Running Out Of Options

The Dems’ impeachment mania is a sign, not of Dem strength, and certainly not necessarily of offenses warranting nullifying an election (and maybe two), but rather a sign of desperation and weakness.

Victor Davis Hanson:

Aside from the emotional issue that Democrats, NeverTrumpers, and celebrities loathe Donald Trump, recently Representative Al Green (D-Texas) reminded us why the Democrats are trying to impeach the president rather than just defeat him in the 2020 general election.
“To defeat him at the polls would do history a disservice, would do our nation a disservice,” Green said.  “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach the president, he will get re-elected.”
Translated, that means Green accepts either that Trump’s record is too formidable or that the agendas of his own party’s presidential candidates are too frightening for the American people to elect one of them. And that possibility is simply not permissible. Thus, impeachment is the only mechanism left to abort an eight-year Trump presidency—on a purely partisan vote to preclude an election, and thus contrary to the outlines of impeachment as set out by the Constitution.

It’d explain a lot of the Democrat tactics; declining to hold hearings, relying on “evidence” gleaned from the results of their changes to the law permitting pure hearsay, and fighting the battle almost exclusively in media aimed at their three most important opinion constituencies; Entitled Americans, Dim Americans and Outrage-Addicted Americans.

Hanson has a lot of analysis – read it. Pullquote:

We are starting to see the outlines of a progressive fantasy on the horizon: Biden will be sacrificed. The party will unite around Warren. The left-wing media narrative will be, “We took out one of our own, now it is your turn to depose Trump.” Chaos overload for two or three weeks might keep Trump’s polling low.
Long-term, however, Trump wins.
We still have a number of government audits coming from Michael Horowitz, John Durham, and John Huber—and the targets are not Trump. The Senate will not convict the president under any foreseeable circumstances. The full story of the whistleblower has not been told, but there are a lot of narratives to come about the sudden rules allowing hearsay, DNC involvement, and who knew far in advance about the complainant’s writ. Once the Democratic debates continue, the candidates’ screaming and hysterics return, and the impeachment hearings descend into a Kavanaugh-esque farce, the public will begin to get scared again by the Left’s shrieking Jacobins…Voters soon will surmise that the only thing between their 401k plans and socialism is Donald J. Trump.

And they’ll be right.

My hunch: Dem polling is showing that even the more “moderate” Democrats terrify Main Street, and there are no other options coming out of the woodwork, and their base will having nothing but a Trump inquisition, so this is the best way forward they have.

It’s not about evidence. It’s about having “Disgraced and Impeached” as a chanting point for 2020.

54 thoughts on “Running Out Of Options

  1. D_K even the Hill is saying nothing illegal happened, and they arent exactly a right wing rag…

    https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463957-democrats-cry-wolf-on-trump-ukraine

    Legally speaking, there does not appear to be any promises or threats or any kind of quid pro quo on Trump’s part. Further, the Ukrainians weren’t even aware that U.S. military aid was being held up at the time. As for campaign finance violations, the Department of Justice has already thrown cold water on that. Further, if Trump is engaged in a cover-up, he’s doing a terrible job of it by taking the unprecedented step of making not only the call public, but also the whistleblower complaint. For those who want to delve into allegations of secret servers, Trump’s predecessors have engaged in similar actions.

  2. “China will not interfere in the internal affairs of the US, and we trust that the American people will be able to sort out their own problems,” ~ China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi

    We can now all be whistleblowers just by reading the news.

    Trump used the power of the presidency to attempt to extort an announcement from Ukraine of a bogus investigation of the Bidens, so that he could use it to help his re-election campaign.

    This is what the president’s inner-circle, conspiracy sites, and allies on Fox News actually believe:

    The DNC framed Russia for their hack, just in case Trump won, so they could impeach him.

    Barr & Giuliani have flown around the world trying to prove it.

  3. Question for Emery; have you consulted a dictionary? The concept is, legally speaking, not exactly new, and people more expert than I have done some great definitions.

    Plus, when you say “literally everyone hears you say it”, you imply something about Trump’s communications with foreign leaders that simply is not true. Trump is not a total fool, hence he does not send a WebEx to the whole world so they can listen in when he talks to foreign leaders. Even within the State Department, classified information is given only on a “need to know” basis, or at least should be.

  4. Wildest part of this story is when Rick Perry tells the Ukrainian president to fire the board of the state gas company and replace them with Americans who have made large donations to the GOP.

    Seriously.

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