Posted on 10/5/2019, 7:08:55 PM by Eddie01
Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden. Some Republicans are trying, but there’s no way to spin this as a good idea. Like a lot of things Trump does, it was pretty over-the-top. Our leaders’ official actions should not be about politics. Those two things need to remain separate. Once those in control of our government use it to advance their political goals, we become just another of the world’s many corrupt countries. America is better than that. That’s also why it’s good that there are finally investigations looking into the extent to which the Obama FBI may have used our government — and even foreign governments — to try to crush Trump in the last election.
The key question with Trump’s Ukraine call, though, is whether the president’s actions, advisable or not, rise to the level of an impeachable offense. It’s hard to argue they do. The president did not, as was first reported, offer a quid pro quo to the Ukrainians. He did not condition any U.S. support on a Biden investigation. The Justice Department has already looked at the totality of the call and determined that Trump did not break the law.
Impeaching a president is the most extreme and anti-democratic remedy we have in our system of government. A fundamental cornerstone of our entire system is to respect the will of the voters. The American people elected Trump president of the United States, though a huge part of our political class has never been able to stomach it. They think Trump is unfit to be our president. They definitely don’t want to address seriously the issues that drove voters to the radical step of voting in Trump as our president — issues such as income inequality, economic stagnation and our broken immigration system. It’s easier to pretend that this was all the result of a few Russian Facebook ads or because the same American people who had just elected Barack Obama somehow transformed overnight into a bunch of racists.
So, now, as we are on the eve of another election season, our political class wants to take the most recent election away from the voters. Millions of Americans voted for Trump to try to shock our political system into finally listening to their concerns. How do you suppose they’ll feel about a system that instead removes Trump from our democracy? You don’t have to be an especially deep thinker to realize this is a recipe for social upheaval.
Nancy Pelosi has been right all these months when she’s repeatedly said that to be legitimate, impeachment must be bipartisan. Anything less would tear apart our country, she said. In this area, Pelosi is echoing the sentiment a senator expressed during the Clinton impeachment process:
“While the founders included impeachment powers in the Constitution, they were concerned by the potential partisan abuse. We should be no less aware of the dangers of partisanship. As we have seen, the process functions best when there is a broad bipartisan consensus behind moving ahead. The country is not well served when either policy disagreements or personal animosities drive the process.”
Those words ring true today. They were set forth in 1998 by then-Sen. Joe Biden.
The truth is there’s a large part of the left — and some never-Trumpers on the right — who never accepted Trump’s election and have wanted him impeached from the start. The Washington Post ran a piece headlined “The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun” on Jan. 20, 2017 — inauguration day. Talk about no honeymoon — and no respect for America’s voters.
Concerns about the political nature of what we’re seeing were exacerbated when we learned the so-called whistleblower who reported Trump’s Ukraine call was in touch with Rep. Adam Schiff — the Democrats’ lead on impeachment — even before he came forward to the public with his charges. Privately colluding with the staff of some of Trump’s biggest political opponents? That seems a little partisan for a good government whistleblower. It also seems pretty clear that Schiff was dishonest when he went on TV and directly denied prior contact with the whistleblower. None of this means Schiff should be removed from office, but by the standards he’s setting, he certainly could be.
A lot of people in Washington — in both parties — aren’t Trump fans. They complain that Trump doesn’t act the way most presidents act, that his attacks against his opponents are not presidential, that he lacks the requisite political experience and has hired some truly horrible staffers. There may be truth to some of that. Trump has certainly shaken up Washington. His supporters would argue that’s exactly what they wanted him to do. This is a legitimate debate worth having. Fortunately, America’s founders set up a pretty good system to have just this sort of debate every four years: It’s called an election. The next one’s already started. The facts are out there for the American people to weigh as they make their decision. How about we let them sort all this out? There’s no need to come up with thin excuses for a purely partisan impeachment process when we have an election right around the corner.
"America is better than that"? They are better than you, that's for sure Tucker.
My opinion of Tucker is forever lowered. Defining moment Tucker. I'll be skipping your show from now on. I'll make it a point.
Faux Gnus Disease.
Tucker?...seriously?
"Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden," Carlson and Patel wrote. "Some Republicans are trying, but there's no way to spin this as a good idea."
This is 100% bullsh!t. This idea that announcing that you are a presidential candidate somehow indemnifies you from any criminal investigation -- especially in a case where the key piece of evidence is the candidate bragging on video about interfering in the political/legal proceedings of another country -- is so bizarre that it isn't even worthy of discussion.
Tucker Carlson is apparently buying into the preposterous Democrat/RINO talking point that it's OK for Democrats to conspire with foreign governments to investigate Donald Trump as a sitting President (even to the point of fabricating evidence against him) ... but a Democrat CANDIDATE is somehow off-limits?
