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| Impeachment Will Fail |
| 2019-10-23 |
| [American Greatness] Two elements of the turbulent current American political scene became clearer over the past week. One is the determination, attested to by almost all Washington insiders whatever side they are on, of the Democratic leadership to force an impeachment trial of the president. Also developing, as a further bleat from the vanishing NeverTrumpers, is the theory that large chunks of Republican loyalty in Congress are starting to peel off and desert the president. Since all polls show Republican opinion in the country is rock solid behind the president and by any normal criteria‐the economy, declining illegal immigration, and his delivery on election promises‐he will be reelected easily. This, as the egregious U.S. Representative Al Green (D-Texas) says, is the problem: if Trump isn’t impeached, he will be reelected. But impeachment will be a complete failure, and he will be reelected anyway. The game has escalated. Donald Trump said he would drain the swamp and he has made a greater effort than any president since Andrew Jackson in 1829 to sweep out the governing elites. It was not on a whim that he had that president’s painting hung behind his desk in the Oval Office and visited Jackson’s home, The Hermitage, in Nashville. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 Impeachment helps squeeze donations out of the zealots. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2019-10-23 17:02 |
| #7 The dems are slipping. The borked Robert Bork but not Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch or Brett Kavanaugh. They have a story (all made up, much more vile than slander) and they are sticking to it. Hopefully the electorate gets disgusted enough with it to make them pay. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-23 14:54 |
| #6 They are building the smear files for his reelection. Bingo. Remember, Russiagate had its origins in Hillary's OPPO RESEARCH. Commissioned and paid for by the DNC through intermediaries Perkins Coie, Fusion and Team Steele/Ohr/Walrus/Mifsud/Downer. This is nothing more than Oppo Research, Part II. Complete perversion of the process. Not kabuki, not agitprop, not sinister plots and inductions dangerous, but buffoonish, blatant nonsense wrapped in bullshit. Aka The Shitshow. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-23 13:23 |
| #5 Burning down the house. Scorched earth. Why should the Left put up with a facade of democracy when its just power they want? Why should anyone 'obey' whom ever they put in place in Washington? They're removing the last shreds of legitimacy. By any means necessary! They'd rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-10-23 13:19 |
| #4 Actual impeachment has nothing to do with what is going on. They really don't care if he gets impeached. They are building the smear files for his reelection. Their actions, paid for by the inquiry, is only designed to gather sound bites of corruption to be released every time the last sound bite losses interest with the media. We the tax payers are funding the Dems in their 2020 campaign. For example, "A State department diplomate told congress under oath said that Trump did X". Trump now has to prove he did not, then as he is defending himself, "General Y said Trump told him to break the law". And on and on. Now Trump is not campaigning, he is defending himself against all this out of context slander. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-10-23 12:39 |
| #3 Even the New Yorker's now printing articles warning that impeachment is a bad joke -- see historian Jill Lepore's lengthy piece this week on the origins of the term in the 14th century and its evolution through the 17th and 18th centuries. At this point it's become a bad parody of a show trial. => a new tent in the SS |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-23 11:27 |
| #2 Donald Trump was a total outsider politically. That's who the voters wanted. Someone who is not perfect but someone who is not tainted, bought or corrupted by the DC-DS. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-10-23 10:26 |
| #1 His presidency must be made to be as wearing and painful as possible. Professional ruin would be the desired outcome (25m target). It is likely that Little can be done about him, but others must be discouraged from similar future roles. An example must surely be made. As copied from the VDH view, but much less eloquently stated. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-10-23 05:19 |