Posted on 01/24/2020 5:16:38 AM PST by Kaslin
If you are a Republican, the first week of impeachment meant the Democrats were unserious clowns, out to launch a coup against the duly elected President of the United States. The president's team was diligent, thoughtful and proficient.
If you are a Democrat, the first week of impeachment meant the president's team was a cast straight from the island of misfit toys, unable to make a coherent argument -- and the Democrats were veritable geniuses. Impeachment, and your view on impeachment, is all in the eye of the beholder. Republicans think it is a scam, and Democrats think it is necessary.
In 1998, the roles were reversed, including in the press. Major media figures during the Clinton impeachment thought it would be a waste of time to hear from witnesses. Now, many of the same figures think it is vitally necessary. In 1998, Republicans thought the future of the republic depended on it, and Democrats thought it was a partisan coup. Guess where they stand now?
The most significant difference is that in 1998, Republicans got more Democrats on board than Democrats have gotten now against Trump. That is very notable, if for only one reason. There are 22 House Republicans leaving Congress. Half of them, at least, hate the President of the United States. They blame him for their districts turning against them. They blame him for their loss of power. They blame him for their departures. But the Democrats got precisely zero of them to vote their way, while the GOP picked up a seat in Congress with a Democrat turning Republican.
If House Democrats cannot get the Republicans who hate President Donald Trump and no longer have to fear his voters to go for impeachment, getting two-thirds of the Senate to go along for their ride is going to be an impossible task. To be clear, the President should not have done what he did. It was wrong, and any Republican who says otherwise lacks the intellectual honesty to acknowledge they would be demanding Barack Obama's head if he had done the same.
But is it impeachable? I think, with the nation less than a year from an election, it is not. If the president were in a second term and incapable of being held accountable by the voters, or early in a first term, the conclusion could be different. But the conclusion here is that the President did something wrong, and his staff knew it -- but it is in the open and he will face voters in less than 11 months. Likewise, Democrats failed to call key witnesses they could have called to build a better case, such as former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Instead, they tried to hide behind the courts and endless delays, but they never even wanted to pick the fight. The reality is that the courts would have accommodated the Democrats and rapidly expedited the fight. The Democrats chose never to go that far and now want the Senate to do the House's job.
Impeachment is a partisan fundraising tool for both sides at this point. Democrats have managed to help the President unite the Republican base while uniting their own base. There can be only one winner, and it will be Trump. Democrats will take their loss and turn it into a public relations and fundraising victory with their base. Relying on an overly biased and sympathetic media, the Democrats will cast doubt on the 2020 election, savage the GOP and make a case for taking back the Senate.
In less than a month, the nation will move on and have other things to focus on. Time will advance, the President will be on the ballot in November and voters will care about something else. This is historic. This is the third presidential impeachment in American history and only the second in living memory. Its ending is a foregone conclusion. It distracts from more important things. It will do nothing but make Americans more cynical as the ties that bind us fray just a bit more.
An absolute lie and an illustration why Ericson is a total never-Trumper POS. I rate him lower than a Democrat. and rank him with Bill Krystal, Max Boot, Jenifer Ruben and the other worthless anti-Trump so-called conservatives who spent decades sucking on the anuses of the liberal elite to get the occasional pat on the head. If the earth opened up and swallowed them all the world would be a better place.
The only one lacking any intellectual honest here is Erick the buffoon. He too gutless to tell his Never Trumper buddies the truth for fear they will stop funding his failing website.
Watch the video and read the transcipt finally Eric the clown.
The President has both a legal, and moral, obligation to investigate this before turning over more millions in US aid.
“To be clear, the President should not have done what he did. It was wrong, and any Republican who says otherwise lacks the intellectual honesty to acknowledge they would be demanding Barack Obama’s head if he had done the same.”
Is the author serious? Exactly what did the president do that was wrong?
I want provable info that isn’t refuted by the known facts (like the decision to withold aid being made prior to the “perfect call”).
The pathetic bleating of a Never-Trumper.
Why post this RINO excrement? You totally lack discernment. I don't think you read the stuff you puke up here.
I still have not seen, or heard of Trump doing anything illegal.
Whether you like it or not nearly everything done in the name of diplomacy is based on quid pro quo. “If you do that for us we will do this for you.”
Anyone who believes differently is an idiot and/or a liar.
Oh, and the President of the United States has a legal obligation to find and stop graft and illegal activities, especially in Ukraine. There was a bill out of Congress requiring it.
Destroying our “institutions” is a GOAL for them. Spineless GOP politicians are just enablers.
It would have been wrong of the president after hearing of the corruption in Ukraine to not investigate. We don’t pass on an investigation in to law breaking just because a political figure is involved.
This president while perhaps does not act like a politician, after all he is not a politician, does not make his actions impeachable. i personally feel Donald Trump is a breath of fresh air in Washington, just what it needs.
I’m an old man. Trump is by far and away the best president in my lifetime.
The most significant difference is that in 1998, Republicans got more Democrats on board than Democrats have gotten now against Trump.
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Of course. Because even though the MSM (fully in propaganda mode even back then) was portraying it as a salacious witch hunt to attack sex and a man’s personal choices, Clinton had lied under oath and during depositions and there was real evidence that he deliberately asked Lewinsky to lie and cover up for him (witness tampering).
The case against Clinton was the result of a long and serious independent investigation, not a charade started in the House.
So Eric, you are supposedly a Lawyer. Really want to argue that being a poltical figure grants legal immunity of self acknowlged corruption. Trump mythicall wrong but what Biden did is just a ok with you?
WATCH the tape finally
Correct. The President has a Constitutional duty to ensure the laws are faithfully executed. He is the head of the Executive Branch. Furthermore, we have a treaty with Ukraine regarding corruption.
Erick Erickson should examine his own "intellectual honesty."
Erickson can't examine his "intellectual honesty." There isn't any there to examine.
What Erik misses is the absolute corruption that has befallen a very substantial segment of our political establishment. Calling out that corruption is the most serious and the single most courageous act of a sitting president.
For some reason I thought Erickson how grown out of his temper tantrum. Apparently not.
Not surprisingly ALL of DC is working against him.
Stopped reading after that statement.
When you've lost the never-Trumpers....
More liberal dribble from “Eric the Red”.
I stopped reading right there.
The author is misguided and/or naïve (to be polite).
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