Posted on 01/23/2020 9:01:01 AM PST by Hojczyk
Like them or not, presidents uniquely represent the elected will of the people. As such, their removal is not just about the removal of a person but the overturning of that elected will. For that reason, there are few offenses that will be so grievous as to cause the party in power to give up their party’s leader and convict a president; most charges, even if true, won’t reach that high bar for removal. Clearly, the accusations in 1998 and 1999 did not meet that threshold, and neither do the charges today.
There is definitely something about all this that the American public doesn’t like, that reasonable people can judge as wrong, but that is quite different than removing a president from office through a process designed to use impeachment as a political vehicle. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) was not a truth-seeker — he is on tape soliciting naked pictures of Trump, and he repeatedly exaggerated evidence against Trump over the last three years. He was simply a weapon jamming through impeachment and ignoring fair procedure or legal process.
last few days in the media have underscored this bias with the release of material from Lev Parnas, who — like Christopher Steele and his dossier before him, or like Michael Avenatti, now out on bail — is a questionable character with obviously wild claims for which he has no proof, including claims against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr, whom Parnas has never met. It was a political dirty trick to release his information and him on the eve of the Senate impeachment trial, this act alone would have gotten any real prosecutor’s case thrown out
We need to end this quickly, get back to the business of the country, and then have an election.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Mark Penn. served as pollster and adviser to former President Clinton from 1995 to 2000, including during Clinton’s impeachment.
And the author is a lifelong Democrat who worked on many successful Democratic campaigns.
Another bit of ground prep to prepare the Democrat base for this to be an EPIC FAIL.
Bernie Sanders surge in the poll is having an affect.
He was actually impeached for lying about it under oath. Everybody knew Clinton was a creep and a sexual predator, and if he’d just gotten teary eyed and apologized, there would have been no impeachment. But, arrogant as he is, he refused to do the right thing and just lied his head off - under oath.
Schiff and others have no concerns about lying...their focus is creating illusions of guilt and thus doubt. It's 'deception on parade'...
Just remember Payback is a ........................ bad thing.....................
There were several reports that the judiciary committee would continue to function during this crappy phony “impeachment” — I seem to recall it would meet in mornings ? Then, the reports seemed to stop. It would be a crying shame if this bullsheit impeachment halted the good progress being made in filling judiciary vacancies. I sure hope for the best on this!
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