One of the reasons that this current phase of impeachment folly is called an “inquiry” is that it is the normal responsibility of the House Judiciary Committee to hold a REAL impeachment hearing – one that will lead to Articles of Impeachment, or not.
What is going on in the House today is nothing more than a long public relations stunt with Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff as the current ringmaster. There was no reason that Democrats could not have simply voted to launch an impeachment HEARING – as has been the normal course in the past. They could have had all the same witnesses – even some behind closed doors. The only difference is that the rights of the accused – in this case the President of the United States – would have been preserved.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose to bypass the normal impeachment process in order to gin up a political lynching. (Yes, I called it that in the colloquial sense of the word.) She assigned six committees to “inquire” as to whether Trump committed any offenses worthy of an impeachment HEARING.
You will notice I did not say “crime.” That is because impeachment – as currently defined — does not require a crime even though the Constitution says that impeachment must be founded on “treason, bribery HIGH CRIMES and misdemeanors.” That sounds like serious stuff.
Pelosi and Co. understand that the Constitution be damned, the only requirement for impeachment is getting a majority of one political party to pass Articles of Impeachment. Consequently, she has undertaken the most political and unnecessary impeachment process in the history of the nation. She has weaponized impeachment.
Of course, such Articles must be filled with language suggesting abuse of power, obstruction of justice and other dubious accusations that can be made to sound like crimes. In fact, the Democrats have all those talking heads on television saying flat-out that Trump is guilty of this crime or that crime. Of course, that is only their opinion – or at least their politically-based claim.
Once the Democrats finish their repetitious “inquiry” – rolling it into a quasi-public phase — they will transfer the impeachment business over to the Judiciary Committee to conduct the “hearing” that will most likely lead to a highly partisan vote on Articles of Impeachment.
In the meantime, we will have the impeachment ball lateraled to Jerry Nadler, the diminutive chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a stridently partisan New York Democrat, who makes Schiff look like the champion of bipartisanship.
Nadler craves the center stage over impeachment. He was among the earliest voices demanding impeachment – a full-fledged member of the #NeverTrump Resistance Movement. We got a preview of Nadler when he was undertaking his own investigation of the Trump administration – saying that HIS investigation was essentially an impeachment hearing.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi squelched that idea as being a bit premature. Instead, she concocted the impeachment “inquiry” concept as a precursor to a legitimate hearing. It was only a temporary setback for Nadler since the impeachment process would eventually have to come to his Committee.
Anyone who holds any hope that Nadler will conduct a fair and nonpartisan hearing does not know the guy. He has already accused Trump of every crime in the book. He even claims that Trump criminally colluded with Russian even though Special Counsel Robert Mueller made it VERY clear that he had not – nor had anyone associated with the Trump campaign.
Nadler insists that the Mueller Report accused Trump of at least 10 counts of obstruction of justice – even though he left that decision to the higher-ups at the Department of Justice – and they declared that NONE of the examples of POSSIBLE obstruction rose to the level of a crime. End of subject.
Some Democrats – apparently including Pelosi – want to limit the charges in any Articles of Impeachment to abuse of power associated with the allegations that Trump attempted to enter into an inappropriate quid pro quo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Others – including Nadler – want to include every conceivable charge – even those discredited in the Mueller Report.
If we were dealing with a court-of-law, all the charges leveled against Trump would not likely survive the first Motion to Dismiss. But this is not a court-of-law. Impeachment is a political process, and Nadler is the consummate political creature. His only interest is to create enough cover for the Democrat majority to impeach Trump.
If you think the Schiff inquiry was marred by political acrimony and shenanigans, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
So, there ‘tis.
Is there ANY chance these guys can do the work the people voted them into office to do…namely, the work of the people!
This is the Modern Mutt and Jeff act where the Jeff guy always seems to be ready to take a pressured dump.
Democrats are forewarned that their efforts will make every future presidency an impeachable situation regardless of what a president may or may not have done, simply based on politics and especially as a weapon against a second term.
They must also be forewarned that they are creating the perfect storm for the next civil war. Of course they don’t see that happening because they realize Republicans are very meek and polite people and won’t likely put up a fight.
But just like everything else, Democrats are underestimating their position and their foe.
That would be true if things went the way that the dims want them to go.
But indictments for treason are being prepared. & trials for sedition are in the works. At some point these are going to be acted on & this mess is going to get cleaned up.
We only take so much & then BOOYA, ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST. Don’t wake a sleeping Giant. God don’t like UGLY & these creeps are FUGLY! GOD BLESS AMERICA. #MAGA WWG1WGA AMEN?????
If this ‘impeachment’ (Presidential rejection) circus continues, then maybe the next time a DEMONocrat President takes office; the DAY AFTER their inauguration ceremony- the Republicans should run down to the basement and start OUR bullshit charade of trying to get rid of that President. DO THE DEMONOCRATS NOT REALIZE THE POTENTIAL DAMAGE THIS COULD LEAD TO??? Maybe they DO realize what they are doing and it is all part of the globalist/communist/socialisto plan to take over our country by ignoring and by-passing the Constitution ! These people need to be stopped.
