This Friday, House Democrats have announced the grounds of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on which they plan to seek the impeachment of President Trump.
The articles claim abusing the power of his office and obstructing Congress.
But what of the articles? Do they meet the standard?
Oddly, the proposed do not seem to meet the constitutional criteria for an impeachment, which are limited to “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Neither article is a high or low crime or misdemeanor. Neither are mentioned within the Constitution.
The abuse here is that it more and more appears to be what Hamilton called in the Federalist Papers the“greatest danger,” that the decision to impeach will be based on the “comparative strength of parties,” rather than on “innocence or guilt.”
This is new ground. It’s the first time in American history impeachment is occurring without having at least some bipartisan support in Congress. And there is really nothing to support it in the words of the Constitution. It seems like a bad re-run of Pee Wee’s playhouse, where the House is making it up the process as they go along.
Without judicial review, the House by-passes its mandated duty which is to support, defend, and apply the Constitution as written, not as it can be stretched to fit the actions of an opposition or controversial president.
“no legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers.
This does present the Senate with a constitutional dilemma, if and when it will receive a void and invalid impeachment. It will have to decide whether to proceed with a trial of charges that are unconstitutional and therefore are void.
Paul Plante says
“Everybody who is not the president is really the president, and the one man who took the presidential oath of office after being duly elected according to the provisions of the real United States Constitution is not really the president, being subordinate to all of those who are not really the president.”
That is according to the Democrat constitution, which is not the same as the United States Constitution, and that is really where this discussion of these WIERD TIMES we non-hyphenated Americans who are not un-thinking, mindless, thumb-sucking Democrats nor Democrat Kool-Aid drinkers are presently finding ourselves in, where a seated American president is being charged with a CONTRIVED CRIME carrying as penalty of five years in a federal prison for daring to cause the investigation of an alleged CORRUPT DEMOCRAT named Joe Biden, must start this discussion of the CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS we now find ourselves in, which is a contest between the un-written, make-it-up-as-you-go constitution the Democrats use, which is kept in Nancy Pelosi’s large bowel, and the real United States Constitution that the Democrats are valiantly trying to stuff down the toilet the way drug dealers try to stuff their drugs down the toilet when the cops are at the door with a search warrant.
Paul Plante says
With respect to this impeachment horse****, for that is exactly what it is, an Everest-sized mountain of pure horse**** as only a Democrat can spew it, according to a 10 December 2019 exclusive interview that Democrat Adam Schiff gave to Sarah Jones, the editor-in-chief of PoliticusUSA who also hosts Politicus News and co-hosts Politicus Radio and whose analysis has been featured on several national radio, television news programs and talk shows, and print outlets including Stateside with David Shuster, as well as The Washington Post, The Atlantic Wire, CNN, MSNBC, The Week, The Hollywood Reporter, and more, with Sarah winning two Telly Awards as well as being a member of the Society of Professional Journalists which exclusive interview was posted on-line with the hard-hitting title “Adam Schiff Tells Trump That He Won’t Be Allowed To Cheat In 2020,” this whole impeachment thing is a TRANSPARENT SHAM that the Democrats intend to lose so that they can use the loss as a potent political weapon against the Republicans as a party in 2020, as we can clearly see from the following words of Adam Schiff from that interview where he totally spills the beans on where this FARCE is going to next, as follows:
Some say why don’t you just wait.
Why don’t you just wait until you get the witnesses that the White House refuses to produce?
Why not just wait until you get the documents that the white house refuses to turn over, and people should understand what that argument really means.
It has taken us eight months to get a lower court ruling that Don McGahn has no right to defy Congress if it takes another eight months to get a second court or Supreme Court decision, that is not the end of the process.
It comes back to us, and we ask questions because he no longer has immunity and he claims something else that his answers are privileged and we have to go to court for another eight or 16 months.
The argument why don’t you just wait amounts to this: Why don’t you just let him cheat in one more election?
Why not let him cheat just one more time?
Why not let him have foreign help just one more time?
That is what that argument amounts to.
This matters because after three years of pretending that Trump is the rightful president, it is finally being acknowledged that not only is he trying to cheat in 2020, but it is again, because he cheated in 2016.
For three years this nation has endured the abuses of this pretender and his entire party of lock step enablers, save for Rep. Amash of Michigan.
