Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
The message sent by Pelosi’s call for more time before the trial, and Schumer’s call for more witnesses, is one of fear that not only could the House’s case for impeachment fail, it could be laughed out of the Senate. And the American people might be fine with that.
“We’re gonna impeach the (expletive deleted).”
Thus did the member from Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, declare last January to be the goal of the 2019 House Democratic Caucus.
Wednesday night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered the goods.
The House impeached President Donald Trump on a straight party-line vote. Not one Republican signed on to the most partisan impeachment in U.S. history.
Yet, as we head for trial in the Senate, Democrats seem to be having nervous second thoughts over what they have done.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the Senate to subpoena four new witnesses the House never heard. Nancy Pelosi signaled Wednesday night that she might not send over to the Senate the articles of impeachment the House had just approved.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the floor both Wednesday night and Thursday morning. To have the Senate, which is judge and jury of the impeachment charges, to start calling witnesses whom House prosecutors failed to pursue “could set a nightmarish precedent.”
Said McConnell, Schumer “would apparently like our chamber to do House Democrats’ homework for them.”
Schumer’s plea for new witnesses is an admission that the House’s case for impeaching Trump is inadequate and deficient and could prove wholly noncredible to the American people. After all, if you need more witnesses, you probably do not have the smoking gun.
The message sent by Pelosi’s call for more time before the trial, and Schumer’s call for more witnesses, is one of fear that not only could the House’s case for impeachment fail, it could be laughed out of the Senate. And the American people might be fine with that.
The Democratic Party has bet the ranch on the impeachment and removal of Trump for imperiling our “national security.” But are Schumer and Pelosi behaving as though the republic is in mortal peril?
Schumer’s call for new witnesses also underscores the thinness of Article I of the impeachment, Trump’s alleged “Abuse of Power.”
Beneath Article I, there is not a single crime listed — no treason, no bribery, no extortion, no high crimes.
What kind of impeachment is this, with not one crime from the list the Founding Fathers designated as impeachable acts?
Why did the Democratic House not impeach Trump for conspiring with Russia to steal the 2016 election? Answer: The House could no more prove this charge than could Robert Mueller after two years.
Other events are breaking Trump’s way.
The James Comey-FBI investigation Mueller inherited has begun to take on the aspect of a “deep state” conspiracy.
According to the Justice Department’s IG Michael Horowitz, the FISA court warrants used to justify FBI spying were the products not only of incompetence but also of mendacity and possible criminality.
The “essential” evidence use by the FBI to get the FISA judge to approve warrants for surveillance was the Steele dossier.
An ex-British spy, Christopher Steele was working in mid-2016 for a dirt-diving operation hired by the DNC and Clinton campaign to go after Trump. His altarpiece, the dossier, we learn from Horowitz, was a farrago of fabrications, rumors and lies fed to Steele by a Russian “sub-source.”
In the four FBI submissions to the FISA courts for warrants to spy on Carter Page, there were “at least 17 significant errors or omissions.”
And all 17 went against Team Trump.
Moreover, the discrediting of the Comey investigation has just begun. U.S. Attorney John Durham will report this spring or summer on his deeper and wider investigation into its roots.
As IG of Justice, Horowitz’s investigation was confined to his department and the FBI. But Durham is looking into the involvement of U.S. and foreign intelligence in the first days of the FBI investigation.
Attorney General Bill Barr and Durham have both said that they do not share Horowitz’s view that there was no political bias at the beginning of the investigation of the Trump campaign. Durham’s writ is far wider than Horowitz’s and he has the power to impanel grand juries and bring criminal indictments.
Among the fields Durham is plowing are reports that agents and assets of the FBI and CIA may have “set up” Trump foreign policy aide George Papadopoulos. Possible purpose: to feed him intel about Russia having dirt on Hillary Clinton, and then entrap him, put him in legal jeopardy, and turn him into an investigative instrument to be used against Trump.
