The Impeachment Saga; Democrats Have Failed to Prove Their Case Against Trump

The Atlantic  via National Review

Republicans are still waiting for a convincing case that the president was acting to advance his own personal interests.

" The House Judiciary Committee has published articles of impeachment against President Donald  Trump. Though potentially damning, the particular charges—abuse of power in connection with Ukraine and the 2020 election, and obstruction of Congress—face an unusual evidentiary problem compared with impeachments past. Because there is a plausible legitimate governmental justification for each of the allegations, the impeachers must establish not only that the alleged conduct occurred, but that the president acted for personal gain.  
"For most Democrats, Trump’s corrupt intent is so obvious that the proof is everywhere. For most Republicans, however, Trump’s corrupt intent remains the proposition to be proved. (I worked at the White House as the Council on Environmental Quality’s associate director for regulatory reform from 2017 to 2019.) That doesn’t bode well for the impeachers’ hopes of removing the president, because most of the evidence we’re likely to see is already contained in the report of the House Intelligence Committee, which was given the role of fact-finder under the House impeachment resolution. The Judiciary Committee ultimately backed off the theory that Trump had committed bribery, presumably because the evidence of a quid pro quo proved so thin, and abandoned the possible obstruction-of-justice charges suggested in Robert Mueller’s Report on Russian interference. The impeachers have failed to convince anyone who wasn’t already in their camp at the outset." . . .

Conservatives can't stand by anymore as the Left destroys America

Toon added by TD

Richard Jack Rail  . . . "I fully anticipate Idiot Left readers attributing to me things I haven't said and calling me a fascist, a white supremacist, a Nazi, etc.  This happens any time somebody says something sensible anymore.  We've lived with these fools getting their way for 50 years, and the time's fast coming when America will rip itself apart if reasonable people don't stand up to injustice masquerading as social justice.

"I don't know how legally to keep the Idiot Left out of office, but slow-motion disaster follows wherever such people run things.  They're so worried about offending the few that they lose concern for the many.  Well, we the many are the ones who make the world work.  If they push us out altogether, the structure collapses, and then the leeches and parasites have no one to pick at, pick on, or pick over.

"We religious ones have definite ideas about where all this is headed, but we don't know when the end's going to come, and we're concerned in the meantime about our progeny.  Our only weapons are prayer and unified action — action at the voting booth to ensure that voting procedures are followed, in the legislatures to head off idiotic legislation, in the schools to confront distortions about America and U.S. history, in the media to ensure that resisting voices are heard against the cacophony of leftist spin, in the streets to confront the bullying tactics of Antifa and others, in Washington to take on the Lying Left where its insidious effects have the greatest reach." . . .

BREAKING NEWS: House Dems Pass Preliminary Vote To Impeach President Trump

Kangaroo court in full swing as Nadler shifts impeachment voting times to his liking

. . . Which may be true, but it might just as easily have been a Democrat need to twist more arms on recalitrant Democrats from red districts that just keep hearing and hearing about polls going up for President Trump and those Tories running away with it on last night's election. There have got to be a few who are thinking twice about the wisdom of this zero-win impeachment manuever. Whatever the reason the delay points to a one-party show with Nancy Pelosi in the saddle.  . . .

Analyzing America  "Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee voted to confirm two articles of impeachment against President Trump on Friday morning."

. . . "The final vote on Friday morning came after Chairman Nadler suspended a committee hearing on Thursday—after members of the committee debated for 14 hours.

“It is now very late at night,” Nadler said just before midnight, Fox News reports. “I want the members on both sides of the aisle to think about what has happened over these last two days, and to search their consciences before we cast their final votes. Therefore, the committee will now stand in recess until tomorrow morning at 10 a.m., at which point I will move to divide the question so that each of us may have the opportunity to cast up-or-down votes on each of the articles of impeachment, and let history be our judge.” . . .