For three long years those who suggested Trump was not a legitimate president were shamed and silenced, even after the Mueller report made it clear that the Trump campaign sought illegal help and took illegal help from Russia in the 2016 election.
Now that Trump is again seeking foreign help to undermine our elections and in so doing, attacking our national security and core values — and only due to the bravery of whistleblowers got caught red-handed — the entitled, privileged, faux-wealthy con artist poorly playing president has finally been called what he is: A cheat.
A cheating cheater.
A loser.
A man who can’t win an election and did not win an election of the people fairly.
Donald Trump can’t win an election without cheating.
He knows that, and that’s why it upsets him so much to be called out for his illegal actions.
Trump is used to getting away with his criminal entitlements, but today, even if just for a moment before Republicans in the Senate betray their country again by letting Trump off as he attacks the United States, justice has been spoken and served.
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So, Schiff and the Democrats never intended this impeachment horse*** to be anything more than a ploy to discredit not only Trump, but all the Republicans in the Senate, as well, going into 2020 by making some absurd sensationalist charges against Trump that are based on horse****, and when those charges are thrown out in the Senate, the Democrats will spend the rest of the year in 2020 until November screaming the Trump is corrupt and the Republicans are corrupt, as well, when the truth of the matter is that nobody is more corrupt than the Democrats, but it is good theater, and as far as the Democrats and their media allies care, that is what it is all about – the show, not the facts or truth.
As to there being no merit to the baseless criminal charges the Democrats have levied against Trump in this impeachment SCAM, let us go back to the 19 November 2019 Nadler Committee Hearing starring U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, a White House flunky, who in this following colloquy is being intensely grilled by Democrat Congresswoman Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier, born May 14, 1950, an American politician with a J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1976, who currently serves as a U.S. Representative for California’s 14th congressional district which includes the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and the southwest quarter of San Francisco who on August 16, 2017, advocated for the use of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to remove President Trump from office because of erratic behavior and mental instability “that place the country in great danger,” one of the Democrats failed opening shots at Trump.
First of all, with respect to the BULL**** charge of Obstruction of Congress, which is a criminal charge of violating United States Criminal Code 18 U.S.C. § 1505, corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influencing, obstructing, or impeding or endeavoring to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law of the Democrats under which any pending proceeding by the Democrats is being had, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry by the Democrats under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by the Democrats in the House of Representatives, we have this:
SPEIER: So in both your situations, since you have given depositions, since those depositions have been made public, have you seen your experience in your respective jobs changed or have you been treated any differently?
WILLIAMS: I have not, no.
VINDMAN: Since the report on the July 25th, as I stated, I did notice I was being excluded from several meetings that would have been appropriate for my position.
SPEIER: So in some respects, then, there have been reprisals?
VINDMAN: I’m not sure if I can make that judgment.
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But hey, since this a FARCE, none of that matters.
As to Trump abusing his office, which is more Democrat pig****, we have this:
SPEIER: Would it ever be U.S. policy in your experience to ask a foreign leader to open a political investigation?
VINDMAN: There are proper procedures in which to do that.
Certainly the president is well within his right to do that.
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Get it, everyone – pass it along, Trump abused his office by doing exactly what the Constitution allows him to do, which was to ask the corrupt Ukrainians to open an investigation into Joe Biden.
That is exactly how ridiculous this whole FARCE really is, and what is amazing is that despite all this being public record, and here I refer to these transcripts, there are still people in America ignorant enough or stupid enough to fall for this Democrat horse***&, which does not bode well for our future as a nation.
Paul Plante says
And according to Axios, the Democrat screeching about Adam Schiff’s blatantly false charges that the Senate GOP is going to betray OUR country by letting Trump off as he attacks the United States has already begun, as follows:
Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) called on McConnell to recuse himself from the Senate proceedings, lambasting Republicans’ claims that the process has been a biased “kangaroo court,” per the Post.
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If I recall from the complete record, however, it most clearly is a kangaroo court, which is defined as an unofficial court held by a group of people in order to try someone regarded, especially without good evidence, as guilty of a crime or misdemeanor.
Other Democrats who criticized McConnell’s comments on Friday did not go as far:
• “I think it was pretty bad for who is essentially the foreman of the jury to announce the verdict.”
