It ain’t over till it’s over, but I think the end is near…

The House Democrats have put themselves into a situation where they are “damned if they do, and damned if they don’t” with this phony impeachment. 

If they do vote to impeach, the Senate will not convict because Trump was well within his rights to withhold foreign aid as he asked the president of Ukraine to look into possible criminal activities by former Vice President Biden and his son Hunter. 

If they DON’T vote to impeach all of their impeachment hungry supporters will be upset and they fear they will lose support.  However, if they DO vote to impeach, they have to relinquish control to the Senate Republicans which they already know will not convict. 

Everyone knows the inspector general report will soon be released which will supply Senate Republicans with a boatload of embarrassing and incriminating questions to ask Democrats while they are under oath.  I am actually hoping the Democrat House votes for impeachment, but as of now, my guess is that they will not. 

I find the whole situation laughable, but unless the Democrats want to further their own demise by proceeding with a Senate proceeding they will most certainly lose, then we are probably witnessing the beginning of the end of the Trump impeachment.

This high tech Lynching will Fail

Impeachment is a proceeding so disproportionate to the petty offense they have accused the President of that the Democrats are beginning to look ridiculous…  

These impeachment hearings are intended primarily to harm Trump’s reelection chances because they know damned well the President has not done anything serious enough for a Republican controlled Senate to remove him from office. Because of the blatantly unfair way they are handling these hearings, it may very have the opposite effect and guarantee his reelection.

Republicans are clearly justified in their attack on this whole process because it is fundamentally unfair. It violates the most basic tenets of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence:

1                 1     Accusations must be specific and backed by clear evidence;

2        All evidence and accusations must be presented in open court;

3        Rules of procedure must be fixed and unbiased, not arbitrary and ad hoc;

4        The accused is presumed innocent and must be given full rights to see all the evidence, confront the accusers, and rebut all charges, including cross-examining witnesses, challenging documents, and presenting exculpatory evidence.

 

1      To date, none of these rules has applied to this impeachment inquiry. Although impeachment is a political act rather than a judicial act, it is still governed by the constitutional requirement limiting it to “high crimes and misdemeanors,” such as treason and bribery. 

The Framers specifically rejected a proposal to include “malfeasance in office,” fearing it would open the process to vague charges and transform our system of divided powers into a unified parliamentary system, controlled by Congress.

President Obama created a great divide in America,  and this out of control House of Representatives is widening that divide to the point that it may never be the same again...