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What’s Behind the Democrats’ Impeachment Gambit?
National Review Online ^ | September 26, 2019 6:30 AM | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 09/26/2019 4:22:35 AM PDT by Oklahoma

They think anytime a Republican is elected president, there must have been something 'illegitimate' going on. But: He was elected.

And, contrary to the endless litany of Democratic complaints, he was legitimately elected. You may not like the way we elect presidents through the Electoral College — I do; if anything, I think the Founders erred on the side of making the presidency excessively democratic in character, with the disastrous results we see before us today — but the Electoral College was not invented in 2016, and it was not created to frustrate the ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Some Russians posted some bulls**t on Facebook. The votes were what they were.

There are a few different ways to react to that. The thing that a normal political party in a normal country with a functioning political culture would do would be to crawl under the porch for a couple of days to recuperate, admit that your candidate was terrible and ran a terrible race with terrible advisers, and start looking around for somebody to do better next time. You might even — if you were smart and in possession of a reasonable degree of intellectual honesty — ask yourselves what it was about that other guy that some voters liked so much.

That’s one thing you could do. Or you could come over and sit on my front porch and hear more than you probably really wanted to hear about the inevitable decadence of mass democracy, which may shine for a moment but “soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.” And we would laugh a little at all the diehards on my street with their “Beto for Senate” signs up in their yards, still, after all this time.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 116th; biden; dopeydems; nro; politics; trump; trumpukraine; ukraine
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1 posted on 09/26/2019 4:22:35 AM PDT by Oklahoma
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To: Oklahoma
Damaging Trump while removing Biden as a nominee.

Don't forget the NBC News story from early September that Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton were "working together".

And now this......

2 posted on 09/26/2019 4:25:35 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Oklahoma

Some are saying it is because Trump refused to back the Saudis and bomb Iran. Apparently wall street traditional big oil wanted to bankrupt the small fracking operations to buy them back for themselves, but apparently they are Trump’s base and Trump put a stop to that by ending their taxation and is letting Iran affect the wall street big oil assets in retaliation.

Also the Russia collusion allegation is because Russia’s traditional oil is running out but they have huge fracking potential in Siberia, and they want to buy that tech from Schlumberger with the help of Trump. So they want to hold Trump’s feet to the fire on this. Basically Russia would give us oil in exchange for the tech extraction services.


3 posted on 09/26/2019 4:35:21 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Oklahoma

Trying to avoid the biggest landslide in American history.


4 posted on 09/26/2019 4:36:55 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Oklahoma
I saw that the demonic-rats have tried to impeach every GOP president since IKE
5 posted on 09/26/2019 4:37:27 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Oklahoma

Soros.

It’s probably the dems only strategy to stand any chance of winning 2020.


6 posted on 09/26/2019 4:41:27 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Cowboy Bob

GMTA


7 posted on 09/26/2019 4:42:00 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: cincinnati65

Avoiding Trump appointing various Supreme Court judges!


8 posted on 09/26/2019 4:44:44 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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To: Oklahoma

It’s about delegitimizing the president’s ability to replace Ginsberg.


9 posted on 09/26/2019 4:47:06 AM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: Oklahoma
Now admit that the 17th Amendment was a HUGE mistake and I'll consider the possibility that you're not a globalist, Tower of Babel building, RINO, like the rest of the National Review twits.
10 posted on 09/26/2019 4:54:17 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Oklahoma

Biden is toast.

The Dems will nominate a communist.

Weakening Trump to make him unelectable is the ONLY way they don’t completely fall apart.


11 posted on 09/26/2019 4:56:35 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Oklahoma

DemonicRats want full power to control every aspect of our lives, which includes killing off Christians.


12 posted on 09/26/2019 4:58:26 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Rashputin

The few times I’ve brought that up, I was surprised at the amount of support 17A has here.