I won't make excuses for Tucker Carlson, but I've long felt that he isn't terribly bright. He made a complete ass out of himself during the Kavanaugh debacle last year when he got on the air one night and made the outlandish claim -- which would have been confirmed as verifiably false with about 20 seconds of internet research -- that Kavanaugh would not be able to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court if he wasn't confirmed by the time the next court term began.
“it was pretty over-the-top”
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice
RE: Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden.
Sorry Tucker, I disagree with the above statement.
Had Trump brought out the names of say, Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders or Corrie Booker, yes, it would be inappropriate. Why? Because those would be witch hunts. They have nothing to do with Ukraine.
Why Biden? Well, because in his case, it is NOT a witch hunt. It is investigation based on EXISTING EVIDENCE.
Not because he was a leading opposing candidate, BUT BECAUSE THERE IS EVIDENCE OF A QUID-PRO-QUO using American foreign policy as leverage when he was VP.
Doing so is simply applying his duty as the chief enforcer of the law, especially when it comes to corruption relating to foreign policy.
Former V.P. Biden admitted on video of threatening to withhold federal money to the Ukraine, if the President of the Ukraine didn’t fire the prosecutor who was investigating the company his own son had made millions from, for a job he wasn’t qualified for.
What would a Sitting President whose duty it is to see that our laws are faithfully executed, do? Simply let it slide when he talks to a foreign leader who won his election based on his promise to root out corruption in his country? I don’t think so.
If President Trump has knowledge of a possible corruption having been committed based on the personal videotaped comments by a former V.P., and failed to act on what appeared to be credible corruption allegations against that former V.P., it would be tantamount to dereliction of duty. By ignoring it, Trump would basically be condoning it, which is something the Democrats and the media have been doing all along.
*THAT* evidence against Biden Warrants an investigation. If this is inappropriate, then all one has to do to avoid investigation after one does something corrupt is to run for President. That’s ridiculous of course. No one should be above the law.
So Biden’s whole campaign can be seen as “you can’t investigate me because I’m a political opponent”.
This is ridiculous. Under this standard all you have to do to be safe from paying for your corruption is to keep running until you’re dead...which apparently Biden intends to do.
Hey, nobody’s perfect. Tucker Carlson always gets a few things incredibly wrong. I can take the good parts and discount the bad parts.
You’re so right about TC’s mental faculties. It’s really annoying to see him bring lefties onto his show so “he can school them.” It usually ends up with Tucker looking like Curly Howard trying to perform brain surgery while he completely misses the point and letting his opponent carry the day.
I only keep Tucker on when Mark Steyn or Victor Davis Hanson are on, like when O’Reilly used to have Dennis Miller on so he wouldn’t get hammered in the ratings.
” over the top” is a brain dead expression used by weenies.
Since Tucker has been a conservative voice, is he trying to bend over backwards here, to prove how fair and balanced and open minded he is, by being critical of Trump?
he wants to appease the liberals, by saying on this issue, he is critical of Trump?
On the other hand, remember a while back, mobs were at his house, I think Antifa or Antifa sympathizers were there? Is he afraid of them; has he been warned about his positions?
Does appeasement ever work?
It was all just fine for Obama and Clinton to go up against Trump with fraudulent documents and a barrage of absolute hatred. It is quite another for Trump to agree with the PM of Ukraine who brought up the matter of the Bidens. The difference is that Trump did not commit a crime. Biden did.
Democrat verstion:
Extremism in tearing down our own nation, is no vice.
When Tucker sticks it to an purposeful liberal hack, I get it.
They promote ideas which run counter to the best interest of the American people in hopes of securing enough power to suppress any civil revolt.
But he just turned on the vast majority of his audience, pointed his finger and scolded us for standing behind the truth.
How dare we?
“Donald Trump should not have been on the phone with a foreign head of state encouraging another country to investigate his political opponent, Joe Biden.”
Why not?
Where in the Constitution is that forbidden?
If Pelosi/House makes up it’s own rules...then the President, a co-equal branch, can too.
I am glad you posted this, so we can see Tucker’s own words. Shameful.
I just took Tucker’s show off the DVR record series.
Waste of time.
“America is better than that.”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Did Paul Ryan make you say that? Idiot.
So, Chatsworth Osborne Jr.,, let me get this straight. Joe Bite-me’s abuse of his official office to pave the way for the enrichment of his family is unmentionable in the context of reminding the newly elected leader of all the corruption we have seen, so much in fact that a previous administration pushed through a treaty dealing with it? Because it’s not “who we are”?
Chatsworth is a fine representation of the perennial loser Republicans that are always apologizing, and that are content to lose elections . They don’t have the guts to confront corruption, and if they do, it’s done only half-heartedly.
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