President Trump kept doing his job:

  

Dem Rep Admits They Delayed Judiciary Vote To Morning So More People Would See It   CNN video

Libs apoplectic after Louie Gohmert dares to call alleged whistleblower by name at hearing

BPR

"Democrats are feigning outrage after Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert called the alleged Ukraine “whistleblower” by name during a televised House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing last night.
"Gohmert dropped the alleged whistleblower’s name during his opening statement, when he said Eric Ciaramella and others should be questioned as fact witnesses.
"Gohmert said:  “Abuse of power [and] obstruction of Congress — the very things the majority has done in preventing us from having the witnesses that could shed light on this. We needed to hear from those witnesses — people like Sean Misko, Abigail Grace, Eric Ciaramella, Devin Archer, Joe Biden, Nellie Ohr, Alexandra Chalupa — and so many others.”
“ '[Democrats] don’t want fact witnesses,” Gohmert said. “Instead, let’s hear from professors who hate Donald Trump.”
"Keep in mind that Gohmert did not specifically say who the alleged whistleblower was. But many leftists already know the Democratic operative’s identity because the whistleblower’s name is an open secret — and has been for months." . . .

More on the Now Infamous Eric Ciaramella: He’s Connected to Steele Dossier, Brennan, Susan Rice and the Transfer of Funds from the IMF to the Ukraine

Eric Ciaramella Isn’t a Whistleblower! He’s a Leaker!

Rush Limbaugh: "One of those two people is the whistleblower, folks. I’ll let you take your pick. His name is Eric Ciaramella. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows who he is. He worked with McMaster. He’s worked with Brennan. He’s worked at the CIA. He’s an Obama holdover in the Trump White House. He’s the guy that somebody told about the phone call. Then this guy called Schiff. The whistleblower called Schiff, said, “I got this thing here.” And Schiff walked him through it. I don’t even think that was legit. I think that was structured."

Alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella shakes hands with Barack Obama in Oval Office

Report: Full House Expected to Vote on Impeachment Wednesday

Breitbart

"The full House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to impeach President Donald Trump for his contacts with Ukraine, a Democrat leadership aide told NBC News.
"The same aide said the House is likely to vote on legislation to fund the government on Tuesday and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USCMA) on Thursday, but the schedule is not set in stone."

A Democratic leadership aide tells NBC that next schedule is shaping up to week's House floor vote look like this:

Tuesday, 12/17: Government funding voteWednesday, 12/18: Impeachment voteThursday, 12/19: USCMA vote *Schedule subject to change.

. . . "Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) introduced an amendment to strike the abuse of power charge, but the panel struck it down 23-17.

“ '[The charge] ignores the truth. It ignores the facts, It ignores what happened and what has been laid out for the American people over the last three weeks,” Jordan said."

Is CNN beginning to reform itself after ratings tumble by double digits during impeachment coverage?

In 2018 I saw this assessment of news sources in a Ventura, CA school handout. TD

Thomas Lifson  "Something extraordinary happened yesterday: CNN’s fact-checkers called out lies by Democrat Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and Veronica Escobar, twofer victim class members as female and  minorities.  Compounding the shock, the lies were about President Trump and aimed at impeaching the mother****r, as their Democrat colleague Rashida Tlaib put it so memorably following her election.

Brian Stelter

"Bronson Stocking of Townhall noticed the break with CNN’s existing editorial orientation:

In order to impeach the president, Democrats have to lie about the facts. It has now come to the point where even CNN is calling the Democrats out on their lies. 

Two Democratic representatives from Texas, Veronica Escobar and Sheila Jackson Lee, both lied during debate on articles of impeachment on Thursday about what President Trump said during his phone call to the president of Ukraine.

Rep. Escobar said President Trump told President Zelensky, "I want you to do me a favor though." 

Rep. Jackson Lee quoted Trump saying, "I would like you to do a favor though."

What Trump actually said was "I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot." The full quote makes it clear that Trump was asking the president of Ukraine to do "our country" a favor. 

"Keep in mind that CNN has meticulously kept its viewers ignorant of most things that would cast an unfavorable light on the efforts to impeach (or even say something positive about) President Trump. The network did not carry IG Horowitz’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, for instance.

"So, this bit of fact-checking is worth noticing, even if it didn’t happen on-air, but rather in CNN’s online Fact check:" . . .

Is CNN management finally starting to realize that they are committing slow motion suicide with their biased news coverage? Implicitly, the network has been counting on impeachment coverage to lift its ratings out the cellar, but it isn’t working out that way, but rather exactly the opposite.

No matter as long as these people are there at CNN. Their intentions and motives must be always in suspect.

