Posted on 12/18/2019 2:33:04 AM PST by Libloather
“Let them impeach and be damned.” Those words could have easily come from Donald Trump, as the House moves this week to impeach him. They were, however, the words of another president who not only shares some striking similarities to Trump but who went through an impeachment with chilling parallels to the current proceedings. The impeachment of Trump is not just history repeating itself but repeating itself with a vengeance.
The closest of the three prior presidential impeachment cases to the House effort today is the 1868 impeachment of Andrew Johnson. This is certainly not a comparison that Democrats should relish. The Johnson case has long been widely regarded as the very prototype of an abusive impeachment. As in the case of Trump, calls to impeach Johnson began almost as soon as he took office. A southerner who ascended to power after the Civil War as a result of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Johnson was called the “accidental president” and his legitimacy was never accepted by critics. Representative John Farnsworth of Illinois called Johnson an “ungrateful, despicable, besotted, traitorous man.”
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The Trump impeachment is even weaker than the Johnson impeachment, which had an accepted criminal act as its foundation. This will be the first presidential impeachment to go forward without such a recognized crime but, like the Johnson impeachment, it has a manufactured and artificial construct. The Trump impeachment also marks the fastest impeachment of all time, depending on how you count the days in the Johnson case.
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Jonathan Turley warned the Democrats about going down this road. They will live to regret it.
Their hatred has blinded them.
Impeach at your own risk, Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer!
If you miss Trump will be your King!
The Democrats political need to avenge on Trump precluded all possibility of a building a more robust and bipartisan case against Trump.
Future Democrat impeachment efforts against Trump will be widely dismissed as crying wolf.
Best outcome for the Democrats would be for them to vote it down tonight, reserving for themselves the right to bring it up again in the future.
There’s no need to rush it through when judicial review of the President’s claims haven’t even been exhausted yet.
No good reason has been advanced by the Democrats to impeach Trump tonight.
If they insist on going ahead with it, history will not judge them kindly.
Everything is political
Dems claim Trump is a danger for democracy
Impeachment taints Trump for 2020
Then the Dem focus on taking the Senate
The whole problem with that strategy is that Trump has done nothing extraconstitutional, so trying to build a bipartisan evidence based case is truly a Sisyphean task. So the DemocRATs are moving forward with what they have. As the song says, "Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'."
Democrats problem is their moonbat base isn’t all that excited and after impeachment, then what?
Democrats have two things to run on: hate Trump and no record of positive accomplishments.
Will go over real well with the voters.
It’s a Christmas present for their left-wing lunatics but will ultimately satisfy them no more than a sugar high from too much holiday candy.
Today is a most historic day in the USA. You Americans, today, will be witness to the beginning of the political death of the Democrat Party from A-Z caused by four plus, Democrat traitors and turncoats, the “East/West Coast Coup”, Democrat, Baby Killers, American Haters, America Destroyers, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler, etc.
The day of reckoning for these “Garbage Dump Human Beings” & their political allies and fake news media will not come when POTUS, Donald J. Trump, is acquitted of all impeachment charges in the US Senate,...it will come in most powerful force on November 3rd, 2020...as we loyal, fair, objective, decent Americans massively cast our precious votes to destroy the entire Democrat Party politically...forever!!!
Oh....as POTUS, Trump holds his gigantic tens of thousands, rally tonight in Battle Creek, Michigan to celebrate the Christmas Holy Days and all Holiday Celebrations....The Democrats and their lap dog media will not have a clue as to how this event destroys them both morally & politically. For rally info: www.donaldjtrump.com.
There are very few JFK “Profiles-In-Courage” in toady’s Democrat Party, just political, low life, scum & vermin humanity. So....Democrats continue to walk on the plank you all built & forged, yourselves for your own political death. I can assure you all of you, SATAN, the Devil, himself awaits your arrival at the burning doors of hell...when your time to depart this earth arrives. Have fun...fools!!!
Exploding cigar #142,637.
Can’t wait for the next one.
What keeps us from the snares of parliamentary government is the principle of the separation of powers. The president has broad powers to act as he/she sees fit - with some limitations of course but undefined. That is the dynamic of establishing balance of power in such a system (NOT intended to be strictly democratic!)
What the Dem House is doing is canceling the president's prerogative to appeal to the courts to protect executive privilege - thus eliminating such protection of executive power. The impeachment article of 'Obstruction of Congress' (which is not a stated Constitutional principle) attempts to nullify the recent SCOTUS decision to review Prez Trump's challenge to having to release his financial records; the whole system of checks and balances is thrown in to a cocked hat!
What the Dem House is doing is attempting to ensnare POTUS as a servant of a House majority thus establishing a parliamentary system under our Constitution - likely an untenable political position.
In my view the White House should bypass the Senate altogether! If the House passes the Articles of Impeachment the WH should appeal directly to SCOTUS on the grounds of those articles eliminating our Constitutional form of government.
Oh, they’ll miss. They will do it their traditional way, by overshooting the runway. They’re already there. If you could find a non hinked poll, President Trump’s numbers would be off the charts. And, always be cognizant of reverse Bradleyism.
“A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY”
The Senate shouldn’t even take it up. Ignore it. What are the Dems gonna do? stamp their feet?
Any dem with a third of a working brain (oxymoronic, I know) understands that they have blown 2020. The point now is to weaken the Trump Presidency as much as possible before it even starts.
Unfortunately, if you look at the federal *seditious conspiracy* statute, it requires violence, or conspiring to commit violence.
Conspiracy of any kind is a tough case to prosecute because it requires a showing of what people are*thinking* rather than *doing*.
“New College Student Survey: Yes, Speech Can Be Violence”
right from the National Review...don’t know if we can post the link
all for hoisting them on their own rope...
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We'll see.
Which. ironically, is precisely what they are impeaching Trump for
Yesterday the ever repulsive Jamie Raskin had his head handed to him by the brilliantly logical Congressman Rob Woodall from Kentucky.
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