“The idea that he is working like that is pretty shameful,” said Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, per the Post.
• “It is incumbent on every Senator to ensure that the impeachment trial not become a farce.”
“That depends on whether 4 Republicans will stand up against a ridiculously quick process.”
“Right now, you have head juror McConnell proudly promising that it will be over before it starts,” tweeted Rep. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).
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It is incumbent on every Senator to ensure that the impeachment trial not become a farce?
Given that it has been a farce since Day One thanks to Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, “Jumping Jerry” Nadler, who jumped right to the conclusion that Trump is guilty and then started arranging the “evidence” to make it appear so, it is a bit late to expect the Senate to undo the FARCICAL NATURE of the Schiff Show at this point in time.
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.): “I call on every person in this country to demand that their U.S. senator demands an actual trial with the facts on the table.”
“They can call the witnesses they want, but have a real trial and do not coordinate with the White House, because that’s a ridiculous idea.”
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Pramila, speaking as a rational American citizen who does not have his head in his *** as do you Democrats, THERE ARE NO FACTS SUPPORTING IMPEACHMENT!
There is nothing to have a trial about.
And for those of you who don’t know Pramila, she has been described by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “a rising star in the Democratic caucus,” and in an Associated Press article entitled “Dem struggle over Pelosi bid, with no end game in sight” on 17 November 2018, Pramila, was quoted as follows:
“I think chaos is good if it’s productive.”
“I think chaos is bad if it is too disruptive and it divides us too much,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, whose leaders were upbeat after meeting with Pelosi this week.
“We don’t have a lot of time,” Jayapal said.
“We need to put forward the vision of who we are as a party and what we’re fighting for and so that needs to happen very, very quickly.”
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And what we have here from the House Democrats is the very bad Democrat chaos which is far too disruptive as it divides us too much, but that is the vision of who the Democrats are as a party and what they’re fighting for, which is to destroy Donald Trump because he is president and Hillary Clinton.
In a Washington Post article entitled “Fight for House speaker explodes into national political campaign” by Elise Viebeck, Mike DeBonis and Erica Werner on 18 November 2018, Pramila, was quoted thusly:
Supporters have cited the need for a speaker who can immediately stand up to Trump, spell out the Democrats’ agenda and score legislative wins for the party before the next campaign.
“We need somebody who’s really experienced, who’s not going to back down, who’s not going to have a learning curve,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who is likely to co-chair the House Progressive Caucus.
“We have very little time. . . .”
“It’s a six-month cycle to really get something done and then everything moves to 2020.”
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My goodness, yes, Pramila, everything is moving to 2020, which is what this Democrat FARCE is all about.
Showing her obvious animus towards Trump right from the get-go, in an Associated Press article entitled “Pelosi over his shoulder: Trump faces empowered Dems at SOTU” by Laurie Kellman on 4 February 2019, Pramila was quoted thusly:
“He just lies.”
“He lies all the time,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said.
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And the Democrats don’t Pramila?
And then we have the Associated Press article “Despite differences, Dems stick with Pelosi on impeachment” by Mary Clare Jalonick and Laurie Kellman on 12 March 2019, when the Democrats were against impeachment before they were for it, as follows:
WASHINGTON — Democrats are largely lining up behind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her wait-and-see strategy on any impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Moderate and even some of the most liberal House Democrats said they were supportive of the speaker after she told The Washington Post that she’s not for impeachment, at least for now.
Impeaching Trump is “just not worth it,” Pelosi said, unless there’s overwhelming support.
While some in her caucus may disagree on certain points, the majority of Democrats endorsed Pelosi’s approach.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said a unilateral pursuit of impeachment by Democrats would be an “exercise doomed for failure.”
“I see little to be gained by putting the country through that kind of wrenching experience,” he said at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said impeachment “has to be a bipartisan effort, and right now it’s not there.”
Cummings said his sense is that “this matter will only be resolved at the polls.”
Even one of the strongest proponents of impeachment, freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, said Tuesday that she is “absolutely not” disappointed in Pelosi.
Tlaib stressed that she is going to continue to push for impeachment, but echoed Democratic leaders’ caution in first calling for a committee process that investigates Trump.
