Posted on 02/07/2020 4:48:20 AM PST by Kaslin
It's comforting, no doubt, to believe that Donald Trump has survived the impeachment trial because he possesses a tighter hold on his party than did Barack Obama or George W. Bush or any other contemporary president. In truth, Trump, often because of his own actions, has engendered less loyalty than the average president.
It's difficult to recall, after all, a single Democratic senator throwing anything but hosannas Obama's way, which allowed the former president to ride his high horse from one scandalous attack on the Constitution to the next. In 1998, no Democrat voted to convict Bill Clinton, who had engaged in wrongdoing for wholly self-serving reasons, despite the GOP's case being far more methodical and incriminating.
The chances of any party removing its sitting president without overwhelming evidence that fuels massive voter pressure are negligible. It's never happened in American history -- unless you count the preemptive removal of Richard Nixon -- and probably never will. Democrats are demanding the GOP adopt standards that no party has ever lived by.
Perhaps if the public hadn't been subjected to four years of interminable hysteria over the United States' imaginary descent into fascism, it might have been less apathetic toward the fate of "vital" Ukrainian aid that most Democrats had voted against when Obama was president.
And perhaps if institutional media hadn't spent three years pushing a hyperbolically paranoid narrative of Russian collusion -- a debunked conspiracy theory incessantly repeated by Democrats during the impeachment trial -- the public wouldn't be anesthetized to another alleged national emergency.
You simply can't expect a well-adjusted voter to maintain CNN-levels of indignation for years on end.
Beyond the public's mood, the Democrats' strategy was a mess. House Dems and their 17 witnesses set impossible-to-meet expectations, declaring that Trump had engaged in the worst wrongdoing ever committed by any president in history. (I'm not exaggerating.) When it comes to Trump criticism, everything is always "the worst thing ever!"
Even if Trump's actions had risen to the level of removal, Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler were terrible messengers to make the case. These are not the politicians you tap to persuade jurors; they're the politicians you pick to rile up your base.
Despite all the fabricated praise directed at Schiff over the past couple of weeks, the man reeks of partisanship. Not only because he's been caught lying about the presence of damning evidence against Trump on more than one occasion, but because he played a sketchy role in helping the whistleblower responsible for sparking the impeachment come forward.
Even then, instead of spending the appropriate time building a solid case, subpoenaing all the "vital" witnesses, and laying out a timeline, House Democrats, by their own admission, rushed forward. They justified taking shortcuts by warning that the country was in a race to stop Trump from stealing the 2020 election just as he had allegedly stolen the 2016 election.
That wouldn't have been a big deal if Nancy Pelosi hadn't exposed the supposed need for urgency as a ruse, by withholding the articles of impeachment from the Senate for weeks. She did so despite having zero standing to dictate the terms of the trial, no constitutional right to attempt to dictate them and no political leverage. In the end, she got nothing from Mitch McConnell for her trouble.
Meanwhile, Democrats had spent most of the House hearings focusing on difficult-to-prove specific criminal offenses of "bribery" and "extortion" -- poll-tested words that were taken up after the House realized "quid pro quo" didn't play as well with the public.
Then, they didn't even bother including the "crimes" -- no, you don't need a violation of criminal law to impeach, but the word was incessantly used by House Dems anyway -- in their open-ended articles of impeachment, written expressly to compel Senate Republicans to investigate for them.
The House had no right to demand that, and the Senate had no reason to comply. So as soon as the upper chamber took up impeachment, Democrats began dropping one "bombshell" leak after the next -- the same strategy they deployed during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings -- to drag out the spectacle and maximize the political damage.
Some of us would certainly have preferred that more Republicans concede Trump's call was unbecoming and, in parts, inappropriate, even if it didn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But Democrats keep demanding that Republicans play under a different set of rules.
The Constitution, a document under attack by the very people claiming to save it from the president, worked exactly as it should. The House is free to subpoena all the "vital" witnesses Republicans have supposedly ignored, and then send a new batch of impeachment articles. Impeachment isn't tantamount to a "coup" any more than Senate acquittal is unconstitutional or corrupt.
