Posted on 02/07/2020 2:39:46 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Senate has voted against impeaching President Donald Trump, defeating two articles of impeachment by votes of 52-48 and 53-47. Trump joins two former presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, in being impeached by the House of Representatives before being acquitted by the Senate.
The House failed to produce credible evidence that the president committed any “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” or engaged in any action that justified his impeachment by the House, let alone his conviction and removal from office by the Senate.
Despite Democrats’ loss in the Senate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., are no doubt basking in the admiration of their liberal allies for their actions, and they are hoping that their attempt to damage the president in the eyes of the public will be successful in the 2020 election.
However, history is often an unforgiving critic.
Historians in the future may judge them far more harshly for abusing the impeachment power in the Constitution. That provision was not intended to allow 285 members of Congress—a simple House majority and two-thirds of senators—to remove a duly elected president for partisan reasons or over matters of style, no matter what his margin of victory in the last election.
Impeachment was to be used only in the direst of circumstances to remove a president clearly guilty of such serious, substantial misconduct that he posed a danger to the nation, and who was clearly unfit to continue in office until the next election when the public could make its own choice.
House Democrats did not come even close to meeting that standard.
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What I meant is I recall the judgment of historians is that if the impeachment was successful and Johnson was removed it would have weakened future presidencies.
Just like today Democrats are upset Trump re-assigned the Vindman twins but the same Democrats have been telling us since the 50s that Truman firing General MacArthur (a very unpopular act at the time) strengthened civilian leadership over the military to the point that interpretation of history became established official dogma. Now the modern Democrats to weaken Trump say that the president should be deferential to the military brass on policy and follow their ideas rather than set policy for the military brass to follow.
So just when did impeachment really start? When Trump fired Comey for trying to extort him to keep 0bama’s secret war secret.
You didn’t know about 0bama’s secret war? Well, it WAS “secret”.
What history will record is Impeachment was a weapon used to keep Trump quiet about 0bama’s secret, illegal war in Ukraine.
Oh, those witnesses had knowledge. They were well aware of 0bama’s illegal war. They were an integral part of it.
I don’t know that I would posit the question, “Where are the libs of old like JFK?”
Which is why JFK wrote a book about it, “Profiles in Courage”. Mitt thinks someday someone will write a book about him.
Someone might write a book about Mitt. But it will be a book describing and detailing what a modern day Judas Iscariot he[Mitt] is.
JFK had people ghost write it for him so he can be seen as intellectual as he prepared to run for president.
Interestingly, this issue sort of came up again after President Trump fire James Comey.
Democrats argued that Comey had a 10 year term and couldn't be fired. President Trump said that he had the authority to fire anyone.
Constitutional scholars said that the 10-year term was a maximum term, not a minimum, and didn't protect against the early removal from office that elected officials enjoy via their constitutionally defined terms.
-PJ
When Trump wins reelection impeachment becomes a footnote.
All that has been accomplished with 3 years of constant investigation of everything Trump resulting in no evidence of any crime found is to convince all right thinking people that President Trump is possibly the cleanest politician in American history. There is no way that any of the corrupt rats involved in the coup could withstand even a week of the scrutiny President Trump has been under for 3 years without wrong doing coming to light.
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