“That doesn’t mean we are voting on it, it means we are beginning the process to look at some of these alleged claims,” Tlaib said.
Democrats have launched multiple probes into Trump’s White House and personal businesses.
Those investigations, led by Schiff and other House committee chairmen, are intended to keep the focus on Trump’s business dealings and relationship with Russia, no matter what comes from the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., a member of the House Judiciary Committee and a leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Pelosi’s comments are “probably a reaction to everybody wanting to go to the end of an investigation when we haven’t started.”
Pelosi’s approach could also provide cover to some of her members, including freshmen who were elected in November from “red-to-blue” districts where impeachment is politically fraught.
California Rep. Katie Hill, one of those freshmen, praised Pelosi’s approach.
“If it’s going to be a political disaster for us, then we’re not going to do it,” she said.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., noted that the majority of freshman members have not been outspoken on impeachment, and that the Senate remains controlled by Republicans.
“Nobody thinks there is going to be a conviction in the Senate, unless circumstances very substantially change.”
Pelosi has long resisted impeachment as a drastic step that should only be broached with “great care.”
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So much for “great care” with this absolute FARCE the Democrats have handed us just nine months later, which takes us to this inane set of comments from Rep. Jamie Raskin, (D-Md.), who told CNN: “The president is essentially a constitutional defendant, and he’s a defendant because we have voted to send an indictment, articles of Impeachment, to the Senate, because of the high crimes and misdemeanors he’s committed.”
And of course, that statement right there by Jamie Raskin that the House has actually indicted Trump because of the high crimes and misdemeanors he’s committed, as opposed to “alleged to have been committed,” is an admission by Jamie Raskin that the Democrats have engaged in the CONSTITUTIONALLY PROHIBITED or UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACT of attainting Trump in clear violation of Section 9 of Article I of OUR written United States Constitution, as opposed to the Democrat version that Nancy Pelosi keeps secure for the Democrats in her alimentary tract that the Democrats are relying on to impeach Trump, as follows:
No Bill of Attainder …. shall be passed.
”Bills of attainder . . . are such special acts of the legislature, as inflict capital punishments upon persons supposed to be guilty of high offences, such as treason and felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings.”
“If an act inflicts a milder degree of punishment than death, it is called a bill of pains and penalties. . . .”
“In such cases, the legislature assumes judicial magistracy, pronouncing upon the guilt of the party without any of the common forms and guards of trial, and satisfying itself with proofs, when such proofs are within its reach, whether they are conformable to the rules of evidence, or not.”
“In short, in all such cases, the legislature exercises the highest power of sovereignty, and what may be properly deemed an irresponsible despotic discretion, being governed solely by what it deems political necessity or expediency, and too often under the influence of unreasonable fears, or unfounded suspicions.”
The phrase ”bill of attainder,” as used in this clause and in clause 1 of Sec. 10, applies to bills of pains and penalties as well as to the traditional bills of attainder.
The prohibition embodied in this clause is not to be strictly and narrowly construed in the context of traditional forms but is to be interpreted in accordance with the designs of the framers so as to preclude trial by legislature, a violation of the separation of powers concept.
The clause thus prohibits all legislative acts, ”no matter what their form, that apply either to named individuals or to easily ascertainable members of a group in such a way as to inflict punishment on them without a judicial trial. . . .”
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And that, of course, is the exact BULL**** going on in the House of Representatives right now – not only is Trump constantly being slandered and ridiculed by the House Democrats and their lackeys and lickspittles in the mainstream media, who print every Democrat slander and accusation of criminal conduct by Trump without question, but by adjudging Trump guilty of crimes, which they now have done many times over, they have violated the prohibition embodied in this clause of Article I that is to be interpreted in accordance with the designs of the framers so as to preclude trial by legislature, a violation of the separation of powers concept with the clause thus prohibiting all legislative acts of the kind we are seeing here, ”no matter what their form, that apply to named individuals in such a way as to inflict punishment on them without a judicial trial.”
And there, people, is the real question that the Senate should take up when this FARCE comes before them next month – the blatantly LAWLESS and UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTS of the Democrats connected with this IMPEACHMENT FARCE!
That is what the real trial needs to be about – why did the Democrats fabricate ridiculous charges to force this impeachment trial in the first place?
