Posted on 05/19/2017 10:26:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
If you’re like most Americans who work hard all day, raise your children, pay your taxes, and follow the law, you’re probably troubled by the evening news reports of a constitutional crisis over something President Donald Trump told former FBI Director James Comey. Sounds pretty ominous, doesn’t it? Let’s back up a little bit here and put this in perspective.
The Constitution stipulates that a president can be removed from office for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Our Founding Fathers knew that politics is a complex and nasty affair, but they entrusted future elected leaders to bring about such charges only in the most serious of situations.
Impeachment was never designed to be used as a political weapon, or to bring down an opposing president simply because there’s a mechanism to do so. Thankfully, the impeachment process isn’t easy. Nonetheless, just about every modern president has been threatened with impeachment.
Philip Wegmann writes in the Washington Examiner, “The last five presidents have been threatened with impeachment, and four of them actually had impeachment resolutions drawn up against them. In every instance but one, the talk was idle and the resolutions equally meaningless.”
In most cases, there’s no evidence to back up the accusations. Even when the process actually results in impeachment, as in the case of Bill Clinton, conviction (and thus removal from office) is far from imminent. In fact, no president has been removed. Andrew Johnson was the only other to be impeached, but he was acquitted, and Richard Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.
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This is a great article. Hits the nail on the head. I remember all the breathless screaming for Reagan and W to be impeached over any little thing they did.
I can’t wait for this to blow up in their face.
“...Dems Don’t Have a Case...”
Everyone knows that, but the loser Dem politicos MUST HAVE 24/7 TV face time... or else they’ll go into withdrawal.
After 8 years of having it all their own way, like spoiled children... they are throwing a tantrum.
And of course, the vile MSM prostitutes are more than happy to pander to them.
“Philip Wegmann writes in the Washington Examiner, “The last five presidents have been threatened with impeachment, and four of them actually had impeachment resolutions drawn up against them. In every instance but one, the talk was idle and the resolutions equally meaningless.””
I wonder if they can sue for harassment. This is really terrible.
I hope they investigate those guys and show the public what their real agenda is.
The MSM, The dems, the RINOs, and the deep state are putting all their chips on 00 in this game and hopefully when the ball finally falls, it lands in one of the other slots. Once they are blown out on this one, they have shot their total wads and will be driven from the playing field for a few years till next presidential election. They have cried not just wolf but wolf pack on this dumb accusation.
By the time an independent prosecutor was appointed in connection with the proposed Nixon impeachment there had been proven crimes with arrests, indictments and convictions, all of which are absent in today’s situation.
This is politics only, they got nothin’, and now they’ve got Mueller who just might tell them so out loud in a way that can’t be denied.
The goal is to stop the MAGA agenda. Any collateral damage to the President would be a bonus for the progressive communists. The danger of a special prosecutor is that there is no bounds to where the investigation may lead plus it forces Congress not to focus on legislation.
The goal is to stop the MAGA agenda. Any collateral damage to the President would be a bonus for the progressive communists. The danger of a special prosecutor is that there is no bounds to where the investigation may lead plus it forces Congress not to focus on legislation.
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