Dems’ Real Impeachment Goal: Sabotage Trump’s Second Term

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"Why would House Democrats put forward articles of impeachment that are laughably weak and have no chance of removing President Donald Trump from office? Most of the speculation has been that the impeachment will nevertheless hurt Trump’s reelection chances. There’s another possibility that’s even more insidious.

"Democratic Party leaders can’t possibly be unaware of the fact that their impeachment case has no merit. Despite the endless talk of bribery, extortion, campaign finance violations and other supposed crimes Trump has committed, not one of the articles of impeachment accuses Trump of breaking any of those laws, or any federal law for that matter.

"Instead, they accuse Trump of an “abuse of power” and of “obstruction of Congress.” As Sen. Ted Cruz explained this week at a Heritage Foundation event, as weak as the first article is, “the second article is orders of magnitude weaker.”

“ 'They’ve simply said that the mere fact that you assert a privilege is itself impeachable, without their bothering to issue a subpoena or litigating anything.

“ 'If that is impeachable conduct,” Cruz went on, “all 45 presidents we have had in the United States have committed impeachable offenses.”

"Mind you, this is in sharp contrast to the articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, which charged him with committing two felonies – perjury before a federal grand jury and obstruction of justice.

"Note, too, that the Republican-controlled House rejected an article of impeachment accusing Clinton of “abuse of power.” Also, note that the two articles that did pass the House attracted five Democratic votes, which means that Clinton’s impeachment had infinitely more bipartisan support than the current circus." . . .

Remember When Maxine Waters Called Bill Clinton’s Impeachment a ‘Coup D’état’?

Analyzing America  "In 1998, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton a “coup d’état.”
"She accused Republicans of “trying to do with this impeachment what they were unable to do at the ballot box.”
"In comparison, Waters has been calling for President Trump’s impeachment since the beginning of his presidency because of what Democrats couldn’t achieve at the ballot box.

"Critics have pointed out her blatant hypocrisy as this video clip resurfaces." . . .

So much for the Congressional "solemnity"; there IS joy in Schiffville tonight.

Away from that baleful cat Pelosi, the impeachment 'rats get out and play

"Did anyone really think the Democrats were serious when they put on those long faces for the nightly news and cast their impeachment votes?

"Hell no, Nancy Pelosi may have put on a funereal face and ordered her minions to pretend to be solemn for the cameras, but for leftists of all stripes, impeaching President Trump was like Eric Swalwell's famous fart all over again, a whole lot of s***s and giggles. The left cheered. They took selfies. They went wild.

"Here's what Twitter was loaded with"

Solemn Much? Rashida Tlaib Shares Giddy Video Celebrating Trump's Impeachment
. . . " 'Hey everyone! I'm on my way to the United States House floor to impeach President Trump on behalf of my incredible district," Tlaib told her followers while smiling and laughing. In the background, other Democrats (either staffers or members of Congress, it's hard to tell them apart since none of them take this matter seriously) can be heard laughing and jeering."

'Washington Post' Reporters Tweet Photo of Themselves Celebrating 'Impeachmas'

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Brad Parscale Retweeted

Ladies & gentlemen, your fair and objective press corps in action! What a joke. Media needs to stop acting like they are “impartial”. https://twitter.com/rachaelmbade/status/1207503047410237442 …

Kellyanne Conway reacts to Pelosi's threat to stall Senate impeachment trial

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

Hillary apparently was not pleased when Trump called her "crooked Hillary"

Hillary Clinton: ‘Impeachment Is the Only Remedy’ to Stop Trump  "Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that President Trump “abused his powers to cheat in the next election” and added that “impeachment is the only remedy” to stop him. 
"Clinton, who has remained vocal throughout the partisan impeachment process, tweeted ahead of the full House vote on two articles of impeachment against the president expected to take place Wednesday evening. 
“ 'One of our most precious rights as Americans is the right to determine who our leaders are. The president abused his powers to cheat in the next election and rob us of that right,” Clinton claimed.
“ 'Then he obstructed Congress to cover it up,” she added, concluding that “Impeachment is the only remedy”:" . . .

