House Democrats have finally kept their promise and submitted Articles of Impeachment on President Donald Trump.
Some Democrats made the promise to impeach this president in 2019, others in 2018, some in 2017, a few before Inauguration Day. Whatever the case, they finally came through with their fill-in-the-blank style of impeachment.
The two Articles are for 1) Abuse of power and 2) Obstruction.
At first the case was Russian collusion. But that never happened. Then came obstructing the Mueller investigation. But according to Mueller’s testimony all of his requests were met. With that as a backdrop, partisan attorneys general were trying other methods like the emoluments clause, tax issues, and private business deals from decades ago as cause for impeachment. They all came up empty. Now we have finally arrived at the real charges; bullying Ukraine with military money. Huh? No one had that in their office pool.
What happened to all the crimes President Trump is accused of committing everyday? The sky is always falling with Democrats nowadays and this is what they think is impeachable.
The real case House Democrats have made against Trump is that he is a bad president, a case I disagree with, but never mind that. The point is simple; you can’t impeach a president for being a bad president. There has to be a crime, and there is no crime here.
The Articles do not include anything from the Mueller investigation because there was no Russian collusion and no obstruction there. If there were, then surely those charges would have been included in the Articles that were released.
On the first Article, no one in Ukraine has said they felt pressure to open an investigation into Joe Biden’s son, an investigation that didn’t happen. If there was a quid pro quo then the other side needs to understand that and execute, or at least begin the procedure to execute on their end. That didn’t happen and no firsthand witness has said otherwise.
The second Article is on obstructing the Congress during the current sham impeachment investigation. The precedent House Democrats are trying to set here is a new one spectacularly different from what the Founders created.
Federalist No. 71-
It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports with, the last violates, the fundamental principles of good government; and, whatever may be the forms of the Constitution, unites all power in the same hands.
The Trump administration did not obstruct Congress, even when House Democrats wrote their own rules, carried out their own partisan investigation, held their own partisan hearings, called their own (and only their own) witnesses, and yet somehow they arrive that the Trump administration would not cooperate to the point that impeachment is warranted? That’s a ridiculous case. Of course the Trump administration defended itself and in doing so they did not obstruct the sham investigation. Congress ain’t king.
But this craziness is likely to pass the House on a party-line vote, and then it is unlikely to pass the Senate on a less than party-line vote. So expect President Trump to remain president, run for re-election, and then let this whole mess propel him to a successful re-election and another full term in the Oval Office.
The problem that Democrats and anti-Trumpers need to be concerned with, aside from the potential gains for Trump’s re-election, is how their fiasco of an impeachment process will close the door on the ability for any real impeachment inquiry, should one become needed, which I believe won’t, but always could. Suppose for a minute that in the near future Trump does break the law in the capacity as president and does deserve impeachment. House Democrats already swung so hard and missed entirely that they have lost all credibility should something impeachable actually occur. Any case would be exponentially more difficult to make to the American people, regardless of the evidence, with obvious exceptions of course.
But then again, Democrats had Representatives Adam Schiff and Maxine Waters on stage to make the big announcement. Can anyone honestly say they believe those two looked at any of Trump’s actions objectively in arriving at their conclusion to impeach?
Everyone should share the concern of empowering the executive branch to the point that it becomes untouchable by the other branches. House Democrats have done that here over their contempt for one man, and it will last for the duration of President Donald Trump’s TWO terms in office.
This whole impeachment mess is really about revenge for Hillary Clinton losing. Too many Democrats never accepted the results of the 2016 election. They promised impeachment all along. The only thing that change from 2017 to 2019 was majority control of the means to begin impeachment procedures. What did not matter, and never did matter, was whether or not any specific impeachable offenses actually occurred. We have seen that they didn’t. There is no case for impeachment. Swing and a miss, bigly.
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