Tony Branco

The Thunbergians: our world's fastest growing sect

The Fate of Secular Saint Greta Thunberg  "After seeing the cover for Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” award, who can still pretend the Left is irreligious?  It is clear Time has officially sainted Thunberg.  After all, the magazine proclaims, “By clarifying an abstract danger with piercing outrage, Thunberg became the most compelling voice on the most important issue facing the planet.”

"Thunberg -- for now at least -- has become the secular equivalent of Joan of Arc, whose portraits and statues are depicted with a similar expression denoting transcendent holiness. 

"One suspects that in a very short time, St. Greta will invite St. Joan's fate. No, she won't suffer a literal execution, but she will be "executed" nonetheless; and by the same crowd that currently is elevating her to sainthood." . . .

. . . "Eventually, the now maniacally devoted followers who presently adore her will become diverted by other Pied Pipers and begin to wander away, leaving her alone with only her abstractions for company." . . .

Inspired by the above news,The Babylon Bee, now rated above CNN as "the most trusted name in news", files these critical reports:
Thunberg urges climate action because 'people are dying'

Poll Finds Most People Would Rather Be Annihilated By Giant Tidal Wave Than Continue To Be Lectured By Climate Change Activists
. . . "Fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, and bees also polled higher than the activists."
Nation Surprised To Learn Time Magazine Still In Print

Greta Thunberg Mural Equipped With Laser Eyes That Shoot At SUVs

New Law Requires You To Listen To Greta Thunberg Lecture Before Purchasing Gasoline

A series of new bills working their way through state legislatures in New York, California, Oregon, Hawaii, and several other progressive states will require you to listen to a Greta Thunberg lecture before purchasing gasoline.

Powerful: Loggers Carved 'How Dare You' Into The Forest While Cutting Down Trees For Time Magazine's Person Of The Year Issue

. . . "Unfortunately, they cut down way more trees than needed for Time's waning readership. But it was worth it to send this powerful message to the patriarchy, white supremacists, Donald Trump, and capitalists. Oh, yeah, and to communicate the climate change thing." . . .

‘My party has turned me into a Democrat for Trump’: an American disgusted with impeachment

The BL (The Beauty of Life)

“After watching the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, that was the most disgusting thing I’ve seen. Now, we have this impeachment crap. My party has now made me a Democrat for Trump,” Jason said over the phone in a C-SPAN program released on Dec. 11."

. . . "He then stated that he would support President Donald Trump and that when the time was right he would also vote for the Republican candidate.
"As the discredited impeachment process against Trump progresses, more and more people become outraged, as can be seen in the comments added under the video tweeted by @CalebJHull about Jason’s call, and they say Democrats let them down." . . .

What do other Democrats consider when they learn things like this? 

 14yr Old Boy VICIOUSLY Attacked on School Bus Because He Supports Trump

Watch the video of the incident

"Behold the offspring of the tolerant Left… 🙄 This 14 yr old boy, Tyler, was viciously attacked because he wore a Trump hat to school, where earlier in the day these MONSTERS poured milk on his head.

"Watch it again understand that according to Tyler’s mother (@AmericanDiaries) it’s only 21 secs of a longer video, but more importantly the pure rage coming from these unhinged violent Leftist kids. They didn’t learn to behave like this on their own, they learned it and are encouraged by their parents as well as those they “look up to”. Seeing this kind of rage is all too common, being committed by unhinged violent Leftists* YOUNG or OLD. You NEVER see videos like this of conservatives ganging up on a Leftist adult let alone a kid." . . .

We hope Maxine Waters and Rashida Tlaib can be reached for comment.

Out Heroding Herod

The American Catholic

"News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:"

 NEW YORK, NY—At a special ceremony Thursday, Planned Parenthood posthumously awarded Herod the Great with its highest honor, the organization’s coveted PPFA Margaret Sanger Award.

Planned Parenthood gives the award out to individuals who advance the pro-abortion agenda, and baby-murdering King Herod was the obvious choice.

“Herod fought bravely for women’s rights by slaughtering all the male babies under two years old,” said a Planned Parenthood spokesperson. “He was thousands of years ahead of his time, realizing the progressive value of destroying our kids the moment they become inconvenient millennia before it was popular. Yes, we do wish he had slaughtered the daughters too, but we’re willing to overlook that as this brave women’s rights warrior advanced the pro-abortion agenda significantly.”

