The silliest impeachment in the history of the world

Hispanic friends from the continent to the south ask perplexedly what the heck is going on.  This is not the way serious world actors behave.  This is the sort of thing you expected from Robert Mugabe and Manuel Noriega.  I shake my head in embarrassment.  Time was the United States was the E.F. Hutton of global power players.  When we spoke, others listened.  Where we led, others followed.*

Richard Terrell of Aftermath

*The silliest impeachment in the history of the world  . . . "We've no choice but to follow through on this — vote it down in the Senate, but we need to make it really hurt the Democrats at the ballot box in 2020.  An important step in the right direction is to clean up the voting rolls, where a 2012 Pew study showed that about one of every eight voter registrations in the United States — 24 million — is "no longer valid or ... significantly inaccurate."  Recall HRC's vaunted 3.5-million-vote win in the popular vote last time around." . . .  Liberals have spawned a third-world culture in America since Obama and it now permeates our national leadership.

Pelosi threatens to withhold articles of impeachment from Senate  "Just when you thought the House Democrats’ impeachment frenzy couldn’t get any more ridiculous, Speaker Pelosi is threatening to derail the constitutionally required Senate trial that would result in President Trump’s acquittal. In a news conference following the impeachment vote, she noted that the rules passed by the House Rules Committee enabled her to withhold naming House impeachment managers:" . . .

. . . "Fifth, Pelosi’s threat implicitly defines the impeachment vote as political, not constitutionally substantive. All the blather about the solemn constitutional responsibility is exposed as BS: BullShiff.

. . . "Sixth, the longer a standoff continues, the weaker Pelosi’s bargaining position becomes. She is obstructing the constitutional process.

"Seventh, President Trump fights back, and she is handing him the best ammo he could wish for to castigate the entire impeachment fiasco, and to claim he is being denied his right to defend himself."

Nancy Pelosi Signals She May Freeze Impeachment After Vote So Trump Can't Claim Senate Vindication

The prevent-defense by the Democrats would, in the words of Fox News host Laura Ingraham, allow Pelosi to "say 'we've impeached the president' [but not] let him say he was acquitted."

. . . "Ingraham asked former Whitewater independent counsel Chris Ray about such a move. He shut it down: "Even as Speaker of the House, she doesn't get to tell the United States Senate what to do, period.' " . . .


Top Democrat Says His Party ‘Did Not Wish’ To Impeach Trump — Republicans Laugh At Him