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Home Front: Politix

Dems’ impeachment absurdities are making them look like the threat to democracy

2019-12-11

[NYPOST] The Democrats believe that the 2020 election is too important to be left to the voters. It’s obvious that President Trump withheld defense aid to Ukraine to pressure its president to commit to the investigations that he wanted, an improper use of his power that should rightly be the focus of congressional investigation and hearings.

Where the Democrats have gotten tangled up is trying to find a justification that supports the enormous weight of impeaching and removing a president for the first time in our history.

They’ve cycled through different arguments. First, Trump’s offense was said to be a quid pro quo ‐ a phrase cast aside for supposedly being too Latin for the public to understand. Then it was bribery, which has lost ground lately, presumably because of the inherent implausibility of the charge.

Now, the emphasis is on Trump’s invitation to the Ukrainians to "meddle" and "interfere" in our elections.

This is posited to be an ongoing threat. Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Nancy <q>San Fran Nan</q> Pelosi

Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
said in her statement calling on the House to draft articles of impeachment: "Our democracy is what is at stake. The president leaves us no choice but to act, because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit. The president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections."

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said on "Meet the Press" last weekend that Trump has to be impeached "for posing the considerable risk that he poses to the next election." Asked if he thinks the 2020 election will be on the up-and-up, he said, "I don’t know. The president, based on his past performance, will do everything he can to make it not a fair election."

The gravamen of this case is that the election is too crucial to allow the incumbent president of the United States, who is leading in key battleground states and has some significant chance of winning, to run. In fact, the integrity of the election is so at risk that the US Senate should keep the public from rendering a judgment on Trump’s first term or deciding between him and, say, his nemesis Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
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Posted by:Fred

#7 49Pan, the dems are tickling the dragon's tail.

They are playing around with subcritical stuff that can go supercritical with just a little action in a hair trigger situation, and blow up literally in their faces.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2019-12-11 17:42

#6 Look??? They are and according to them we can vote to elect anyone we want as long as it is their swamp rat. The people are speaking, they should listen. Look at his latest rally, thousands in attendance. We are one step from it getting violent.

Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-12-11 11:35

#5 Look like? Hell, they are a full threat to our freedoms and our republic. If they get back in power, it is over for the Union.

Posted by: DarthVader 2019-12-11 08:15

#4 "Look"?

The only democracy they embrace is the "Peoples Democratic Republic of..." kind. One party. Party and state are one.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-11 07:18

#3 Apply the Logan Act to every Democrat in Congress.

Posted by: Snusotle the Lesser4227 2019-12-11 04:41

#2 Ah, is treason still a crime?

Posted by: Woodrow 2019-12-11 01:32

#1 SS Part 216

Posted by: Lex 2019-12-11 00:22

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