Posted on 12/27/2018 4:04:27 PM PST by Sub-Driver
The Inevitability of Impeachment
Even Republicans may be deciding that the president has become too great a burden to their party or too great a danger to the country.
By Elizabeth Drew
Ms. Drew is a journalist based in Washington who covered Watergate.
Dec. 27, 2018
An impeachment process against President Trump now seems inescapable. Unless the president resigns, the pressure by the public on the Democratic leaders to begin an impeachment process next year will only increase. Too many people think in terms of stasis: How things are is how they will remain. They dont take into account that opinion moves with events.
Whether or not theres already enough evidence to impeach Mr. Trump I think there is we will learn what the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has found, even if his investigation is cut short. A significant number of Republican candidates didnt want to run with Mr. Trump in the midterms, and the results of those elections didnt exactly strengthen his standing within his party. His political status, weak for some time, is now hurtling downhill.
The midterms were followed by new revelations in criminal investigations of once-close advisers as well as new scandals involving Mr. Trump himself. The odor of personal corruption on the presidents part perhaps affecting his foreign policy grew stronger. Then the events of the past several days the presidents precipitous decision to pull American troops out of Syria, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattiss abrupt resignation, the swoon in the stock market, the pointless shutdown of parts of the government instilled a new sense of alarm among many Republicans.
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It’s certainly not inevitable, but if Trump gets reelected and everything else breaks the Democrats way (an extremely unlikely scenario), they will impeach him.
Lizzy is telegraphing her own wishes.
The Inevitability of hanging Elizabeth Drew for treason
You cant just impeach a President because you disagree with his policies.
He was elected by million precisely because of those policies.
Yep. Journalists first!
Don't do drugs.
“Even Republicans may be deciding that the president has become too great a burden to their party or too great a danger to the country”
Ludicrous.
Every Republican politician in the nation is dependent upon the good will of Trump voters for their political future.
They cannot vote yay on impeachment unless they intend to retire.
And the good news is I won’t lose 5 minutes of sleep concerning myself about it, for the “most” part they are scum and deserve whatever befalls them.
Whether or not theres already enough evidence to impeach Mr. Trump I think there is
I kept waiting for her to report the evidence... she never did; the reader isnt worthy I suppose
They really believe there’s a long laundry list of reasons, along with all the “indictments” of people around him, the walls are closing in!!!!
They don’t get out much. These people are not as smart as they tell each other. Echo chamber thinking along with wishful thinking, while having a responsibility to create a narrative against PDJT, leads to living in a fantasy world they believe to be true...it is really a mental health problem. The reality of Mueller being a clean up operation, with indicting PDJT as a secondary long shot, is lost on them.
They’re going to be suicidal in 2020.
I’m starting to think the reason journalist are such scum in western society is because there’s not someone chasing them down the road with a machete.
And the N.Y. Times has demonstrably been operating on low standards since at least the 1930s and their reporter Walter Durantys whitewashing of the USSRs democide mass murder of Ukrainians in the Holodomor terror famine.
This is all that leftists want. They are horrible. It is inevitable that this country will split....eventually. I want nothing to do with these people.
JoMa
I want to agree with you, but civil/criminal rules of evidence do not apply to impeachment. Since impeachment is a political process, high crimes and misdemeanors can be any damn thing the Democrats want to conjur up.
“The economy is rocking, national security has been vastly improved. The left is frantic, literally frantic...”
Gun sales haven’t really slacked off since PDJT was elected. The new Democrazy House will go full bore for confiscation, and sales will skyrocket once again.
It’s scary; the new Red Flag snitch laws will result in innocent deaths wherever enforced. Fear and distrust will spread throughout society. This will drive unsnitched gun owners further underground and more armed than before. Police will be regarded as the heavily armed enemy of freedom. Recipe for civil war.
I say she thinks it is one of those 'if you have to ask, you wouldn't understand' things.
In her view, if you can't see the evil exuding from Trump, you are most likely a male, white, bitter, Christian, clinger & why are you reading her article?.
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