Pretending that democracy is on the precipice of extinction simply because you didn't get your way, though, is nothing but histrionics.
‘ his well written essay’
Nah. Wordy. Big words. Illogical. Impossible to skim. Propaganda snuck in all over
Lots of pussy blivovating in this article.
Donald Trump was exonerated because he did nothing wrong. Not in the least.
The Dems tried to frame the President. It did not work.
Plain and simple.
“What corruption was he referring to? Is that the event wherein 1.8 billion of US taxpayer money was given to a bank in Ukraine, that enriched local Oligarchs, was kicked back to politicians via their children in the US, and paid for George Soros continued attack on our country by laundering the money via multiple banks and Crowdstrike?”
I believe that the Clinton Foundation was the laundry mat for paying everyone.
He thinks the call was improper, and impeachment wasn’t a coup attempt. Fails to notice traitors inside the intelligence community who engineered and set up tree attempt.
The Hungarian atheist from New York isn’t very maga.
Isn’t that called bloviating?
If it did, Trump would be immune from investigation, because he's running for president in 2020.
And the fact that Trump might be trying to remove a political rival should have rendered all Dems running for president unable to participate, because they, too, were trying to remove a political rival.
So by using an investigation to remove a political rival, Dems made a poor case that it's wrong to use an investigation to remove a political rival.
Impeachment isn't tantamount to a "coup" any more than Senate acquittal is unconstitutional or corrupt.
I hadn't realized this guy was a never-Trumper until today.
Even if every allegation the Democrats had made against Trump about Russia, Ukraine, etc. was indisputably true and supported by overwhelming evidence, very few Americans would have given a sh!t at all. Most rabid partisans wanted Trump remover for reasons that had nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine, and most normal Americans couldn’t have cared less about either one of them.
Obama was ride when he mocked Mitt Romney by saying: “The 1980s have called; they want their foreign policy back.” But that cuts both ways, and the author of this slop ought to come to grips with it. Most Americans wouldn't give a sh!t if Russia conquered all of Ukraine tomorrow.
She pulled out the cockamamie "urgency to save the democracy ruse," sat on the articles for weeks, then started dictating to the Senate.
Once again, her presidency paranoia took hold...... she had
(A) zero standing to dictate the Senate trial terms, (B) no constitutional rights over the Senate, and, (C) not a scintilla of political leverage.
Stupid is as stupid does. She didnt see that coming. That she'd get nothing from Mitch McConnell for her trouble.
#1 reason:
The Mainstream Media Monopoly in this country has been BROKEN.
Thank you, Rush Limbaugh!
The GOP would loved to have gotten rid of Trump in 2017 or 2018 but they had nothing....Trump exposed then as corrupt...
By 2019 his business friendly agenda did wonders for the economy....
Trump has now taken control of the GOP....I hope
Question was Mike Lee of Utah a never Trumper...like Romney
He seems to have changed...I might have the wrong guy
Kaslin the implication is that there is something real to persuade someone one with. IT WAS ALL A HOAX, GET IT?
Yes. my bad. LOL.
Speaking of Rush Limbaugh, he’s supposed to be on the golden EIB microphone today according to FOX and Friends earlier this morning.
Dems stupidly wrote open-ended articles of impeachment, that they hoped would compel Senate Republicans to investigate for them.
They musta got that inane idea from Sharia law as practiced in ***hole Muslim countries.
DEMOCRATS STILL USING THE FAILED "KAVANAUGH MODEL." As the trial commenced, Democrats began dropping what they said was one "bombshell" after another -- the same strategy deployed during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings -- to drag out the spectacle and maximize the political damage.
It failed because Trump didn’t make a high crime or misdemeanor. I think you have to have those FIRST, then proceed with the process. They seem to get thing backwards...like passing the bill to find out what is in it...both Pelosi errors.
Nobody needs to write this many words to describe why “impeachment“ failed: Everybody knows it failed because it was fake. Fake fake fake fake fake fake fake
The impeachment failed because Trump did nothing wrong.
The democrats did not care about that, only power and the billions in bribe money floating around.
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