Posted on 02/07/2020 6:51:40 AM PST by Kaslin
It would have been hard to orchestrate a worse week for Democrats. From Iowa to impeachment, the political winds shifted against them.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, only a few months ago, had been praised by the American political press as a strategic genius. Her role in orchestrating the impeachment of President Donald Trump had her declared a political winner by a host of news network reporters, not just pundits. The Democrats started by coordinating with a whistleblower whose name everyone in Washington seems to know but only Sen. Rand Paul will dare utter.
After that coordination, Democrats opened an investigation the media found absolutely devastating. The number of reporters who declared everything terrible for the President increased. But the number of Americans who wanted the President tossed from office barely budged from around 47%, tied with those who wanted him to remain.
Then, having helped orchestrate the impeachment, Pelosi held on to the articles of impeachment. The media proclaimed it to be another strategic victory designed to build pressure on the Senate for fair rules. Ultimately, Pelosi sent the articles, and the Senate created rules that had no relation to the delay. Pelosi and the Democrats then demanded witnesses they had never called in the House. Media allies proclaimed the Senate had heard from no witnesses, despite having 17 witnesses entered into the record. As an aside, it is amazing how much the mainstream American press, from news networks to newspapers, was willing to parrot the Democrats' talking point on witnesses.
The Republican objection had always been that the Senate should hear from no witnesses the House had not first heard from. It was a fair point. Since the first impeachment in the late 1800s, the Senate has rarely heard from witnesses who have not first testified before the House. It has happened only a handful of times, in the trials of Walter Nixon, Bill Clinton and Thomas Porteous. In the President's case, the House failed to get the White House chief of staff or former national security advisor to testify. They blamed the court system but failed to push for an expedited court review. They just passed their job to the Senate.
The Senate rejected calling witnesses. Then, despite media hysteria, they acquitted Trump. It remains underappreciated that the House Democrats got only one Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney, to vote for impeachment, given how many House Republicans privately loathe the President. And one House Democrat actually became a Republican over impeachment.
On the week the Senate acquitted the President, Democrats had an embarrassing spectacle in Iowa. The former vice president of the United States, who served for two terms under Barack Obama, utterly failed to gain traction. The technology-focused Democrats, who spent four years lecturing Americans about voter security, managed to roll out an app to count the vote in Iowa, and it crashed. We now know the Department of Homeland Security offered to help vet the app's security, and the Democrats refused. The spectacle of the Democrats' failure helped to overshadow both Joe Biden's collapse and Bernie Sanders' momentum.
The next day, Trump delivered a remarkable State of the Union address tailor-made for a nation that no longer remembers lines of speeches but will remember Instagramable moments. One of those moments was honoring the last surviving Tuskegee Airman, and another honored an African American mother whose daughter is about to get a great education. For both, the Democrats sat. The end of the speech saw Pelosi rip up the printed copy of the president's speech. Even a lot of Democrats were appalled.
For months, Democrats and the press have been in a feedback loop of self-congratulatory back-patting. Guided by elite opinion on social media, Democrats marched themselves off a cliff to applause from the left. They now face a President with higher approval ratings than Obama had when he began his campaign for a second term.
The democrats are in a fight for their lives. Trump is fully aware of the democrats illegal activities. And they know that he knows. They also realize he will not be complicit with the current way of doing business in Washington, which is using the American people to enrich the politicians. He has promised to clean up the swamp, and their greatest fear is that he may actually follow through. They had to make up lies to try to eliminate him. Their very survival is at stake. Their next plot may be pure desperation. Gauging from the impeachment fiasco, they are stupid. And together with their desperation, dangerous.
“I didn’t watch the SOTU speech so I didn’t know that the last surviving Tuskeegee Airman was honored.
Hearing that the Democrats “sat for that” is appalling. I can’t think of a better way to show their pettiness and small-mindedness. That shouldn’t be a partisan moment.”
This illustrates the beauty of our Federal system, as well as the notion of independent nation states, being capable of COMPARISON. We now have the Deep State weak enough to serve as an anti-viral innoculation. Had Hillary been elected, it would be civil war by now. But presently we get to watch the Democrats attempt to unleash their master plan in a petri dish minus the necessary logistic and control infrastructure. Being blind and suffering terminal dementia, they will never see this. We can taunt and wave the red cape to their enraged bull as much as we want and they will charge again and again until the sword plunges between their shoulder blades and they end up on the cosmic BBQ grill in the sky or the dustbin of history, pick your metaphor.
I love the 6 Phases of a Project! So true.
Thank goodness there was not a secret ballot; or Romney would have had a lot more company IMHO. -Tom
One theory is that it's the Deep Left's secret plan to bugger up the primary so badly, that the Dems are forced to go to a brokered convention in the Fall.
At that point, Michelle Obama swoops in to save the day, and instantly unites the party under one umbrella they're all comfortable with.
If Hussein had any real strategic cunning, he'd go ahead and endorse Slow Joe to throw everyone off the scent.
You can search YouTube for "2020 State of The Union Speech" and see the whole thing.
I highly recommend you do. It was the best SOTU speech I've ever seen.
I agree. I watched it live on CSPAN online.
“He’s like a number of FReepers who criticize Trump the instant he does something differently than how they would have him do it.”
There are some like that, I’ve been here a long time and I’m not going to say whether I ever was one but I don’t think so. At any rate when I am tempted to disagree with the Donald now I take it as an indication to carefully rethink my own position. Too often I have thought, “Now why did he ever do that?” and then realized that he was six steps ahead of me.
Obama is currently appearing in Bloomberg TV ads in Florida.
Maybe. But in 6 months we’ll be close to the election and I suspect the Democrats are going to realize that their stunts have cost them the House and they will be in full panic mode and not know which way to turn.“Articles Of Impeachment (Packet#2) will hit the Senate in 3 to 6 Months.” - samtheman
Six months will be August. Is the Senate gonna take up another impeachment trial in August of an election year? I doubt it; as I understand it there have been impeachment articles delivered to the Senate which were never considered by the Senate. And I also know that Senate Rules can be modified at other times than at the start of a Congress. Certainly “Reid’s Rule” which busted the judicial filibuster was instituted in mid-term . . .IMHO the Senate must change its rules to avoid having to take up another impeachment, whether the House creates one or not. They can make up a nice “neutral” rule like allowing such to be killed by filibuster.
I didn’t pick that up. I strongly believe the Senate majority should put the kibosh on any notion of taking up another impeachment in this Congress. What did McConnell say?
I expect new Articles in a matter weeks, because of the lack of quality Presidential candidates. The Dems have to do something to get their base fired up.
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