Fireworks Erupt Between Nadler And Gohmert During Impeachment Speeches

Rep. Gohmert STORMS the Mic After Nadler Accuses Him of "Spouting Russian Propaganda"  "Rep. Louie Gohmert stormed the Mic at the Impeachment markup after Rep. Jerry Nadler accused him of "spouting Russian propaganda." WATCH Trump React to Impeachment Vote: 'It's a Disgrace': "

Nadler did not cite any evidence to back up his claim that Gohmert was spreading “Russian propaganda.”Gohmert, who had left the podium, stormed back after Nadler made his comments and began shouting at him for several seconds.

Daily Wire  "An intense moment unfolded on the floor of the House of Representatives between Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Jerry Nadler (D-NY) on Wednesday as lawmakers debated Democrats’ partisan impeachment efforts.

“ 'In 1998, Senator Schumer said, ‘This impeachment will be used as a routine tool to fight political battles.’ We thought it was a prediction,” Gohmert began. “It was a promise and now it’s playing out, that’s exactly what’s being done here and for those who say we don’t address the facts, here you go: The impeachment serves two purposes.”

" 'Number one, stop the investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Ukraine into the corruption of Ukraine interference into U.S. elections in 2016,” Gohmert continued. “You said this was about this terrible Russia collusion and then that fell through [and now] it’s about emoluments, it’s bribery, it’s about extortion, it’s changed. But one thing hasn’t changed and that is: The intent to impeach this president, it’s always been there.”

“ 'But let’s be honest, the president turning his back on Ukraine, that happened in 2009 because in 2008 Ukraine invaded Georgia, what happened? Bush put sanctions on Russia to teach him a lesson,” Gohmert continued. “What happened after that? Well, in March of 2009 Hillary Clinton was sent over to Russia with a reset button to say, ‘Bush overreacted, we’re okay that you invaded Georgia.’ It was a greenlight to Russia to invade Ukraine and what [did Obama] do? [Obama] sent blankets and MREs and you eat and be warm why the Russians are killing them. That is what the Obama administration did.”

“This is a travesty and we’re in big trouble because Schumer was right, now the bar is lowered even further, it will be used for political battles and this country’s end is now in sight,” Gohmert concluded. “I hope I don’t live to see it. This is an outrage.” . . .

Victor Davis Hanson: A Russian Under Every Bed  "After Trump’s election, his opponents took a sudden dislike to the Russians they once saw as peace partners. he three-year-long effort to abort the Trump presidency — now culminating with a manipulated impeachment effort — has warped U.S. foreign policy toward Russia." Stephen Colbert seems to have an obsession with discussing world leader's private parts.

Schumer In 1998: We Are Using Criminal Accusations To ‘Win The Political Battles We Cannot Settle At The Ballot Box’

Here’s What Those Same Democrats Said About Impeachment 21 Years Ago Today

As the vibrant, youthful Nadler speaks something to power


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Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection

ABC News

A small group of President Trump's fiercest conservative critics is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers."

"A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.""The new organization, known as the Lincoln Project, represents a formal step forward for the so-called Never Trump movement, which has been limited largely to social media commentary and cable news attacks through the first three years of Trump's presidency. Organizers report fundraising commitments exceeding $1 million to begin, although they hope to raise and spend much more to fund a months-long advertising campaign in a handful of 2020 battleground states to persuade disaffected Republican voters to break from Trump's GOP."The mission, as outlined in a website that launched Tuesday coinciding with a New York Times opinion piece, is simple: “Defeat President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box.”"The group is led by a seven-person advisory council that features some of the GOP's most vocal Trump critics. Most, but not all, have already left the Republican Party to protest Trump's rise."The principals include former John McCain adviser Steve Schmidt, former Ohio Gov. John Kasich adviser John Weaver, former New Hampshire GOP chair Jennifer Horn, veteran Republican operative Rick Wilson and George Conway, a conservative attorney and husband of Trump's chief counselor Kellyanne Conway."In an interview, George Conway said he encouraged the new super PAC to involve Anonymous, an unnamed Trump administration official who authored a recent book warning the public against Trump's reelection. The rest of the group ultimately decided not to take Conway's suggestion." . . .

Article I: Remove This Beast From My Sight!

House Democrats are impeaching President Trump because they don’t like him. They have run through faulty reason after faulty reason in a desperate search for an excuse, any excuse, to undo the election of 2016 and a probable repeat in 2020.

