A Partisan Impeachment Vote

The nation focused on the House this week, where Democrats voted Thursday to formalize an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Less noticed, but equally important, was the prebuttal on the Senate floor.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered Wednesday a speech devoted to the glaring deficiencies in the House impeachment proceedings. The Kentuckian excoriated it for its lack of fairness and transparency, and listed the affronts to due process: secret hearings, the refusal to let Republicans call witnesses or obtain answers, the exclusion of Mr. Trump’s legal counsel from the proceedings. And he noted that Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s resolution would include no guarantee of a remedy. The Democratic approach, Mr. McConnell said, amounts to: “No due process now, maybe some later, but only if we feel like it.”

The Pelosi impeachment resolution was supposed to deprive the GOP of its complaint that the process wasn’t formal. Instead, it formalized a rigged process—and gives Republicans a solid rationale for rejecting the entire proceeding. Democrats gripe that the GOP refuses to talk about the substance of the case against the president. But it is Democrats who have made that impossible, given the secrecy and one-sided approach. Due process is at the heart of America’s system of ordered liberty, and the “evidence” Democrats are secretly compiling in the basement of the House is already soiled.

That’s why every House Republican—even vulnerable ones—felt confident in voting “no” on Thursday’s resolution. Republicans pointed out that even as Democrats were claiming the vote meant “transparency,” Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff was holding another closed hearing, to which most of the House and the president’s legal counsel weren’t privy. “Democrats cannot fix this process,” said House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney after the vote. “This is a process that has been fundamentally tainted.”

"Fighting vicious Chicago mobsters was nothing compared to dealing with certain members of Congress!"
~David Schippers~
Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment. Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company, September 2000

David Schippers led the Justice Department’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Unit, under Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and convicted Sam Giancana et al. Schippers was a staunch Chicago Democrat. He voted to elect Bill Clinton twice. He served as chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary committee during the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

The Democrats MUST stop President Trump. They know that he will be re-elected in a landslide victory and will expose the TRUTH about them and their crimes. TRUTH will destroy them.

They have tried everything. They have combed through every possible record for 3 years and found NOTHING.

"Impeachment" is their last desperate last-ditch effort to stop Trump and to stop TRUTH!

They are cornered. They are desperate. They are dangerous. NOTHING is beneath them.

THE AMERICA PEOPLE SEE THIS FOR EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
EVERYONE SEES THIS FOR EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
THE HONEST ACKNOWLEDGE IT.
NOBODY IS FOOLED BY THE DEMOCRATS!
EVIL IS THE ULTIMATE STUPIDITY!

<>NOTHING is beneath them.<>

Not a thing at all.

Given the Deep State corruption, I wonder how far it extends into the Secret Service. Does PDJT maintain his private security?

In any event, I’m relieved every day that passes when he remains vertical.

As you say, our enemies are desperate.

"As you say, our enemies are desperate."

Our enemies, yes, and they are the enemies of truth, liberty, justice, integrity, honor, decency, charity--and above all of the United States of America.

It's no wonder that they are deathly afraid of TRUTH!

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