Paul Plante says
I have read through the Federalist Papers many times now, and I haven’t really made an effort to discuss them in here, because talking to a fervent or rabid Democrat about anything that does not agree with or support what their feeling and emotions and passions are telling them to do, including jumping off a cliff because that is what all the other lemmings, is simply a waste of time.
They have ears, but the only voice they hear, like that of the dog Nipper, is the voice of their master, Nancy Pelosi, who herself seems sunk far into dementia, and such it is.
As to this STUPID SHOW being over with the filing of this first set of CRIMINAL CHARGES against Trump, guess again, people, because according to a POLITICO article entitled “House vows to continue impeachment probes regardless of Senate outcome” by Andrew Desiderio and Kyle Cheney on 16 December 2019, this is only the prelude to ACT I of the “GREAT DEMOCRAT STUPID SHOW OF 2020,” to wit:
Lawyers for the House told a federal court on Monday that lawmakers will continue their impeachment investigation even after the House votes later this week to impeach President Donald Trump.
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Come November 2020, according to the Democrat plan of attack, Trump is going to have a “sheet” that will rival or surpass that of famous American criminals like John Dillinger or “Legs” Diamond, which the Democrats hope will convince the American people to hand ALL political power in America to the exclusive control of the Democrat party, who, of course, only have our best interests as a nation and as a people at heart.
Getting back to that revelatory Politico article, we have:
In a filing to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, House General Counsel Douglas Letter argued that the House’s demands for grand jury materials connected to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation were still urgent because such evidence might become relevant to the Senate’s expected impeachment trial next month.
But Letter went further to note that even apart from the Senate trial, the House Judiciary Committee intends to continue its impeachment investigation arising from the Mueller probe on its own merit.
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So even after scouring over the Mueller Report and finding nothing to hang Trump with, they are going to scour over it another time, at our expense, of course, since this FARCE is being generously funded by We, the American People, as opposed to the coffers of the Democrat party, which is raking in political contributions based on a promise to destroy Trump.
Getting back to that article, which gives us the shape of things yet to come from these hateful and spite-filled Democrats, we have:
“The committee has continued and will continue [its impeachment] investigations consistent with its own prior statements respecting their importance and purposes,” Letter wrote in a filing Monday as part of the House’s bid to obtain Mueller’s grand-jury evidence.
The House is expected to vote Wednesday on two articles of impeachment — one charging Trump with abuse of power and another with obstruction of Congress.
The articles are focused primarily on Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
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But those articles are just plain STUPID, as we can clearly see from this colloquy on 19 November 2019 from the Schiff Committee hearing starring U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman as Schiff’s star witness, between Vindman and Democrat Michael Bruce Quigley, born October 17, 1958, the U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 5th congressional district including most of Chicago’s North Side, as well as several of the city’s western suburbs who attended the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree, to wit:
QUIGLEY: Did anyone to your understanding raise the legality of withholding this assistance?
VINDMAN: It was raised on several occasions.
QUIGLEY: And — and who raised those concerns?
VINDMAN: So following the July 18th sub-PCC, which is again what I coordinate or what I convene at my level.
There was a July 23rd PCC that would have been conducted by Mr. Morrison.
There were questions raised as to the legality of the hold.
Over the subsequent week the issue was analyzed and during the July 26th deputies — so the deputies from all the departments and agencies there was an opinion rendered that it was legal to put the hold.
QUIGLEY: It was — excuse me?
VINDMAN: There was an opinion legal — an opinion rendered that it was OK to — that the hold was legal.
QUIGLEY: On a purely legal point of view.
VINDMAN: Correct.
QUIGLEY: Very good.
I yield back to the Chairman.
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So, in the world of reality in which we who are not Democrat Kool-Aid drinkers live in, it was totally legal for Trump to do everything he did, according to the key witness the Democrats brought on board to hang Trump, so the Democrats simply take a wet sponge and expunge that exculpatory testimony from the FAKE RECORD they have cobbled together out of cobwebs and dust that they are basing these present, first articles of impeachment on, before they bring more articles based on more cobwebs and dust to convince us to vote Democrat in 2020.
Getting back to Politico:
Democrats had strongly considered charging Trump with obstruction of justice based on Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Monday’s filing indicates that Democrats are keeping that option available even after the House’s impeachment process concludes this week.