Ann Coulter  "In the history of politics, there is no precedent for the media’s entire focus to be on undoing the last presidential election.

"True, the left has wanted to impeach every Republican president, but at least they used to wait a decent interval between the inauguration and concocting some preposterous “impeachable offense.”
"With Trump, it’s never been about anything he’s done. It’s him they can’t stand. The technical grounds for their impeachment is: REMOVE THIS MONSTER FROM MY SIGHT!
"The left has gone from “literally shaking” on election night 2016, to “literally shaking” at Trump firing the FBI director (a.k.a. “his employee”), to “literally shaking” at Trump engaging in foreign policy.
"On cable news, they’re still talking about Trump’s “Russia, if you’re listening” joke.
"U.S. media: Proud not to get a joke.
"The media pretend the president engaging in standard foreign policy is a big constitutional crisis. It is, but not the way they mean.
"As explained in the seminal book on impeachment, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, impeachment is not for policy disputes. That’s why, in any five-minute span on cable TV, you will hear someone say that James Madison expressly rejected “maladministration” as a ground for impeachment at the Constitutional Convention. Otherwise, he said, “so vague a term” would mean the president could serve only at “the pleasure of the Senate.” . . .

Pelosi Pours on the Drama: Wears All Black on a 'Sad' Day

Katie Pavlich  Video

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived at the Capitol Wednesday morning dressed in all black. When asked about how she feels, she said "sad.' " . . .

Dana Bash

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@DanaBashCNN

As she walked into the house chamber @SpeakerPelosi told me she “feels sad” #impeachment

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"Turns out, a number of her colleagues are also wearing black to mark the "solemn" occasion. Democrats have also been told not to clap or cheer if the articles pass later today."

 

Michael Bloomberg Plays to the Left, Saying He Would Close U.S. Coal Plants

"The distinction between Bloomberg’s media outlet and presidential campaign are non-existent. Five staffers from the outlet, an executive editor, news editor, senior editorial page editor, social media editor, and another editorial page editor, have joined the presidential campaign of the same name. The name of the guy signing their paychecks."

Legal Insurrection  

“We’ve proven that you can transition to clean energy and strengthen the economy at the same time” Sooooo, when and how was this proven?

"Former NYC mayor and 2020 Democrat candidate Michael Bloomberg is jumping on the ‘Green New Deal’ train in a blatant attempt to endear himself to the climate change obsessed left.

"During a campaign stop in Virginia over the weekend, he promised to close U.S. coal plants.

"Carl Campanile reports at the New York Post:

Bloomberg would shut down coal plants if elected president

Mike Bloomberg would shut down the nation’s remaining 251 polluting coal power plants and halt construction of 150 new gas facilities as part of a sweeping program to slash carbon emissions and boost clean energy alternatives if elected president.

Bloomberg’s plan — unveiled Friday during a campaign stop in northern Virginia — aims to cut US carbon emissions in half over 10 years and put the country on course to get 80 percent of its electricity generated from green energy sources, like wind and solar, by 2028.

The proposal would end taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels and offer incentives for clean energy. Additionally, it would impose more stringent carbon and pollution standards for new gas plants, effectively barring new construction.

"Somehow, I doubt this is going to earn Bloomberg an endorsement from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

"Josh Siegel of the Washington Examiner has more:

Michael Bloomberg wants to shut down coal by 2030 and start killing gas plants

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Bloomberg Shows Reporters are Political Operatives. And there’s no room for them on Republican campaigns.  "There will never be a President Michael Bloomberg. Not unless some bankrupt African country decides to auction off the privilege to the highest bidder. But while Bloomy is no real threat to the Democrats or Republicans, his campaign is unintentionally telling the obvious truth about the role of the media.
"The billionaire famously banned staff from his eponymous outlet from investigating him or fellow Dems while declaring an open season on President Trump. He responded to criticism by saying that his reporters, “get a paycheck. But with your paycheck comes some restrictions and responsibilities.”
"Those restrictions and responsibilities are to serve the political interests of the guy signing the checks." . . .

Pat Sajak has fun with Bloomberg's big soda ban:

So Speier is impartial, and McConnell is not?  It's laughable: Democrats have had it in for President Trump from the day he was elected. 

