further damage to the institutions they claim to be defending.
From another, unlinkable, website, the perfect descriptor for the Pelosi Project: “Whatevergate”.
Merry Christmas to all.
They’ll drop it at 11:59 pm Christmas Eve, all voting by telephone.
Similar to the “passing” of Obamacare
The Democratic base is broken. Part of it, the communists, are absolutely sure Trump is a criminal and has done XYZ (fill in the blank) and deserves impeachment.
The rest of the party is waiting for substance from the House....actual legislation and progress.
The leadership catered to the communists and is ignoring the rest.
The Dems have assured the election of President Trump in 2020 with their phony charges. Republican voters will be out en masse.
No. They don’t need to lose with dignity.
The godless, communist SOBs just need to lose....period.
They put an astrisk next to their “indelible mark”: Fake impeachment.
The Democrats Need to Lose With Dignity>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Not this time.
The now socialist leftist must loose in widespread ignominy.
Saul Alinsky and his Dem Alinskyite perpetrators of the 13 rules for radicals, destroying our institutions of social order,. must be ridiculed into the dust bin of history.If not then we will have a shooting war in and around sanctuary cities who have effectively left the Union.
The ballot box must speak resoundingly in November of 2020, and ridicule the Dem party. If not, it will be the bullet box which will be the next option for a free people.
The only legislative accomplishments will be Trump’s signature programs and everyone knows it....USMCA, the Wall, family leave,tax cuts. The only thing the House did on its own will fail and backfire.
Well, after three years of trying to prove that he's a criminal, they sure are having a hard time finding any real crimes to pin on him. So they make them up.
All wishful thinking on the part of the democRATS.
Ha, he said Democrats and dignity in the same sentence... This is Christmas Eve, not April fools day.
They just want to stain the President with the label of "impeached".
As I scan the Democratic Underground, I'm not sensing any euphoria that "We won!". They know Trump is as powerful today as he was yesterday.
Their desperation continues... as Democrat defections will continue. They are toast.
‘No. They don’t need to lose with dignity.
The godless, communist SOBs just need to lose....period.’
How can the dems lose with dignity when they don’t have any dignity?
‘No. They don’t need to lose with dignity.
The godless, communist SOBs just need to lose....period.’
How can the dems lose with dignity when they don’t have any dignity?
Losing with dignity requires a sense of shame. I also suspect that the leadership of the Dem party are being pressured by their donors, like the Chi-Coms, to do something, anything to stop the Trump juggernaut.
I do not know of a single Republican who will fail to vote unless they are completely incapacitated or actually dead.
Modern Democrats are known for their indignity, not their dignity.
It’s far too late for that. Socialists don’t care about dignity - they want power, and as long as they are the party handing out free stuff they will always be in the running to bribe their way into it, no matter how bad they may look in the short run.
Why? They don’t do anything with dignity.
Democrats (leftists, socialists, progressives) know not losing with dignity, nor of grace, respect or virtue.
They act as a child told “No.” to their candy demand at the checkout — tantrum in 3, 2, 1...
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