King Herod was not available to accept the award, as he is dead. But his ideological successor, Alyssa Milano, accepted it in his honor. “If Herod were here, I know exactly what he would say,” Milano said in her acceptance speech. “He would remind us all that it was his kingdom, his choice.”

 "Go here to read the rest.  Herod of course is a piker to Planned Parenthood.  They exceed his body toll on their slowest day of the year."

Featuring the great actor Peter Ustinov.

More reasons to impeach President Trump

Weasel Zippers  "How completely unhinged Democrats have become in this Impeachment hearing?
"Member of the Judiciary Committee Hank Johnson (D-GA) just said Impeachment is justified because:
"Trump taller than Prez. Zelensky"
Plus this witty comment:
"Trump had Zelensky's daughter "in the basement duck taped'"
"WHAT!" Video here

Pictured: Trump's bigger chair

Rep. Johnson's previous interrogation about Guam base being enlarged:

Congressional Hits and Misses: Best of Hank Johnson. Perhaps not a laughing matter; are  all these signs of the aging process?

His defense of Kaepernick: . . . "When asked further, he suggested that Congress might do something about the situation.
“ 'I think it’s merited … you’ve got a league-wide ban on Kaepernick back over the last three years” because he protested during the national anthem before games.

“ 'Kaepernick is a victim,” he stressed."

Nothing but downsides to the Jersey City kosher market murders

Rashida Tlaib: Blames Jersey City Terror on ‘White Supremacy’ Before Deleting Tweet  . . . "Tlaib deleted the tweet, but not before a number of quick-eyed reporters had caught screenshots of the faux pas.
"The Congresswoman was photographed this past January with Abbas Hamideh, a supporter of the Hezbollah terrorist organization. Just three months ago she also posed for a photo with the Palestine Youth Movement, which advocates violence against Israel and strongly supports the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) economic war against the Jewish State." . . .This profane video was made while the victims still lay in their own blood

Another person said to the Jewish support representative, “It was your kind that did it here, right? … Four of ya’ll dead, right? Four of your people that were dead, right? That’s great. If they was dead, they got shot dead. That’s great. Get them damn Jews the f****k out of here. Get these f*****g Jews. Get the Jews out of Jersey City.”

 How many Muslims were among the Black bystanders blaming Jews for the attack on a Kosher deli where three Jews were deliberately shot dead?

Black Nationalist Hate Group Praised by Media Shot Up Kosher Market

. . . "The odd accent to city life in Jersey City came amid a hail of bullets as two members of the racist black nationalist hate group opened fire in the JC Supermarket. Despite initial claims by the media and the authorities that the Jewish market had not been targeted, David Anderson and Francine Graham ignored passerby on Martin Luther King Dr, to get to the store and kill as many Jewish people as they could.

"When the shooting had ended, Moshe Hersh Deutsch, a yeshiva student who was known for helping distribute food packages to the needy, Mrs Leah Mindel Ferencz, a mother of 3 who helped her husband run the grocery store, and Miguel Jason Rodriguez, the father of an 11-year-old daughter and a parishioner at an Assemblies of God church, were all dead."

. . . "The media whitewash of the racist Black Israelites had come during the Covington Catholic case when the Washington Post, among other papers, had falsely blamed the pro-life students for a confrontation that actually began when members of the nationalist hate group had begun calling them, “crackers,” “faggots,” and “pedophiles.” An African-American pro-life student was called the ‘n-word’.

"Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has her own history of racism and anti-Semitism, falsely claimed that the Covington Catholic students were “taunting 5 black men.' ” . . .

Trump Wins His First State — Judge Rules South Carolina Can Cancel Its 2020 Primary

Analyzing America

"On Wednesday, the South Carolina Republican Party’s conclusion to not hold a 2020 Presidential primary has been confirmed and upheld.
"This will make it even more difficult for less prominent candidates who are pushing to win against Trump.
"The resolution was upheld by Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman, who said the law “does not give Plaintiffs a legal right to a presidential preference primary, and the Court will not substitute its own judgment for that of the General Assembly or the SCGOP.”
"Bob Inglis, former South Carolina congressmen sued state Republicans, claiming this decision to skip the primary, strips him and other likely candidates “of the ability to vote for the candidate of their choice in South Carolina’s famous (and particularly influential) ‘First in the South’ primary.”
"More from NBC News:" . . .