Letter’s suggestion that the Judiciary Committee’s impeachment investigation is ongoing cites a report released earlier Monday by the panel outlining the impeachment case against Trump.
In that report, Democrats argued that Trump committed criminal bribery and wire fraud when he pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rivals.
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Yahoo, people, you know what I am saying – get out the way, folks, run for the hills, a lightning strike has spooked the cattle (the Democrats) and they are about to stampede!
And before this DEMOCRAT STUPID SHOW is finally over, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Trump charged by the Democrats with killing Jimmy Hoffa and JFK!
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Paul Plante says
This historical and hysterical FARCE going on in Washington, D.C. today courtesy of the out-of-control Democrat party is like watching the Democrats vote to secede from the United States of America to form their own country with their own Constitution all over again, and indicating that she will vote for the FARCE, as a GOOD DEMOCRAT should, as opposed to against the FARCE, as a GOOD AMERICAN would do, is Cape Charles’ own Democrat Congresswoman Elaine Luria, who is moving up the media ladder from the Cape Charles Mirror, with her now being of enough importance in Washington, D.C. to be sought out by the media giants for comment as we can clearly see from a USA TODAY article entitled “Democrats in Trump districts wrestle with ‘vote of conscience’ on impeachment” by Christal Hayes and Ledyard King on 15 December 2019, which starts out as follows, to wit:
Thirty other Democrats from Trump districts, most of whom are freshmen, will be casting votes on the politically volatile issue this week.
With hard-liners on both sides dug in, those centrists will be the ones deciding whether Trump becomes the third president ever to be impeached.
So far, the handful of Trump district Democrats who have announced how they’ll vote are breaking in favor of impeaching the president on at least one of the two articles – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress – that the House Judicatory Committee approved Friday.
The panel passed both articles 23-17 along party lines, putting impeachment before the full House as soon as Wednesday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif., isn’t strong-arming rank-and-file Democrats to support impeachment, calling it a vote of conscience.
But to help them, she and her deputies have found ways to entice moderates to support such a politically risky move.
Party leaders kept the articles narrowly focused on Trump’s conduct with Ukraine and not on broader charges progressives pushed for, including the president’s finances, hush-money deals with women, and the findings of the Mueller report.
The articles pertain to allegations Trump abused his power by pressuring Ukraine, an ally, to go after political rival Joe Biden in a way that would benefit the president’s 2020 re-election, and then tried to cover it up by stonewalling Congress from getting records or witness testimony.
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Now we know from the record of the 19 November 2019 Schiff Committee meeting starring U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman in full dress formal uniform dripping with badges and medals and ribbons as an expert witness for the Democrats that when Trump asked for the investigation of Joe Biden’s alleged corrupt activities min Ukraine, or efforts to protect corruption in Ukraine that was benefitting his wayward and incompetent son Hunter, the dude kicked out of the Navy because of snorting coke before a week-end drill, that was his prerogative as president of the United States of America pursuant to OUR written United States Constitution which the Democrats do not acknowledge as being applicable to them, preferring to make up their own constitution on the fly to meet their needs of the moment, and nothing more; and we know from Lt. Col. Vindman that when Trump withheld the money from Ukraine, not only did he not do anything wrong, but in fact, he was complying with the laws of the United States of America, which happens to be in his description of duties in OUR United States Constitution that the Democrats do not feel bound by; but notwithstanding, that wasn’t a bar to the Democrats fabricating charges against Trump based on nothing, because that is what Democrats do, not being bound by our laws, or common decency, even, and as we see from the USA TODAY article, Cape Charles “ME, TOO, IF NANCY SAYS SO” Democrat Congresswoman Luria is backing that UNCONSTITUTIONAL action, to wit:
Rep. Elaine Luria, whose Virginia district went to Trump by about 4 points, said she will vote for impeachment.
“I’ll stand with the president and next to the President when he does something right,” she said.
“But I’ll stand up to him when he does something wrong.”
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All well and good, Congresswoman, but if your own expert witness has testifed that everything that Trump is being charged with is legal, then how is it illegal and an impeachable crime?
If everything Trump did, according to the Democrats’ own witness, then exactly what is it that he did wrong that you think he should be impeached on?
