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| Is Trump the Only Adult in the Room? |
| 2019-12-12 |
| [Townhall] Donald Trump certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth. But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such overwhelmingly negative media coverage and a three-year effort to abort his presidency, beginning the day after his election. ...Most presidents might seem angry after three years of that. Yet in paradoxical fashion, Trump suddenly appears more composed than at any other time in his volatile presidency. Ironically, Trump's opponents and enemies are the ones who have become publicly unhinged. Leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden recently had a complete meltdown while campaigning in Iowa. Biden called a questioner who asked about his son Hunter's lucrative job with a Ukrainian energy company "a damn liar." An animated Biden also challenged the 83-year-old ex-Marine and retired farmer to a push-up contest or footrace. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, fared little better. On the first day of his committee's impeachment inquiry, Nadler stacked the witness list by bringing in three left-wing law professors, as opposed to one Republican centrist witness -- as if partisan academics might sway the nation. ...Nadler's Judiciary Committee was supposed to be empowered by the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment report. But the contents of that report were overshadowed by the revelation that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chair of the Intelligence Committee, had obtained data on the private phone calls of ranking Republican House Intelligence Committee Member Devin Nunes, Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow, journalist John Solomon, former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and others. Schiff had obtained the data via congressional subpoena. ...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a press conference to announce plans to proceed with articles of impeachment. But she would not say which particular charges would be brought against the president. Then, Pelosi lost her cool and shook her finger at a reporter who simply asked her, "Do you hate the president?" At that point, a furious Pelosi shouted back, "Don't mess with me!" ...The common denominator of all this petulance is exasperation over the inability to derail Trump. Trump's many enemies fear he will be re-elected in 2020, given a booming economy and peace abroad. They know that they cannot remove him from office. And yet they fear that the more they try to stain him with impeachment, the more frustrated and unpopular they will become. Yet, like end-stage addicts, they simply cannot stop the behavior that is consuming them. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 The Russians could not possibly have created more disarray than our current class of absurd, self-regarding morons has done |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-12 17:58 |
| #4 Let the left riot. The cities they burn will be their own. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2019-12-12 17:45 |
| #3 some are dron |
| Posted by: chris 2019-12-12 11:50 |
| #2 I wonder what would happen if conservatives started stockpiling ammo and supplies right now. An overt, unspoken implication that the attempts to impeach are being seen as a dry coup, ready to be followed up with worse. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-12 10:46 |
| #1 We have a national meltdown about to take effect. On the right if they take Trump down 62 million American will be angered beyond belief, and some will act on that anger-not protests but actions. If he is not impeached the Left will lose their minds and the riots, already in the planning phases will commence. The lies and propaganda has spun this to the point our nation will be fighting in March no matter the outcome. If Russia was really trying to overthrow the USA by this, their plan is nearing the execution phase and moving forward nicely... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-12-12 10:29 |