"""Why I formed my opinion that the House Democrats' efforts to impeach President Trump are illegitimate has less to do with my support for Trump and more to do with simple logic, reason and common sense - items in short supply on the left side of the aisle these days.
I default to Inigo Montoya mode when I hear Democrats say that impeachment is "political" because I don't think that means what they think it means.
Impeachment is political in PROCESS, not in PREDICATION.
That means that impeachment must have a logical predication to proceed, not just a political motive and objective.
Impeachment falls outside the normal rules of jurisprudence simply because it is supposed to be "solemn and prayerful" (to borrow the Democrat's phrase" as it is the accusation, indictment and trial of "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States..." per Article II Section 4 of our Constitution.
In past impeachments of a sitting president, there have been clear predication - an act that is clearly defined. Andrew Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act (which was later found to be unconstitutional - but it was in effect when he fired Edwin Stanton), Richard Nixon was not impeached (he would have been but chose to resign first) but was complicit in the Watergate break-in, and Bill Clinton perjured himself (on videotape).
The point being is that these impeachment actions, unlike the current effort to impeach President Trump, were based unambiguous actions - actual, defineble events - not an interpretation of a conversation backed up by satirical comments made over time (Trump joked about Russia and China having Hillary's emails and had stated that he would accept information from foreign sources if they proved illegal activity) and partisan, Deep State "witnesses" with little more than hearsay "evidence".
A "solemn and prayerful" approach would have been if they moved forward with solid, incontrovertible evidence of a "High Crime and Misdemeanor", not charges based on their ability to read the mind of a President.
Never mind that they have shamefully cloaked themselves in a founding document they actively work to destroy, and even though that is within their abilities, their rank partisanship has shown incredible disrespect for themselves, the Congress, the Office of the Presidency and the Constitution.
The way the Democrats have progressed the impeachment process IS solely for political advantage. Several Democrats have openly stated that if they can't impeach and remove the President, he is likely to be re-elected in 2020. Add to that Schumer's demands to add "witnesses" so the Senate Democrats can "Kavanaugh" the trial and try to finish the job the Unholy Triumvirate in the House couldn't get done.
Nothing more nakedly partisan than that.
I first disagreed with the idea that the Senate should just shut it down, but that's all this shampeachment deserves."""
December 17, 2019 How Democrats plan to handle impeachment going forward By Richard Jack Rail
Early reactions to the Horowitz report foreshadow how the Democrats will handle it from this point forward: deny that it says what it plainly says and claim that it says something else entirely. The Horowitz report clearly exposes the unprofessional and heavily biased handling of the FISA applications, which contained 17 errors of omission or commission. Former FBI director James Comey admits to "sloppiness" but refuses to take responsibility for the mess or to apologize to President Trump or the country for the past three years of fake news that has basically accused the president of treason.
We can expect this kind of nonsense to continue with ever bigger lies, ever farther out inventions, and ever more outrageous claims. Adam Schiff, the liar extraordinaire who has ramrodded the impeachment hearings to date, can be expected to continue to say what he wishes the evidence showed and to downplay what it does show. He will color white as black, up as down, and in as out rather than admit that the Democrat machine tried to pull off a coup to remove this president from office.
The major thing for the Democrats now is to insulate Barack Obama, who may well have run the entire enterprise from his home in Washington that has a tall privacy fence surrounding it. If Obama is shown to have been involved, as every honest person by now can guess he was, it will set the Dems back a good many years, possibly wrecking the party altogether, and ruin their electoral chances for decades into the future. Politics will have to realign, new coalitions will coalesce and rip apart, and the parties will have to find ways to re-establish trust and confidence in the system.
This will be the chance to get things back on the right track in America. We can expect that a good number of Republicans were as dirty as the known Democrat crooks. It remains to act quickly without freezing government up entirely in bringing the scoundrels throughout the Washington establishment to justice. The guilty will fight to the death to evade that end state, hurling epithets, counter-charges, invective, and counter-allegations of conspiracies, sabotage, sedition, and treason.
We're used to all that at this late date. Follow the evidence. There is plenty of it.
We must also be alert to these criminals seriously trying to overthrow the legitimate government by force. They've made it clear that they do not feel bound by the rules that have obtained for over two centuries in American electoral politics and that they intend to rule whether they win or not. They stand exposed as outlaws and can be expected to behave even more lawlessly than they have so far. The proof will come when the effort is made to lead them away in cuffs, to establish appropriate bail bonds and put them in ankle bracelets, and in other ways put them through the actual procedures of holding them to account. They will do anything to avoid such humiliation for their crimes.
Yes, crimes. They were not casual, innocent mistakes made by honest public servants. They colluded, conspired, and coordinated together to pull down the government. Their treason and sedition must be reckoned with and accounted for. They must pay the penalty for the arrogant recklessness that moved them to disregard their solemn oaths of office and spit on the Constitution. They deserve lengthy terms at hard labor rather than rich-kid pretend prison. To borrow one of their own haughty phrases, their kind must be utterly destroyed so that they may not rise again.
she put herself in that position! However,it would give me great pleasure to slap her parents and the other Handlers around some,but she,herself comes across more and more the Brat she is!
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