Posted on 11/24/2019 4:34:27 AM PST by Kaslin
The goal of the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other Democratic Party leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives has been to use the impeachment inquiry to destroy President Donald Trump. They hope to impeach him, followed by conviction and removal from the U.S. Senate. Otherwise, they believe he will be so politically damaged that he will resign before the next election. Ironically, the exact opposite political result is occurring.
The past two weeks, the nation was subjected to partisan impeachment hearings orchestrated by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA). The process has been unfair to not only House Republicans but also to the target of their investigation, President Trump. Over three days this week, nine witnesses testified about the President’s involvement with Ukraine, his phone call with the Ukrainian President and his supposed demand for a “favor” in return for military aid and a White House visit.
Most of the witnesses relied on hearsay and did not directly talk to the President. Others implicated the President’s attorney Rudy Giuliani. The result of the process has not been a “smoking gun” confirming any sort of crime committed by President Trump. Instead, the American people are being turned off by the entire stunt. Despite coverage on all the broadcast and cable news networks, only 13.1 million people watched the first day of the hearings. This is a sharp decline from the audience of over 20 million Americans who watched Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings or the 19 million Americans who watched the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey.
It seems the American people are realizing there are major problems with the impeachment process. The inquiry was approved by the House of Representatives without a single vote from a Republican member. In fact, two Democrats voted with the Republicans against launching the inquiry.
The inquiry was a fulfillment of a longstanding desire on behalf of members such as Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). Other Democrats and liberal media outlets have been championing the impeachment of the President for the entire three years of his administration.
The American people are becoming fatigued with this unfair partisan process. According to a new poll by Emerson College, support for impeachment has fallen from 48% to only 43% in the last month, while opposition has increased from 44% to 45%. The Emerson College poll also showed that the President’s approval rating has increased from 43% to 48% in the last month.
Overall, these results should worry Democrats who are putting all their political hopes on impeachment. Other than pursuing the President with multiple investigations, House Democrats do not have much of an agenda. There has been little to no action on healthcare, the opioid crisis, infrastructure, the USMCA trade agreement, etc.
In the 2020 election, the President will be able to make the argument to the American people that Republicans should be given control of Congress again. The reason is clear since Democrats did nothing with their power except pursue impeachment and other harassment schemes caused by their unrelenting case of “Trump derangement syndrome.”
As the impeachment saga continues, fundraising totals for the Trump 2020 campaign have been skyrocketing. The third-quarter contributions for the President’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) exceeded $125 million. At the end of October, the RNC had $61 million in the bank, compared to only $8.7 million for the Democrats, who also had a debt of $7 million.
Democrats are not only suffering from poor fundraising totals, but their presidential candidates are not creating much enthusiasm among the American people. Their latest debate was held this week and broadcast on MSNBC. Overall, it was a massive failure. On social media, mentions dropped significantly from their previous debates.
More worrisome, viewership for the latest debate was quite anemic. According to the Nielsen ratings, only 6.6 million Americans watched the fifth Democratic presidential debate. This was the lowest rated presidential debate of this election cycle and represented a huge 20% decline from the last televised debate in October.
On Thursday night, Democratic staffers enjoyed cocktails on Capitol Hill to celebrate the end of a week of televised impeachment hearings. The partygoers believed the hearings were a smashing success on the road to the impeachment of the President.
Instead, the evidence shows that Democrats should be worried, not celebrating. The American people are tiring of the Democratic Party’s political antics. It seems the party’s obsession with destroying President Donald Trump may backfire on them in the 2020 election. For our country’s sake, let’s hope and pray they get the political result they richly deserve.
When this fails they will find some other false rumor to impeach him with. When does it get old?
Where has the leading advocate for impeachment, Maxine Waters, been during the entire impeachment horse and pony show? Since President Trump got elected her “impeach 45” mantra reverberated constantly like a broken record. Yet after the impeachment inquiry began she seems to have been relegated to the basement with all the other crazy aunts.
I guess winning means they are losing.
A lot of democrats have disappeared since the hearings.
Dear Jeff,
STFU. When your enemy is destroying themselves, do not interfere.
Love, Laz.
PS: STFU.
AGREED, though HALF of the problem is that the general public NO longer TRUSTS the “popular press” to be FAIR, HONEST or even INTELLIGENT.
I find that SAD but the networks & their employees brought it on themselves.
Yours, TMN78247
This is why I think it might actually be good to drag it out in the Senate.
I think this is definitely a case of God fighting President Trump's battles for him.
Whoever is praying for President Trump, keep it up. It's working.
More people are becoming aware of who are righteous and who are dishonorable.
For the most part, those are all extra-Constitutional policies. The DemocRATs have not even been doing the duties outlined in the Constitution--passing the budget and working on the legislation that is prescribed within the Constitution. We are in continuing resolution and narrowly averted a shutdown on Friday. If the House continues to shirk its duties, we will be facing another potential shutdown right before Christmas.
The Republicans have rich material to use for ads. I hope they use the opportunity. They can not only promote Republican candidates, but teach the Constitution and why it matters in 30 second sound bites.
Many criminals never stop unless incarcerated or eliminated.
The Demonicrats ignore their duties in Congress because they are a lying, murdering traitorous domestic enemy dedicated to destroying the United States and its Constitution.
Fast forward to today; the Democrats have established impeachment as the new normal, and Adam Schiff is the latest Democrat appointed to mastrubate in public on behalf of Democrats everywhere. He just can't figure out how to achieve a happy ending.
Can't wait for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to trigger the next outburst by finally going home to Satan.
I cannot disagree with your assessment.
When loose-dentures Nancy, odd Bernie, Joe the Gaffer Biden and Adam Shif are the face of your party, you’ve got a problem.
Democrats are trying to appease the extreme wing of their base. The AOC wing has taken over.
It was a bad idea to have a bug-eyed dork like Schitt as the face of impeachment.
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