Nadler will most likely die before Christmas He has a very weak stress level
Good looking tandem, Quasimodo and Pinnochio.
Start impeachment proceedings just in case the GOP wins the house and a Dem wins the POTUS because that is possible with the can of worms is opened.
IF SHIFTY BUG EYED SCHIFF HASN’T ALREADY SCREWED THINGS UP HERE COMES HIPPOCAMPUS 20 TON NADLER ! AND TO MAKE IT EVEN WORSE NASTY NANCY PELOSI, UP-CHUCK CHARLES SCHUMER AND MAD MAXI MAXINE WATER’S ARE IN THE MIX ! AND WITH PENCIL NECK SCHIFF HAS SCREWED EVERYBODY HE CAN TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK DERANGED AND DEPLORABLE IF HE AIN’T ALREADY. I HOPE THAT HE DOESN’T SHOW UP FOR HIS DEPOSITION SO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CAN GET HIM ON CONTEMPT OF COURT CHARGES. AND SEE HOW HE TRIES TO GET OUT OF IT !
TODAY is the day for Libertarians and independents [who think they are smarter than the rest of us] to pull their head out of their assce and deal in facts not media hyperbole.
Nadler, Schiff, and Nancy Pelosi refuse to abide by our Constitution. They seem to think that they are DICTATORS. To me that is TREASON. Remove these DEMOCRATS from our government. We don’t want or need people who refuse to follow our Constitution.
indictments for treason are in the works. There is a day coming when these are going to be served. The Lord put Trump in office to clean it up & he is going to succeed. How many men could have lasted 7 months with all the evil harassment that Trump has taken? His marriage & family are very strong too. How many families would have been destroyed by now?
They tried to break up his marriage using Stormy. Had that worked it would have taken a lot of the fight out of him.
Keep an eye on how God deals with those who are trying to unseat Trump. Stormy & Avinatti ain’t doing all that well. Take a good look at Pelosi, Nadler, Schiff, & all of those who are attacking him. If you think they look bad now; just wait. I don’t care how much, or what they throw at Trump, he is going to landslide into office in 2020 & the ones trying to ruin him will be customers of treason trials & Military tribunals. God is blessing President Trump. His enemies are destroying themselves.
This is a disgrace how these criminals are trying to run and ruin our beautiful America. I don’t believe Taylor, or any of them with denial of Biden’s wrong doing.
I want to know how much money they received off the Ukraine and China deals as well as other corrupt funding to other countries.
Our middle class is kept poor with over taxing; funding all the corrupt USA officials and other countries we have no business being involved in.
It is time to limit terms of office in the house and senate as a one term 2-4 year limit.
With this, it will allow more diversity of new people with new perspectives and the constant changes will avoid corruption which I believe has been going on rampant behind our Americans backs for many years.
I believe that a president can serve a maximum of 8 years and cannot be corrupted because of the proposed imposing the 2-4 year limit on House of Representatives and Senate terms.
The speaker must be limited to 2-4 years to allow full fluency in what American people want not their own agenda, pocketbook, or perspectives wants.
It is long over due.
We Americans are not stupid and see the corruption through and through all the officials.
It must change and the corruption needs to stop.
Nadler and Schiff are two Democrat Clowns that need the living Hell beat our of them ! This Kangaroo Court needs to be shut down and the Democrats should be taken out and HANGED FOR TREASON !
agreed 200%
These COMMUNIST BUMS need a GOOD ASS KICKING. They are a ABSOLUTE DISGRACE to AMERICA.. their DEMO-RAT PARTY is OVER , they have moved FAR LEFT to the EVIL DARK SIDE . There is a SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL AWAITS THEM ALL.. May GOD BLESS AMERICA , & KEEP the PRESIDENT SAFE FROM HARM from THESE BASTARDS ANTI-AMERICAN POS.
it is now time for a second civil war. Americans wise up. These Democrats are not interested in our Country’s welfare. They are only interested in their own welfare and image. It is time to drain the swamp and remove these fools from office. Nadler, Schiff and Pelosi need to be impeached and put in prison for life. Until we enact term limits for all Federal employees, including judges, members of Congress and appointees, we will always be subject to their stupidity and hate for America.
Your article fabricates the conclusion of the Mueller report when in fact it concluded that there was no evidence. You are clearly thinking like trump: keep on lying and someone somewhere will believe you.
What makes me sick is the news reporters (in name only) on NBC, ABC & CBS that are getting to be just as biaus as CNN and MSNBC. They think they have the facts
nadler and schiff and pelosi , all need to be put on and un-paid leave, and investigated and mostly on facts and truths, but some hear say NO-PROOF accusations , just so they know how it feels to be accused of something , without proof, and I,ll bet they will be BITCHING LOUD and LONG over that. Give them a dose of their own poison
Something tells me that neither Schiff nor Nadler will EVER be able to settle into the cushy comfortable retirement they had once envisioned.
I don’t know who’s worse. Pelosi, Schiff, and Swallwell or the asshole Californians who keep electing them. Guess they’re all high.