With the Horowitz report confirming what the Trumpers have been reporting and saying about Comey’s investigation for years, and the newly proven manipulation of the FISA courts, the media hooting about “right-wing conspiracy theories” seems to have been toned down.
Carter Page, once considered a dupe of the Russians, is now seen as a patriot who assisted his country’s intelligence services only to be made a victim of injustice who saw his civil rights be trampled upon by his own government.
The cards appear to be falling Trump’s way.
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How can so many of us know so much about the lies and the fraud committed by democrats during the last four years, yet no action is being taken and no one has even tried to charge or arrest people for the egregious of acts against the republic and a duly elected president. What is wrong with us?
Because the majority of people in this country, unfortunately, are sheep, being led by the propaganda wing of the Democratic party, the MSM.
“What is wrong with us?”
nothing. no-one wants to act first and get hit first.
So essentially we can now determine the bias the left has. They voted for impeachment, with zero reason, and they themselves see it and now are hunting more witnesses after the vote. So let us all convict someone for murder, put him to death then go back and hunt witnesses so we can justify our actions? These people are derelict in their duties and they themselves should be impeached. Seriously. We need to march on all our local state supreme courts so our force is seen and not have to travel to DC.
Let the facepalming begin. Even the Dem’s own guy (small hat alert) Harvard Law Prof Mr. Feldman says impeachment doesn’t happen until the House sends the Articles of Impeachment over to the Senate for Trial. LOL…..Pelosi is filling her Depends with San Fran’s finest.
They know in the Senate this is going to be dispensed with quickly and then what…..
Didn’t the Dems say Trump is an existential threat to the USA and puppies or something….but they are holding back now? WTF. Idiots.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-senate-impeachment-impasse-would-mean-trump-wasnt-impeached-all-harvard-law-prof
So why did TPTB run this farce they knew was baseless and would help trump other than to support their controlled opposition?
“So why did”
lenin said, “probe with bayonets. where you find steel, withdraw. where you find mush, continue.” they don’t have a plan, they just throw stuff out all the time and see what works and build on that. but trump has given them great difficulty so they’ve been a little desperate and tried a bunch of … well, thoughtless things recently, hoping that their fellow plowhorses in the media could cover up or spin any glaring failures. but the incompetent flailing has overflowed like a plugged sewer system and is bubbling up all over town, and they can’t hide it.
Its hard to tell. For all we know Trump (whom I genuinely support at the moment) is himself an actor put in place for the final act of a free America. If he is not, then it appears the totalitarians may have badly overplayed their hand. If he is such an actor, then we’re going to end up in the shit heap regardless. Like the sands passing through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
Who knows what’s what, all we can do is to be better people than they are and pray that there is a just God.
The worst that can happen is that you live a decent life.
Amen.
Amen again.
Or we can realize we are in a state of war…….
“Is Impeachment Backfiring on Democrats?”
well technically they haven’t impeached yet …
but no. the left hates trump, and that’s the end of it. the democrats failing to impeach trump might backfire on them, but not impeachment (when it happens) itself.
This is what happens when you take your advice from children. Nancy Pelosi used to be sharp, but she has clearly lost her chops. Instead of standing firm against the calls for impeachment, she caved. Exactly what part of “the Senate is in the hands of Republicans and won’t convict” didn’t she understand? Now, she has dug a hole and is waiting for Schumer to throw her of a ripe. What part of “Mitch McConnell runs the Senate and and not Schumer” doesn’t she understand? I won’t even say the she took a chance on impeachment, because that implies impeachment could have worked. This is political malpractice, pure and simple.
Article link below is Wrong.
The country is NOT damaged, “Normal’s” can see reality.
Truly AMAZING was the Celebrating like Impeach was a done deal!
Laughing, celebrating for the cameras. “Stupid IS as Stupid DOES.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/only-damage-america-real
The question that begs to be answered is why the Senate is not conducting investigations upon the House members who have obviously conducted this fraud for political purpose? Email your Senator and demand investigations into the conduct of the House of Representatives.
Not if your Senator is a commie left wing cunt…