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Home Front: Politix
Why Democrats Will Never End The Impeachment Show Until Trump Is Gone For Good
2019-12-25
[THEFEDERALIST] As soon as House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan 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...
got most ‐ but not all ‐ of her caucus to approve her articles of impeachment, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stood ready to do his constitutional duty to receive those articles and begin the trial that will inevitably acquit the president of those trumped-up accusations.

That hasn’t happened because Pelosi hasn’t actually transmitted the impeachment articles to the GOP-controlled Senate, where she knows her impeachment folly will be dismissed as the debacle it truly has become. In a hilarious twist, one of the very law professors Democrats invited to testify before the House Judiciary Committee to argue for impeachment is now saying that President Trump hasn’t actually been impeached yet because of Pelosi’s stunt.

But even if President Trump is "officially" impeached, it will not change the significance of Pelosi’s stammering, indefensible explanation for delay. It included the statement, "Frankly, I don’t care what the Republicans say."

Of course she doesn’t. This entire process has had absolutely nothing to do with upholding constitutional duties or about coming to a bipartisan conclusion in support of impeachment, as Pelosi said was so important mere weeks ago. It was always about putting on a political show for a rabidly partisan audience ‐ and the show must go on.

The current Democrat talking point is that Pelosi is delaying to ensure there are fair procedures in place for a Senate trial. That’s a preposterous claim to make in the wake of a one-sided impeachment inquisition in which the Democrats restricted their Republican colleagues’ meaningful participation and declined to grant President Trump any due process in the name of expedience, which is now apparently unimportant. That won’t happen in the Senate, and Pelosi knows it.

Even if Pelosi does pass the articles of impeachment on to the Senate, that will still not be the end of it. Just as we saw after the special counsel report debunked their Russia collusion conspiracy theory, no setback can ever be enough to put a damper on the Democrats’ impeachment frenzy.

There will always be another "existential threat" or "constitutional crisis," because in the minds of Democrat bully boys, Trump himself is a threat to all they stand for, and removing him from office justifies whatever damage they might do to constitutional norms along the way. The show must go on, and it will.
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Posted by:Fred

#8  So, let me get this straight, Frannie Nanny is threatening the Senate 'pubs that if they don't obey her they WON'T impeach Trump. That about right?
Posted by: AlanC   2019-12-25 15:20  

#7  The Democratic Party wants to turn the Speaker of the House into the supreme executive of the US, disband the Electoral College, and probably hand out free lollipops to every child. Expect every Republican President to be impeached from now on.
Posted by: magpie   2019-12-25 13:24  

#6  I hope they get better after being totally crushed in the 2020 election showing that the middle class just isn't buying their insanity. If not, if they stay nuts, at least that will mean GOP has a chance of a third GOP term in the white house.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-12-25 13:17  

#5  They are too daft to realize the more they push, the more their failures mock them. They have set the stage that Trump could get away with just about anything because the FBI/DOJ are afraid and the public would not believe it.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-12-25 10:18  

#4  It's the Greatest Shitshow On Earth!
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-25 05:15  

#3  ..or the civil war they provoke consumes them.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-12-25 04:10  

#2  Then they will start on President Ivanka Trump...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-12-25 01:34  

#1  To be fair, it's the only show they've got.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-12-25 01:03  

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