13 posted on 09/26/2019 5:02:36 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: treetopsandroofs
Yeah, people love their illusions and the illusion that many State Senators aren't purchased by national power brokers but actually elected is one of their favorites.

What they miss, and are carefully channeled away from finding out, is that prior to the 17th most State Legislatures could recall and replace a Senator if a simple majority in the State House thought the Senator was not voting in the best interests of the State or might vote against the best interests of the State on a critical issue.

Consider how many State Legislatures the Republicans control and how many "Republican" Senators are way left of their State Legislature and you get some idea of how different the Senate would be were the 17th repealed.

Regards

14 posted on 09/26/2019 5:22:40 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Oklahoma
The RATs are clamoring for impeachment because that's all they have about which to bitch. Because of the sad state of America, RATs can do anything, regardless how vile and corrupt (foreign born potus; secretary of state scrubbing servers; RAT candidate fondling children and suffering from dementia), and stupid, stupid, pot smoking Americans don't even notice.

They're calling for impeachment because they can. And nobody's going to reel them in. They just keep getting re-elected.

Why not call for impeachment? Why not seek to remove a duly elected president? It costs them nothing. And it gives them something to do since, obviously, once elected, they do nothing. They're lazy and corrupt. Congress is their free ride.

15 posted on 09/26/2019 5:25:02 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: workerbee

Lot of things in play, Hillary in at the last minute, replacing Ginsberg, radical rats taking out the old guard, Hillary taking out biden for liz to secure a place in her state dept, to hot in the kitchen the rats are trying to put out the fire that’s coming. Im running out of popcorn


16 posted on 09/26/2019 5:30:30 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Oklahoma
What's behind the Democrat's impeachment push? Simple:

Biden is crashing and burning.

Far left-wing Progressives have taken over the Democrat Party.

A far left-wing Progressive is about to become the standard-bearer for the Democrat party and be their nominee.

The more "moderate" or "mainstream" Democrats are in full-on panic that a "moderate" candidate like Biden is crashing and burning.

The "moderate" or "mainstream" Democrats see their path to victory vanishing before their eyes, thanks to the AOC's of the party.

The only way "mainstream" or "moderate" Democrats - who hate PDJT - see a chance of survival is to defeat Trump, and they're now siding with the Progressives in their party on Impeachment.

Very. Bad. Strategy. It's going to cost them BIG TIME.

My own girlfriend who voted for Shitlery (before she met me ...) now says she's so turned off by what the Democrats are doing she's voting for Trump in 2020. There are LOTS of people like her our there, I hear it every day.

So do the "moderate" and "mainstream" Democrats.

They're in full-on panic. Impeachment is their only option at this point and I suspect Piglosi knows it. She'll put on the show hoping the facade she's putting up will pass as "impeachment" while not really being Impeachment.

Losing strategy.

The ONLY thing Republicans need to do at this point is keep their stupid mouths SHUT and not take the spotlight away from the Democrats. Can they do it? Well, if history is any lesson, NO they can't. This is why I call them the STUPID Party.

17 posted on 09/26/2019 5:33:36 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: cincinnati65

“Damaging Trump while removing Biden as a nominee.”

And deligitimizing the impending drop of the IG report on FISA abuse by Obama an the deep state.

And.... They are not trying to impeach Trump. They are trying to hound him out of office.


18 posted on 09/26/2019 5:34:46 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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To: Oklahoma

The Democrats knew they could not compete with the President during the U.N. meeting, where he gave a landmark address to the nations and met with leaders of 27 countries, so they broke out their Super Snake Oil of impeachment, based on the Fake News peddled by their media branch.


19 posted on 09/26/2019 5:35:01 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Oklahoma

They are the lefts version of archie bunker. they are commies pinkos and fags and they dont want no religious, gun toting, flag loving, cold hearted anti immigrant prudes running the show.


20 posted on 09/26/2019 5:40:20 AM PDT by Ikeon (You can't be nice to them, you can't shoot them, you cant fix them- stupid is just stupid)
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