Have you figured that out yet?
Or are you just following the orders of Nancy Pelosi to be a GOOD DEMOCRAT and do what you are told?
Paul Plante says
As of this morning, it appears that the efforts of the Democrats to shield Joe Biden from being investigated for his CORRUPT acts as vice president to protect his idiot, ne’er-do-well son Hunter, the stupid who snorted coke before his Navy drill weekend and got kicked out of the Navy as a result, who had been handed a cushy job on the corrupt Burisma board in corrupt Ukraine, by impeaching Trump on charges rigged by Adam Schiff have failed miserably, because polls show Trump out ahead of Biden and the rest of the Democrats who are rightfully considered today by all loyal, patriotic Americans as domestic enemies of the United States Constitution.
And as of last night, the Democrats lost control of both the narrative and the momentum.
Today be3gins the process of impeaching and exposing the Democrat party as a clear and present danger to OUR American way of life in this country, which begins with two things the Democrats lack and would strip from We, the American People, to wit: TRUTH AND JUSTICE!
David Moore says
A very enjoyable read and SPOT ON Mr. Plante!
MJM says
No
Margot Gorske says
Mr. Plante; you write copiously of your opinions on this comment page. Did you ever consider starting your own paper or blog?
Paul Plante says
G’day to you Margot Gorske, and best of the season as well, and I write in whatever amount or volume in here that I do write precisely because there is a “here” to come to in the first place, and that is thanks to the COURAGE of Wayne Creed to have and maintain the Cape Charles Mirror as about the only real alternative there is to the absolute horse**** being put out on a daily basis by the infantile scribes of the so-called main-stream media, and I come here because I recognize the quality of the Cape Charles Mirror as an on-line publication, and recognizing that quality, I in turn recognize the fact that when it comes to creating something like this, Wayne Creed has far more ability with respect to the technology that produces new episodes of the continuing saga of the Cape Charles Mirror on a weekly basis than I could pretend to have, so no, given that the Cape Charles Mirror exists, and might I say, reaches the WORLD, which certainly gives my otherwise puny voice some much-needed amplification to counter the THUNDER of BULL**** coming at us like a blizzard each and every moment of the day from Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, I have no thoughts of starting my own paper or blog, as I am a now-older Viet Nam veteran who was severely wounded in the head and neck by RPG-7 fragments who has limited time to spend in quality intellectual pursuits on the internet, which is why I come here.
A simple reason, I think, and yesterday, it was 14 below zero with the wind chill, and there is snow on the ground, and I burn wood to survive, which means I spend the winters tethered to a wood stove to survive, which gives me extra reason to savor my time here at the Mirror during this time of the year, and incidentally, you should hear all the “STOP CLIMATE CHANGE – STOP GLOBAL WARMING” crowd screaming and hollering up here that anything above 20 below zero is too unbearably hot, so they want the climate to stop changing and getting warmer like it was at five above, and get back colder again down to a comfortable 30 below, which is still too warm for some, but then you’ll always have those who are not happy with what the majority likes, and such is the way things go.
Paul Plante says
The ONLY message to the American people that comes across very loud and very clear with respect to this impeachment of Trump from Nancy Pelosi, who now sounds as if whatever wits she might once have had have slipped their mooring and are drifting off towards LA-LA LAND, and every Democrat who voted for that impeachment, is that in their weird version of America, based on their Democrat Constitution, which is far removed from OUR United States Constitution, which the Democrats are trying to tear down and destroy, it is both a high crime and misdemeanor for a sitting American president to cause an investigation to be made of the alleged CORRUPT dealings in Ukraine of the top Democrat contender for Trump’s office of president to the United States, because the Democrats want a corrupt person as president.
There is no other way to read this pathetic story.
Every Democrat who voted for these bogus articles of impeachment has made it crystal clear as to where they stand on the question of loyalty to Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat party, versus loyalty to the Constitution of the United States of America.
While OUR Constitution prohibits them from being accused of treason, they are in fact guilty of being traitors to our Constitution and our American values of TRUTH and JUSTICE, and for that, their names should live on forever in infamy!
David Boyd says
I don’t think he got the hint
Dave Gay says
Paul Plante – Best article and responses you have made thus far. Keep writing and telling the truth.