Thomas Lifson

"Derangement is a mental impairment that causes those afflicted with it to make very bad decisions, often ignoring or disputing realities that would caution them against their self-destructive actions.  Even though the leftist-dominated psychology and psychiatric professions refuse to acknowledge it, Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, a genuine mass psychosis, and it is at the root of the impeachment vote today.

"It is often speculated that the real goal of Democrats is to "place an asterisk" next to President Trump's name.  But as the passion of the moment subsides and historians take a longer look, here are seven facts that will place an asterisk next to this impeachment, as a monumentally foolish act of political malpractice:

1. First ever purely partisan impeachment.
2. First ever impeachment advocated by House members before the president took office and took any official actions.
3. No crime is alleged.
4. The first ever impeachment brought less than a year before voters speak on the incumbent.
5. Hearings led by a man who brazenly, extensively, and provably lied (Nunes vs Schiff memoranda).
6. The speaker of the House opposed it but was bullied by young radicals she called "the Squad."
7. Impeachment hearings drove approval of the target higher.

California Lefty Rep. Jackie Speier looks for an excuse to shut impeachment down

. . . "Even Rep. Jackie Speier, a grizzled old swamp leftist from the Bay Area, seems to be looking for a way for Democrats to get out of this growing fiasco.

"According to the Daily Caller:

Democratic California Rep. Jackie Speier said Tuesday that impeachment might be heading for a mistrial before it even gets to the Senate.

The Democrats' one-night stand with the founders  " 'I'll respect you in the morning" is what I half expect to hear.  Of course, the Democrats now invoking the Founding Fathers' memory in their effort to impeach President Trump won't respect our colonial progenitors at the next dawn any more than they did at the last one.

"Nonetheless, the Left has interrupted its regularly scheduled programming of trying to tear down the Founders' reputations and life's work — the Electoral College, the First and Second Amendments, and the Constitution generally — to claim that those Enlightenment men are on their side." . . .

Flipping Florida: How Pro-China Communists Plan To Turn The Sunshine State Blue In 2020

Noisy Room  "America’s main pro-China communist party Liberation Road is working overtime to win Florida for the Democratic Party in the 2020 presidential election.
"With 29 Electoral College votes—behind only California and Texas and tied with New York—Florida may well decide the 2020 election. California and New York are deeply blue states and Texas is moderately red, so purplish Florida will be heavily targeted as the most significant “swing state” in the nation.
"Liberation Road Maoists finally turned Virginia blue in 2020. They’re now using similar tactics to flip Florida.
"Liberation Road (until April this year known as Freedom Road Socialist Organization or FRSO) flipped Virginia by signing up at least 300,000 new minority voters over the last several years and working with then-Gov. Terry McAuliffe to restore voting rights for an estimated 200,000 former felons.
"Working through the New Florida Majority and allied organizations FRSO/Liberation Road has signed up hundreds of thousands of new minority voters in Florida and helped pass a referendum giving 1.4 million “Sunshine State” former felons the right to vote.
"They also helped to raise the Democratic vote for their friend Andrew Gillum in the 2018 governor’s race. Gillum only lost because Donald Trump endorsed Republican Ron DeSantis who called Gillum out for the socialist he undoubtedly is. Given that Gillum is now working with the Florida left to sign up another million minority Democratic voters, it’s entirely possible that China’s American franchise Liberation Road may well decide who wins the 2020 election." . . .  
. . . 
"Both campaigns saw the New Florida Majority deepen its ties with several allied organizations across the state through a new umbrella organization the Statewide Alliance Group (SWAG).
"The new alliance included:

• New Florida Majority
• Dream Defenders—a black-led pro-Palestine group closely affiliated to             Liberation Road.
• Organize Florida—led by Stephanie Porta, former leader of Florida ACORN.
• Florida Immigrant Coalition—led by Maria Rodriguez, a 2009 Rockwood Leadership Institute alumni and close affiliate of Liberation Road.
• SEIU—heavily penetrated by Liberation Road and other communist groups.
• Faith in Florida—part of Faith in Action, formerly known as the PICO National Network, which is closely affiliated to some Liberation Road supporters.
• Central Florida Jobs with Justice—led by Denise Diaz, who is closely affiliated to Liberation Road and the Communist Party USA.